Review: DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2010 Plus

DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2010 Plus is an affordable yet powerful set of mapping tools that allow businesses and advanced mapping enthusiasts to visualize their data on detailed DeLorme maps. It comes with updated street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, major roads for Mexico. Use the 150 million included phone listings to create databases (e.g., supermarkets within a radius), or find friends or services. You can create driving routes automatically, with user controls to take the roads you prefer -avoid congestion or take scenic drives.

With DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2010 Plus, its easy to locate 4 million places of interest – restaurants, lodgings, attractions,truck stops, sports venues, and businesses of all kinds. Import aerial imagery. You can also…

• Add custom detail.
• Insert photos, documents, and Web links into your map files.
• Use MapShare to easily share maps, routes, and directions via a secure Web link.
• Print a variety of map packages, including large-format plots.
• GPS-ready with voice navigation, new E-Z Nav wizard for on-the-go routing, and other high-end features.

Main Features of Street Atlas USA 2010 Plus

• Street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, highways and main roads in Mexico
• Over 300,000 new or updated roads
• Support for netbooks
• 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
• Support for Palm OS and WinCE devices
• Available aerial imagery–$40 worth free
• Share customized maps, routes, and directions
• GPS-accurate placement for individual locations in 90+ chains in the U.S. and Canada
• Truck stop data with extended information about service offerings
• Airport and mall access roads
• Major sports venues: college, professional, NASCAR
• Support for UMPCs
• Support for multiple monitors
• Put your contact manager listings on the map
  • Import and edit an unlimited number
  • Display their map locations, for strategic planning,routing, more
• Print large-format wall maps
• Link to photos, documents and URLs to the maps
• Get 150 million U.S. and Canadian residential and business phone listings FREE–newly updated
  • Import up to 1,000 at a time
  • Query by Yellow Page headings and create your own databases
  • Right-click on a street and get all its phone listings
• Delete duplicate records from Yellow Page phone search results
• Support for multiple monitors

Advanced and Practical–For Business and Personal Use

Everything you need to create, customize, print, and share detailed maps containing your own contact address locations, and much more. Create databases of your business information. Import, edit, and map your vital contact manager data, or additional data from Excel or other sources. Display radius information including acreage, square miles, more. Print notebook and wall-size maps for strategic planning, trade shows, dispatch, and other needs. Create ultra-detailed maps for high-impact presentations.

Importing a Custom Database

Situation: A real estate agency’s clients are increasingly asking for details on each property’s location. Currently, the agents mark the approximate location of the property on paper map, photocopy it and attach it to the listing report. This time consuming process does little to win the confidence of the client.

Solution: Using Street Atlas USA 2010 PLUS, the property listings database is imported as a spreadsheet using the XData tool. Each location is accurately displayed on the map, and MapNotes are used to highlight properties that meet the requirements of the client. This powerful yet easy-to-used tool saves time, provides accurate results, and improves the efficiency of the agency.

150 Million Phone and Address Listings Included

Complete U.S. and Canadian business and white page phone and address listings included. Query by Yellow Page category headings. Create and save custom phone and address databases. Turn phone numbers into places of interest you can find when on the road. Right-click on a street and see all phone listings and locations displayed.

Countless Advantages Over Internet Mapping Sites

Comprehensive tools for detailed desktop planning of your vacation or sales trip BEFORE you go, AND for on-the-go traveling using the latest electronic gear. Most other vehicle GPS systems are NOT planning tools and only track as you go. Support for Windows Vista, Pocket PCs, Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, UMPCs, and Palm OS included.

• No Internet connection or subscription required–always have the map you need as you travel, right on your laptop
• Detailed highway and street detail for the U.S. and Canada, highway detail for Mexico
• 150 million phone and address listings included
• Pre-plan your trips with automatic routing and access to over 4 million places of interest
• Print travel packages, mosaics, or wall maps
• Use draw tools to add customized detail
• Import, display, and manage your contact data
• Link photos, documents, and Websites to your map files
• User controls let you override program routing so you can take exactly the roads you want
• Avoid congestion, take back roads, plan side trips
• Locate restaurants, lodgings, sightseeing stops, businesses and services of all kinds
• Use DeLorme’s MapShare to send maps, routes, directions, and notes to others via a secure Web link
• GPS-Ready! Connect a DeLorme Earthmate or other GPS to your laptop
• Hear spoken directions, issue voice commands, get large on-screen directions
• Track your travels using NavMode option with large, easily-accessible user controls and 3-D perspective
• Streamline your routing while on the go with intelligent new E-Z Nav wizard

Mobile Device Mapping

Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, and Palm OS Compatible
Included at no extra charge is the DeLorme Handheld software, which now includes support for Windows Mobile 5.0 and later devices. Access the maps you want from the desktop software and hot-sync to your PDA. Add a DeLorme Bluetooth GPS for use with Bluetooth PDAs and navigate wire-free.

The DeLorme handheld functionality provides address-to-address routing, spoken directions, mobile map colors to reduce in-vehicle glare, and four million places of interest. Finding what you need is easy using the powerful search capabilities. Now you have powerful desktop mapping software and PDA software all conveniently provided in one Street Atlas USA 2010 package.

Maps on iPods
Using a tool similar to how MapShare works, now you can select the maps you want from the desktop software and send them to your photo-capable iPod. These map images are static (e.g., cannot be manipulated once on the iPod) and come across in the order you select them, same as with photos. Once on your device, you can access the ones you need, when you need them. Due to the small screen size of iPods, we recommend these maps for urban walking situations where you can discretely reference the maps you need. (Not GPS compatible.)

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