Street Atlas USA® 2006

[Bill R.]

Recently received an email from DeLorme about special pricing for the SA 2006 to registered DeLorme users.
I have 2004 and am interested in upgrading if the new version is better.
Has anyone gotten 2006 yet and can provide feedback?

[Bill R.]

Recently received an email from DeLorme about special pricing for the SA 2006 to registered DeLorme users.
I have 2004 and am interested in upgrading if the new version is better.
Has anyone gotten 2006 yet and can provide feedback?

[DriVer]

No but I'll probably buy it as soon as it becomes available.

[Pat Z]

I installed mine last week, a little better than 2005, much better than 2004. Be sure to select Advanced File Management when you install. It gives you a lot more flecibility with route and draw files.

[Stan Birch]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Pat Z:
I installed mine last week, a little better than 2005 . . </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
Have they added any Canadian content with the new version? The last I heard, was that major Canadian cities such as Edmonton, Alberta were being represented by a mere dot on the map, in contrast to the complete Canadian coverage offered by Microsoft Steets & Trips for many years.

[Pat Z]

There is not much detail there for Canada, many cities and towns, very few roads.

[NLOVNIT]

I've been a longtime user of Delorme products and have upgraded to Street Atlas 2006. I would think the greatest benefit of upgrading is for the updated roads and places of interest (POI). A few new features have been added and some operations have been streamlined, but the interface hasn't changed all that much. I also have their Blue Logger GPS receiver (works great with a Bluetooth enabled PDA, but if you have a USB port, their LT-20 GPS receiver would be a cheaper option).

Although I think the PC version is great, I (and a few others in various GPS forums) have been very disappointed with their handheld (PDA) version. I use Street Atlas 2006 (PC version) for browsing, pre-planning a route, and printing maps at home, but for my PDA (a Dell Axim X50V which I use on the road), I use the Teletype GPS software (http://www.teletype.com).

Using Street Atlas 2006 Handheld, when you download "large" street-level maps (the size of central Ohio according to the export program -- and I don't think that's very large) to the PDA, screen updates, searching, and routing become painfully sluggish. It can take 10 minutes to compute a route for a 45-mile trip on the PDA. Of course, you can compute and download your route in advance, but don't stray. As a comparison, the Teletype software can compute a 400-mile multiple-state route in about 15 seconds with several states data stored on a memory card (I have 4 states stored on an SD card now -- Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia; only uses about 116MB).

-Dave

[Pat Z]

Be careful if you switch to SA 2006. It does not support a lot of GPS antennas that the older version did. I have a Navman antenna that I used with every version since 2003, now I loaded on 2006 and it has no support for it. Tech support said it MAY come sometime in the future, but can't be sure.

9/6/2005 I called Delorme today after getting home. If you already have the software and just want the antenna you have to call them and they'll sell it to you for $89.00, $10.00 less than if you bought the software and antenna. Great bargin!

[Sad Puppy]

Pat Z
Thanks for the heads up about thr Advanced File Management. I had installed the program the other day and couldn't get some of my draw files to load to the program. They work well in the 2005 program now they work in this program, so once again thanks for the timely reminder.

[Stretch]

I have installed delorme 2006. It is much easier to plan a route. They are now using a system similiar to Street & trips to route quickly. In my opinion Steets and trips is much easier to use, and much faster. Delormr cant be beat for comprehesive info. But have you ever noticed that the bread crumb does not always follow the road you are on? sometimes it show us off the road by only 50 feet or so other times it is further (I use delorme's GPS, by the way) Of course I find that Streets & trips program will lockup when I get very close to the "stop" Does anybody else share these opinions? or can tell me what the fix is?