Originally Posted by
Feriority
Question about mapsofts - how do they work? The basic concept seems pretty clear - you get a program, it's an interactive map of the area.
But how much area do they cover? Cities? Regions of a city? A state? It's not a physical map, there isn't a tradeoff of information density as you increase the area, just file size, right?
Also, they have a rating, and their cost scales with the rating, but I don't see anything about what that rating means. Is that how much detail there will be? How effectively they update themselves? How accurate they are?