DeLorme Earthmate LT 40 GPS and Street Atlas USA
DeLorme Earthmate LT 40 GPS and Street Atlas USA
Turn your laptop PC or UMPC into a powerful GPS navigator, with voice-guided navigation, automatic back-on-track, GPS Radar to locate travel services, and other top-end features. DeLorme’s newest USB-powered GPS receiver includes a new super-high-sensitivity chipset, support for ultra mobile personal computers, superior on-screen GPS displays, and updated Street Atlas USA 2009 DVD software included. New STMicroelectronics GPS chipset delivers faster satellite acquisition, and DeLorme ConstantLock technology means surefire signal retention even in challenging GPS environments. GPS tracking is easier than ever with NavMode, including optional 3-D perspective and larger, more accessible user controls. Locate over 4 million places of interest (hotels, restaurants, attractions, sports venues, and businesses of all types–most with phone numbers included). Create routes automatically with user controls to ensure you take the roads you want. Calculate fuel usage and costs, and GPS-navigate with total confidence anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, and on major roads in Mexico.
Turn your laptop PC or UMPC into a powerful GPS navigator. |
Turn Your Laptop or UMPC into a Powerful GPS Navigator
High-end GPS capabilities at an unbeatable price! With the included Street Atlas USA software running on your laptop PC or UMPC, just plug the Earthmate GPS LT-40 into a USB port, secure the GPS on your dash, and you’re ready to go. Get voice-guided navigation, automatic Back-on-Track routing, GPS Radar to locate upcoming places of interest as you travel, aerial imagery, much more.
- NEW! NavMode with 3-D perspective and larger, more accessible user controls
- NEW! Support for ultra-mobile personal computers (UMPCs)
- NEW! Hundreds of thousands of new roads and road name updates
Includes Street Atlas USA 2009
When you’re driving in the car and you get lost, don’t you ever wish you didn’t have to deal with a bulky atlas? Or when you’re walking around in an unfamiliar city, don’t you wish you didn’t have to deal with a huge map? Now you don’t have to with Street Atlas USA 2009. You can put these maps on your GPS, PDA, PC or even your UMPC. Know where you’re going with street-level detail of the U.S. and Canada, and also highways and main roads in Mexico. There are over 4 million places of interest in the U.S. and Canada for when you’re looking for something specific. You can even edit your maps and print them out. These authentic DeLorme maps are guaranteed accurate–they’re produced by their own mapmakers, and triple-referenced to ensure you have the correct guidance anywhere you go.
Use new NavMode for a 3-D perspective. |
Updated, exceptionally detailed map software you can use anywhere–on the go with your laptop PC, ultra mobile PC, PDA, or touchscreen phone. No Internet access or subscription required. Get street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, plus highways and major roads for Mexico. Pre-plan your trips with automatic routing and over 4 million places of interest. User controls let you plan side trips, avoid congested areas, choose back roads, and more. Locate restaurants, lodgings, attractions, truck stops, sports venues, and businesses of all kinds. Calculate fuel usage and costs. Customize the maps to meet your needs. Import aerial imagery. Print a wide variety of map packages, or use MapShare to send maps, routes, and directions to others via a secure Web link. GPS-ready–connect a DeLorme Earthmate or other receiver to your laptop and receive spoken directions. Use new NavMode for a 3-D perspective, and locate upcoming travel services as you drive.
NEW in Street Atlas USA 2009 and Street Atlas USA 2009 PLUS:
- Support for Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPCs)
- Hundreds of thousands of new roads and road name updates
- Improved features when GPS tracking, including 3-D perspective and larger, more accessible user controls
Street Atlas USA 2009
- Street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, highways and main roads in Mexico
- Over 4 million places of interest in U.S. and Canada
- Easy, automatic routing
- GPS ready, with voice-guided navigation
- Versatile, flexible editing and print capabilities
- Application included for mapping, routing, and GPS navigation with Palm OS, Windows Mobile devices
- Incorporate aerial imagery into your maps and routes–download $40 worth free
- Share customized maps, routes, and directions with others via a secure Web link
- GPS-accurate placement for individual locations in 90+ chains in the U.S. and Canada
- Truck stop data with extended information about service offerings
- 900+ malls and access roads
- Airport access roads
- Major sports venues college, professional, NASCAR
- Translucent route highlights to better display underlying map data
- Support for multiple monitors
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User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Navigating with Earthmate
It seems like the software could be easier to use and I found the help files did not clear up my confusion. I had thought that it was able to integrate with my address boor but have not bee able to do it. I did use it on a drive from central Texas to Denver and it saved me time over all. I did try to up grade to the Pro version and the only way to was through a new cd sent to the home address which would do no good being an a trip.
