TopoFusion Features
Exclusive to TopoFusion's PRO Version
- Canadian and Australian Topo Maps
- TIGER U.S. Street Maps
- Cycling Power functionality. Also Heartrate and Cadence visualization.
- Add and calibrate your own maps - user calibrated maps with transparency
- New display engine running Direct3D9.
- faster display
- graphical waypoint symbols
- transparency (faster combo blending)
- anti-aliased lines
- animated sprites (runner/biker)
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Enhanced PhotoFusion features
- - Thumbnails on map - mouse over enlarges
- - Photos as waypoints - can be moved/deleted/added
- Export/Import of ESRI (ARC) shapefile format
- Ability to view LANDSAT maps across UTM zones
- able to view entire planet now
- And much more...
Available Imagery
USGS Topographic
1:24k, 1:100k:, 1:250k USGS topographic maps.
COVERAGE: Entire United States
RESOLUTION: 2 meters per pixel
SOURCE: Terraserver
Shaded Relief (New!)
Add hill shading with full control over angle, darkness, exaggeration to all TopoFusion imagery.
COVERAGE: Entire World (except extreme latitudes)*
SOURCE: NASA's OnEarth Server
* Latitudes 61 S to 61 N are covered by 3D download
Landsat (Pro only)
Color imagery from the Landsat 7 ETM+ satellites.
COVERAGE: Global
RESOLUTION: 15 meters per pixel
SOURCE: NASA's OnEarth Server
Color Aerial (Pro only)
High resolution color aerials (NAIP)
COVERAGE: 90% of United States (coverage map)
RESOLUTION: Less than 1 meter per pixel
SOURCE: Multiple state and USGS servers
Aerial
USGS DOQ black and white aerial photographs at one meter per pixel.
COVERAGE: 95% of United States
RESOLUTION: 1 meter per pixel
SOURCE: Terraserver
Urban Aerial
High resolution color aerials for major urban areas.
COVERAGE: Many U.S. cities (see list)
RESOLUTION: 0.25 meters per pixel
SOURCE: Terraserver
Elevation / 3D
Automatic 3D downloads can be combined with any of the above image types for stunning 3D scenes.
COVERAGE: Entire World (except extreme latitudes)*
RESOLUTION: U.S. - 30 meter, World - 90 meter
SOURCE: NASA's OnEarth Server
* Latitudes 61 S to 61 N are covered by 3D download
Tiger Street Maps (Pro Only)
TIGER census street maps and features for the Unites States.
COVERAGE: Entire United States
RESOLUTION: 4 meters per pixel
SOURCE: Tiger Mapping Service
FUSION Combo Maps
Fuse topo, aerial, urban aerial and TIGER maps together for amazing new views.
COVERAGE: Varied
RESOLUTION: Up to 1 meters per pixel
SOURCE: Various. See: TopoFusion Combo Maps for example images.
Australian Topographic (Pro only)
1:250k:, GEODATA topographic maps.
COVERAGE: All of Australia;
RESOLUTION: ~6 meters per pixel
SOURCE: MapConnect
Canadian Topographic (Pro only)
1:50k, 1:250k:, NRCan topographic maps.
COVERAGE: 1:250k - All of Canada; 1:50k - Most areas covered
RESOLUTION: ~6 meters per pixel
SOURCE: NR Canada (*)
- Custom WMS server support - add new servers or your own. See: WMS servers
- All maps are downloaded from public servers. You only download the maps you need. Once downloaded, maps are permanently available on the hard drive, for offline use.
GPS Support
- Transfers GPS tracks, waypoints, routes to and from GPS units. Also supports realtime tracking.
- Garmin - All USB and Serial Garmin units are supported.
Examples include GPSMap60CSX, Forerunner 305, Edge 305, VistaCX, eTrex family, GPS12.
- Direct interface with Edge 705/Colorado/Oregon/Nuvi supported (Pro only)
- Magellan - USB and Serial Magellan units are supported. Examples include eXplorist series, SportTrack Pro, etc. (Triton units are not supported)
- NMEA - NMEA gps units are supported for real-time ("live") tracking.
Data import/export
- GPX - GPS eXchange format.
- Import - .gpx, .tcx/.crs (Pro only), .kml (Google), .txt (Timex NMEA), .txf (Maptech), .mxf (Maptech), .txt (UTM / Lat/Lon), eXplorist .log / .upt.
- Import - ESRI Shapefile (Pro only)
- Export - .gpx, .tcx/.crs, .kml, .csv (excel), eXporlist .log / .upt, .txt (UTM), .txf (Maptech), .mxf (Maptech), .svg
- Export - ESRI Shapefile (Pro only)
- Image Export - Export any map view in high resolution (up to 8,000 x 8,000). TopoFusion Pro can also generate high resolution 3D exports.
Display Features
- Optimized display engine using DirectX.
- Smooth panning/zooming. Handles large GPS files.
- 3D view mode available for the entire globe using auto-download or local DEM files.
Photo Management
- Reads time headers (EXIF) from your digital photos to place pictures along your route. See PhotoFusion.
- Automated HTML and imagemap generation. Create an image map with thumbnails of pictures taken with a digital camera along your GPS track. See PhotoFusion.
Data Analysis
- Computes trip statistics: distance traveled, total trip time, elevation climbing/loss, average speed, Pace (minutes per mile), Moving time, stopped time, uphill time, downhill time, flat time, up/down/flat distance, average uphill/downhill grade, max speed.
- TopoFusion Pro adds Heart Rate, Cadence and Power anaylsis features.
- Profile tool plots elevation, speed, pace and grade versus distance and time.
- Track playback plays back your trips in real time, showing position and statistics.
- Supports 9 map datum including WGS 84, NAD 27, WGS 72, Ordinance Survey
Advanced Features
- User Calibrated Maps - Add and calibrate your own maps in .jpg, .png, .bmp formats. (TopoFusion Pro Only)
- Combine topo and aerial maps using Alpha Blending.
- Multi-Track playback offers a variety of trip visualization and comparison options.
- Combine and average GPS tracks using GPS Networks
- Track your training with the The TopoFusion logbook.
- Exclusive - Power output for runners using new research. See GOVSS.
- Compute splits by miles, kilometers or laps using Lap Analysis.
- Climbing analysis compares different methods for computing elevation gain.
- Add elevation data to tracks, or correct faulty GPS elevations using Climbing Analysis
- TopoFusion "Difficulty Index" and "Effort Index".
- Compute Area inside track
- Simplify and Spline GPS tracks
- Auto download of GIS layers - city names, major roads and U.S. Wilderness boundaries.
Implementation details - Information on speed, design, hard disk use.
(*) (c) Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, Department of Natural Resources. All rights reserved.
