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ROUTE 66 Route USA 2004

ROUTE 66 Route USA 2004

map & route/trip planning

Version:  3.6.0 build 3

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Horrid in many respects...

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Aikousha Wednesday, February 02 2005 @ 11:44 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

SUGGESTION: Buy Virtual PC and Street Atlas USA for the PC!

This is first generation shareware quality.

1. The program is horribly slow
2. Somebody doesn't know about the Human Interface Guidelines
3. Where the hell is the ability to mark anything for your own personal use (only push pins?)
4. If you create a category, there is no way to remove it! All errors are permanent!!! Not even edit capabilities to correct entry errors.
5. Database of locations is sadly lacking compared to SAUSA (try Game Stop)
6. No route marking?
7. To mark several locations with Push Pins, I had to go to Yahoo Maps to find the real location on several streets without addresses (numbers).
8. Almost all functions cannot be accessed by Hot-Keys or Menus, only by the toolbar.
9. Toolbar icons are impossible to distinguish if you have any kind of vision impairment
10. The search function is severely limited and difficult to understand.
11. It takes up a HUGE amount of space.
12. Overlays for data like route markings, personal markers, labels (There are no label functions?!?), push pins (chuckle), regions, etc., should be saved as separate files, so that you can swap between them as needed (and would allow public transporation utilities and the like to build overlays for people who own the program). However, how can a program without a save, export, or import function possible have something so NECESSARY in a mapping software?

I.m not totally sure, yet, but the only thing going for this, is that the street database (the vectors) are pretty accurate.

Screw Rand McNally, I think the Thomas Brothers company needs to get in on the electronic map business... They did California maps the BEST, surely they could do a better job with this.

It's too bad I waited too long to install and try to use this, because I'm now stuck with it, CompUSA won't take it back...   
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Horrid in many respects... - smokeonit

i agree w/ many points, but since there's no alternative on mac, it's not very nice to trash them like this... i hope they will not leave mac and leave us with NADA on osX;-(((((

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