What is Street Atlas USA 6.0?

Street Adas USA creates colorful maps of the entire United States, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, and other important geographic features. New in version 6 are updated map data, support for GPS devices, and detailed driving directions. Unfortunately, the program’s flaws — carried over from previous versions — offset these goodies.

The basic operation of Street Adas USA remains the same. You can still zoom on a particular section of the country by entering a telephone number, a zip code, a city name, or even a house address. The response time is phenomenal, but the interface is clumsy and confusing.

The best new feature is Routing, which provides driving directions between locations, across the country or just through town. You can request the quickest, shortest, or most scenic route, and even specify the type of road you would prefer. Likewise, you can specify stopping points along the way. You may need the EarthMate GPS receiver (sold separately) when you discover the inevitable inaccuracies (such as through roads that don’t connect) that creep into a product with such a tremendous wealth of data.

No other Mac product in this arena compares to Street Atlas USA, so if you need street-level mapping, by all means pick up a copy today. We just wish DeLorme had made the program easier to use — and to trust.

Linzmayer, Owen W. (May 2000). Street Atlas USA 6. MacAddict. (pg. 48).

See also: Version 2.0 (1993), Version 4.0 (1997)

Download Street Atlas USA 6.0 for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver