February 14, 2012
Best Buy:Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005
Product Description
Street Atlas USA 2005 is the easy way to plan your route from Point A to Point B. Get directions to any location in the U.S. with this collection of impeccably detailed maps. Fully compatible with a USB Earthmate GPS receiver
- Updated maps showing all highways, local routes, borders and exits in the U.S.
- Instant routing finds the fastest way to get to any destination
- Powerful search engine with multile zoom levels, for close-up looks at the roads you'll travel
- Millions of searchable points of interest -- from the newest restaurants to the closest gas stations
- Add your own notes and recommendations to maps
Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005 Reviews
Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005 Reviews
| 30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:  Much Better than Earlier Version, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005 (CD-ROM) I bought and returned either the 2002 or 2003 version... sorry I do not remember which... because it was so difficult to use and interface was so horrid. I have used and liked ST8 as well as Microsoft Trips and Streets for years. They both worked very well on my IBM 800 MHz notebook. Today I received and installed this new version of ST2005, expecting that I might hate it like the earlier version and have to return it. Much to my surprise I like it very much. It is easy to use and is well-worth the money for all the features. Of course, since government data is used for all mapping programs, there are errors and some points of interest are way off from actual location. Some POIs are missing and strangely, all the casinos are missing in Stateline, NV, as they are in all mapping software. The voice feature works great in XP, but I have not tested it on my IBM notebook yet with my GPS. I expect it to work like the old version I have usd for many years. It installed easily and smoothly on... Read more 27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:  GPS works great BUT map functionality lacking, By JanSobieski (United States of America) - See all my reviews This review is from: Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005 (CD-ROM) I'ved worked with Microsoft's Streets and Trips and the Delorme Mapping Street Atlas. The panning, zooming in and zooming out functionality is an order of magnitude better in Streets and Trips than Delorme's Mapping Street Atlas. I also like the mapping details in Streets and Trips better. There are more points of interest in Streets and Trips and the "directions" function is also much much easier to use. I found the Delorme product generally cumbersome to use by comparison to Streets and Trips which worked elegantly and seamlessly. The GPS receiver OTOH worked fantastic! It locked on to the satellites quickly and provided excellent real time location on the map. Despite the wonders of the GPS receiver however I still found the program awkward and difficult to use compared to Streets and Trips. Honestly, I cannot envision any application for which this program would offer any significant advantage over Streets and Trips. Now... Read more 11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:  Slooowwww...., By This review is from: Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005 (CD-ROM) I've used the older Street Atlas 7.0 for about five years and have been really happy with it. I use it on the home machine for planning and on the laptop with a GPS for traveling. My gripes have been minor, some small annoying errors in the database and its refusal to remember my settings when I exit. I upgraded because DeLorme offered a discount and I figured in five years they might have fixed those annoyances. The annoyances remain, and this version is glacially slow. Twenty two seconds to load (three in 7.0), fifteen seconds to search for an address (1-2 in 7.0). Likewise panning and zooming is slower. This product is promoted as "faster", and other reviewers confirm that it is, compared to 2004. I pity anyone using that version. I was going to complain that "Find" stopped working a month ago until I read about the geomagnetic update thingy from another reviewer. That fixed my problem, but now my complaint is: Why didn't DeLorme tell me about it. They certainly have... Read more |
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