Street Maps & Vacation Planner

by Cosmi

Product Features

• Explore a full-color map of the U.S., and zoom in on any section
• Find the address of any house in the country
• Map out a cross-country journey with the tools here
• Includes listings of city streets, national landmarks, and historical sites
• Calculate distances to figure out driving time and mileage

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005O4K9
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,447 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Street Maps & Vacation Planner turns any Palm (Palm OS 3.0 or later) or Pocket PC handheld into a personal navigation device. This handy program comes with a range of street-level, city, state, and U.S. maps, making vacation planning and road travel a snap. One of the planner's most useful features is the ability to easily export static maps from your PC right to your handheld, putting an incredible range of mapping capabilities in the palm of your hand!

With full-color maps of city streets, national landmarks, historical sites, and more, you can locate street addresses with ease. Simply input the city, ZIP code, or street address to find the desired location. Or, you can zoom in on a particular area. Watch as an entire city gets mapped out in detail, and use your handheld's directional arrows (up, down, right, left) to pan views. Calculate distances between travel points to find the fastest and most efficient route. This program even offers restaurant, airline, hotel, and other travel information to make travel planning a breeze!

Product Description

Street Maps and Vacation Planner makes any trip easier and faster! Make it easier to plan out your vacation with detailed information on restaurants, airlines and hotels

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless -- maps static and at least 5 years old, January 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Street Maps & Vacation Planner (CD-ROM)

Not only are the maps not interactive on the PDA, as other reviewers have pointed out, but I found the maps of the South Bay to be at least five years old. A major section of Highway 85 that was completed over five years ago is not shown on the map.

A close inspection of the product packaging does refer to "static" maps (maybe they mean static in time as well -- locked in at 1997!); however, I feel that the packaging is deliberately misleading so that the buyer can easily get the impression that these maps are interactive on a PDA. In any event, the fact that such old and obsolete maps were used is inexcusable.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless, only creates fixed images on Palm, February 26, 2002

By 

Ervan Darnell (Fremont, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Street Maps & Vacation Planner (CD-ROM)

This product uses a simple interface on the PC to outline an area for which a map is to be generated. An image, and nothing else, is downloaded to the Palm. There is no searching by street, zooming, or anything else on the Palm.

Worse still, the image capture on the PC won't display individual streets except at the few highest zooms and then the area is quite small. So, either the map on the Palm is uselessly small (a square mile or so) or it doesn't actually contain city streets. Either way, as a map, it's useless.

In fairness to the product, it tries to be a trip planner more than a map. In that role, it's not quite as bad. The result is a sequence of maps, each at an appropriate zoom level. Even so, it's awkward to create and download separate maps for one trip.

Okay, it's cheap. I don't expect full features. But, this product just isn't usable.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it, February 28, 2002

By 

H. Lee "TV Shopper" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Street Maps & Vacation Planner (CD-ROM)

This software seems like it was designed more for your desktop than your palm. On your desktop, it is a fully interactive map of the U.S. But you can only load a single still picture on to your palm. No zooming, no address finder, nothing!!! If you're looking for interactive map software for your palm, stay away. But not bad for your desktop.