Acme Mapper -- Alternatives?

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:30 am

Acme Mapper is great. I can plot points on a topo map and send them in an email or post them on a forum. I love it -- but it was having a problem earlier today.

Just in case, anyone got a good substitute? I'm familiar with G4map which is excellent, but I'm not aware of a way to easily plot points with G4map the way I can with Acme mapper.

HJ

Post by **HikeUp** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:21 am

http://caltopo.com/map.html

I've used this when ACME FU is FUbar. Right clicking seems to bring up marker options, but I do not know if you can send a link with markers.

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:07 pm

Definitely better quality maps. The UI isn't quite as fast and as intuitive as Acme Mapper's. I'll have to play with it some.

HJ

Post by **Hikin_Jim** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:43 pm

Cal Topo looks like it just might be the way to go if Acme is floating belly up in the fish pond. You can in fact generate a web link (URL) such as this one: example route on a USGS topo map.

HJ