Whitesheep Report post Posted February 18, 2017 I tried to post this under the Garmin sub-form, but am not allowed to. The computer topographic products offered originally by Delorme have been a real boon to back woods trip planning and travel for me. With a GPS hooked to a laptop a navigator is able to track and explore routes live. This is like having Google Maps with full 7.5 quads as the map plus the ability to waypoint and create routs. I have several hundred dollars invested in statewide maps and satellite photography. Recently the six year old Windows 7 laptop I use decided to no longer run Topo 10. Topo 10 is now running just fine on my new Windows 10 laptop and a windows 10 desktop. When exploring this issue I contacted Garmin who purchased Delorme and was told they don't support the Topo products and raster based maps cannot be used in BaseCamp. I believe they want you to buy their topo maps for Basecamp. Unless I don't understand correctly the problem with this is 1) the maps are only available for a $29.99 annual subscription, 2) can't be downloaded to your local machine and 3) are only accessible with an internet connection. I don't know about everyone else but most of my hunt units don't have cellular coverage making this option useless except for creating paper maps and way points to load in a handheld GPS. This is a great loss of functionality to me and I hope i have it wrong. Who as subscribed to the topographic maps with Basecamp and can you download them and use them without an internet connection? Thank you, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
