DeLorme Earthmate BT-20 GPS [OLD VERSION]

An encyclopedia of cities and streets Please be careful. DeLorme Earthmate® BT-150 is one of my favorite maps The DeLorme Street Atlas USA® 2009 software is better than 20, but it's not good enough for me. The DeLorme Earthmate® BT-Series GPS receiver offers up to 6 hours of GPS navigation great, both when it is connected to a USB port and when it is connected through Bluetooth. Through Bluetooth, it's a serial port ("virtual COM port") device. Meanwhile, through USB, I'm using it with "DeLorme Serial Emulation Driver for Earthmate® GPS Receivers" As part of the Delorme Street Atlas USA® 2009 software, I like the look and feel of the graphical user interface, and I don't find it challenging to use. Overall, it is a great product in terms of functionality and features. However, the map data is useless for me at least. There are a multitude of errors and omissions in the map data for Seminole County, central Florida (where I live) A number of roads are absent, a number of roads are incorrectly labeled and mapped, and several places of interest are incorrectly located. User comments on the DeLorme Forums indicate that the same is true elsewhere across the country as well.

Alessandra Cole

| Jun 01, 2021

When I saw that tiny BT-looking device, I thought An optional GPS from the 20 would be a great addition to my Palm Treo 680 and enable me to go without a bulky dedicated GPS. As I had used an earlier version and had had no problems with it, I ignored the other reviews as being software related. It would have been better if I had consulted the DeLorme "support" forum, which appears to be rarely accessed by anyone who works directly for the company. While I can't get maps from my address book as easily as I can from a standalone GPS, I can use the software to import my address book. Here are the solutions for problem While on the road, if I answer a phone call and switch out of the tracking software, the GPS is disconnected and no tracking is possible. As soon as I go back to the software, I have to reinitialize the GPS so that it can track As a result, there is a problem. Taking care of problem It is nearly impossible to connect to the GPS via Bluetooth. There will be maybe a chance out of 20 that it works The support forum indicates that some people have suggested "pulling out the battery from the GPS for five seconds, but leaving it in for five minutes. Then resetting the Palm, then connecting Yes, that is going to be very handy while I'm driving down the freeway and trying to figure out which exit is the one I need. The situation is really unfortunate. In my opinion, this is a great idea, and I would like to like the product. I am going over to Amazon Customer Support to arrange an RMA right now.

Annabella Valdez

| Dec 18, 2020

There is no problem with the maps, but if you want to change the route, you have to pick multiple points along the new route to force the mapping software to work. doesn't seem to care how many times it has to back track to get back to its original route. I have also found the gps to be insensitive. The first time I used it, I was sitting at home by our south facing window It locked into place after about 15 minutes while facing a window. I found it difficult to lock in to the satellite array during a recent visit to Houston. There were no issues with MS Streets and Trips 2007, but the maps were outdated. The item would not be purchased again by me.

Xzavier Hess

| Aug 27, 2020

Microsoft Streets and Trips used to come with a GPS receiver that, due to its poor design, broke for me, so I was tempted to switch. This is BT. In addition to Bluetooth and USB support, The Navigator 20 was the only laptop navigation software containing a GPS receiver. It's a pity that the software is so bad. It has a horrible routing engine.
i) An old model of the routing engine is used. There is no way to specify specific roads. It also does not distinguish between quickest and shortest. Compared to Trips or Streets it consistently opts for the least optimal route, preferring Forest Roads and Unpaved Roads even when explicitly told not to do so. It's not allowed. ii) Disabling the screen saver would have been a useful option, but it does not III) There is also no route recalculation threshold. Just changing lanes on a highway gets it to think that I'm "Off Route" and makes me recalculate (even with the recalculation threshold set to the highest 500 feet). iv) The software is not aware of the concept of one-way lanes and keeps recommending travel in the wrong direction on one-way streets. A) The Point of Interest list does not compare to Street and Trips (which I always thought was a bit X) I have noticed that satellite lock times outside of 10 minutes have been much longer than advertised. The Street and Trips guys actually did a decent job with their software even though I didn't really like it. I kept hoping that Microsoft would bring a credible competitor in this space, but Delorme's software makes me think they did a decent The Delorme software does have voice commands (that I have no experience with yet) and I really like their zoom out by using the mouse feature, as well as the visual overview of GPS route input when using 2D routing. Whatever the good points or the good intentions, it should be illegal to sell such buggy software!.

Mathew Moses

| Dec 05, 2020

It was obvious going into this project that this would not be a simple turn on and go anywhere device, but I never realized how complicated it would I did not have any problems in pairing the GPS device with my IPAQ, and I also used the Bluetooth without any issue, but that's where the easy bit ended. It took me an hour and a half before I was able to figure out how to even view my city with the PC mapping software. Although there were tutorials, the user interface is very complex and the tutorials are useless.

In addition, the maps for the game are rather crude, little more than simple line drawings, and I'm still trying to figure out if I can get a more detailed one. This is one solution for people who want to be able to use GPS devices for a variety of tasks, but not for those who want.

Karina Haynes

| Jun 04, 2021