Rating: 
Summary: Good Try, but Worthless
Review: The map data looks excellent, but the program crashes every time I try to zoom in past the city level. Apparently a lot of others have had the same problem and tech support has no idea. Save your money and buy something else.
Rating: 
Summary: Yikes, what a disaster.
Review: The maps look pretty. The program, however, is pretty awful. Searching for an address is horrendously slow, as is calcluating a route. Hope you like the spinning beachball, because you're goint to spend a lot of time looking at it.
Let me give an example...just now I opened up the program and did a search for "San Ramon, CA". It took over a minute to bring up the results, and then it gave a list of *every single street* in San Ramon. Oh, and also all the streets in Ramona, San Diego. If I do the same thing in MS Streets & Trips on the PC, the search takes a couple of seconds and it takes me right to the center of the town. I hate to praise a Microsoft app, but Streets and Trips is maps done right. Route 66 is maps done #$%#! terrible.
I could go on about the confusing interface, the fact that the maps print terribly in black and white, and so on, but you get the idea. Unfortunately there's no other option on the Mac. That being said, if I'd known the program was this bad I would've just stuck with using Mapquest.
Rating:
Summary: Wait for the next version
Review: This is a great idea for a product for the Mac, and these guys could own an entire category on the Mac platform without any competitors, but sadly the products quality and design is very poor. It is if they designed the product cheaply knowing there was no competition, vs. making a killer product knowing there was no competition so they could own the segment.Anyway, wait for the next version, assuming it is better. I would not buy this product given it's bugs, poor user experience, slow speed, and general lack of quality
Rating: 
Summary: Good, but not really good...
Review: This is a nice product but I am having some issues with it right out of the box. There appears to be a display issue on my machine; (1GZ, G4, 2GB RAM, 23" Display, 10.3.1). The maps white out for no reason on the zoom... Also the render speed is sloooowwww. I was really excited about this product. Lets hope they can bring it up to par.
Rating:
Summary: Wishing for something useful
Review: This product is terrible. Create a route from Alabama to Colorado and the generated route uses US highways without Interstates. Also in preferences uses gallons/100 miles instead of miles/gallon. Obviously this was not reviewed by any US citizens prior to release. The only plus is the map data is decent so they MIGHT update the executable.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Product With Some Need For Improvements
Review: This product isn't perfect, but it's quite good considering this is the first time I've seen it and could not find any mapping software for OS X a year ago. The interface is a little strange, but once you get used to it, it seems fine. The detail of the maps seems very good, although some out-of-the-way small towns (with a few hundred people) may have little to no detail. It did, however, find two addresses that Yahoo Maps and MS Streets had no record of, which I thought was impressive. One thing that most mapping software is horrible at is printing options -- the options for Route 66 I thought were very good. The redraw speed while *scrolling* (not zooming in/out) was a little slow and could probably be easily fixed with an update that cached surrounding map details better. No matter how much detail I had turned on or what my zoom level was, it never took more than 1.5 seconds to redraw while scrolling. This may depend on how fast your computer is and how much memory you have -- I have 1.1gb of RAM and Route 66 was using 212mb according to "top" (command line resource reporter). The GPS compatibility is nice, but haven't tried it yet -- I need to find a USB cable for my eMap GPS. This software is very much worth supporting since I know of no other mapping software for the Mac currently and this software costs $35-$40. In my opinion, it's worth every penny of the $40 I paid for it.
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