Rand McNally StreetFinder & TripMaker Deluxe From:TOPICS Entertainment , Topics Entertainment ,
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: TOPICS Entertainment
EAN: 0781735801949
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Topics Entertainment
Manufacturer: Topics Entertainment
Model: CS-163
Packaged Height: 140 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 750 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 40 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 530 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows 98
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows Me
Platform: Windows 95
Publisher: Topics Entertainment
Release Date: 2002-05-15
Studio: Topics Entertainment
Product Description:
With more than 130 years of experience, Rand McNally knows what travelers need and want in mapping and travel planning products. StreetFinder & TripMaker Deluxe offers routing, travel planning, organizational tools, and area attractions to users--all in an easy-to-follow design with helpful guides and tutorials that make planning and finding directions easy. This is the ultimate routing and travel planning suite for the business traveler and vacationer.
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Worthwhile but no longer updated, 2008-06-08
I've found the really bad reviews in this list to be... curious. Especially when the "reviewer" states that the software won't do certain things which I have done with it many, many times, and which is obvious and intuitive.
Oh, and ESPECIALLY when the reviewer keeps mentioned, repeatedly, a specific "competing product" in his review. That sort of "review" is nothing more or less than ADVERTISING for the competing product. So please bear that in mind.
This software is no longer produced by Rand McNally, and as such is no longer necessarily "up-to-date" (the area I live in is a high-growth area and the maps show areas as open country which are now shopping malls, just for example). If you live in an area which hasn't changed significantly in the last six years or so (like I used to) however, you won't notice that at all.
It DOES print "entire trip" map sets...the reviewer who stated that it won't was either not capable of reading basic english, or was outright lying. What it gives you is a "trip package" consisting of a top-level map showing the entire route, along with a series of "zoomed in" maps showing each leg (zoomed to whatever level is necessary to show what you need to do). It includes your itinerary, scheduled stops, etc, etc. I STILL USE THIS TODAY.
I also own a Garmin GPS, which I normally use for my on-the-road navigation these days. However, before any trip, I always plot out my information on paper, just in case the GPS happens to die on me (which did happen once with another model). It's worth pointing out that my GPS can connect to a laptop, which when running this software, will show my driving path on screen as well (or it can operate with a GPS receiver antenna without built-in navigation software as well).
Bottom line... there is newer, and more "state of the art" software out there now. But if you have this, it's still very useful (despite what the Microsoft Marketing guys who posted here tried to fool you into thinking). If you want to spend a lot more, buy something new (but not Microsoft, necessarily!) If you need totally updated maps, buy something new. If you have a 100%-of-the-time-connected computer, just use Google Earth or NASA WorldWind or MS Earth 3D or whatever. But if you need LOCALLY-INSTALLED MAPS (which I often do when I'm traveling... in the middle of the Arizona desert, you don't get much WIFI connectivity!), this is a fine tool, even six years after it was last produced!
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