Hawaii Topo Map

Map Information
Last Updated: September 26th, 2008 6:09pm

Map Boundary:
North: 22.2418°
South: 18.8745°
West: -160.543°
East: -154.748°
Country: United States
State: Hawaii
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 Hawaii at 24k detail. This map is created for Garmin GPS receivers and Mapsource.

Features

• Roads - Interstates, highways, roads, limited unpaved roads (Tiger 2007)
• High resolution water data - lakes, rivers, streams, marshes, and washes
• Federal & State Land Usage - Wilderness area, national parks, and military bases/ranges, native american reservations, state parks, wildlife preserves
• Borders - County and state boundary lines
• Elevation contours - 30ft intervals (equivalent to or greater than 24k)
• GNIS Points of Interest - summits, mines, falls, dams, cemeteries, towers, populated places, etc.
• Hotels & Harbors
• Trails - Na Ala Hele State Trails and Access System
• Parks POI - trailheads, camping sites, forest service huts within the national parks/forests
• ~100k Grid Segments - no segment larger than 2.2mb means older GPSr's can use this mapset

Coverage

This map covers the entire state of Hawaii.

Screenshots

 These two screenshots show the Hawaii Topo on a Garmin 60csx (night mode). On the left is part of the Hilo Watershed Forest Reserve.  On the right is part of Honolulu:

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

This final screenshot compares the Hawaii Topo to Garmin's US Topo Hawaii and Garmin's Topo 2008:

As you can see the Hawaii Topo shows where state parks are and also has trail coverage that is lacking in Garmin's topo maps.

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 1.2 Released 26 Sep 08
Download Windows Version [17MB] (304 Downloads)
Download Mac Version [16MB] (79 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 Hawaii 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.
• Alaska State Clearinghouse
  The state of Alaska provides a few POIs and trails for its state.

Changelog

Version 1.20 (26 Sep 08)

• Fixed bug with POI being in the wrong datum; map is now correct

Version 1.10 (25 Sep 08)

• Fixed the roads being out of place on Oahu
• Bug reported: POI slightly off (projection error) - fix in the works.

Version 1.00 (23 Sep 08)

• Initial release