http://www.topofusion.com/news Your source for the latest GPS, Mapping and TopoFusion Software developments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:03:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The world's longest mountain bike race, Tour Divide started this past Friday (June 12) and runs for the next 2+ weeks as racers pedal some 2700 miles from Canada to Mexico. We here at TopoFusion have always been big fans of divide racing, having ridden the route in 2004, raced in ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/06/17/tour-divide-spot-tracking-2700-miles-nonstop/ We're excited to announce the release of v3.80 of TopoFusion Pro, featuring a long sought after addition to the software... elevation caching! Thanks to Lucian Plesea over at JPL, we now have rapid access to tiled DEM (elevation) data. As you pan around in TopoFusion in v3.80, you'll ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/05/19/new-3d-and-elevation-features-v380-released/ Team Royal Yellow, image courtesy tybee500.com We're continuing to improve and test our SPOT tracking software, and plan to introduce SPOT specific features in the TopoFusion app itself sometime in the near future. The latest event to sign up to be tracked is the Tybee 500. It's a 500+ mile endurance ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/05/13/spot-tracking-on-the-tybee-500/ The Keys 100 Reef Run will start Saturday morning April 25, 2009 from the Islander Resort in Islamorada, Florida and finish at Smathers Beach in Key West, Florida. This race replaces the Hogsbreath race of years past. Several boats are already in position at the resort, to start on this ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/04/24/more-spot-tracking-floridas-keys-100/ We've always been racers here at TopoFusion. Whether on the bike or on foot, we like to support the local community. Recently we've cranked out a few course maps for local events. First is the Spring XC Classic, right here in Tucson. We believe in rewarding ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/04/20/spring-xc-and-whiskey-maps-topofusion-prize-money/ We're happy to announce the release of version 3.74 of TopoFusion Pro. Atop the feature list are new and improved Canadian Topo maps. TopoFusion was one of the first mapping apps to include downloadable topographic maps for all of Canada, and now we've gone a step further with ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/03/29/new-high-def-canadian-topos-v374-released/ The AZT 300 (race site) starts Friday, April 10th at 9am. It's a self supported 300 mile race along the Arizona Trail. This year you can follow all the action using a new SPOT tracker, right here on TopoFusion.com. The link is here: http://topofusion.com/tracker-azt.php SPOT units (official site) are a combo ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/03/28/arizona-trail-300-live-tracking/ TopoFusion is proud to be a sponsor of the 2009 Cascade Cream Puff 100. The Cream Puff is one of the oldest and most challenging 100 mile mountain bike races in the country. We've taken care of the course mapping for this year's event. Here's a sample ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/03/26/cascade-cream-puff-100-maps-available/ Mike Curiak set off earlier this week to ride the 1,100 mile Iditarod Trail to Nome, completely unsupported. He's carrying a SPOT GPS/satellite tracker. We here at TopoFusion are pretty excited about his trip and have set up a tracking page to track his progress: http://topofusion.com/spot.php We've leveraged some TopoFusion technology to ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/03/06/topofusion-spot-tracking-curiak-on-the-iditarod-trail/ ... http://www.topofusion.com/news/2009/02/10/v370-out-geotagging-and-more-color-aerials/