Street Atlas USA 2011 Plus Review

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(More customer reviews)It is more convenient to use a detailed full screen mapping program like this than any internet map or hand held gps device when planning a route. It is not as convenient to use while driving unless a passenger is willing to hold your laptop or netbook, and you will need a compatible gps receiver like DeLorme's Earthmate to use your computer as a gps device.
This 2011 edition is not as updated as it should be. The last previous edition I own is 2003. I ordered but had to return Street Atlas 2008 because it was not at all updated in my town. The 2011 edition finally included my now 5 year old street, an extension of the 8 year old street that still wasn't on the 2008 version. Unfortunately, my part of the street is just named Local or Rural Road, as are some of the other streets in my neighborhood. A major connecting road in my town is still only drawn for half of its three mile length, even though I emailed DeLorme about that omission back in 2008. Also, two streets in my development are misspelled, leading to search problems that had to be worked around by correcting the spelling in the search window. Since they pride themselves in using their own maps, DeLorme has to take responsibility for errors and omissions. My little TomTom GPS that is now over a year old has more up to date maps.
This is the first time I bought the Plus version, which gives the added ability to find 120 million businesses and people, which it will map to various degrees of accuracy. Some of my friends and family it had, others it didn't. As with my TomTom, it is sometimes so far off that you will not be able to find your point of interest without asking a local for help. The included phone book in the Plus version, however, gives you the address to work with and thus another way to program your destination and find it on your own using either Street Atlas or your small GPS device.
Overall, Street Atlas is an easy to use program for planning routes and a good supplement to the window mounted gps that I travel with. Each fills in the blanks in the other. When I last traveled through a wildlife refuge, my TomTom showed none of the unnamed streets that crossed each other. Street Atlas showed all of the roads so that I could navigate.
Netbook owners can use your desktop computer to transfer the DVD's to a flash drive that you can then attach to your netbook for program installation. Alternately, you can also download the program through DeLorme for List Price.




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