Delorme Street Atlas or Microsoft Streets & Trips?

I like Streets and Trips for planning the whole year's travel. I especially like the POI megafile. I can turn POIs on and off as needed. For example, I always want to see Thousand Trails parks. With the megafile, I see the TT logo for every park in the country - making it very easy to when our route can take us by one. Then, when we're out west, I turn on the HotSprings POI so we can plan a soak!

OOPS..double post

I like Street Atlas.
I use it for pinpointing way points then load them into my Garmin to develop the route I want to take and not the Garmin's route.

However; there is a learning curve with SA, they have a very non standard type interface.

I have ms&t, street atlas and topo. I use ms&t for planning, street atlas for travel where I can use the radar function and topo for general travel, like the map detail.

I have been a long time user of Delorme. They have their own map database (they are a map company) which tend to be more accurate than the MS S&T which the last time I checked used NavTek map database.

Dick

I bought and use both, though my Street Atlas is buried under Topo.

I use S&T for fast trip planning, Delorme Topo for checking out details locally.

I used both for years almost alternately. The free trial of Strips and Treets is very attractive. Get to learning what it can do for you and when you get real used to it, borrow a copy of Street Alas and find out what it can do. I will not recommend one over the other, but frequently friends remark that they can't do with S&T what I do all the time with SA. If you want to use it as a navigator underway, you have to buy S&T and their GPS first, because it didn't used to work with any other one, but SA will work with almost any out there, so it can use what comes with S&T.

The data bases of both are poor at best. SA does correct theirs if they get the information, but someone has to tell them what they can't see from the coast of Maine, they just don't know about. S&T is just as bad, both will route you down roads that are not someplace you should not take an RV.

The data base in a smartphone is better, but they can correct it real time. Given that, they should be much better than they usually are.

I am a little pathological about this. That might be a result of having the job description be Navigator for much of my existence.

Matt

For reasons known only to them, Delorme insists on using a program format that pre-dates Windows. Because of this pig headed approach, it it an extremely hard program to learn and use. Once you do manage to learn to operate with this mess, the navigation ability is fine. Like just about all navigation programs, the navigational data base they use is slow to update when roads and routes change. The program publishers appear to have little or no interest in getting obvious errors updated or corrected. Streets and Trips also uses similar brought-in data bases and also has problems getting errors and info updated in reasonable times, but at least it's a much easier program to learn and use. We use both, but I would definitely NOT RECOMMEND Delorme. S&T is a bit of a wash.

You could download a 14-day free trial of Streets and Trips to get an idea of how you'd like it. No such luck with Street Atlas though.

Streets & Trips is a lot easier to learn and will serve you well.