DeLorme Earthmate BT-20 with Street Atlas USA Plus 2008

Cutting-edge GPS technologies from STMicroelectronics and DeLorme, with new, faster satellite acquisition times

Product Information

DeLorme's Earthmate GPS BT-20 is the single GPS solution for your large-screen laptop PC, or your handheld PDA or touch-screen phone.  It's a smart, flexible GPS that stores all your maps - plus phone numbers and address listings. You can even import information directly from a spreadsheet, to help you keep your information organized.  It's the ideal travel companion for business travelers and advanced users who carry multiple portable devices.  Bluetooth connection from your PDA, smart phone or Windows Mobile device Import and GPS-navigate among your own text files, on PDAs and laptop PCs.
 

• Ideal for Business and Advanced Users with Multiple Portable Devices - For Bluetooth & USB-connection laptop PCs, and Bluetooth PDAs and Touch-screen Phones running Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, Pocket PC, and Palm OS
  
• Smart, Flexible GPS - A single GPS solution for your large-screen laptop PC or your handheld PDA or touch-screen phone
  
• U.S. and Canadian Street Maps Showing Your Own Data - Import text files from Excel and other databases and select only the ones you want to display on the maps
  
• Create Databases using Phone Numbers - Search 150 million business and residential phone and address listings, and create your own custom databases to bring on PDAs and laptop PCs for GPS usage in the field

Street Atlas USA 2008 PLUS contains the DeLorme produced and managed United States and now also Canadian street-level network. The included 4 million U.S. places of interest (POIs) are updated annually based on phone book information and DeLorme’s own research into exit services. Canadian POIs are also included, many with phone numbers. When you factor in the 120 million included phone listings for the U.S. and Canada, you have one of the most extensive POI databases available anywhere.  

Street Atlas USA 2008 PLUS allows you to import your own data from text, Excel, Outlook, and other sources. It does not, however, allow 3rd-party supplementary data to be imported.


Product Highlights

The Earthmate GPS BT-20 offers advanced chip technology from STMicroelectronics integrated with DeLorme firmware and software by DeLorme GPS engineers. Unlike Bluetooth-only receivers available elsewhere, the Earthmate GPS BT-20 integrates both Bluetooth and USB connection into one design, making it one of the most flexible GPS receivers available. The outer dimensions of the Earthmate GPS BT-20 are smaller than a business card. Sleek and slim, the BT-20 features a simple on/off switch and ships with a three-way power option, which includes a Lithium-Ion battery with both A/C and 12-volt in-vehicle chargers.

Go Wireless - from your Bluetooth PDA, smart phone, or Windows Mobile device.  For any occasion when you need wireless real-time navigation. A powerful business and advanced Bluetooth wireless GPS mapping system, for portable devices (Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, and Palm OS) and laptops.  Bluetooth technology means no clunky PDA cable connections.  Ability to import and GPS-navigate among your own text files on PDAs and laptop PCs.

Go Wired - from your laptop.  Navigate connected to your non-Bluetooth laptop PC's USB port.  Large-screen laptop GPS shows much more map area than smaller PDA screens.  Voice Commands (laptops only) and Spoken Directions.  Find repair services and anything else using the included phone listings.

New Features

Street Atlas USA 2008 PLUS DVD

• Extensive street and highway updates for the U.S. and Canada
• 150 million updated phone listings, all searchable and locatable on the maps, ideal for creating custom databases or for finding friends and services across the U.S. and Canada
• Improved overall map readability, with more detail now provided at magnification levels 7-10
• Ability to delete duplicate records in the phone data when there are multiple phone numbers for the same yellow-page locations
• National Grid System support
• High-resolution, recent imagery for many states available for purchase
• Highway and major road routing now available for Mexico
• Pinpoint locations, with updated names for 150 pro sports and NASCAR venues
• 40+ new or updated GPS-accurate chains added to the 4 million places of interest, including Wal-Mart, Chili’s, Denny’s, Walgreens, Exxon/Mobil, and many more
• Airport access roads updated
• Connect online for geographic social networking with other DeLorme customers
• 900+ malls and access roads updated
• Truck Stop data with extended information about service offerings
• Translucent route highlights for seeing map data beneath routes
• Map transfer to PDAs improved with support for Mexican maps
• Support for multiple monitors
• Convenient DVD-ROM edition

Unique Advantages

Core Features

Map Controls
The maps can be controlled using a variety of methods, including the traditional push-button zooming, which drills in/out while keeping the map exactly centered. Also, holding down the left mouse button enables you to drag and zoom, left-to-right, across the map, and moving the mouse in the same manner but in the opposite direction zooms out.

