We’re happy to announce the release of v4.5 of both the Pro and Basic product. The main new feature is the addition of the “US Topo” tileset, which replaces the now deprecated “Topo” tileset. The old Topo tileset was downloaded from MSRMaps.com (formerly Terraserver) which has been shut down (read details here: MSRMaps shutting down).

Previously downloaded maps in the old Topo tileset will still be available to existing users, but future downloads have been disabled. For more details, read the forum thread:

http://www.topofusion.com/forum/index.php?topic=7159.0

Head over to the Download Page to try TopoFusion out, free of charge.

Registered users refer to your registration email for the download link, or go here to request your code and the download URL.

Full list of changes

For a complete list of changes see the Revision History

We regretfully report that Microsoft’s MSRMaps server (formerly known as Terraserver) is shutting down. For the last 10 years, MSRMaps has given TopoFusion its base “topo” and black and white aerial tilesets for the United States. After May 1, copies of TopoFusion will no longer be able to pull new tiles for either of these tilesets. Might be time to do some batch downloading!

Here is the official announcement:

http://msrmaps.com/About.aspx?n=AboutShutdown

Terraserver was a key piece in creation of TopoFusion, so it’s with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to it. Fortunately we still have great tilesets like MyTopo, Open Cycle Map, Color Aerials, Open Aerial, Canadian Topo’s, among many others! Terraserver maps were getting quite out of date, and I don’t think any of our users base relied on the old black and white aerials any more since they have been superseded by more up-to-date and color aerial images. Still, sometimes the superfast load times and older sourced maps did come in handy, so we’ll miss it.

There’s still time to download and permanently saved Terraserver tiles to your TopoFusion map cache! Get downloading!

Edit: See new version 4.5 for the new US Topo tileset, with the same Topo maps as MSRMaps.