Rand Mcnally Street Finder (Palm And Pocket PC)

by Handmark, Inc.

Product Features

• Navigation and travel information software for your Palm device
• Download over 1000 U.S. maps from pdastreetfinder.com
• Search for addresses with street-level detail
• Personalize your maps with color schemes and map markers with icons
• Includes Mobil Travel Guide for locating hotels, restaurants, and points-of-interest

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C7GGB
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 25, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,941 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #71 in Software > Education & Reference > Mapping
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Rand McNally StreetFinder is the complete navigation and travel information software for your Palm Powered Device. Use the pdastreetfinder.com map server and choose from over 1000 U.S. maps to install directly to your Palm OS device.

Access the maps on your Palm OS device to zoom in on street-level details, search for addresses and even personalize your maps with color schemes and map markers with icons.

This product comes with a pdastreetfinder.com account for unlimited map downloads for one full year.

StreetFinder also includes the Mobil Travel Guide to locate nearby hotels, restaurants and points of interest. Now you can search restaurants by type of cuisine and read the ratings/descriptions from the Mobil Travel Guide.

StreetFinder fully supports the SD/MMC and Memory Stick memory expansion on all Palm OS devices. It ais also comptaible with all Palm OS device GPS attachments to visually follow your progress on Streetfinder maps.

Product Description

Not everyone has the luxury of owning a GPS device, but that doesn't mean you're at a dead end. If you own a PDA, you can purchase this software that imports maps and directions onto your handheld. Rand McNally StreetFinder works with both Palm (version 3.0 or newer) and Pocket PC (version 2002 or newer) devices, and though it doesn't provide voice-guided navigation, you do get clear maps, turn-by-turn text directions, a large points-of-interest (POI) database, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, May 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Rand Mcnally Street Finder (Palm And Pocket PC) (CD-ROM)

The packaging of this product seems delibertly designed to confuse the buyer. The product suggests that it can generate directions -- what it doesn't mention is that you have to go back to your computer each time to do so. You might as well use MapQuest! Other mapping products like Mapopolis and Tom Tom can actually do this. I finally decided to buy Mapopolis because it doesn't require a Tungsten T3 like Tom Tom (it doesn't even work on the T2 or Clie units) and have been happy with my purchase. It's a shame you can't return software, because I would love to send Rand McNally back ...

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't By This!!! Streets and Trips is vastly better-, August 28, 2004

By 

Sank (Midwest) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rand Mcnally Street Finder (Palm And Pocket PC) (CD-ROM)

I bought this as an add on to my Tungsten E, what a mistake. I already own Streets and Trips from MS and use it instead of Yahoo or Mapquest. Streets, how ever does not load to Palm devices. This program is terrible. The user interface is crap. In trip planning for example, there is a time estimates, but there's no profiles for freeways v. side roads. Also you can't plan a trip based on start times, a handy feature for long trips. Stops can be added as appointments, and it routes you to your stops, but you don't know how long it might take to get there. It also has no calculated road expense. Like entering the cost of the gas and your mileage and then getting a trip profile that shows you how long and how much you can plan to spend on your trip. Simple stuff like that.

The Concierge feature, which is supposed to tell you about places to eat and such works OK, but it's not very flexible. For example, if you want to eat in a particular neighborhood it defaults to the whole town.

All in all this was a huge waste of money. If you want mapping software get Streets and Trips and print the maps you need. This one is garbage.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away, July 4, 2005

By 

Mark J. Wallin (Holland, PA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Rand Mcnally Street Finder (Palm And Pocket PC) (CD-ROM)

This product does not even deserve one star but you can't go any lower. Everything said by the other reviewers is true. The interface is bad. The maps are not very good compared to other programs and they print worse than they look, especially if they are rendered on a b&w laser instead of a color printer. I went back to using my 5 year old Delorme program that is vastly superior to this junk.

The PDA downloads to a Palm unit are virtually useless. For example, to see a street name, you have to click on a street which brings up a label. A few labels clutter up the screen and to get rid of them, you have to delete them. Little detail is shown and the interface is inefficient. If you pan around the map display, it does not bring in other portions of the map so that capability is useless. The only use would be to show a planned route, but not for other purposes.

How a company with the venerable name of Rand McNally could sell such garbage is beyond me. I will never waste my money on any of their PC/PDA products again.