Find
DeLorme employs several powerful search capabilities within the software. The first is a simple box called QuickSearch where you type common requests including towns, cities, lat/lons, ZIP codes, street addresses, colleges, and many more to receive the quickest possible matches. The places-of-interest search offers more advanced parameters and the advanced search is used when locating exact matches requires additional customer input.

Draw
Add MapNotes; draw your own circles, polygons, and squares; measure the area of your draw objects - even draw in your own roads and route on them - these are amazingly powerful draw tools for the money.

Phone
The Phone tab along the bottom portion of the interface allows you to create custom searches for finding either residential or business phone numbers and locations. You can search by yellow-page heading and find all the diesel repair shops and then select only the ones you’d like to display on the map. You can use the phone listings in conjunction with the XData tab to create and save custom data files for frequent retrieval.

Information
Right-click on the map to learn more about what’s underneath your cursor. Lat/Lon, names of streets and bodies of water - even local radio station information - can be viewed in this manner. Moreover, the bottom toolbar of the software displays a continuously updated readout of what’s underneath your cursor.

Voice
The voice tab of the software is where you train the software to recognize your voice for issuing routing and GPS commands while tracking. Ask common questions such as “How far to my next turn?” and the software answers. Microphone recommended for optimal usage. The software also reads upcoming turn information, including the time to turn, time to finish, and name of the street to turn onto. New voice settings allow you to select how far in advance of your turn you’d like to be prompted. Voice can also be turned off if you prefer.

Netlink and Aerial Imagery
NetLink is your online link to DeLorme for free aerial imagery now included with the Street Atlas USA 2008 versions. Select your areas of interest and download only those grids to the software. Toggle the imagery on and off in a single-screen view. Add notes and draw objects to the imagery to customize lifelike views from space.

Mobile Device Mapping

Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, and Palm OS Compatible
Included at no extra charge is the DeLorme Handheld software, which now includes support for Windows Mobile 5.0 and later devices. Access the maps you want from the desktop software and hot-sync to your PDA. Add a DeLorme Bluetooth GPS for use with Bluetooth PDAs and navigate wire-free. The DeLorme handheld functionality provides address-to-address routing, spoken directions, mobile map colors to reduce in-vehicle glare, and four million places of interest. Finding what you need is easy using the powerful search capabilities. Now you have powerful desktop mapping software and PDA software all conveniently provided in one Street Atlas USA 2008 package.

Maps on iPods
Using a tool similar to how MapShare works, now you can select the maps you want from the desktop software and send them to your photo-capable iPod. These map images are static (e.g., cannot be manipulated once on the iPod) and come across in the order you select them, same as with photos. Once on your device, you can access the ones you need, when you need them. Due to the small screen size of iPods, we recommend these maps for urban walking situations where you can discretely reference the maps you need. (Not GPS compatible.)

Ease of Use

E-Z Nav Toolbar
This handy toolbar runs along the top of the interface and offers access to commonly needed routing and GPS options, especially useful for in-vehicle navigation on a laptop PC with the Earthmate GPS. In the 2008 version -- right-click on the top toolbar and select the various icons you want.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Set your own keyboard shortcut preferences for optimum control when using GPS. The key-bindings function is very powerful and advanced so you can design your ideal in-vehicle navigation solution to your personal specifications.

Right-Click Routing
The easiest way for many to create and alter routes is to use the right-click feature. Select the route on your map and add new stops or vias, delete the route, all by simply right-clicking the object of interest. You can also add your own MapNotes or view the many pre-populated tags provided by the software.

Routing

Routing
Create automatic routes using the quickest (time) or shortest (distance) routes. Add VIAs to force the routing to take the roads you prefer. Turn on one-way indicators; select major areas to avoid; or select roads based on driving speed preferences. Add Stops and reorganize their order and the routing automatically recalculates. Create and manage routes either in the Route tab or by right-clicking on the maps.

Add Local Roads to Routing

• Manufactured by: Delorme