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Usually ships in 2-3 business days | | Only 2 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2008 is the most powerful atlas program available for your PC, PDA or GPS. These comprehensive tools offer street information and points-of-interest (POI). It also features innovative GPS features: voice commands, spoken directions, automatic back-on-track re-routing and much more. These authentic DeLorme maps are guaranteed accurate -- they're produced by their own mapmakers, and triple-referenced to ensure you have the correct guidance anywhere you go. Explore America's back roads without getting lost and get where you're going faster than ever with Street Atlas USA 2008. GPS navigation with spoken directions and voice commands Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0, and Palm OS 3.5 (and above) support | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Package Length: | 7.6 inches | | Package Width: | 5.2 inches | | Package Height: | 1.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 20 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows Vista / Windows 2000 / Windows XP | | Media: | DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | GPS voice commands and spoken directionsMexico highway maps, as well as U.S. & Canadian detailed streets & points-of-interestMore than 3.4 million updated streets across the U.S. and CanadaIdeal for laptops, desktops, PDAs, iPods, and GPSUpdated maps and four million places of interest produced by experienced mapmakers at DeLorme
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15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Lacking Updates Jul 23, 2007
By Steve
"Flashlight Fiend"
I moved near the Hilton Head Island Sun City and ordered Street Atlas 2008 to update my five year old 2003 edition. Sun City and the surrounding town have doubled in size in the last five years, but Street Atlas has not added a single new street to the area in that time. Also, mislabeled roads have not been corrected.
I returned it to Delorme.
17 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Too hard to Maneuver Jul 12, 2007
By Bill Coleman
I have had this program in the past as well as Microsoft Streets and Trips, and i have always used the Streets and Trips more, it is easier to Maneuver around and find things. Yesterday I was using this program trying to find hotels in Las Vegas, and it would not list them without doing a bunch of hunting and searching to get them to appear. With Streets and Trips you go to Las Vegas and look up and down the stip and all the hotels are there and easy to find. i only bought this Delorme this year because they said that they had updated it and it was all better, well it is not. I will not purchase Delorme Street Atlas again, I will just continue to purchase the Microsoft Streets and Trips which will be out in August. thanks
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Delorme Sloppy Atlas USA 2008 Jul 21, 2007
By Lux Lucis
Delorme Street Atlas USA 2008 comes on a DVD and installs without any problems. Its interface, however, is cluttered and not particulary user friendly. Various buttons and dials take up just as much screen space as the map window, which makes navigation frustrating. You cannot close and re-open navigation window panes to allow more room for the map -- you can only adjust their size by dragging window panes. This helps a little, but not much. I would have much preferred to have drop down menus than these giant unwieldy screen buttons.
The maps themselves are constipated with dubious points of interest at the expense of what really matters: placing addresses at their correct locations. Our neighborhood has been around for 20 years, and yet Delorme manages to "move" my house to the other end of the street. Visitors are going to have a lot of fun trying to locate my residence if they rely on Delorme, especially when it is after dark and one cannot very well read numbers on mailboxes. The little street next to my house is not even listed. This is odd, because all the major free internet-based mapping services (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MapQuest) have my neigborhood laid out correctly. Perhaps Delorme cartographers should borrow their maps from one of these services. And I thought that a mapping software that you pay money for would deliver a higher level of accuracy than free mapping softwares available on the Web. Silly me. Also, the main county roads (4-lane highways) running through our suburb actually have names, in case the folks at Delorme care to know it. It does not inspire confidence in Delorme's database to see these roads just labeled CR-118 or CR-112, instead of Fieldstown Road or Mount Olive Road.
Another problem that I have encountered is that if you want your trip routed correctly, you really have to micromanage this software and tell it which roads to avoid, and which locations to travel through. Otherwise it will by default direct your travel through tortuous and slow country roads (even when your preference is set to the "fastest", rather than the "shortest", route). The end result can be a trip that is 10 miles shorter but half an hour longer.
One of the reasons I bought this software was because of its capability to transfer maps to Palm PDA. Once again, from the programming perspective Delorme performs flawlessly. Syncing maps to PDA is very easy and painless. A single map will take anywhere between 2 and 10 Mb of space, so an expansion card is a must for your Palm device. Once in the PDA memory, however, the maps are of limited utility, as there is not much you can do with them. In a pinch, you can zoom in and find a street of interest. You can even plan a route (it will take a long time on PDA processor), although the direction can be only marginally trusted.
