New Mexico Topo Map

Map Information
Last Updated: September 20th, 2008 12:09am

Map Boundary:
North: 37°
South: 31.3125°
West: -109.026°
East: -103°
Country: United States
State: New Mexico
Price: Free!
Map Features:
Topographic Data
Street Data
Trail Data
Mac Version Available

Introduction

The purpose of this venture is to create a detailed topographic map of the entire state of New Mexico at 24k detail. This map is created for Garmin GPS receivers and Mapsource.

Features

• Roads - Interstates, highways, roads, limited unpaved roads (Tiger 2007)
• Railroads
• High resolution water data - lakes, rivers, streams, marshes, and washes
• Federal Land Usage - Wilderness area, national parks, and military bases/ranges, native american reservations, some state parks
• Borders - County and state boundary lines
• Elevation contours - 40ft intervals (equivalent to 24k)
• GNIS Points of Interest - summits, mines, falls, dams, cemeteries, towers, populated places, etc.
• Trails - trail coverage inside of the national parks/forests
• Parks POI - trailheads, camping sites, forest service huts within the national parks/forests
• ~100k Grid Segments - no segment larger than 6.5mb means most older GPSr's can use this mapset

Coverage

This map covers the entire state of New Mexico. Contour and water data exists slightly outside of the state boundaries.

Screenshots

 These two screenshots show the New Mexico Topo on a Garmin 60csx (night mode) On the left is the Rio Grande and two trails.  On the right is Albuquerque at the I-25 I-40 interchange:

 This screenshot demonstrates how this topo looks in the new version (6.14.X+) of Garmin MapSource:

This final screenshot compares the New Mexico Topo to Garmin's US Topo West and Garmin's Topo 2008:

Installation

Two options exist; for windows download and run setup. The map will then appear in Garmin MapSource and can be added to your GPS by selecting it in MapSource and sending it to the GPSr. For Mac download the mac version, extract it and double click the .gmapi file.  Map Manager will then install the map for you.

Version 1.0 Released 20 Sep 08
Download Windows Version [139MB] (795 Downloads)
Download Mac Version [139MB] (136 Downloads)

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GPS Usage

This map can be installed with any other Garmin Maps (How-To Tutorial). Then you simply hide and show other maps until you see the New Mexico Topo. For more detailed instructions visit here.

Support The Effort

Although this map is free, and always will be if you find the map useful please consider making a donation to offset software, hardware, and hosting costs.

* You don't need paypal to donate but that is who will process the donation.

If you can't donate (or even if you can) another great way to help is by providing data for this map or other maps. If you have data please contact me.

References

Many resources were used to create this map, the main ones are listed here:

• USGS National Elevation Data (NED)
  http://ned.usgs.gov/
  The NED is elevation data provided in raster form by the USGS.
• USGS National Hydrography Dataset
  http://nhd.usgs.gov
  The USGS provides hydrographic data in high resolution.
• USGS National Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
  http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic
  The USGS provides locations and names for many features throughout the United States.
• FSGeodata Clearinghouse
  http://svinetfc4.fs.fed.us/clearinghouse/index.html
  The Forest Service provided trail and POI data for all national forests and parks in New Mexico.

Changelog

Version 1.00 (20 Sep 08)

• Initial release
• Note: Hospital POI may have issues; report any errors you find