Product Description

Updated, exceptionally detailed map software you can use anywhere – on the go with your laptop PC, ultra mobile PC, PDA, or touchscreen phone. No Internet access or subscription required. Get street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, plus highways and major roads for Mexico. Pre-plan your trips with automatic routing and over 4 million places of interest. User controls let you plan side trips, avoid congested areas, choose back roads, and more. Locate restaurants, lodgings, attractions, truck stops, sports venues, and businesses of all kinds. Calculate fuel usage and costs. Customize the maps to meet your needs. Import aerial imagery. Print a wide variety of map packages, or use MapShare to send maps, routes, and directions to others via a secure Web link. GPS-ready ― connect a DeLorme Earthmate or other receiver to your laptop and receive spoken directions. Use new NavMode for a 3-D perspective, and locate upcoming travel services as you drive.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3394 in Software
• Brand: DeLorme US Software
• Model: AO-7943-203
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: .79" h x 2.36" w x 3.15" l, .40 pounds

Features

• Support for Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs) laptop PC, PDAs, and touchscreen phones
• Street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, highways and main roads in Mexico; over 4 million places of interest in U.S. and Canada
• Easy, automatic routing; plan side trips, avoid congested areas, choose back roads, and more
• GPS ready, with voice-guided navigation
• Customize the maps to meet your needs; use new NavMode for a 3-D perspective, and locate upcoming travel services as you drive

Amazon.com
When you're driving in the car and you get lost, don't you ever wish you didn't have to deal with a bulky atlas? Or when you're walking around in an unfamiliar city, don't you wish you didn't have to deal with a huge map? Now you don't have to with Street Atlas USA 2009. You can put these maps on your GPS, PDA, PC or even your UMPC. Know where you're going with street-level detail of the U.S. and Canada, and also highways and main roads in Mexico. There are over 4 million places of interest in the U.S. and Canada for when you're looking for something specific. You can even edit your maps and print them out. These authentic DeLorme maps are guaranteed accurate--they're produced by their own mapmakers, and triple-referenced to ensure you have the correct guidance anywhere you go.

Use new NavMode for a 3-D perspective.

Updated, exceptionally detailed map software you can use anywhere--on the go with your laptop PC, ultra mobile PC, PDA, or touchscreen phone. No Internet access or subscription required. Get street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, plus highways and major roads for Mexico. Pre-plan your trips with automatic routing and over 4 million places of interest. User controls let you plan side trips, avoid congested areas, choose back roads, and more. Locate restaurants, lodgings, attractions, truck stops, sports venues, and businesses of all kinds. Calculate fuel usage and costs. Customize the maps to meet your needs. Import aerial imagery. Print a wide variety of map packages, or use MapShare to send maps, routes, and directions to others via a secure Web link. GPS-ready--connect a DeLorme Earthmate or other receiver to your laptop and receive spoken directions. Use new NavMode for a 3-D perspective, and locate upcoming travel services as you drive.

NEW in Street Atlas USA 2009 and Street Atlas USA 2009 PLUS:

• Support for Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs)
• Hundreds of thousands of new roads and road name updates
• Improved features when GPS tracking, including 3-D perspective and larger, more accessible user controls

Street Atlas USA 2009

• Street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, highways and main roads in Mexico
• Over 4 million places of interest in U.S. and Canada
• Easy, automatic routing
• GPS ready, with voice-guided navigation
• Versatile, flexible editing and print capabilities
• Application included for mapping, routing, and GPS navigation with Palm OS, Windows Mobile devices
• Incorporate aerial imagery into your maps and routes--download $40 worth free
• Share customized maps, routes, and directions with others via a secure Web link
• GPS-accurate placement for individual locations in 90+ chains in the U.S. and Canada
• Truck stop data with extended information about service offerings
• 900+ malls and access roads
• Airport access roads
• Major sports venues college, professional, NASCAR
• Translucent route highlights to better display underlying map data
• Support for multiple monitors

Sample Maps -- Click to Enlarge

Customer Reviews

Delorme Street Atlas Review
I had a previous version of this and wanted to update it to get the latest road changes. I was very disappointed in how out of date the maps are. It was almost no change to the 2 year old version I already had for the area I live in. Even corrections I sent in over a year earlier were not included.

DeLorme 2009 Review
I all ready had 2005 Delorme program and was very pleased. So far I find the 2009 version more difficult to navigate. I can not find how to get mileage comptuted for a trip up on the map itself,through the "create route" feature. I'd like to see the numbers on the map itself as the way it works on he 2005 program. And I really hope someone is reading this and maybe will respond but I doubt it!

DeLorme's Unfinished, Unimpressive Symphony
DeLorme has a lot to recommend it, and I expected terrific things from the people who created AAA Map'nGo several years ago. But the agglomeration of half-thought-out features found in Street Atlas USA 2009 (SA2009) has left me agog. Every "feature" has something to annoy.

Yes, there's maps of the entire US, Canada and Mexico, but they appear to be significantly out of date. An interchange I know was removed over twelve years ago still shows in its old location. Even with the "show 1-way streets" option (which is bizarrely un-set by default), streets in my city that have been one-way since Prohibition are happily routed the wrong way by SA2009. DeLorme does provide a "draw" function that claims to let you edit such problems, but it doesn't work on limited access highways, and you have to set one-way markers one road segment at a time. Then there's the printed maps. "Strip maps" set for 30-mile intervals use a 5-point font to label everything. Good luck using that on the road even at high noon on a sunny day. For printed mapping, I switched back to MS Streets & Trips 2007 (MSS&T).

One thing SA2009 does a bit better than MSS&T is the handheld application. Before SA2009, I used Microsoft Pocket Streets (MSPS -- no longer available) to download maps to my PDA, but while MSPS was capable of GPS locating, it couldn't show a route. At least SA2009 provides the route display in addition to GPS locating, and I use that ability cautiously. Why cautiously? Well, a test run from my office to my home kept producing SA2009 warnings of "off route" because I refused to break through highway barriers, cross ravines and navigate streams suggested by the SA2009 routing. However, being able to see a mostly-correct route with a display of where I am and how long until the next turn is handy on a road trip (and cheaper than cell based updates). But I always check the route on the Web BEFORE setting out, then apply corrections to SA2009 using "route vias". Although the handheld purports to perform such routing, it's ludicrously slow (between 5 minutes for a few blocks to hours for inter-city routing), and half the time it gives up on some obscure and undocumented error. Still, SA2009 routing can be handy to find a way back to a missed exit (if you can find a place to wait 5 or 10 minutes), but little beyond that.

If DeLorme finished the product that SA2009 seems designed to become, it would be a powerhouse. As it is, it's little more than an occasionally useful, but never dependable toy. With work, you can extend it to become useful, but I don't plan on buying Street Atlas USA 2010.