DeLorme Street Atlas USA Plus 2009

List Price: $59.99 Discount Price: $53.99

Features:

• Support for Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs) laptop PC, PDAs, and touchscreen phones
• Street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, highways and main roads in Mexico; over 4 million places of interest in U.S. and Canada
• Easy, automatic routing; plan side trips, avoid congested areas, choose back roads; put your contact manager listings on the map and display their map locations, for strategic planning, routing, and more
• GPS ready, with voice-guided navigation
• Customize the maps to meet your needs; link photos, documents and URLs to the maps; print large-format wall maps

Customer Reviews:

Comprehensive maps; unintuitive handheld design [Posted on 2008-04-18]
I hate this product. I bought it with a BT-20 GPS receiver. The process of downloading on to a PocketPC is not easy, and cumbersome; it is impossible to transfer the entire USA onto the device, unlike programs like CoPilot, TomTom and such. It wants to map out areas using a grid, and in our coastal town, 80% of the grid is the ocean, and I can't seem to move the map to have just the land area in the grid. Maybe I'll eventually get to know it better. Its not a straightforward map like say Microsoft Streets; lots of aerial views and such. I'd suggest trying to see if you know someone who owns it, and play with it, before buying. The Bluetooth device is reasonably fast but kind of big by today's standards. Wish I'd bought CoPilot. But anyhow, I have the BT receiver; I'll keep working with this program and try to make the best of it.

Addendum 4 days later: With help from the delorme forum members, I was able to successfully create maps of any areas I wanted, and download to a Windows Mobile Device. The GPS unit (I bought a BT-20) works quite well. Gives an accurate location. Creating a route to an address or point of interest is not well designed....it asks you to tap on map locations, for origin and destination of route, which is OK in a town you know well and don't need GPS. Does not use the GPS-fixed location, as origin of route, which is not good design. I'll have to painstakingly work with this program and get to know it more. It's not a total loss as I initially thought...thank goodness.

I gave it one star to begin with .....I give it 3 stars after I got it to work.

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