Rand McNally StreetFinder and TripMaker Deluxe

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Product Features

• Address-to-address directions on-the-go
• Over 1 million business listings with address and phone number
• Real-time GPS support including audio prompts and one-touch rerouting
• Generate clear directions with highlighted route lines
• A wealth of new navigation features for GPS

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000DFHOA
• Item model number: CS-386d
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 21, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,673 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #7 in Software > Education & Reference > Mapping
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Hit the road with the world's premier mapping, routing, and travel programs: StreetFinder and TripMaker Deluxe Travel Navigation Software. Whether meeting a new client for business, or planning a cross-country family vacation, you'll benefit from Rand McNally's brand-new routing system enabling on-the-go directions quicker than ever! For over 130 years, Rand McNally has provided Americans with dependable, accurate maps. Now, Rand McNally is proud to present the latest in custom trip-planning tools in one comprehensive suite on 3 CD-ROMs. StreetFinder and TripMaker Deluxe is your green light to smoother routing!

Features:

• Address-to-address directions on-the-go
• Over one million business listings with address and phone number
• Real-time GPS support including audio prompts and one-touch rerouting

Updated Features:

• Generate clear directions with highlighted route lines
• A wealth of new navigation features for GPS
• Rotating Maps: upcoming turn instructions face the same direction as you do.
• One-Touch Rerouting: Miss a turn? StreetFinder Deluxe gets you back on track.
• AutoZoom for Palm OS: No need to manually pan for your next driving instruction.
• Voice Prompter: Advance notification on upcoming turns.

Over a million listings:

• National parks, historic sites and battle fields, museums, monuments, and landmarks
• Lodging, campgrounds, restaurants, cinemas and nightlife, gyms and fitness clubs
• Hospitals, pharmacies
• Exit numbers and amenities, parking
• Laundry and dry cleaning, banks and ATMs, auto repair, groceries, and Shopping

Product Description

Hit the road with the world's premier mapping, routing, and travel programs: StreetFinder&TripMaker Deluxe Travel Navigation Software. Whether meeting a new client for business, or planning a cross-country family vacation, you'll benefit from Rand McNally's brand new routing system enabling on-the-go directions quicker than ever! For over 130 years, Rand McNally has provided Americans with dependable, accurate maps. Now, Rand McNally is proud to present the latest in custom trip-planning tools in one comprehensive suite on 3 CD-Roms. StreetFinder&TripMaker Deluxe is your green light to smoother routing!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Old maps with hard-to-use function, November 17, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Rand McNally StreetFinder and TripMaker Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I bought this software in Cosco. One interesting thing I found immediately in the first use is that some of the stores that have been closed for a long time still appear on the maps as valid locations. After that, new shopping malls that opened after 2001 can not be found on the maps. Also zip codes are not accurate. So I go to the maps directory of this software and looked at the creation date of the maps. It turns out that all the maps were created on August 31, 2000, which means they have never been updated after that date!!! Even though they claimed this software as the newest version.

One interesting thing is that for the locations not being able to find by the software, you can find all of them on Rand Macnally website. It is perhaps their lousy attitude towards the customers that make these almost 4yr old maps as newest version. I feel cheated. However I still politely asked their support people for help. Guess what? They just kicked me to Tele Atlas North America for update, which I find out to be a business level map service company that won't even listen to what I said.

All in all, this is a bad bad bad software with worse worse worse service. DON'T BUY or you just waste your money

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What program are these people using?, December 17, 2004

By 

Overstreet (Kansas City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rand McNally StreetFinder and TripMaker Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I am surprised to see the many negative comments on this product. The only issue I have had with it is that my GPS initially did not work properly. This was due to Windows XP recognizing it as a serial pointing device and had nothing to do with the software. I had the same issue with streets and trips. Once I got that ironed out, it has worked perfectly for me. I used it recently to plan a cross country trip and it worked fine. I was able to get back on track a couple of times when I took a wrong turn simply by using the GPS for reference. I see that some complained that you have to be online to use the program but this is not true. You DO need to be online to get current updates on road construction, but this should be done before leaving home where you have internet access anyway, not on the road. I think that perhaps people are expecting a lot from a program that costs less than 50 bucks. Take the tutorials included with the program, plan your trip at home or in the hotel, not on the road and use a little common sense and it will work fine for you. My only complaint would be that there is no option to update the street-level city maps via the internet.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars OMG what a waste of time and money!!, January 4, 2004

By 

Mr.Home Depot Jacket (yardley, pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rand McNally StreetFinder and TripMaker Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Well first let me say this software came with my Deluo USB GPS as part of the package. The GPS is great and worth every penny I paid, but the Street Finder software is not worth the CD it was burned on!! The maps are old and out dated, the user interface was written by someone who obviously really could care less about easy of use, and the trip routing was the worst I have ever had the displeasure of using. Please save yourself the brain aneurism that this will cause you while trying to configure and use for your next vacation or trip and get Microsoft Streets & Trips 04. I can't stress enough how utterly horrible Rand McNally Street Finder is. Amazon has a great price on Microsoft Streets and Trips 04 and there's a $10.00 MIR to boot.