Re: Maptech vs TOPO!

"Steve Silberberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message

> be hiking the Arizona Trail next spring, and since it's a new,
> unfinished trail, other peoples' annotations will be valuable.


In that case, unless things have changed in the last six months, I'd go with
Topo.  Topo provides a website for sharing data and map files amongst users
(called mapxchange).  I found no such data exchange feature with Maptech,
and from playing with the demo I'm not even sure you can.  The mapxchange
site and the 3d view were the two biggest differences between the two that I
saw.  As someone else said, the rest is kind of personal preference.  You
can download a demo from Maptech, but not Topo.  You can, however, download
the update (which you should do if you get Topo anyway) to be able to play
with the interface and see what it's like.  There won't be any underlying
maps, but at least you will be able to see the interface, tools, options,
etc, so it's *almost* like a demo. : )