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| From: DeLorme
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 361
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
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Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 3.2 x 2.4 x 0.8
MPN: AO-007943-203
Model: AO-7943-203
UPC: 019916005870
EAN: 0019916005900
ASIN: B00149YSUY
Release Date: March 17, 2008
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Showing reviews 6-10 of 14
 Useless on handheld. Slightly better on UMPC/Notebook June 16, 2008
J. Genther (SoCal)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I wish I had read the reviews on Amazon before purchasing this product. I found it to be absolutely useless on a handheld device. DeLorme claim that it can be used on a Windows Mobile Pocket PC but fails to mention that you it doesn't work well as navigation device. You have to spend hours planning routes and entering waypoints in advance to your trip. Once that's done it cannot correct your route if you decide to take a detour or if there are road closures.
To use the navigation feature on you device you must do what called 'Tracking' to a waypoint, POI or following your predefined route. But for the first several hours of attempting to use it the program would automatically shut down when hit the Start Tracking button. Once it started working it was intermittent, but that didn't matter. When navigating, the map doesn't show enough detail, no matter what zoom level, to see exactly which streets to turn on and the voice directions rarely say anything, & when it does it's volume is low and doesn't even provide useful information. You must know the street names from memory before you get to them because the device wont tell you by text or voice.
If you want Aerial or Satellite imagery you can purchase it from within the software for a $50 minimum purchase, but can't seem to figure out how to add my own.
Adding new streets is simple enough but I have trouble correcting wrong street names and incorrect POI's.
If you have an internet connection on your mobile device/smart phone you're better off with the free Google navigation software.
Save your money June 21, 2008
M. America (Minneapolis, MN)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This program has one of the worst user interfaces I have ever seen. There are far too many options for the casual user. To make matters even worse, there are options to show or hide other options. This is what happens when "feature creep" gets out of hand or when product development is driven by the sales department. I'm going to return it to Delorme and find something else or keep it as a reminder of just how bad a program can be.
 Delorme Street Atlas Review June 10, 2008
Joel P. Nathansohn (Denver, NC)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I had a previous version of this and wanted to update it to get the latest road changes. I was very disappointed in how out of date the maps are. It was almost no change to the 2 year old version I already had for the area I live in. Even corrections I sent in over a year earlier were not included.
 Got it all July 25, 2008
R. Holland (Houston, Texas)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I put 100+ miles a day on my truck, working with home builders. Many in new subdivisions. I stay on course going to meetings at new addresses, and can draw in the new streets in the new subdivisions. Outstanding program. I buy the new revision every year. My 12" laptop is part of my front seat, with this program running.
DeLorme's Unfinished, Unimpressive Symphony August 27, 2008
Number 6 (Ajax, ON Canada)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
DeLorme has a lot to recommend it, and I expected terrific things from the people who created AAA Map'nGo several years ago. But the agglomeration of half-thought-out features found in Street Atlas USA 2009 (SA2009) has left me agog. Every "feature" has something to annoy.
Yes, there's maps of the entire US, Canada and Mexico, but they appear to be significantly out of date. An interchange I know was removed over twelve years ago still shows in its old location. Even with the "show 1-way streets" option (which is bizarrely un-set by default), streets in my city that have been one-way since Prohibition are happily routed the wrong way by SA2009. DeLorme does provide a "draw" function that claims to let you edit such problems, but it doesn't work on limited access highways, and you have to set one-way markers one road segment at a time. Then there's the printed maps. "Strip maps" set for 30-mile intervals use a 5-point font to label everything. Good luck using that on the road even at high noon on a sunny day. For printed mapping, I switched back to MS Streets & Trips 2007 (MSS&T).
One thing SA2009 does a bit better than MSS&T is the handheld application. Before SA2009, I used Microsoft Pocket Streets (MSPS -- no longer available) to download maps to my PDA, but while MSPS was capable of GPS locating, it couldn't show a route. At least SA2009 provides the route display in addition to GPS locating, and I use that ability cautiously. Why cautiously? Well, a test run from my office to my home kept producing SA2009 warnings of "off route" because I refused to break through highway barriers, cross ravines and navigate streams suggested by the SA2009 routing. However, being able to see a mostly-correct route with a display of where I am and how long until the next turn is handy on a road trip (and cheaper than cell based updates). But I always check the route on the Web BEFORE setting out, then apply corrections to SA2009 using "route vias". Although the handheld purports to perform such routing, it's ludicrously slow (between 5 minutes for a few blocks to hours for inter-city routing), and half the time it gives up on some obscure and undocumented error. Still, SA2009 routing can be handy to find a way back to a missed exit (if you can find a place to wait 5 or 10 minutes), but little beyond that.
If DeLorme finished the product that SA2009 seems designed to become, it would be a powerhouse. As it is, it's little more than an occasionally useful, but never dependable toy. With work, you can extend it to become useful, but I don't plan on buying Street Atlas USA 2010.
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