I guess we DID miss the exit. But see above about Topo USA 4. We pulled it out a few weeks later. But for personnel who use the same vehicle over and over, Street Atlas or Topo USA and a laptop with a full screen can be an excellent navigation solution. The development team at Delorme has been working on a new interface for quite a while now, one that eschews many of the Microsoft Windows standards. Instead, they have developed new user—interface design elements specifically suited for Street Atlas and related programs.
By vector—based, this means that there are no digitized 7. Instead of a toolbar and menu bar across the top, there are bars at the bottom and bar at the right side. As with past versions, Street Atlas Deluxe allows zooming from level 2 shows all of North America , Alaska and Hawaii to level 16 shows an area about x75 meters, depending on your screen resolution.
What this does is take whatever is showing on screen and magnify it all: map, lettering, everything. The bar at the bottom, however, contains the major elements of the new user interface.
Each tab contains a set of functions accessed by a few buttons. The figure, a relatively large JPEG, shows some of these features. There are many, many new and improved features, only a few of which appear in this review or the help file documentation.
Indeed, one of the joys of the new program is being able to find these new features most are well—designed enough that they really require little if any documentation — good user interface design. A listing of what I see as the major new features, some of which were mentioned above, include:. You can also show or hide routes via their checkboxes in the Route tab, Directions button. Since the calculations are retained in memory, reactivating a route is nearly instantaneous.
If I ever need to go there again, I just retrieved the. With Street Atlas Deluxe, the. Very nice. When you have a color display capable of showing many colors, the program now takes advantage of this by using a more subtle but very—readable color palette.
I found with previous attempts at speech control of Street Atlas that I had to keep the car windows shut to get it to work, and had to spend a lot of time twiddling. Try clicking when you see the cursor change and see what happens. You can import all of your Street Atlas 8. Do you lose anything in upgrading to the new interface version? Yes, a few things:. You CAN right—click and select Info from the context—menu, but this is certainly not as easy as with the older versions of Street Atlas.
The Appalachian Trail on Mt. Although Street Atlas 8. But with Street Atlas 9. This and the woodland overprint went away to save CD space for new streets and roads, but for SAR teams and anyone interested in the outdoors, their loss is deeply felt. This seems like a lot until you realize this is the entire USA on your hard drive.
Yes, Street Atlas Deluxe is a must—buy upgrade. But there are some things missing, many of which are also problems with Topo USA 4. Unlike Topo USA 4. Also, please note that a dedicated website for this product does not exist.
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