Okay, I've looked at the GPS software listed here, the GPS software listed at the main www.palm.com site, and the other ones mentioned in this thread such as mapopolis.

I've decided that most of them don't meet my needs. Either they requre you to create your own maps, they require you to buy maps, or choose and install separate maps which must be linked together, etc. Or maybe they had great features (like Quo Vadis) but didn't do route planning with step-by-step directions. Most of them looked like more trouble than they were worth.

But I did manage to try one out today that severely impressed me, it was the TripPilot software. Combined with the MochaSoft PPP software (so the Palm can use my internet connection when it's cradle-docked), it is a complete solution for trip planning and navigation that requires no special mapping software to be installed on your PC. You enter your start and end points right there on the palm screen and it connects to the internet and downloads the maps and information. Other than the internet connection, there is no PC software involved. And because it's getting the routes from the internet, it's accurate because it has very recent data.

Its step-by-step trip directions with side-by-side maps is good. I tried it out today on the way home, and aside from performing flawlessly on the easy parts of the route, it did something that I've never seen any other mappers on the internet do: Get me door to door from my work to my house. My house is out in BF Egypt and the roads on my hill aren't even in most databases. So whatever map databases it's using online are good ones.

Ideally, I'd want to be able to do that without the internet connection at all, but I realize that the palm has hardly any memory so it's the best solution to have it get the route-specific maps automatically before I start the trip. This software makes that part very painless.

Anyway, I'm considering buying the software, but its registration fee is steeper than my "throw away cash" comfort limit. Before I plunk down the dough, can anyone offer links to other software that might meet my needs as well? I'd like to try them before buying this one.

Here's what I liked about TripPilot that I'd want to see in other software:
- Up-to-the-minute map data
- Step-by-step directions with moving map
- Automatic route planning: Enter start and end addresses and that's all it needs
- No need to manage maps and the palm memory footprint myself, software handles it all
- Doesn't crash on me every 5 minutes like the Rand Mcnally software

Anyone know of software that falls under that umbrella? Besides Rand Mcnally and TripPilot?