Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great Product
Comment: I got this as a gift for my husband and he uses it every day. He is very impressed with it's capabilities.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not so good
Comment: No matter what I did I could not get this product to load onto my laptop. I own other DeLorme mapping products and have never had a problem until now. Luckily, Amazon has an excellent return policy. I am very disappointed because I wanted to switch all my mapping applications to DeLorme.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not user frendly
Comment: I liked there old format.This new format is hard to use.I still haven't figured out how to add places of interest.
Customer Rating:
Summary: horrible for PDA
Comment: I got this item cause it was cheap compared to other software which will allow navigation using a pda and bluetooth reciever. The software has a very steep learning curve, is very slow and cumbersome. Has a convoluted process of initiation on the PDA and since the maps are inaccurate, it makes it a really bad buy. I am trying to return it back to the company. Amazon only gives 50% refund for opened software.
Installation:
The installation of software on to the PDA is a seperate process which is not explained anywhere except Delorme website. Once you load the software there is no manual, just a small tutorial. When you try to load the maps to the pda, it loads 3 kinds of maps (road map, satellite and something else). This will create huge files which will never finish uploading. You have the option to load just the road map which is faster. The map of each state itself is divided in segments, you have to choose each segment that you want to load. All the options have to be loaded before you upload the maps to your PDA ex: you want rerouting in 100ft, 200ft..etc you POI's, choice of male or female voice...a lot more. One more thing, the maps are not up to date. I have a OEM MS streets and trips 2004 CD and the maps in this CD are pretty much same as those..at least in the boston north area.
Use:
I found it fastest to connect to the bluetooth reciever (OnCourse) when you are not moving, the maps are preloaded on the PDA and the bluetooth feature is already switched on. Even then it was slow (upto a few mins sometimes). Calculating a route was another horror story. Unless you have loaded all the options, it wont find most of the streets in the "find" feature. The navigation feature is called "tracking" in the software which took some time to figure out. rerouting was a gamble. The POI's are not up to date. The restraunts, businesses are all a gestimate. We have a huge cinema complex near our house which this thing does not list.
I am not sure of the features included for eg; xdata, logging..etc Havent used it much and already am tired of it. I hope Delorme will refund my money.
I am not sure if my PDA was too slow for this software (Ipaq 4155). Also, if you want to use it with a laptop, i think MS street and trips 2007 is much cheaper. Maybe even more upto date??
Summary: Great Product
Comment: I got this as a gift for my husband and he uses it every day. He is very impressed with it's capabilities.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not so good
Comment: No matter what I did I could not get this product to load onto my laptop. I own other DeLorme mapping products and have never had a problem until now. Luckily, Amazon has an excellent return policy. I am very disappointed because I wanted to switch all my mapping applications to DeLorme.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not user frendly
Comment: I liked there old format.This new format is hard to use.I still haven't figured out how to add places of interest.
Customer Rating:
Summary: horrible for PDA
Comment: I got this item cause it was cheap compared to other software which will allow navigation using a pda and bluetooth reciever. The software has a very steep learning curve, is very slow and cumbersome. Has a convoluted process of initiation on the PDA and since the maps are inaccurate, it makes it a really bad buy. I am trying to return it back to the company. Amazon only gives 50% refund for opened software.
Installation:
The installation of software on to the PDA is a seperate process which is not explained anywhere except Delorme website. Once you load the software there is no manual, just a small tutorial. When you try to load the maps to the pda, it loads 3 kinds of maps (road map, satellite and something else). This will create huge files which will never finish uploading. You have the option to load just the road map which is faster. The map of each state itself is divided in segments, you have to choose each segment that you want to load. All the options have to be loaded before you upload the maps to your PDA ex: you want rerouting in 100ft, 200ft..etc you POI's, choice of male or female voice...a lot more. One more thing, the maps are not up to date. I have a OEM MS streets and trips 2004 CD and the maps in this CD are pretty much same as those..at least in the boston north area.
Use:
I found it fastest to connect to the bluetooth reciever (OnCourse) when you are not moving, the maps are preloaded on the PDA and the bluetooth feature is already switched on. Even then it was slow (upto a few mins sometimes). Calculating a route was another horror story. Unless you have loaded all the options, it wont find most of the streets in the "find" feature. The navigation feature is called "tracking" in the software which took some time to figure out. rerouting was a gamble. The POI's are not up to date. The restraunts, businesses are all a gestimate. We have a huge cinema complex near our house which this thing does not list.
I am not sure of the features included for eg; xdata, logging..etc Havent used it much and already am tired of it. I hope Delorme will refund my money.
I am not sure if my PDA was too slow for this software (Ipaq 4155). Also, if you want to use it with a laptop, i think MS street and trips 2007 is much cheaper. Maybe even more upto date??