3 Stars More complicated than I need
This was purchased as an upgrade to the 2005 version. Not much new except more unneeded features. We use this mainly to plan trips (and it is much better than a “Garmon” because you can actually see and revise your route) Then we take it along with a mini-notebook and use it for driving instructions. Trouble is, there are far too many “bells & whistles” that I would never use. That makes for a huge program. It is the slowest-loading software I have ever used. I would like the system much better if you could delete all the “stuff” for a smaller program and a cleaner user interface. On the other hand, if you consider the technology behind this, it is amazing.
2 Stars Good GPS, horrible software
This is the first item, in years of order from Amazon, that I have ever returned (the return process with Amazon, btw, is wonderful!). The GPS with this software is very good, it gets a signal quickly, and is very accurate. It does not (which is what led to my returning the item) however, work well with other software. There’s an application that you have to load to make the GPS appear in software like Steets & Trips (it converts the USB signal to a COM port) which is more hassle then I wanted to deal with.
The software, however, is HORRIBLE. I can’t express in words how bad this software is. I work in IT for a living, and I work with many different software packages every day. I spent about 16 hours working with the software, trying to learn how it “did” things, and working around it’s issues. I was trying to plan an upcoming trip to Yellowstone; none of the points of interest were hitting; I was entering GPS coordinates for the hotels I’m staying in, and the overall process (planning a single trip, 7 waypoints) took almost 4 hours. It was just horribly complicated, and incredibly frustrating. After going through that disaster, I decided to try a competing product, Streets and Trips 2009 (free download available).
Using S&T, I planned the entire trip in about 30 minutes. EVERY single hotel I’m staying in was immediately picked up; the longest part of the process was figuring out how to tell the software that I was stopping in a location for the evening. It was SO much better then this product’s software that I purchased another GPS (Hulox M1000) and decided to send this one back. I realized that, even if I did eventually learn the software, my co-pilot (girlfriend) would never figure it out, and she’d hate me forever for making her try.
This software is so poor it shouldn’t even be sold; I’ve used alpha software that’s more refined and easier to use. The GPS is great, but if you want to use it with another product, you will HAVE to use the serial port emulator (a deal breaker for me), another piece of software to load on your mapping computer.
I realize that some people like the Street Atlas interface; but, trust me, if you’ve never used mapping software before, you will absolutely hate it; it reminds me of a DOS program that’s been ported to Windows.
4 Stars Great Product
Advantages:
I have only used two car GPS products. Considering my driving pickup, this earthermate LT-40 is right for me. My laptop was Inspiron E1405 so that the LT-40 could recaculate very quickly after I missed the turn. To be honest, the product is very powerful tool compared with other protable GPS navigators such as garmin, tomtom, etc. It tracks your position very quickly and precisely even that I just parked my truck on the plot where 5 feet away the road and it said off road. It is not difficult to learn.
Disadvatages:
There were always errors to transform the map to handheld palm centro and I don’t know why. The turn to turn voice was bad so that I updated the voice engine to make it read clearly.
Cons:
As matter of fact, I didn’t rely on any one of GPS navigator unless it was necessary. If you don’t use your head but count on GPS product, you are not a wise man.
4 Stars DeLorme’s Earthmate is good, complete and complex.
I watched friends use their GPS devices and was tempted by the novelty of the devices. But, I never could justify the expense when a little forethought would assure all the directions I needed to go from one place to another would be printed out with map before hand.
When I discovered this DeLorme package could provide a complete navigation function in connection with my notebook computer at an acceptable price, I finally made the leap.
The DeLorme Earthmate GPS LT-40 2009 easilty justifies five stars but for one thing; It’s overkill for most users and it’s not untiutively obvious as to how to configure it to be just a simple navigator.
If you’re looking for a simple navigator to get from point A to point B, this device will cost effectively, reliably do that and a whole lot more. If a simple navigator is ALL you want, the DeLorme Earthmate GPS can be a bit intimidating and you might want to reconsider the simple stand alone alternatives.
