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Summary: A drag
Review: Anyone who's read my reviews of the Delorme Street Atlas books will know I'm a great admirer of good mapping and of Delorme as a mapping company. I've used the early versions of Street Atlas USA for more than a decade, going back to the 1.0 version and bragged about them to friends. I'm sorry to see this great company falling short with their software, gradually declining in their usefulness and usability. The amount of detail for the remote areas on the more recent software releases is receding, the software is becoming too complex to use, and I'm to the point of only recommending Delorme in paper. And awfully sorry to have to say it. I'd offer the opinion that Delorme needs to back up a few paces and rediscover the needs of their loyal buyers.
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Summary: Best Content Available
Review: Delorme products have the best, most accurate maps I have used. I really like the how detail transfers to my Palm Tungsten T.
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Summary: Primitive Software
Review: Having worked in the IT industry for the better part of a decade, I consider myself fairly adept at navigating software. Almost nothing in this application is designed for easy, quick, or intuitive use and the help feature is of very limited value. I purchased SA 2004 Plus primarily for being able to upload multiple addresses from a spreadsheet and then computing the most efficient route. While the software does technically perform this function, the user interface is just so incredibly counter-intuitive that as a practical matter it was nearly impossible to get a route computed. We retained the software for a few months hoping that familiarity would breed usability. It did not. We switched to the less expensive Microsoft Streets & Trips and have been very happy since. It is very disappointing to see a respectable firm such as Delorme deploy such a primitive product.
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Summary: Avoid SA2003 & 4 & Read other One Star reviews - all true.
Review: I completely agree that this is the other most unfriendly SA version ever. They told me via their Support email that there is no way to eliminate the Splash Screen (which on my PIII/500 takes a full minute to go away). I just want to say this.. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read all the negative feedback - I have used SA6 & 7 - and without any doubt - all of the negative comments are unquestionably valid. If I could give this product a negative rank - so that it brought the ranking to ZERO stars - I would.
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Summary: DeLorme StreetAtlas 2004
Review: I find DeLorme Street Atlas 2004 to be a marginally useful program. Although I have used it and its predecessor versions for several years, its idiosyncratic user interface is a constant source of irritation. I might feel differently if I used the program frequently enough to learn it well, but for occasional use it is quite non-intuitive and many of its features are both hard to find and difficult to use. For instance, the method of saving map notations and routes is so obscure as to be almost worthless. For finding simple directions, an on-line mapping service like Map Quest is both far easier and faster, although Street Atlas printed maps are better. I have bought upgrades over the years and have few complaints about the quality of DeLorme's mapping database, but Street Atlas the program should be an embarrassment to them; it badly needs a major redesign
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Summary: Street Atlas 2004 is not too good
Review: I got this from Amazon for $49.99 + free shipping - now I see its lower. The Thomas Guide is not available for my area, so the main reason I wanted this was to make an atlas of the area where I live. First problem is that it boots up very very slowly. But the main problem is that it doesnt show names for all streets like regular maps do - and it doesnt show any street numbers like Thomas Guides do. I printed up several maps but I would never use these to replace my regular folding map. But THAT was the main reason I bought this. I havent used it to find an address and I expect that it does that OK. But then there is always Mapquest for that. One consolation is that at least the price was right = I got it free from SBC. (Disclaimer: SBC sent me a $50 credit/debit card and I used it to get this softwhere.)
--Doug
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Summary: User interface a bit cumbersome
Review: I had MS Streets & Trips 2000 and wanted a newer product. Based upon the poor reviews of MS Streets & Trips 2004 (crashing etc.) I thought I'd try Delorme instead. Regardless of what you may think of Microsoft, they *do* do a pretty good job of making their products easy to use. Delorme Street Atlas, in comparison, has an odd user interface that isn't easy to pick up quickly.
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Summary: SA-2004 not an improvement
Review: I have NOT purchased SA-2004, and will not be making that purchase based on the other reviews I have read here at Amazon.
I received Delorme's annual flyer in the mail offering me SA2004 at a reduced price.
Despite my frustration with previous versions (SA Road Warrior ed. was the worst) I thought it worth my while to check out the new 2004 version. It seems that Delorme has simply repackaged previous version, added a few new bells (which make the program very slow), and pushed it out as a new version.
This unfortunately has been a trend with Delorme for the past 3 years.
The interface has become so clunky that I dread having to use it.
The maps are inaccurate, and as other users have reported are not updated regularly enough to be useful.
Road Warrior version would not work on my Dell P330 with a Matrox Millenium G450 card. I can only use that version on my Dell notebook. I would like to thank all the other reviewers here who have already spent their good money on this lousy product for helping me to make the decision not to waste my money on SA2004. I sent an e-mail to Delorme tech support advising them to read the reviews here so that perhaps they can bring out a better product for 2005. For those of you who have purchased SA2004 and are unhappy with it, I suggest you use Delorme's 30 day money-back warranty. You may wait a long time for your refund, but more importantly it will send a message to Delorme that their product stinks!!
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Summary: DeLorme Getting Worse and Worse
Review: I have purchased every DeLorme mapping software program they ever sold. I used to be a believer, but the last couple of years they have produced inferior products. The best and easiest to use program, AAA Map N Go, was dropped when they couldn't or wouldn't renew their agreement with AAA. Since then, they have dropped the ball in ease of use and quality. I use their product and GPS frequently and rely heavily on it, but only because there's nothing else out there that's better. DeLorme has a golden opportunity by dropping the present Street Atlas USA format and going back to the easy to use format of three or four years ago.
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Summary: DeLorme Getting Worse and Worse
Review: I have purchased every DeLorme mapping software program they ever sold. I used to be a believer, but the last couple of years they have produced inferior products. The best and easiest to use program, AAA Map N Go, was dropped when they couldn't or wouldn't renew their agreement with AAA. Since then, they have dropped the ball in ease of use and quality. I use their product and GPS frequently and rely heavily on it, but only because there's nothing else out there that's better. DeLorme has a golden opportunity by dropping the present Street Atlas USA format and going back to the easy to use format of three or four years ago.
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