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16 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Outdated Map DataJun 07, 2007
By J. Clinton
Upon installation I view the map for my own city, Bend, Oregon. The major highway, completed 7 years ago, is not shown! Numerous other missing and mislabeled roads make the map so unreliable as to be almost useless. Other paper and electronic maps, even those 5 years old, have the major roads shown correctly.
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Delorme Street Atlas USA 2008 is TerribleJun 26, 2007
By David I. Tanzer
I've been a long time user of Delorme's printed map products and love them, so Street Atlas USA 2008 was a big disappointment. I was previously using Garmin's Que software on my PDA, and it was time to upgrade so I thought I'd try Delorme's product. In a nutshell, it's terrible. It's extremely awkward to download maps to the PDA and the PDA software doesn't have a fraction of the functionality that the Garmin software has. If you are intending to use this software on your PDA, I would strongly discourage you from purchasing this product.
10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
What is DeLorme's problem?Sep 05, 2007
By Jerry Saperstein
I don't know why I keep buying DeLorme products. They are always disappointing. Sometimes, as with Topo 6.0, they are the best of a poor lot. With Street Atlas, however, there are many better choices available.
The first problem I have with this version of Street Atlas is the Graphical User Interface (GUI). I just don't understand why DeLorme doesn't change it. The GUI is non-intuitive, difficult and cumbersome to use. It feels years out of date.
The map graphics have always been awful and really need modernizing.
Points Of Interest (POIs) are a disaster, as always. Stores that closed years ago are still shown, in some cases with their replacements! In looking over the POIs near my home, I see a FedExKinkos a couple of miles away, but not the one just down the block from me which has been in that location for years. A restaurant north of my location on the other side of the street is shown in the wrong place. Type in "parks" and all you seem to get are fitness centers of one kind or another, not the open spaces with greenery and playgrounds like the three within a half mile of my home. Putting it bluntly, the POIs are by and large unreliable - and very weird. Among the results for my search of "parks" is an ice cream shop and the office of a community orchestra.
One of the strangest things I found in my testing of the POIs was that it correctly identified two restaurants associated with a hotel . . . but not the hotel itself, though hotels on either side of the one with the restaurants were correctly identified.
Street Atlas 2008 is simply too unreliable to be used for locating points of interest.
Routing has improved. I entered a route which I know earlier versions would really foul up, suggesting that you go many miles out of your way. This time Street Atlas almost came up with the most efficient route. I was surprised.
The telephone listings are, as usual, a mixed bag. I found listings that I knew were years old and wrong along with listings only a few months old.
Street Atlas does have some unique features, such as listings of AM and FM radio stations for an area.
I really doubt that I'll even try Street Atlas with a GPS. Earlier versions didn't work all that well.
On the whole, however, Street Atlas remains at best a mediocre product. There are several other products of this kind available, all of which are superior to Street Atlas. And, of course, most of the new self-contained GPS units, such as the Mios C520 (Mio C520 Portable Car Navigation Systemare much more convenient as well as more usable.
Jerry
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 longtime DeLORME customerNov 28, 2007
By EddieJr
Works very well on my Palm T5 with maps off SD card with zooming being very responsive. Works very well on my P3 laptop. Works well with my bluetooth Holux GPSlim 236 GPS and my Holux M-1000 GPS. Activating the GPS on my Palm was very easy. I like the interface to create/print maps (yes I like it better than some of its competition, but I admit there is a slight learning curve for the "I use Windows only Point-and-Click" crowd). Map accuracy seems better than previous versions. Map updatedness seems acceptable. The extra phone data helpful. Ability to use satellite maps interesting, they allow a free limited download for some. Customer support is responsive and knowledgeable. Community message forum support is likewise helpful. Product is priced competitively and offers great value. NO PRODUCT ACTIVATION required.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
This software should still be in beta!Dec 09, 2007
By John W. Waterman
I have seldom been as disappointed in a product as I was with Street Atlas 2008. I have used a number of other mapping products over the years including previous versions of Street Atlas. This one is a definate step backward. The interface is cumbersome and the mapping is terrible. Took a look at my home town (Parker, CO). It found the town and identified several of its restaurants. Unfortunately it drew them all South of town rather than North. It shows driving from my home location down main street to the main intersection, but then shows a left rather than a right turn. Tried to download the free aerial data set. Clicking on any item under "Netlink" resulted in a "error has occured, line one, character one". I thought this might be a function of the computer, so loaded it on my laptop. Same error messages. Also found mention of these errors on their forum, without resolutions. Spoke with their tech support and their response was that it must be an Internet Explorer problem. Asked if they could explain why it occured on two separate computers, one runing v. 6 and on running v. 7. Their response was "well then, it must be something in between your location and our server". No help whatever. Buying this was a grievous mistake and one that I will not make again with a Delorme product.
John Waterman
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