Overall, I wish I had spent my 40 bucks elsewhere.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Let me help you understand mapping programs Apr 04, 2008
By D. Lavine
"deepstroke - trucking your goods to you"
I am an 'over-the-road' long haul truck driver. As such, mapping and routing is crucial to doing my job well. I actually use 4 different mapping programs (3 of them run on one gps receiver, the other is a stand-alone). It is totally possible to enter the same data into each program and come up with 4 different routes. But that usually doesnt happen. I do get minor discrepancies between them at times. Of the laptop/desktop programs, the Delorme Street Atlas (SA) is by far the best. Having said that, I will admit that it is NOT intuitive to use at first. MS-Streets and Trips (SNT) is easier to use out of the box and for simple short trips. However, after taking the time to beat the learning curve on SA, it is a far superior product than SNT. The third program that I have is a terribly expensive product designed to be used by truckers. It is useless for the most part. I only consult it if I have concerns about truck restricted roads or bridge clearances. They all have mapping errors in them. They cannot possibly keep up with all the road building that goes on, and must rely on input from users. I dont believe that many people take the time to report errors or changes. There is also a considerable lag time from when the map data is created and the software vendor issues the product. So yes, when you buy the latest version, it is already months out of date.
I am not sure where they get the data for commercial points of interests. In my opinion, I think many places have to pay for the 'advertising', thus if they choose not to, they wont appear. It was frustrating when I was attempting to find a local post office and the data was for a mailbox location. Again, the management and collection of this type of data is an impossible task,they must rely upon the veracity of the data that is supplied to them. Think of what it would cost to send someone to each and every POI to verify the information, and as well collect new data on new resturants, etc. We wouldnt be able to afford such a conveniece.
My advice to you is this, If you are a casual user in familiar areas, consider the dedicated units such as tom-tom or garvin or delphi. I dont believe that you get much by paying a higher price. I wouldnt spend more than a couple of hundred dollars. I would also look for refurbished units. They will give you the best price. Often, they are units returned to stores because the user changed his/her mind. Neither the store nor manufacturer can resell the item as new. There is nothing wrong with it and it will have the same warranty as a brand new one. They are all about the same, though I did like my Delphi unit better than the device I use now that runs Tom Tom. I would stick with the major brands, I just dont trust the no-names. A larger screen is about the only good reason to spend more money.
If you are a heavy user, one who is likely to have a laptop in your vehicle with gps, get both SA and SNT. Get the GPS receiver from Delorme. Then go to their website and download a free small program (called a serial port emulator)that will allow SNT and other programs to use the same receiver. For quick and easy routes use SNT. Use SA for your GPS monitoring. Compare the routes between the two products. If they are not the same, make a decision according to your preferences. You will find it much easier to manipulate your route in SA than in SNT.
And finally, my best advice to you, is to secure the device that you are using. The most popular item to steal from a car today is a GPS device. Remove it from you windshield, including the bracket. It is also a good idea to clean the windshield so that the ring mark left by the suction cup on the bracket doesnt advertise that you have and use a GPS device. A bother you say! Yep, it is! But not as much bother as having to deal with the result of your car having been broken into and stuff stolen from you! And please -- when passing me on the road wave with more than one finger (I go slow because I have to and it saves on fuel)and give plenty of room before you move back into the lane. At highway speeds it takes me 3 football fields to bring my truck to a panic stop. I dont want to have to live with the fact that I killed someone because the driver of the other vehicle was ignorant or in just too big a hurry.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Upgrade from SA 2003 and 2005 Aug 16, 2007
By Melvin Wood
I have 2 desktops and 1 laptop that have been using SA 2003 and 2005 Street Atlas and this upgrade is far superior to both of them. I use it primarily for route planning as I have two cars and one motorcycle with their own GPS's. I like the new Map Share feature where I can email my routes to others to view and print. The additional maps of Canada and Mexico are outstanding. The Via button is my friend as I use it constantly to plan my routes along scenic roads, and many are rural through state and national parks. I do have to tweak my route preferences often and recalculate to get it right. Navtech is the map data base and there are errors. I have the same data base in my Lexus and BMW and errors occur frequently. My Garmin on the motorcycle has errors from Navtech also. You can't blame DeLorme. Try Calling Navtech and alerting them to the errors if you want frustration. 2008 is much better than earlier editions, but it also is 2gb of data so have the memory and a fast chip. Go for it!
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