Why I buy this one ?
- Import and geo-locate your own data
- Adds 150 million phone & address listings linked to the maps
- Everything in the regular version plus extensive data import capability, 150 million U.S. and Canadian phone listings, and higher-end print and draw tools
- Innovative GPS features including voice commands, spoken directions, automatic back-on-track re-routing & mobile map colors
- Updated maps and four million places of interest produced by experienced mapmakers at DeLorme

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What our customer's say!

"Extremely Outdated", I have a GPS in my car, and Microsoft Streets and Trips 2005. I saw this product today at Office Depot, and it looked like it might be easier to use to import data points, so I thought that I'd give it a try. It was the newest version in the store. It was more than twice as expensive as the new version of Microsoft Streets and Trips.

I was searching for about 20 points this evening for a business presentation. Almost none of them were found by this software. The maps are very outdated. In fact, Microsoft S&T 2005 was much more up to date. The DeLorme product had missing addresses for major buildings that had been in place since 2002. Fully one half of one city (Frisco, Texas) was missing (including it's professional soccer team and stadium) that has a population today of 100,000.

Buy an outdated used copy of Microsoft Streets and Trips. Better functionality, newer maps, and probably almost free these days.

"Great for Sales and Real Estate Professionals - Data Layers are Key", I've used this software for one year and think it's the best-in-class for sales and real estate professionals. I switched from Microsoft Streets & Trips (MS&T).

If you are looking for a simple toy or tool to help you get to your Uncle Bill's house, this is likely not the program for you. MS&T is more intuitive and appealing to the eye. However, MS&T has significant limitations regarding data management and presentation that many professional map/GPS users will find frustrating.

The key to DeLorme Street Atlas' power is the ability to create separate data layers and routes that can easily be viewed in combination or individually (clents vs. prospects, sales vs. listings, leads for product A vs. product B, store locations vs. distance radii from store, etc). The possible layers are endless, which helps greatly in managing multiple clients, projects or concepts on a single map. The function is much like drawing layers in a draftsman's CAD file. Need to show an outsider your store location but don't want them to see where your prospect new sites are? Simply click-off the "prospect" layer. No need to manage redundant maps for different viewing classes.

You can easily mark different groups with different shaped and colored icons. It's easy to strip-out only one layer of data and update with new data without disrupting the other data in your map(s). This is great for professionals that get routine updates from corporate regarding client locations or territory delineation. The "Steet Atlas Plus" software also links very easily to spreadsheets and databases, where it's generally much easier to search and update data. You can also query from within the map view any map point data you've linked-to, a very useful tool when on-the-go (Where's my client ABC Company located?). MS&T comes nowhere close in this regard. All data is held in a single layer and I never found a way to extract and replace only one subset of data after imported into a map.

The interface is cumbersome and takes determination to master. The graphic appearance is adequate, but inferior to MS&T. The search functions are very robust but awkward and VERY slow, especially compared to the ease and speed with which Microsoft handles search. DeLorme should work tirelessly to improve the interface and search speed.

The program offers a wide array of commenting, notation and measuring tools. For any marker you create or import, you are able to define at what zoom level it expands from a pinpoint dot to a full-size icon or text box on the map, a huge benefit if you work a large territory but need to note data at the block-by-block level. State and City views aren't cluttered by text boxes and large icons. MS&T doesn't have this feature.

As for data accuracy, it's okay, not great. Many new roads and subdivisions are not shown. But you can easily add roads. And if you use w/ GPS, it's as simple as driving down the road and tracing your GPS trail to draw the new road.

The GPS is great. I use w/ the GPS device from MS&T, which I prefer to DeLorme's GPS because it is smaller, faster and allows me to replace the USB cord separately from the GPS device. Zooming in and out and panning the map on screen are very easy once you learn the key-strokes and shortcuts.

The load-up time when launching application is ridiculous! I keep program running for days at time. Saving files is very easy, including backup and "alternate version" maps.

If you're serious about mapping needs as a professional, there is no better program in this price range.

