It's hard to use, hard to learn, hard to work with... Get a better product, I know I will.


Give your cash to the homeless...It's better spent   April 10, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I bought the program so I could load maps on a Secure Digital card and carry all of them that I need on the road. Turns out the program only runs in memory with the maps also in memory. The box and instructions say that it runs in memory or on cards but it doesn't. If you load the maps on a card, the program says it can't find them. You can't copy them from the card to memory because PalmOS doesn't allow it. The maps can only be copied from the card if the program is on the card and is copied to memory. When you do that, however, the program attempts to bring ALL maps present on the card with it. This causes 'out of memory' errors if you have too many maps. (Three were too many for me). Multiple attempts to fix this with Rand McNally support was frustrating. They kept sending me older versions to try but they all behaved the same. They did tell me that the program and map must be in memory to run, but they also told me you could have maps on the card and only bring the one you want into memory. That is a bold faced lie. It doesn't work on my m125 with a SanDisk SD and running OS 4.0.1. The only way to carry maps that total more space than available in memory is to load the program and maps individually to different memory cards and copy them to memory as you need them. That is stupid and I refuse to do it...Still, Caveat Emptor!


quirky   January 29, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Looking around the net you will find mixed reviews about a lot of the "palm-oriented" map/travel software. Unfortunately this will be no different. The maps are fair but old. (many relatively new streets are missing)My copy is dated 2002 however I'm not sure the maps are actually that current. Using the find/search function is a pain and contrary to the hint which tells you to reduce your search info, I've found the opposite to be true. (note that leaving out rd or dr, or misinforming it of the suffix will often cause erroneus search results.) If you are able to list the city (don't leave it in "all cities") then it will sometimes find your target with the shortened search text. Mapopolis' search engine ran circles around this. In all fairness, I haven't used an advanced mapopolis-compatible map with more data. (I'd still bet it's faster)