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Software Street Atlas USA 2004 Handheld

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- It's so un-user-friendly
This is the second mapping software I bought. The first one is Pharos GPS for pocket pc, it was a waste of money, very hard to use and the map disappears on its own. This one is not much better either. I'm returning it.

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- Don't let the "Handheld" in the title fool you.
Bought this and was hoping that it would live up to it's name, a Street Atlas to be used on a handheld. Don't believe it. It's just a map viewer.

When I'm out driving and I need to find an address, I need a handheld app that will let me search for it. This won't. That functionality is only on the desktop half of the software, when I'm sitting at home. If I could foresee in advance all the addresses I would need to use when I'm away from home, I could search and save maps and routes in advance. Then sync them with the handheld, and then I could use them. Who uses map software like that?

The worse thing about this lack of functionality is how they hide that from you. It's not clear in the documentation available BEFORE you buy it. Worst of all, it's not really available in the documentation AFTER you buy it. You have to wrestle through a very poorly designed user interface to try to figure out what the software does and doesn't do. Not only is it not functional for me, it took me over an hour of my time and all that money to find that out.

Save your money. If you need a true handheld street atlas, keep looking.

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- Stick with SA9 or lower
It works like no other program you have ever used. Get ready to re-learn even something as simple as opening and saving a file. The program is slow. The maps lack detail until you are zoomed in nearly all the way. Printing is not as good as SA7. All in all it is a big step backwards.

Don't Bother.

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- Best option I know of.
I have used many Delorme products, (Map-n-Go, Street Atlas, and now Handheld). The above comments about the interface are correct. You have to sync Maps, then Routes. The onboard "compute route" takes FOREVER on my M125, but I'm glad it's available. Beats Rand-McNally, you have to connect to the Net to compute a route with them. SW will give you Lat/Long and speed. If you have a paper map and are lost this is VERY usefull. With a GPS attachment this is very nice SW.

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- Product is "Adequate" But Needs Some Work
I purchased DeLorme's Street Atlas 2004 Handheld USA for my Sony Clie (NR70V Hi-Res) as I travel extensively cross-country for my job. I was interested in a Palm OS Street navigation software that could give me point-to-point turn-by-turn driving instructions while on the road.

Overall, I found this GPS solution to be "Adequate," but needing a bit more development before it is ready for the road-warrior. Here are the pros and cons that I found while using the software:

Cons: User interface to create and download maps to the Palm is not intuitive and does not follow standards. When I finally figured out how to create a map of my surrounding city and suburbs and get it on my Clie, I was suprised to see that the map file size was 3MB in size. I'm wondering if a cross-country map would even fit on my handheld! The "Find" street/place feature on the Palm does not seem to work right - it is slow and it finds addresses that have nothing to do with what was searched. Geolocating to a found address is also slow taking 2 minutes to locate and position to an address. Creating a point-to-point driving route on the Palm takes almost 10 minutes for a cross-town 10 mile trip (probably not useable to create cross-country routes on the Palm). Product does not support Sony's Hi-Res screen and text/buttons are "choppy." Maps while driving do not show most street names - 1 or 2 streets are shown with names if your lucky. There is no Zoom option on the screen - you have to push the up/down arrow to zoom. In Sony's NR70V model these buttons are not accessible while cradled. Screen Redraws are slow when moving from one grid to another. Next turn instructions are slow to display after your previous turn (5-8 seconds) - this will be a problem if you have turns back-to-back on your route.

Pros: GPS tracking of your vehicle along the map is accurate. Routes can be created on your computer and downloaded to the Palm. DeLorme will most likely release updated versions (free upgrades, I hope!)

Note: Also purchase an accessory cable that charges your Palm and powers the Earthmate GPS device - they run around $50 (Do a search on "Earthmate Data Cable with Auto Charger" to find this item on the internet.

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