Rand Mcnally Street Finder (Palm And Pocket PC) review:1 stars (Stay away) - 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.1 stars (Pure Junk) - Ditto to the other reviews. Misleading packaging. This is a worthless program that takes forever to load.1 stars (Don't By This!!! Streets and Trips is vastly better-) - 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.

Rand Mcnally Street Finder (Palm And Pocket PC) Features:
Route
Map Info (Mapinfo)
Hobby Hobbies
Computer software (programs)
Reference
Maps (Mapping)
Travel Planners (Planning)
CD
Includes Mobil Travel Guide for locating hotels, restaurants, and points-of-interest
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

Rand Mcnally Street Finder (Palm And Pocket PC) is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 26.99USD.