On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:24:43 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

I'm thinking of it first for car use on trips to cities where I might
want to see a street map or restaurants, museums, etc. I like the big
screen of a laptop.

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It works fine for that, better however when you've got a second person
in the car to do the navigating.

We use Streetmap mostly for trip planning, but it is also very good
for finding alternate local routes if the Interstates get backed up.
We have literally saved hours on at least a few occassions, once many
years ago when we were headed south on I95 at Christmas time and
things were horendously backed up near Alexandria, VA. We rarely
drive any distance at all without it since the Florida Interstates are
notorious for severe backups, and you get out in the boondocks pretty
quickly once off the beaten path.