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| PLATFORM: | Windows 98, Windows Me, PDA, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Delorme Mapping |
| FEATURES: | CD-ROM, Mapping solution with fast routing engine for all major handheld platforms, Provides street maps for the entire U.S. to create address-to-address routes, Supports Palm OS, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile PDAs and phones, 268,000+ new roads; expanded highway exit services and other places of interest, Supports hot-synching maps to a Palm OS external media card |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 019916006686 |
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Customer Reviews of Delorme Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld
PDA software can't even find street addresses! First, I'm a computer geek and should otherwise know what I'm doing with software. I have purchased several DeLorme products before, including Topo USA twice (great software!) and the non-handheld version of Street Atlas. <
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>But, this handheld Street Atlas for my Palm TX is just horrendous, especially the PDA side of the software (the desktop software is annoying but somewhat tolerable - but I only bought this for its PDA installation). It took me a while to figure out that I needed to select areas of the map to export and to then export them. Bizarre interface, but I did manage to get the maps into the PDA. Although the maps on the PDA look rather ugly... just lines and dots... not pretty like Google Maps or Microsoft MapPoint. So far, I can live with that. <
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>What makes the PDA software useless is that it won't find a simple street address (or partial street address) no matter what I do. I would expect any decent mapping software to be able to find a road that exported to the map. There is a "Find" feature, which defaults to "Fuzzy Find", and all that does is show me completely unrelated entries in other Palm applications... it shows me entries in my TODO list, my Contacts, my Calendar and other apps (all completely unrelated to the street I'm trying to search for), plus it'll show me various unrelated businesses (that probably aren't even on the street I'm searching for). But, no streets!! <
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>The only way I can figure out to find streets is to scroll around, zoom in/out until I happen to see the street name on the tiny map. This is nearly impossible if I'm not well familiar with the area. Even paper maps have a chart that lets me look up a street and I'll be told what grid square its in. The desktop app also can readily find a street. So, why not the PDA software? (Yes, the streets I search for are in the exported map.) <
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>I'm not even bothering trying any other features, not unless Find works.
Powerful but complicate, Not very user friendly
For your info. I am a computer nerd for the last 10 years. I have never had a "consumer based" software that I need to read instructions for for the last decade. This software is so complicated that I can't even figure out how to zoom in/out on the PDA version without going thru the Manual. But once I have it figure out, I have to say this is 1 of the most powerful GPS software by far. Here is how I rate this software.
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>Easy of use 0 stars
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>Usefulness 5 stars
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>Extra info 5 stars
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>intergration with Contact list (on PDA) 5 stars
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>voice routing 4 stars.
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>Keep in mind that if you are looking for a device strictely for GPS only. I will still recommand a STANDALONG device. Those stand along device such as Roadmate from Magellan or any other standlong device is still a winner for day to day navigation. But If you want a software base GPS with lot of extra and possibility of upgrade in the future(like add topo map) then This is for you.
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>The map format is harder to read then Microsoft Street and Trip handheld (but unfortunately MS Street does not have the ability to calculate route on PDA and nor does it have voice )
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Hopeless and horrible on a PDA
It's possible to stumble around on this software when it's installed on a desktop/laptop, but just try to export maps to a PDA. The interface is clumsy, confusing and completely unintuitive. As a streets/trips map for use with a PDA and a GPS, it is a terrible choice and you will struggle with it forever. The interface on this software is about the worst I've seen on a PC in 15 or so years.