Microsoft Streets And Trips 2006 [LB] [Old Version]

by Microsoft

Product Features

• Trip planning options allows you to plan stops, scenic detours and fuel stops
• Add multiple destinations and quickly alter your route
• Plan trips and calculate mileage, time, and expenses
• Use accurate, detailed door-to-door directions
• Over 1.8 million points of interest so you can quickly find restaurants, ATMs, hotels and other

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000B5SSOO
• Item model number: B17-00282
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,132 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #51 in Software > Education & Reference > Mapping

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 is the customizable trip-planning software that offers accurate directions, lets you easily explore new areas, and find the services you need along the road. You get more trip-planning features than any online mapping site.

Features:

• Customizable trip planning and maps: customizable trip-planning options allow you to plan stops, scenic detours, and fuel stops as well as add multiple destinations and quickly alter your route.
• Find hotels, restaurants, ATMs, and more: includes over 1.8 million points of interest so you can quickly find restaurants, ATMs, hotels, and other points of interest without the need to be online.
• Plan trips and calculate mileage, time, and expenses: includes more than 5.4 million miles of routable roads and highways throughout the United States and Canada.
• Get accurate, detailed door-to-door directions: enjoy the comfort of knowing that the going is clear and easy every step of the way.
• All new updated maps for U.S. and Canada: includes all new updated maps for the U.S. and Canada.

Product Description

Streets And Trips 2006 is a great trip-planning tool that offers accurate directions for any trip. Explore new areas, and find the services you need along the road. Always know where you make your next turn, and find your way back if you make a wrong turn. More than 5.4 million miles of newly updated, routable roads and highways throughout the United States and Canada Pocket Streets for the Pocket PC and Smartphone is also included

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Really poorly implemented for a company like Microsoft, January 4, 2007

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Melissa B (Lakewood, Colorado, USA!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Streets And Trips 2006 [LB] [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This is supposed to be the best Streets & Trips program for the PC out there but all I can say is, if it is, it's a shame. It can't save page margins for printing. Every time you open the program again and want to print 1/4" margins, it's preset to 1/2" margins all over again, as the default.

As far as I know, it also can't be made to save to the default directory of your choice, it always picks the place by default that it wants to save to.

Like Google Maps, it's wrong about 5% of the time, either not being able to find some addresses here in the Denver area, or sometimes telling you they're a couple of blocks from where they really are. In fact I wonder if both programs share the same data? They seem to make the same screw-ups that way.

I'd also like to be able to set default colors for the push pins but it reverts to the same hard-to-see gray every time the program opens.

It reminds me of Chessmaster 9000, which is said to have a world class chess engine, but was written by game programmers ( you know, the kind who write those games that used to require you to devote your entire computer to them, wouldn't install right and messed up in so many other ways ) so it wouldn't even save your place in the massive tutorials when you used them? Well that's what this program reminds me of. They put some massive data together and did pretty darn good with that ( about 95% accurate, but we wish it was 100%? ) and then programmed the basic shell like a bunch of beginner game programmers, not allowing you to save the most basic defaults that you desire to.

Sheesh Microsoft, you should be able to do better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I am lost for an answer, May 12, 2008

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Stan-the-man (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Streets And Trips 2006 [LB] [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

The program works as advertised, but there is a problem with the software as far as its registry. I keep getting an error message showing at least three registry's that are missing. I deleted and reinstalled the program to no avail.

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for optimizing multipoint routes, November 28, 2008

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D. Drescher - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Streets And Trips 2006 [LB] [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Only buy this if you do route work and the route changes from day to day. Otherwise, use maps.google.com or a portable GPS device.