Printing and saving directions

After you have a map and driving directions (read earlier sections to follow me to Sam Wo’s), you may need to make copies. Street Atlas USA has a number of options for getting the information off your computer screen and printing it to paper or saving it to a file.
To print or save maps and directions, click the Print tab. You see two buttons:

• Click the Map button for options to print or save the current map.
• Click the Route button for print and save options of the current route.

Saving and printing maps
All the Print and Save command buttons are next to the Overview Map on the
far right of the Print tab area. You have buttons for

• Printing the current map
• E-mailing the print area as an attachment
• Saving the print area to disk as a graphics file
• Copying the print area to the Clipboard If you select the Print Preview check box, the map is reduced in scale, and a rectangle is displayed around the print area.

Saving and printing routes
You can also save and print route information in a number of different formats, including an overview map with directions, turn-by-turn details, and as strip maps (detailed maps that follow a route with directions in the margins). Check the type of directions you’d like to create, using the Save and Print command buttons at the far end of the Tab area to output them. Figure shows a preview of a Travel Package, which is a format that prints the route map with directions at the bottom of the page.
If you want only a text version of the route directions, click the Route button in the Print tab and then mark the Directions check box. You can then either save the directions as a text file or e-mail them to a friend.
If you end up in Chinatown, the entrance to Sam Wo’s restaurant is through the street-level kitchen, so don’t think you’re in the wrong place. Head up the narrow stairs to the second floor and don’t disturb the cooks on your way up. Bon appétit!

Creating a route with DeLorme Street Atlas USA,

If you’ve followed the chapter to this point, you can use the example map created in the earlier section, “Finding an Address with Street Atlas USA.” Suppose I want to give my friends this map of Chinatown, showing where Sam Wo’s restaurant is located. Great, but that’s not going to be much help if they’ve just arrived at the airport and are driving into the city. For their needs, I use Street Atlas USA to create a route for them to follow to noodle nirvana.

1. Click the Route tab.
2. In the Start text box, enter your starting address. I use a cool Street Atlas USA feature that lets you use the three-letter code of an airport. I enter SFO, which is the code for San Francisco International Airport.For the destination, enter the address in the Finish text box. Here, I enter Sam Wo’s address: 813 Washington Street, 94108. When you enter a ZIP code as part of the search, Street Atlas USA removes the ZIP code from the Finish text box when the calculated route is displayed. The ZIP is required for the search but isn’t shown with the route.
3. Click the Calculate button.

Presto! A map appears with an outlined route from the airport to Sam Wo’s.The route distance is shown as well as an estimate of how long it will take to get there. Remember that your Calculate result is based on driving the speed limit with a normal amount of traffic. You can zoom in on the map to get more detail. On all street navigation software, you’ll find that the travel times for routes tend to be conservative estimates. Nine times out of ten, you end up taking less time to reach your destination.