Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005 review:5 stars (Great Product) - I have used DeLorme Street Atlas for years in my genealogical hobby. I have found it amazing that it has so much detail of both urban and rural roads, and also topographical features. Used in combination with a GPS and DeLorme Atlas and Gazetters, I have been able to locate drive directly to many obsecure locations.2 stars (Difficult to Use) - As a real estate appraiser I travel from point to point and then write reports about each site. The GPS and voice functions are irrelevant, I never use them. The report writing function is where I need a program daily. And for my purposes, which is entirely for drawing, labeling and map notes for each site to be placed into a report, this program is an order of magnitude worse than the version it replaced. Lots of new features just complicate the program and make the simple features I need harder to replicate and work with. Sometimes the map will zoom or reduce unexpectedly due to a casual move of the pointer that was not intended to produce this effect. On balance, I hate it. The bright side ... you can find things with it, if you are willing to battle and fight the complex functions to do so.2 stars (Feature rich but with serious faults) - Findings after brief trial.
Pros:
1. Provide voice driving instructions, but those instructions may be confusing in some situations.
2. Accept speech commands, it's quite fancy.

Cons:
1. It will ask you to turn left/right where you are not allowed to do so. This is quite dangerous.
2. Some map informations are out of date.
A road removed by freeway construction a decade ago still appears on the map, and i was asked to go through it.
3. It doesn't locate my location precisely with GPS.
It claimed that i was driving on a freeway when i was actually on a local road next to the freeway.
I wonder how it can think this way as i didn't get into any freeway entrance. Can i simply JUMP into the freeway?
MS Sreets&Trips didn't show this problem using the same GPS receiver.


Delorme Mapping Street Atlas USA 2005 Features:
Computer software (programs)
Education (Educational)
Reference
Geography (Geographical)
Atlas (Atlases)
Maps (Mapping)
Travel Planners (Planning)
Route
Map Info (Mapinfo)
Secondary Education (High School)
CD
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

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