Streets USA

by 1998 Street USA

Product Features

• ***LIKE NEW*** - STREETS USA - 1998 Edition - Education/Software - - Tested, works fine ((((CD-ROM ONLY)))) in the original jewel case, informational books and manuals inside the casing - This is the CD Only, full version - great classic - (requires Windows XP/98/95)

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004YUHF
• Item model number: IUSA-00010
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,395 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #5 in Software > Business & Office > Schedule & Contact Management > Phone Books on Disc
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Streets USA is an easy and accurate way to create maps for any U.S. location. Portable and easy to use, Streets USA contains virtually every U.S. street, highway, and road. Streets USA contains 10 different levels of mapping detail, allowing you to zoom in or out. Find more than half a million points of interest and more than 30 million street segments. And, with Streets USA's unique label and draw features, you can map out your travel route, label landmarks along the way, and print your own custom-tailored map.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No directions!, July 21, 2002

By 

John B Daniel (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Streets USA (CD-ROM)

I got this software thinking that, like most mapping software, it would allow me to print directions between two points. It does not. The maps are adequate but the number of features and the ease of use are pretty terrible.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid -- ridiculously inaccurate and out-of-date, August 7, 2002

By 

Benjamin Lukoff (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Streets USA (CD-ROM)

This product's About page states that map data is from 1998, but their information was out of date even then. Let's take their map of Seattle, the city I know best.

1) Interstate 90 is shown as being a surface freeway for its entire length, with on- and off-ramps at Martin Luther King Way and 35th Ave. S. To begin with, it never was a surface freeway through Mount Baker. Originally, it ran in a tunnel under Mount Baker to the lake. In the early 90's a few more blocks were put underground, and the two interchanges mentioned above were closed. West of Martin Luther King Way, the product represents I-90 as it used to be, with the freeway being carried on surface streets. This hasn't been the case for over ten years and Streets USA had ample time to get correct data for their product.

2) They locate Magnolia Bluff smack in the middle of Interlaken Park. Needless to say, it's nowhere near Interlaken Park.

3) They locate Broadway (the neighborhood) at the corner of Franklin and Galer. Broadway is in fact located along...you guessed it...Broadway, on top of Capitol Hill, not at its base.

4) They locate University Village in the UW's wildlife preserve area along Union Bay.

5) Ah, Tacoma's close enough to Seattle to count. There, they still have SR-16 routed along city streets, instead of its own freeway, which has been the case for I don't know how long, but well before 1998 in any case.

Need I go on? With so many inaccuracies and out-of-date depictions in the Seattle-Tacoma area alone, I can only imagine how many errors this product contains as a whole.

To top it off, it doesn't even look good. They make the unfortunate style decision of using the direction abbreviations Ne, Nw, Se, Sw instead of NE, NW, SE, SW. Try Microsoft Streets & Trips instead--it's not perfect, but it's better than this.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A hotel in my residential neighborhood?, January 18, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Streets USA (CD-ROM)

I'm actually 43 years old, but didn't want to take the time to sign up. Actual rating for this product: NO stars. A research group solicited my involvment with an interview group in Houston, TX, and used this program to produce maps to the interview location, a hotel on the north side of the city (presumably, the same maps were sent to all participants). Although the address was listed correctly, the map showed the hotel in the middle of a residential neighborhood south of Houston, approximately 30 miles away! It's a good thing I did my own research rather than rely on this map. I wonder how many of the other participants missed the interview because of this map?
Sorry, but with all the available technology out there, there is no excuse for this.