Route 66 Route Europe 2007 Description:

Route 66 Route Europe 2007 review:
5 stars (Route 66 best available so far) - Although this program is not as detailed on Europe as DeLorme Streets USA is of the US, which spoiled me , it is the best I have found and is very usefull.

I found pathetic the reviewer's ridiculous complaint that he could not find Florence or Rome, etc. How Anglo-centric can one be? He was using American spelling! When in Rome, one does what the Romans do - use the correct spelling, not the Anglized spelling! Rome is Roma, for instance. Do Europeans use their language's spelling of, say, Houston, and impose their spelling (maybe Hustoni in Italian!) when they travel here? No, they use the spelling our country uses! By his logic, someone from China traveling in Europe should be able to type in the Chinese language version for Rome and find it!! He expects the program to know every single world language word for European cities and translate! This program was not made strictly for Anglos. Sure, if it was, it would be easier. He needs to buy Microsoft's more primitive European map software!
5 stars (Great software with logical user interface) - I bought this just prior to a trip to Germany and the Netherlands.

We installed it and used it successfully with a Microsoft GPS receiver without even referring to any of the documentation, a testament to simplicity.

Keep in mind you need TWO people in the car to use this safely unless you're going to pull over regularly, and this is hard to do on many European highways.

It was extremely useful because many streets in Amsterdam either didn't have street signs or the sign didn't match our printed map. Also, for whatever reason, signs in Germany and the Netherlands for major highways tell you what cities each direction leads to, but not the direction (East, West, etc.) so if you didn't know the names of some nearby towns, you couldn't tell which direction to take. Watching the arrow on the GPS allowed us to determine, in most cases, which way to go (in some cases, they'd have 2-3 ramps and they'd reverse direction which made it hard to tell if you couldn't see the ramp).

A few caveats: we couldn't find out hotel in a search because Route 66 spelled it wrong. When we ran a search by the town's name, we found the hotel in a list.

Also, when we reached the Dutch Resistance Museum, it turned out it had moved. In Route 66's defense, we were told that even recent Dutch maps don't show the new location.

This program is excellent and I recommend it highly. Now if I could just configure Microsoft's OWN GPS unit to work with their Streets and Trips (which wasn't a problem with Route 66), I could use the GPS in the U.S., but NATURALLY Microsoft can't make trouble free software.
5 stars (Excellent software and easy to use.) - Was easy to use. Good search capability. For example, I just typed in the name of the route start and the hotel name where I wanted to go, it found them and mapped the route. It even found the location of carpools in Delft by just typing the two words. It is a very good software and the graphics look good too, better than the pictures posted on the software manufacturers website.