"Buy this now", This is the best mapping program for the price (or any other price). Delorme is the premiere mapping company in the USA. Buy this to run on your laptop or desktop and you will never be lost again. Much better than Microsoft Streets and Trips I use GPS equipment and software on a daily basis at work and this program is as good as it gets.

"Hard to use", I recently purchased a new computer with Windows Vista and needed new mapping software. I did research on the Internet and concluded from reading reviews, mainly professional reviews that magazines issue, that Delorme Street Atlas USA is the best mapping software. Much higher rated than Microsoft Streets & Trips. So I bought it. What a mistake. I am not happy with it because it is so cumbersome to use. I have used Microsoft Mappoint for years prior to buying Delorme. There was a little voice in the back of my mind saying don't buy Delorme, because I had Delorme 10 years ago and didn't like it. But I bought anyway because of the reviews. Now I'm going to buy Steets & Trips and go back to having fun using mapping software. One other thing. The best place to read product reviews is at Amazon.com.

"OK for laptop...disaster for PDA", I bought SA2008 for use on my Palm Treo 650 with a Holux M1000 GPS. First of all, I should say that if one were using it on a laptop, it wouldn't be too bad, since you can have the entire nation at your disposal, and, if you install the 150 million phone listings, you actually have an incredible resource, even if they are not all perfectly up to date. Furthermore, although we didn't try to use the GPS with the laptop version, it appears to have most of the necessary functionality for navigation, etc.

However, using this combination on a Treo 650 was NOT a pretty picture. First of all, as one of the other reviewers mentioned, you have to download map segments that you are interested in. And, you apparently can't download very large areas without incurring some sort of performance issue (though it was not described specifically.) One of the issues is certainly not having enough memory on your Treo to happily run SA2008 and also maintain a bluetooth connection to the GPS. I tried repeatedly for a week and never managed to maintain a connection for more than about 30 minutes. Essentially, the bluetooth would lock up. The vendor from whom I purchased this combo actually eventually said that they don't recommend SA2008 for the Treo... (thanks...after the fact). And, while it was clear that part of the problem was the blue tooth connection, it was also partly the SA2008 since when I started clearing apps out of RAM and onto an expansion card, the performance did get better, but I eventually has about 9MB free (out of 24 or so) and the system would still not stay connected. The Delorme tech support people did discuss this problem but had no ideas about any adjustments to make.

Of course, even if there had not been this problem, the truth is that the handheld version of SA2008 is unexpectedly poor. Some examples: a) it is not possible to ask it to take you from where you are now to a destination--the nearest restaurant for example. Instead, you have to disconnect from the GPS, build a route from where you are now to where you want to go, reconnect the GPS, and then follow the route by "tracking". There ARE limited voice directions, but they are not nearly sufficient to follow without looking at the map or with the aid of a helper. b) It doesn't know enough to stay on roads. Example--things like access roads are not in the system, so if you start from a parking lot, it's anybody's guess as to how it will decide to get you onto the route--usually it involves some sort of driving through a building or two... c) It will tell you that you are off the route, but, it doesn't recalculate. This is probably the biggest shortcoming. There are times that you can't avoid going off route (construction, missed turn, etc.) so you REALLY need to have it automatically recalculate. d) There were a couple of times that the route that it calculated actually retraced itself, wanting me to get off of a freeway and then get right back on... NOT.

Bottom line is that for the price, I would say that using SA2008 on a laptop might be a decent solution (I DID connect to the GPS with a Bluetooth adapter, and it seemed to hold that connection fine, even though we didn't do any navigation.) However, if you want to even THINK about navigating with your PDA, I would definitely go elsewhere.

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"Waste of Money", This Map Program is so incomplete it is not even funny. My house has been built for over 5 years, and my street still does not even show up on the map. And I do not live in a rural area. My office has been there for over 10 years and this map cannot locate it either. How can I depend on this map to get me to new places I need to go if I can't even trust it to get me around my home town.

