Pocket Streets a cool tool

[jimfee]

Added pocket streets to my MPX220 yetserday after getting the full Streets and trips for my PC for Christmas, and alot of unrelated PC problems inbetween,

Wow, a really cool and usefull tool on the Road, went to see the Phillies beat Smoltz and the Braves yesterday and Typed in "Citizens Bank" hoping to get the stadium on the map, I got that and every branch location in my map, holy powerfull data handling functions revealed Map-man.

After the game our party decided to meet at the Oregon Diner a well known local place but not a national chain of note. It was there. Impressive , Most Impressive.

I will need to get an SD card because the Map I coppied, (via Bluetooth) to the phone is hogging up alot of memory space 7MB.

Still saving up for the BT GPS (Maybe for next Christmas)

Both Pocket Streets and the Strets and trips

[Kris Kumar]

Navigation tools really demonstrate the power of smart phones. Adding BT GPS will make it more powerful.

Many a times, I haved wowed an audience by showing the directions to a place on my Smartphone. :-)

[Mike Temporale]

I've been a MapPoint user for a long time, and recently purchased Streets and Trips to get the GPS unit. I was shocked to see that Streets and Trips doesn't have the same level of detail as MapPoint - at least in my area it doesn't. I would have expected that they share the same mapping detail, but I guess the consumer version is lighter than the business version. :?

[Santa Fe]

I deleted Streets and Trips from the smartphone because the information was incorrect in my area (and different from the PC information for some reason). I use the latest version. It was in my view difficult to use as well on the i600.

[Kris Kumar]

... the information was incorrect in my area (and different from the PC information for some reason).

I have noticed that if a street has couple of names like for example Route-64 and WhatsInAName Road, the Pocket Streets version shows only the first name, and things can get annoying because of that. :(

[Santa Fe]

In my area it was way worse than that. Addresses are on the wrong side of the interstate, blocks from their actual location and so forth. It was not confidence building so - good bye software. The desktop version is very accurate which is a bit of a puzzle.

[jimfee]

I noticed that the State was incorrectly identified when the file was converted for use on the Smartphone, There is a warning flag that acts as a disclaimer, and I chalked it up to the conversion process.

I'm located in the northeast and am probably spoiled, map detail is about as good as recent MapInfo layers I work with, not as good as a local Map Company but as good as or better than the online Map databases.

I guess this Application was just impressing me by demonstrating functionality that I had only previously seen in a Desktop environment.

[Santa Fe]

Just for fun if you like using maps on the Smartphone try Mapopolis at: http://64.208.105.215/ and see which you prefer.

[ZooKeeper]

My only fuss about pocket streets is that it won't show you a [higlighted] route to take on the map as it does on the PC version. Even if I create a highlighted route on my computer and export it to my smartphone, it loses the highlighting of the route to take. This could just be because I am doing something wrong too... Who knows...

[Sven Johannsen]

My only fuss about pocket streets is that it won't show you a [higlighted] route to take on the map as it does on the PC version. Even if I create a highlighted route on my computer and export it to my smartphone, it loses the highlighting of the route to take. This could just be because I am doing something wrong too... Who knows...

You aren't doing anything wrong. Neither the PPC or SP version does routing, either by transfer or directly. Only thing that transfers is Pushpins, and only to the mobile device. I haven't tried Mapopolis on the SP, but it is my mapping program of choice on my PPC. The SP version is still a Beta IIRC, so keep that in mind.

Actually Pocket Streets is about the least featured mapping program out there, but the price is certainly right.