Streets & Trips 2013: $14.95!

[wheatonFJR]

Yah I'll take advantage of that deal! :yahoo Thanks for the tip.

Yes, I did as well...Thanks Iggie

+1...THANKS.

 

[wfooshee]

I'm not gonna waste a post just to add to the list of "+1 Thanks" guys.

Oh, wait.... I just did.

 

[John d]

Another +1, but I had to lie and give an American address. Apparently, because I'm a Canuckistani, I should really pay $39 CAN, but the download version seems to work well.

Thanks Mr. Iggy!

 

[Intech]

Dang it! Day late on this one. Wish I had logged on last night!

 

[LAF]

Dang it! Day late on this one. Wish I had logged on last night!

+1

Pissed I missed that deal.

 

[Geezer]

OK, I got in on the deal, thanks Iggy.

Now I will need to upgrade my GPS to one that recognizes gpx files. So, I guess this didn't really save me any money.

 

[snackbauer]

Newegg still shows it available at the $14.95 price.

 

[SouthernCruizer]

Thanks for the heads up. I downloaded it yesterday, but have buyers remorse (again) for trying it. I quit using it years ago because I didnt like the way it worked. Having same issues now. Try running a route from East to West along the I-10 corridor, and cant make the damn thing stay on route around the Flatonia, Tx area..keeps sending me either north or south of I-10..why? No clue.

Guess I'll be sticking to my Mapsource for now. :angry2:

 

[wheatonFJR]

Thanks for the heads up. I downloaded it yesterday, but have buyers remorse (again) for trying it. I quit using it years ago because I didnt like the way it worked. Having same issues now. Try running a route from East to West along the I-10 corridor, and cant make the damn thing stay on route around the Flatonia, Tx area..keeps sending me either north or south of I-10..why? No clue.

 

Guess I'll be sticking to my Mapsource for now. :angry2:

Maybe you need to fiddle with your preference settings. That always does it for me. Don't give up man! :clapping:

 

[juniorfjr]

Yea, downloaded it last nite. Always a sucker for a buy, now what do I do with it? By the time I downloaded it, I couldn't get back on the forum, thought for sure I'd broke it.

Thanks for the heads up, Iggy.

 

[wfooshee]

Thanks for the heads up. I downloaded it yesterday, but have buyers remorse (again) for trying it. I quit using it years ago because I didnt like the way it worked. Having same issues now. Try running a route from East to West along the I-10 corridor, and cant make the damn thing stay on route around the Flatonia, Tx area..keeps sending me either north or south of I-10..why? No clue.

Guess I'll be sticking to my Mapsource for now. :angry2:

Playing with it, it looks like a short stretch of I-10 westbound doesn't exist in the database. I can't place a via point on that section, the program moves it to the frontage road or the nearest other road when I try. On mine it breaks at US 77. I can place a via point immediately before that offramp, and it takes the ramp to continue west. If I place it after the offramp, it moves the point I'm trying to drop and puts it elsewhere.

As far as the database is concerned, the road doesn't go through, so the program can't route through. My S&T 2010 doesn't do that.

That's not necessarily Microsoft's fault, it's an error in the map data they bought, and it's apparently a new error.

 

[redtail]

Thanks for the heads up. I downloaded it yesterday, but have buyers remorse (again) for trying it. I quit using it years ago because I didnt like the way it worked. Having same issues now. Try running a route from East to West along the I-10 corridor, and cant make the damn thing stay on route around the Flatonia, Tx area..keeps sending me either north or south of I-10..why? No clue.

Guess I'll be sticking to my Mapsource for now. :angry2:

I just created a couple of "push pins" to add to my route, when I had the same issue.

 

[wfooshee]

That's what I was trying to do, but since the road isn't continuous in the database, it wouldn't let me use the broken section at all.

Usually you can fix a route preference problem by forcing the route another direction, but if the database shows the road as noncontinuous, you can't router over it. That piece of I-10 westbound, at Schulenberg, Texas, is broken in S&T 2013 and will not route.

Most of us, though, are sharp enough to see that it's a glitch, and just stay on the highway through that section.

 

[Intech]

Damn! Went to Newegg now and it is back up to full price!

 

[snackbauer]

Damn! Went to Newegg now and it is back up to full price!

Yep, I think they were just a little slow changing the price this morning.

 

[SkooterG]

You ******* Iggie! You owe me $16!!!!

 

[Ignacio]

You ******* Iggie! You owe me $16!!!!

I got it after just casually glancing at LDRider threads Friday from Dennis Y. If you missed it there...that's on you. You owe me $1 for pointing this out.

 

[SouthernCruizer]

That's what I was trying to do, but since the road isn't continuous in the database, it wouldn't let me use the broken section at all.

Usually you can fix a route preference problem by forcing the route another direction, but if the database shows the road as noncontinuous, you can't router over it. That piece of I-10 westbound, at Schulenberg, Texas, is broken in S&T 2013 and will not route.

Most of us, though, are sharp enough to see that it's a glitch, and just stay on the highway through that section.

Yes, no doubt that its a glitch, but it makes me not want to trust the entire map. I used to use S & T, and ran into this type of problem often. Mapsource does not seem to have as many "glitches". Oh well. It was worth a try.

 

[Ignacio]

Yes, no doubt that its a glitch, but it makes me not want to trust the entire map. I used to use S & T, and ran into this type of problem often. Mapsource does not seem to have as many "glitches". Oh well. It was worth a try.

Somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of the people that do rallies including the Iron Butt Rally seem to easily get over these glitches easily. I've gotten 1st or 2nd place in the last ten rallies I've run with the software, and I wouldn't have done nearly as well had I used Mapsource. It sucks in ways that S&T doesn't.

S&T is a GREAT tool for the price...even at $40!

.....or maybe I should just be thankful I'm still not lost somewhere in Kansas. :huh:

 

[SkooterG]

Somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of the people that do rallies including the Iron Butt Rally seem to easily get over these glitches easily. I've gotten 1st or 2nd place in the last ten rallies I've run with the software, and I wouldn't have done nearly as well had I used Mapsource. It sucks in ways that S&T doesn't.

A matter of opinion. I am very happy with Mapsource. I am not a S&T guy. And up until very recently, my Mapsource limited butt was kicking your S&T ass on a fairly regular basis in rallies. :finger:

I know plenty of other Mapsource fans in the rally community, so I am not alone.