Product Description
The National Geographic Back Roads Explorer makes it easier than ever to take the road less travelled! This incredible set of 17 CDs will help you discover all the beauty and wonder the United States has to offer. Hit the road with the mapping tool preferred by travelers and outdoorsmen across the country!
Customer Reviews:
Great Software Great Price.......2007-10-05
This is great software. Ive used it my car with laptop and GPS on a variety of road trips MN, TX, LA, UT, MO, AR and gotten myself into and out of many situations without a hitch, except for being towed out of a bayou in Louisiana twice but that was my bad not the softwares. This software will allow you to get to places that others wouldnt be able to find.
Ive also used this software to map the entire Salt Lake City Utah region from Ogden all the way to Payson for a telecom company that was using the info for a Wi-Fi positioing service and this NG product was dead on. This job required driving every residential and commercial street in the the Utah metropolitan area and it was flawless, and only off where new developments were being constructed. The onle thing I would add is to install the maps for the region youll be visitng instead of swapping cds in and out so the transition will blend seamlessly.
For $49 its tough to beat.
Gone are the days of free gas station maps.......2007-09-30
When I was a lad, I used to walk into the office of any service station and grab a stack of free road maps. There were maps of the city I was in, nearby states, and even the USA. Gas was allot cheaper in those days too! Those were the days..... Now here's a product that almost fills the empty feeling left by the demise of free gas station maps and service with a smile. When I saw the price of this package I thought, "Well, can't be much more than overview state maps showing major highways." I was delightfully wrong! With these maps I can zoom out to an overview or zoom in to the city street level of any street in the country. The fact that the states include Hawaii and Alaska was a pleasant surprize as well. If you have a laptop in your Rv or are an armchair traveler at home with a computer, I highly recommend this beautiful and complete set of maps. Now if National Geographic would oly offer to clean the windshield and check the oil!
Lots of Bugs! Topic Entertain publishes this CD.......2006-09-13
The company Topic does a lousy job at customer service. As for the developer, maybe some third rate company. The scans of the maps are not high enough for area blow ups. Everything is fuzzy at best. The interface is clumsy ... sluggish ... backwards! This is the 21st Cen! If you have a Garmin, stick with their apps for now. Or just buy an old fashion topo map.
*Avoid this product!!!!
Works much better than the alternatives.......2006-07-12
I've used versions of topo mapping software from Topo!, Garmin, DeLorme and National Geographic.
I use maps for hiking and the quality in the 17-CD set is very good. Garmin MapSource has the same territory in 3-CDs and the detail in much more minimal.
Back Roads with version 4.2.3 of Topo! from Nat Geo's website is one of the better products out there. You can adjust the shading factor, get 3D view, and send co-ordinates to your GPS.
I did have to contact support to realize there was a new version, but they got back to me in 24 hours. I had a tech support question on Garmin MapSource and got no response from their tech support.
The only downside of Back Roads for me was that it can only upload waypoints and not maps to my Garmin GPS. Otherwise I would use it exclusively.
Back Roads allows you to enter your co-ordinates in UTM, unlike MapSource. The drawing and route tools are better. The elevation profile is another feature that is not there in MapSource.
I read the complaint about elevation lines not meeting up, but you get the same problem with paper USGS maps.
Back Roads also prints nice maps that you can slide into a plastic sheet for hiking. Nat Geo also makes a paper that prints sturdy topo maps.
You can get topos and aerial photos from the web. The USGS site [http://nationalmap.gov/gio/viewonline.html] has links to 7 map servers. Microsoft Terra Server is a free one that can be a good tool. The print capabilities of Back Roads/Topo! are still better though.
Back Roads/Topo! isn't perfect but it's the best tool of the 4 mapping softwares I've purchased. If it sent maps to my Garmin GPS I would give it a 5.
Major Problems with this software........2006-06-16
Wish I could give this one less than one star. Don't waste your money with this one. If the software actually worked, it reports to do many of the things that I was looking for.
First problem -- the software claims to be compatable with Magellan's Explorists series. Tech Support (at least that's what they call themselves), says it is not.
Second problem -- the software is apparently not XP compatable. I can load the software and basically get it to work but it locks up when I attempt to save a file or change to a different sub-directory. What good is a software that will not save your work??
Multiple emails to Tech Support resulted in multiple suggestions by Tech Support to "reload' the software. Gee!!! I have to call Tech Support for that suggestion??? Apparently they have nothing to offer beyond the suggestion of reloading the software (which doesn't help).
After multiple attempts to get this software to work and multiple emails to Tech Support, I'm writing this one off as a $50 reminder to never buy a National Geographic product again.
Product Description
Sanus System VMPL is a convenient, secure, aesthetic, and practical wall mount for Plasma and LCD TV screens. NOTE - Stud-mounting is required to assure proper support Includes all necessary hardware Warranty - 1 year Weight capacity is 175 pounds Color - BLACK
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Mounts.......2007-05-30
I have researched online and looked at other mounts in stores and thought this was one of the better built mounts out there. It doesn't hurt that I can get it for about half the price of stores like BB or CC. Ordered it from Etronics and the items arrived on times as promised.
When I opened the box, I was glad I ordered the item. The brackets and wall plates are smooth and have a finish that indicated its high quality. Also included within the box are all the possible bolts & washers & spacers combinations. I have a Panasonic plasma, so the M8 bolts are the perfect fits. The others were M4, M5, M6 (metric types). Check your plasma or LCD manuals to see if they are compatibles.
Anyway, installation was very simple. You do need two people, though, to lift your mounted TV and brackets into the wall plate. Even though it is rated for up to 175 lbs, with the huge lag bolts that are provided (as big as the ones used for my garage door), nothing is going to move once it is in place. The only minor complaint is that the safety bolts were a little bit hard to reach to tighten, but no big deal.
The best features of the mount are of course the one-hand tilting features. Once the knobs are tension correctly, you can just tilt the TV up and down with just one hand.
Overall, a very high-quality built mount and reasonable price make it a must buy !!!
Product Description
Featured here is a two toned TV stand thatâs made of wood with a red and black finish. This stand will go with sku #153100 and 153099. Console holds most 42 inch TVâs up to 250 pounds.
Product Description
Featured here is a two toned TV stand thats made of wood with a red and black finish. This stand will go with sku 153100 and 153099. Console holds most 42 inch TVs up to 250 pounds.Width21 Depth50 Height28
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