Delorme Mapping Street Atlas 2007 for Handhelds Description:

Delorme Mapping Street Atlas 2007 for Handhelds review:
1 stars (ZERO STARS !!!!!!!!) - I use the desktop software and have been content with it. I find STreet Atlas easier to use but INACCURATE and MS Streets and Trips to be MORE accurate but less intuitive.



Street Atlas for Handheld is a complete, unfinished, unpolished, inaccurate and VERY unintuitive waste of money!



Basically, the reviews previous to mine have said it all. I would recommend Tom Tom Navigator for Handhelds or Microsoft's Streets and Trips for PocketPC.
1 stars (Flush your money down the toilet!) - At least you'll get to see it swirl around before it disappears. Then you can walk away and forget it instead of wasting HOURS AND HOURS in frustration after you've wasted the money.



I bought this program because I thought it would be more current on the local streets than my old GPS software that came out in 2003 - WRONG! Less current, and not nearly as user friendly or anything else you want street GPS for.



The other reviews do a good job of telling you some of the weaknesses. I just wish I had read them before I bought this trash.



DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS IF YOU ARE THINKING OF USING IT WITH A HANDHELD DEVICE!!!
1 stars (Worst handheld application ever!) - I've been developing software for over 30 years and have never seen (and spent money on!) a worse piece of commercial software!! It's not even good enough to be called an Alpha version! If the developers ever used this software on a road-trip, I'm sure they're all dead by now since it's so badly designed that it's actually a danger to anyone that uses it!



Here are just a few things to hate about this program:

1) Selecting map rectangles in the desktop app is slow and anti-intuitive.



2) The handheld software draws maps very slowely, if at all!



3) None of the controls on the display are intuitive. I tried for hours to figure out how to make the icon that represents the car, stay in the middle and have the map move. Still haven't figured it out!!



4) Trying to route to an address is impossible!



5) The map display doesn't even have the names of many of the smaller side-streeets.





There are many more, but you get the idea. I've used Garmin's excellent "City Select" software and found it to be excellent. My Garmin GPS got broken so I bought an NMEA-standard BlueTooth GPS and wanted to get a mapping/routing program that would be similar to City Select. This definately ISN'T it!! My next purchase is i.Guidance from iNav.



I used Street Atlas USA many years ago and loved it. Maybe the laptop version of 2007 is better, I don't know. The handheld version totally sucks though. Shame on Delorme for ripping loyal customers off like this!!!!!