BusinessMAP: Advanced Database Mapping and Territory Design Review

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(More customer reviews)I have never written a review of any product -- but BusinessMap is so poor that I am inclined to say something.
I am reviewing BusinessMap right now before making a decision to buy or not -- I will not be buying it.
The user interface on this product is like a product you will buy 10 years ago -- ESRI has failed dismally to upgrade the usability of this product - I just don't get how they can charge $350 for a poorly designed product - e.g., when one zooms in at the "street level" - they give you the main street numbers like 828 instead of the actual name of the street.
Moving around a map is so fustrating - it is not even remotely intuitive. They only allow you limited zoom in/out - e.g., there are fixed zoom levels and no slider bar to quickly go in/out.
Their support leaves a lot to be desired as well. You would have thought that their support people will know level 1 knowledge about the product. However, they cannot give you a straight answer.
The 1 positive about this product is the data under the map of businesses.
Overall - this product should be avoided.

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AAA Map N' Go 7.0 Review

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(More customer reviews)I just bought, installed, and used this product to lay out a long trip. This software quickly plotted the trip which would be over roads ranging from interstates to secondary roads. It has a very large points of interest database and produced an extensive report (maps of various scales and lists of points of interest) and features (personalization options, integration with GPS).
After about 5 hours of use, I found the product was not acceptable for my purposes and returned it. Some problems were:
1. When I tried to constrain portions of routes from interstate to secondary roads, the program would either show both routes or show the secondary route with a return to the secondary route start on the interstate. (Same behaviour if the road was a state vice interstate route.) Although an annoyance, this behaviour effectively added duplicate miles to the route total milage.
2. When points of interest are added, a bulk add to map feature is available. No delete from map is available. In one case I had added 208 points to the map, only to find that they all appeared in the final printout report. In order to remove the points, each had to be deleted individually - a large chore. In addition, some information apperared in the printout report of no value to me. I could find no way to delete this other data.
3. Documentation is marginal at best. Workarounds for the problems may have existed, but I could not find them in the documentation.
4. I am a AAA member so expected to see all AAA points of interest and accomodations. The information, when compared to AAA books, was incomplete.
5. The internet download features (road conditions) produced error messages but some data appeared.
The above shortfalls may not be important to all - but evaluate this mapping product carefully before committing to extensive planning.

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