streets&trips-Mexico
We have S&T on our lap top. Will it be of any use in Mexico? Should we put any S&T information on the lap top before we start out?
Forum Discussion
I think S&T get poor ratings on Amazon for a number of reasons. Mostly what I hear from people are things having to do with not knowing how to use it. There are no real instructions anywhere and many people cannot figure out the intricacies. They also changed a few things in 13 that I personally wish they hadn't. I think overall 13 is an improvement - but it takes time to learn what all the improvements are.
I have some files I created in 2010 showing POIs of campgrounds in Mexico and each time I open it 13 says it is an earlier version and it has to update something to work - I click and it works - no problem.
One of my primary reasons for preferring S&T to a device such as Garmin is the ability to work on a computer instead of a small screen and the various drawbacks that go along with that. I also like many of the features and things I can do with S&T. Not a primary but I like that I can create maps and routes and then print them out or email them to others. I also post our trips in our blog showing our routes. Just some fun stuff for me.
Seems every year there is a period when you can get a new version for around $20 so we get a new one every year.
There is a website www.laptopgpsworld.com where there is a lot of info and a forum where questions are asked and answered and a great deal can be learned. How do you do this and how do you do that etc.
I create routes from point A to point B and name them and save them to my S&T routes folder and can then call them up and use them anytime. I can travel a route with the "Create GPS Trail" feature on and then name that route and save it to show exactly where I have been. I do not try to save entire trips or weeks or months but more like daily diaries of travel days.
We also use the new Garmin as it has some features S&T does not. Admittedly, having some of this stuff we just do for fun and may not be necessary. But then again we find many times when we are glad we have it.
I was a truck driver through the 80s and ran 48 states with well over 100,000 miles a year and there was no GPS (or computers or cell phones) and I found my way everywhere I had to go. Now I can hardly go down the street to the grocery store without checking a GPS. Is that sad?
I have some files I created in 2010 showing POIs of campgrounds in Mexico and each time I open it 13 says it is an earlier version and it has to update something to work - I click and it works - no problem.
One of my primary reasons for preferring S&T to a device such as Garmin is the ability to work on a computer instead of a small screen and the various drawbacks that go along with that. I also like many of the features and things I can do with S&T. Not a primary but I like that I can create maps and routes and then print them out or email them to others. I also post our trips in our blog showing our routes. Just some fun stuff for me.
Seems every year there is a period when you can get a new version for around $20 so we get a new one every year.
There is a website www.laptopgpsworld.com where there is a lot of info and a forum where questions are asked and answered and a great deal can be learned. How do you do this and how do you do that etc.
I create routes from point A to point B and name them and save them to my S&T routes folder and can then call them up and use them anytime. I can travel a route with the "Create GPS Trail" feature on and then name that route and save it to show exactly where I have been. I do not try to save entire trips or weeks or months but more like daily diaries of travel days.
We also use the new Garmin as it has some features S&T does not. Admittedly, having some of this stuff we just do for fun and may not be necessary. But then again we find many times when we are glad we have it.
I was a truck driver through the 80s and ran 48 states with well over 100,000 miles a year and there was no GPS (or computers or cell phones) and I found my way everywhere I had to go. Now I can hardly go down the street to the grocery store without checking a GPS. Is that sad?
