Thread: Garmin Topo France v2 (Mapsource)

Originally Posted by Ballebar

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This thread is by 100% certainty providing the "Garmin TOPO France v2" map. Claiming anything else is pure nonsense.
It's listed as v2.00 within the "Map Product Manager". Furthermore if you look inside the "TOPO France v2.gmap\Info.xml" file you will also see TOPO France v2 & DataVersion 200 (meaning v2.00).

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TOPO France v2 or what??? LOL !

I confirm this is something different (and better) from previous Gps topo France.

The first issues were developed by a company called gpstopo and included only one region. There was GPS topo 1 for the Alps, Gpstopo 2 for the Pyrenees and so on.

So, if you wanted to have all France you had to buy 11 separate regions (10 for continental France and 1 for overseas).

The new version (called Topo France) is distributed by Garmin France and covers all continental France (but not the overseas territories, such as Reunion Island, Martinique and so on). The same distributor has also issued 4 separate tiles covering 4 regions that you can buy separately.

This issue is not called version 2 by the seller, because this is the first release of TopoFrance, but it is definitely a new version.

This version includes routing ability (to a village or a peak) and has a much more user friendly aspect. For instance, forests are marked in green instead of a hatched that was difficult to understand. The GR paths also are marked with a much more visible line.

The overall impression is that you have switched from black and white to full colour television.

I would say the only shortcoming of this new version is that it does not cover the overseas territories. If you are interested in these ones, you still have to go for Garmin Mapsource Topo France GPSTopo 11 v1.02 Outre-Mer (MapID 776), that you can find here :

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Other than that, this version is really great.