DeLorme Earthmate GPS LT-40 2010

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  • Turn your laptop PC or netbook into a powerful GPS navigator, with voice-guided navigation, automatic back-on-track, GPS Radar to locate travel services, and a new E-Z Nav wizard for effortless on-the-go routing
  • The LT-40 includes a high-sensitivity chipset for fast satellite acquisition, and DeLorme ConstantLock technology delivers surefire signal retention even in challenging GPS environments
  • DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2010 us exceptionally detailed map software you can use anywhere–on the go with your laptop PC, netbook, touchscreen phone or PDA
  • Includes street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, plus highways and major roads for Mexico
  • Pre-plan your trips with automatic routing and over 4 million places of interest–restaurants, lodgings, attractions, truck stops, sports venues, and businesses of all kinds

Product Description
The DeLorme Earthmate GPS LT-40 puts all the most-needed controls and information at your fingertips. When used with the new, increased-sensitivity DeLorme Earthmate GPS LT-40 receiver, Street Atlas provides superior GPS tracking and navigation – in your choice of 2D or 3D mode.Amazon.com Product Description
Voice-guided navigation, super-high-sensitivity chipset, support for netbooks, 3-D perspective, superior large-screen visibility, updated Street Atlas… More >>

DeLorme Earthmate GPS LT-40 2010

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5 comments

  1. Allison Orange says:
    June 14, 2010 at 9:41 am

    I am entirely unhappy with this product.

    I bought it mainly for the GPS, and since I couldn’t find it separate from the software, I bought the bundle.

    Well, the software turns out to be hard to use, and the GPS is a disaster for a laptop user wishing to use it with any other software.

    Delorme advertises it as NMEA compatible, implying you’ll be able to use it with other navigation or GPS products; however, the driver you need to do this, which is not included on the disk, is buggy, frequently crashes, and quits working if you shut the laptop lid and put it into sleep mode. this is evidently a known issue with the driver, complained about by Delorme users for years, and apparently is not going to be fixed.

    In short, dispite Delorme’s claims, it cannot be used effectively on a laptop with any other software.

    Also, because you need a driver to make it NMEA compatible, you won’t be able to use it on anything except a pc running desktop Windows.

    I also found the cold-start times quoted, when in poor conditions, unreasonably optimistic.

    Rating: 2 / 5

  2. J. Staton says:
    June 14, 2010 at 10:11 am

    The GPS works great. I’m having some software issues though. I think it may be as much the fault of Windows as it is DeLorme. The program will shut down for no apparent reason. And it sometimes changes views on it’s own. For instance if I’m running the program im my house it will go to some other part of the country without me doing anything and when I’m driving it will sometimes zoom out but at least it does stay with me so when I zoom back in it still shows me being where I really am. I haven’t contacted DeLorme about it yet.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  3. Herbert C. Meyer says:
    June 14, 2010 at 10:56 am

    The physical product is a yellow lump of microelectronics with a USB interface, with a NMEA interface that works best with the DeLorme supplied virtual Serial port. The software is a well written but rather complex street mapping program with data for North America. The software stores the maps on the local hard disk, using a large chunk of disk, so an internet connection is not needed to use it. I strongly recommend against using this product in a car, the software interface is too complex to use while driving, you will navigate into a wreck.

    I purchased this to do a mapping project, not navigation. I am a hacker, and really just want lat and long data, mostly to use with google earth. The lump provides usable NMEA data, and usually locks in between 40 sec and 3 minutes. The antenna and rf parts are good enough to receive signal inside my house and offices. However, I live in a radio quiet area, it may perform differently in an area with more radio noise.

    I bought this item from Amazon Marketplace from a vendor named Infinite Surplus. The price was very good, but the package did not include a license key to install the software. Infinite Surplus did not respond to requests, but DeLorme tech support immediately and cheerfully responded with a key. Don’t buy anything from Infinite Surplus, but DeLorme is a good vendor.

    If you can’t stand windows, the NMEA data will stream to a virtual tty on linux, but I have been unable use it with any easily found linux navigation programs. This is the fault of the linux programs, not the lump.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  4. Lyle A. Wilkinson says:
    June 14, 2010 at 12:53 pm

    With Delorme’s Street Atlas USA 2010 the LT40 turns your laptop or netbook into a full on gps navigator. It is fun to watch as you drive along, almost like looking down on yourself from a plane. Helps you discover things hidden from your ground view but visible on the map, like lakes hidden in the trees.

    pros: If you’re lost, it can help you get back on track.

    cons: It sometimes gets lost, mostly because the map database is wrong or out of date, maybe sometimes because the LT40 is inaccurate or loses the satellites. The LT-40 isn’t as friendly with non-Delorme software as GlobalSat BU-353.

    bottomline: Tremendous value. The Lt-40 Street Atlas USA 2010 combo is less expensive than a stand alone gps and combined with a laptop provides a much larger display.

    Even though it has USA in name, it works in Canada. I used the earlier Street Atlas USA 2009 when driving across Canada. I did 11,000 miles in 35 days. The Delorme made the trip more fun and more efficient. I had the whole trip set up as one route, next time I’ll divide it into multiple routes.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  5. Mitch10 says:
    June 14, 2010 at 3:37 pm

    I purchased this product primarily for an trip I have been planning to Montana. I have a HTC HD2 running Windows Mobile 6.5 that works great with Bing maps and Google maps, but I knew that it would be unlikely to work everywhere I would need it on this trip. I got the Delorme maps based on reputation and because it was “Windows Mobile” compatible. And in the simplest sense of the word, it does work with Windows Mobile 6.5 …except that you can’t zoom. The software requires hardware cursor buttons that left most smart phones 2 years ago. That means even on the HD2′s giant screen the maps are from what could be referred to as “airplane view”. Come on Delorme, you call this a 2010 version that required 2008 hardware!? In short, it’s unusable to anything more that making sure your on the correct highway which frankly a paper map would have been a better choice. The only reason I’m not returning it is that my brother has an older iPaq (not even made anymore) that does have the required hardware buttons to zoom and he will be able to take advantage of the maps.

    Rating: 2 / 5