[3] They developed the first version of the software in 2002 and one included it as part of his doctorate dissertation on GPS Driven Trail Simulation and Network Production.
[4] In 2004 the developers and one other jointly presented the paper Digital Trail Libraries which illustrated some of the graph theory algorithms used by the software.
[7] Topofusion is particularly noted for eased of switch and combining maps and for capability of simultaneously managing multiple trails.
A fully featured trial version which is not time limited is available which restricts usability by watermarking map display tiles by overlaying the word 'DEMO'.
[2] The software is available directly Microsoft Windows only,[9] however TopoFusion has claimed users have reported success using VMWare Fusion and Parallels emulation on Mac OS.