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Old 02-20-08 | 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by markjenn
Although I haven't used Delorme, my experience with other topo mapping products is that they use extremely out of date data for their road networks - I've seen major roads built 20 years ago not be on the map. The best road network application I've found is Streets and Trips, but transfer to a GPS can be problematic.

- Mark
And even Streets and Trips uses out-of-date info. Both Google mapping and Streets and Trips show a river just south of where I live, and no roads. Well, back in the 1980s they dammed the river and created a large lake and recreational area. Several more roads were built at that time (or shortly after), including one that goes across the dam. I use that road in my 600K because it is quite a scenic, quiet road, but have to do some creative mapping with Streets and Trips to pretend that the road exists. I plan to reroute my 300K that way as well and will have to get creative when I do that too.

It's pretty sad when these programs use info from more than 20 years ago when newer information is available on land ordinance and other maps.
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