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Summary: Really Really Bad Product!!!
Review: Can find a lot of places. Can't find my work, school (University of North Florida!). Although GPS capabilities were okay. But what can I do with GPS if it can't find where I want to go!!!
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Summary: What program are these people using?
Review: I am surprised to see the many negative comments on this product. The only issue I have had with it is that my GPS initially did not work properly. This was due to Windows XP recognizing it as a serial pointing device and had nothing to do with the software. I had the same issue with streets and trips. Once I got that ironed out, it has worked perfectly for me. I used it recently to plan a cross country trip and it worked fine. I was able to get back on track a couple of times when I took a wrong turn simply by using the GPS for reference. I see that some complained that you have to be online to use the program but this is not true. You DO need to be online to get current updates on road construction, but this should be done before leaving home where you have internet access anyway, not on the road. I think that perhaps people are expecting a lot from a program that costs less than 50 bucks. Take the tutorials included with the program, plan your trip at home or in the hotel, not on the road and use a little common sense and it will work fine for you. My only complaint would be that there is no option to update the street-level city maps via the internet.
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Summary: Not worth even one star!
Review: i bought this program after the salesman told me it was the best one he had. What a joke. The search engine is the worst! When you print out a map, it prints it in a color that doesn't allow you to see the streets. b What good is that. I emailed the company and they said you cannot change the default color of the map in this version. What a screw up that is! I am so disappointed that I uninstalled it and just use mapquest now. I can't belive Rand McNally allowed a program this bad to be released. Someone must have been snoozin'
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Summary: Not worth even one star!
Review: i bought this program after the salesman told me it was the best one he had. What a joke. The search engine is the worst! When you print out a map, it prints it in a color that doesn't allow you to see the streets. b What good is that. I emailed the company and they said you cannot change the default color of the map in this version. What a screw up that is! I am so disappointed that I uninstalled it and just use mapquest now. I can't belive Rand McNally allowed a program this bad to be released. Someone must have been snoozin'
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Summary: Old maps with hard-to-use function
Review: I bought this software in Cosco. One interesting thing I found immediately in the first use is that some of the stores that have been closed for a long time still appear on the maps as valid locations. After that, new shopping malls that opened after 2001 can not be found on the maps. Also zip codes are not accurate. So I go to the maps directory of this software and looked at the creation date of the maps. It turns out that all the maps were created on August 31, 2000, which means they have never been updated after that date!!! Even though they claimed this software as the newest version.One interesting thing is that for the locations not being able to find by the software, you can find all of them on Rand Macnally website. It is perhaps their lousy attitude towards the customers that make these almost 4yr old maps as newest version. I feel cheated. However I still politely asked their support people for help. Guess what? They just kicked me to Tele Atlas North America for update, which I find out to be a business level map service company that won't even listen to what I said. All in all, this is a bad bad bad software with worse worse worse service. DON'T BUY or you just waste your money
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Summary: Rand McNally should have stood in bed. . .
Review: I don't think a thorough review of this is in order, because YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BUY IT. While it has some cute features, the main problem is that it DOESN'T KNOW ANY ADDRESSES of anyone I've tried to find. My own house has been here 50 years and the address is not in the program. '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC' is not there (though 'White House' is). None of my friends' addresses are there. It seldom can even find an intersection ('no match found'). On the other hand, Microsoft Streets & Trips has 90% of the addresses I've asked it to find. Too bad, because the GPS interface on R-M is good and it's exceedingly primitive on Streets & Trips.
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Summary: Nice looks in a poor package
Review: I expected more from Rand McNally. This product had potential but didn't make the grade. The maps are nicer to look at than MS Streets & Trips or DeLorme Street Atlas but they're out of date. The interface is quirky and tedious to use. The search function won't look for ZIP codes and fails to find places that are on the map. This application doesn't have much going for it. What a disappointment, I'm sorry I wasted my money.
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Summary: Nice looks in a poor package
Review: I expected more from Rand McNally. This product had potential but didn't make the grade. The maps are nicer to look at than MS Streets & Trips or DeLorme Street Atlas but they're out of date. The interface is quirky and tedious to use. The search function won't look for ZIP codes and fails to find places that are on the map. This application doesn't have much going for it. What a disappointment, I'm sorry I wasted my money.
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Summary: Waste Of Money
Review: I had been using Microsoft Streets & Trips 2002 and wanted to upgrade to something more current. After hearing that streets & trips 2004 was not an improvement over 2002, I decided to give Steetfinder & Tripmaker a try. What a waste ! I can't believe that Rand Mcnally would allow their name to be put on this thing. terriable interface, can't find streets that are shown on the programs map, map is cartoonish compared to the Microsoft product. In fairness I don't use the gps feature so it could have some redeeming value in that area.
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Summary: Waste Of Money
Review: I had been using Microsoft Streets & Trips 2002 and wanted to upgrade to something more current. After hearing that streets & trips 2004 was not an improvement over 2002, I decided to give Steetfinder & Tripmaker a try. What a waste ! I can't believe that Rand Mcnally would allow their name to be put on this thing. terriable interface, can't find streets that are shown on the programs map, map is cartoonish compared to the Microsoft product. In fairness I don't use the gps feature so it could have some redeeming value in that area.
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