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 Streets & Trips 2008 offers enhanced GPS support. Just plug in a GPS receiver (sold separately) to your laptop, and you have full GPS capability. |
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Microsoft Streets & Trips 2008 offers the latest available maps of nearly 6 million miles of routable roads and highways throughout the United States and Canada. While you're driving, verbal turn-by-turn directions let you concentrate on the road while the software guides you. Customizable trip planning features allow you to plan multiple stops, find nearby places to visit, calculate drive time, and more.
Updated features let you identify one-way streets at a glance, and a robust keyword search lets you quickly find business and other points of interest quickly by entering in single search terms. Do you need a cup of coffee now? Simply type in the word "coffee" and Streets & Maps offers you the nearest coffee houses. Best of all, the search results automatically refresh as you continue to drive, so you will always have the most relevant information at your fingertips.
Online or off, Streets & Trips gives you the latest maps that give you the most accurate, detailed door to door directions at your fingertips. You can find current business listings while you're online and then take them with you. In a hurry? You can optimize your travel efficiencies by calculating mileage, time, and expenses in advance, even avoiding delays due to construction by downloading free updates from the Web. An updated navigation mode makes it easier than ever to know where you are, so that you can estimate drive time quickly and precisely, and enhanced customizable trip planning options will help you to plan stops, scenic detours, and fuel stops. You can even add multiple destinations; and quickly alter your route at a moment's notice.
Streets & Trips also features enhanced support for your GPS receiver that gives you a new perspective map view that can give you a road view like the one you would see through your windshield, to get a road view like the one you would see through your windshield. And the automatic re-routing feature gets you back on track, even when you miss a turn. (GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later, which is included in Streets & Trips with GPS Locator.
As Easy-to-Use as Typing
If you can type, you can take full advantage of the wealth of features Streets & Trips has to offer. To create a route and generate directions, it can't be any easier. You simply type in your starting and ending locations and click on "Get Directions." And voíla! Your trips can include side trips and segments, and you can instruct the software to customize your route by telling it what types of roads you want to travel, how quickly you want to get there, and the general area where you want to stop to gas up. Streets & Trips will create your itinerary, down to the precise gas station. Overall you'll have access to over 1.6 million local POIs such as hotels, restaurants, gas stations and even ATMs. And while you're driving, the software can give you verbal turn-by-turn directions that let you concentrate on the road instead of the directions.
| PLATFORM: | Windows XP, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Microsoft |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| FEATURES: | CD, Over 1.6 million points of interest such as ATMs, hotels, landmarks, and more, Enhanced Keyword search helps you quickly find nearby business and POIs immediately, Customizable trip planning options allow you to plan stops, scenic detours, and more, Navigation Mode lets you estimate drive time before you leave your house, Offers GPS capability (GPS receiver sold separately) |
| MEDIA: | DVD-ROM |
| MPN: | B17-00389 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 882224462938 |
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Customer Reviews of Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008
Bluetooth gps issue When using this software with a bluetooth gps receiver I'm getting a screen to actual position lag time of greater than 15 seconds - which just about makes this product worthless. I've duplicated this issue on 2 different laptops. My bluetooth gps device works just fine with Delorme Street Atlas 2007 - so I have to put the fault with Streets and Trips 2008. Customer support for S&T 2008 was inane.
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I have been using Microsoft Streets and Trips or it's predecessor for about 10 years, purchasing a new version each year. I like having a map program that does not depend on being connected to the Internet.
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>Two things were disappointing with the 2008 version. One is that it now requires activation for a single computer. With previous versions I was able to use the same software on my laptop and desktop. Now I would have to purchase two copies to do that. The other is that an area where my son lives has been built at least six months, but in this version, his road is missing and the area shows exactly as it did in the 2007 version. (His road isn't even shown in Microsoft on-line maps but is shown in Google Earth.) That community in Austin, Texas, is growing rapidly and a number of roads are missing in Streets and Trips 2008, including two toll roads that have been under construction at least a year and are now complete and operating. I would have expected updates that included much more. One of the toll roads (State Hwy 130) that we drove on and paid tolls in November 2007, is about 15 miles long, but there is no planned route even shown on the 2008 version.
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>A few years ago, one of the versions I had purchased had roads (in Bullhead City, AZ) that were shown on the maps, yet I found they were not finished with construction still underway. Some were partly finished, and some were not drivable at all. This caused me to turn around and have to find another route. It seems inconsistent to have some roads shown that are not actually built and other areas with roads completed for many months that are not shown in the maps.
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>With maps that aren't keeping up and the program having the one-computer limitation, I may quit buying yearly versions.
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>A difficulty I have had for many versions is the printout of maps after a route plan has been run. The default printout is not the map you are looking at, but a listing of the route directions. Also it's difficult to get the map back to full page instead of leaving room for the route directions.
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>All in all I have been generally pleased with the program. It does take a little getting used to as far as moving around and zooming in and out.
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>One thing that I would like to see is more road coverage for other countries. Except for Canada it only shows cities, but no roads.
Useless for My Application
I used a 2002 version on my laptop coming across the US and it worked great. Recently bought 2008 to get updated maps and loaded onto my laptop. Process went ok but I have been unable to load onto my PC. My goal was to plan trips on my PC and transfer the rout to my laptop but since I have been unable to load on both the Laptop and PC this has stymied my efforts and rendered the software almost useless. I went and purchased a Garmin GPS which I highly recommend as Microsoft is NOT very customer oriented with S&T. The Garmin works perfeectly....plan trips on the PC and download to the GPS. S&T 2008 is ok but so passe.
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