"Very poor routing software", I have used Street Atlas since 2004 primarily so that I can make use of my laptop (actually a tablet PC) instead of buying an expensive all-in-one GPS unit. I have always been frustrated with the non-intuitive user interface! Menu items appear on arbitrary menus and icons are nonstandard. There is no adherence to Windows standards that so many people are accustomed to.
But since recently upgrading to Street Atlas USA 2008 I have learned that I cannot rely on the routing software! For example, while proceeding along a major toll road, following the graphically displayed route, the voice prompt directed me to take an exit and then directed me to continue on the same toll road. I lost 15 minutes trying to get back to my original point of travel.

For some reason when a route is recomputed during travel (when you deviate away from the original route) the software often creates an ambiguous graphic route containing loops instead of completely redrawing a new route from your current location. I live in the Boston, MA area and have found that the software often routes you the wrong way on one-way streets.

It appears to me that little or no effort has been put into improving the latent defects that appeared in the routing software way back in the 2004 release. Though other reviewers have found the maps to be inadequate, I have found the maps of the Boston area to be improved - except for one-way streets. So, if you are trying to get to a business meeting in downtown Boston in a hurry - beware - you may end up at the airport while trying to recover from a route you could not legally follow!


"Foreigner using it as a main tool during his last 20 days visits to USA", As a person who has a number of travel experiences all over the world it was my first time trying to use a GPS with a program like the Atlas Plus. Until now, I use only printed maps and directions coming from internet.
Thanks to the program, the stress that I got as a car driver in all the previous trips has gone.
It was spectacular! Can you imagine? Reach any place without difficulties over CA NV & AZ. even in the huge LA area...
Museums; Malls; Beaches; Gas Stations; Restaurants; Amusements Parks; Services Etc. all achieved with a simple search?
I realize that perhaps for a resident it is not so remarkable, because a native English spoken person familiarized with the public space stile and culture as well as with the roads structure and standardization is not overcharged as a visitor trying to detect with enough time, signals, directions, routes, connections, shops, etc. while he must also to pay attention to other cars, traffic lights, etc.
The program has a feature that permits to export maps and directions to my Palm, honestly, I try to use it but after I experience the program running over my Laptop, it was impossible. Having a big High Contrast Map even in a sunny day, a driver can be sure that is in the right path because he can see it, so simple, and if is not paying attention to the map for a while, the "voice" inform him about the next movement with enough time to avoid a mistake.
Also, I must to said that before I decide to buy the program, I think about to hire a device from the car rental but, it will cost for the whole period U$S 240. Instead of I pay around U$S 75 to receive the program "just on time" and as I already have a GPS receiver, Laptop and Palm to use in my country with other maps, it was a cheaper and more flexible solution for me, even considering it against the "buy a new navigator" option.
Nevertheless, why four stars instead of five? ... Only because I suppose that a program like this must to have a faster way to update data about (i.e.) new freeways exits, turned for instance from one and only "exit 46" to a new "exit 46a" and a second "exit 46b". When a user of a brand new version found something like this denotes that the details about the particular area remains untouched from let said, a year ago... It is a pity that they have not it.


"Street Atlas USA 2008", My main reason for this product was for my bluetooth enabled gps used with a Palm LifeDrive. I installed the software and had the gps/lifedrive working in under 1/2 hour. I stop short of 5 stars because I have yet to get the voice directions to work on my LifeDrive and sometimes the gps location is slightly off. An option for even large print or at least larger road representation on high zoom would be nice, also. Other than that I love this program.

"Kind of KLUNKY", The program itself works well but it's not the most user friendly. I have been "PLAYING" with Google Earth and Microsoft live maps. They too have certain draw backs but they are more "UP TO DATE" in the use of their controls for the map. I also think the cost for the satellite imagery is way out of whack. I do love the phone database and being able to bring up a block of a whole street. I also think that the colors should be more configuable. The "HIGH" contrast looks like a night display and the the green arrow for your position on a green trail shows NO contrast and if you double back over your path it becomes very difficult to see your position.

I will say the database is very up to date having all of the NEW rodds in my area.

I realize that the database with all satellite imagery would fill up most hards drives but with the advent of broadband cell cards for laptops it would be easy to UPDATE a database if you were travelling into an area you didn't currently have on your machine. Assuming you don't have to pay for it.