CALTOPO

CalTopo - Collaborative GIS for Our Teams

The New Mexico Search and Rescue Council began implementing the CalTopo team account for use statewide on SAR missions in November 2022. Our implementation team has been working hard to develop standards and offer training for all levels of SAR volunteers from field teams to our Incident Management Teams. We believe it is important to offer training and standards to our SAR community so our member teams can effectively manage missions anywhere within the state in a consistent way. Come back to this page often as we will be updating it regularly.


Trainings will be posted under Events along with information on prerequisites, registration and costs, if any. 

​CalTopo NMSARC Standards


Field Team Guide


InReach Setup

If you have a Garmin InReach device you'd like to use on missions, please complete this form.

Note, this does not require a Professional account but uses your MapShare information.


Support & Training

To obtain support or training from our team, please send an email to caltopo@nmsarc.org.  We offer both onsite and virtual training.


CalTopo Donations

Our annual subscription is due each November. Your reoccurring donations are needed to offset the ongoing cost of the team account. IMT members using the desktop offline team account or pro account are encouraged to donate $35 annually.  


You can donate by sending a check to New Mexico Search and Rescue Council, P.O. Box 3396, Albuquerque, NM 87190 or using the donate button below. Please be sure to mark your check memo or donate special instructions for "CalTopo".  

​Thanks for helping to support this project!

CalTopo Virtual Classes

These classes are conducted bi-weekly hosted by the NMSARC CalTopo implementation team. They start with the very basics of using CalTopo on a computer and with increasing depth cover more topics needed to use CalTopo effectively with the state.

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  1. Computer Basics - Part 1 - 1/30/23  - 1 hr 30 min - Exercise 1
  2. Computer Basics - Part 2 - 2/13/23 - 1 hr 5 min - Exercise 2
  3. Computer Basics - Part 3 - 2/27/23 - 1 hr 17 min - Exercise 3
  4. Computer Basics - Part 4 - 3/13/23 - 1 hr 8 min - No Exercise 
  5. Computer Basics - Part 5 - 3/27/23 - 1 hr 11 min -Exercise 4
  6. Computer Basics - Part 6 - 4/10/23 - 1 hr 21 min - No Exercise

CalTopo Tutorials

These tutorials provided by CalTopo offer a comprehensive look at all CalTopo features and functions:

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  1. All Users Training​
  2. Mobile Device Use
  3. First Response Training
  4. Desktop for Offline Use
  5. Team Account
  6. NASAR Certification Course​​

CalTopo Implementation Team

Our team has been hard at work implementing the CalTopo team account, developing standards, and training since November 2022. 


​Here are our team members: 


Bob Baker - Albuquerque

Bob Howell - Alamogordo/Cloudcroft

Delinda VanneBrightyn - Taos

Keith Bisset - ​Tijeras

Robert Garcia - Las Cruces

Russ Imler - Silver City


Advisory Consultants:

F Larry Zenter, Jr - Albuquerque

Marc Levesque - Silver City

Michaela Buenemann - Las Cruces