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- Platform: Windows Vista / 7 / XP
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator helps you plan and map your travels in advance, make your business travel more efficient or inspire your next RV adventure. Streets & Trips helps you to tailor your trip to your personal style, such as preferred road types, multiple stops, start and stop times, and more. Streets & Trips with GPS Locator requires no Internet connection and includes 1.9 million points of interest to help you find interesting stops along the way—no Internet required. Get lost in the adventure, not trying to find it.
Get accurate driving directions to just about anywhere in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Click here for a larger image
Not Just Directions... Inspirations.
A Great Planning Tool
Streets & Trips helps you create the perfect route and find points of interest along the way such as national parks, casinos, hotels, and gas stations. Calculate your mileage, trip costs, arrival time and compare different routes you're considering before you leave. Streets & Trips helps you plan a complete trip including multiple destinations, rest stops, scenic detours, and fuel stops—no Internet connection required.
More Than 1.9 Million Ideas for Stops Along the Way
Looking for a Chinese restaurant in Albuquerque? A post office in Kona? Streets & Trips comes with detailed information on over 1.9 million locations--ATMs, hotels, restaurants, post offices, pharmacies, gas stations and other points of interest. No Internet connection required.
Comparison to Online Mapping
Streets & Trips delivers a mapping solution that offers much more than online mapping solutions. It doesn't require an Internet connection to use, and there are no distracting ads. You also get options to customize—even change your trip plans on the go--by start and stop times, driving speeds, or even road types.
Personalized Maps and Directions
Personalize your maps by adding notes about planned stops, reservation details, phone numbers, and more. Find your way easily with detailed, turn-by-turn directions.
With Streets & Tips with GPS Locator, plug the GPS device into your laptop and go!
Personalize your maps by adding notes about planned stops, reservation details, phone numbers, and more.
Spoken Street Names and Automatic Re-Routing.
Streets & Trips with GPS Locator provides spoken directions and street names as you drive. It can also put you back on track if you make a wrong turn!
No DVD drive, No Problem
If your computer doesn't have a CD or DVD drive, you may still purchase and install Streets & Trips. Find out more at www.microsoft.com/streets/activate today.
Product Features
- Updated street level maps for U.S., Canada and Mexico
- More than 1.9 million points of interest including post offices, pharmacies, restaurants and more
- Over 6.5 million miles of navigable roads
- Includes GPS locator that plugs directly into your laptop
- Spoken directions, automatic re-routing and full-screen navigation
- View the quickest routes with one-click trip optimization
- Add notes for planned stops, reservation details, phone numbers, and more
- Full-screen display for easier reading of maps and directions on your laptop
- Change your plans on the go, no Internet connection required
- Easy-to-read night map display for navigating in low light
- Calculate fuel usage and costs before you leave
- Share trip details or itineraries with friends and family
- Get free construction updates to avoid potential delays
- Choose specific roads to use on your trip just by dragging and dropping the route
- Include multiple destinations and stops to refuel
- Streets & Trips includes more than 300 unique pushpin images to choose from
Product Description
Whether you are a heavy-duty traveler, or even if you are just planning simple trips with the family – do it all with Streets & Trips with GPS Locator. This product is faster and easier to use GPS locator than with previous editions of Streets & Trips and it plugs directly into the USB port on your laptop PC. Ready to use immediately.
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76 of 77 people found the following review helpful
I am Donna's husband and I got Microsoft Streets & Trips 2011 with the USB GPS receiver a few days ago. I didn't really notice any changes between the 2009 version and the 2011 version of Streets & Trips. Just newer maps. I give the software 5 stars.
The GPS receiver that comes with Streets & Trips is the "u-blox 5 GPS and GALILEO Receiver" by ublox. [...] I downloaded the "u-center GPS evaluation software" [...] and installed in on my desktop computer and my Acer netbook computer. I then plugged the USB GPS receiver into each computer and, using the u-center software, monitored the GPS receiver's performance. Here is what I found:
The GPS receiver would not lock up when plugged directly into the netbook no matter how long I left it. It would find one or two satellites but that was all. When I connected it to the netbook using the included USB extension cable, it would lock up in 5 - 10 minutes. After it got a lock, it's performance seemed about as good as the other GPS receivers that I have. When I plugged the GPS receiver into my desktop computer it took 5 - 10 minutes to lock up and again, it's performance seemed about as good as the other GPS receivers that I have. The GPS receiver does not have any type of battery or super-capacitor backup so every time it is unplugged it forgets all of the satellite almanac data and has to do a cold start each time it is plugged in.
I also have a GlobalSat BU-353 GlobalSat BU-353 Waterproof USB GPS Receiver. It is a much better GPS receiver. Because it has a super-capacitor backup, it retains the satellite almanac data and is able to do a warm start when it's plugged in. It is able to acquire a lock in less than a minute. It also works fine with the Streets & Trips software. I recommend you buy Streets & Trips WITHOUT the USB GPS receiver and get the GlobalSat BU-353 GPS receiver instead.
The GPS receiver that comes with Streets & Trips is the "u-blox 5 GPS and GALILEO Receiver" by ublox. [...] I downloaded the "u-center GPS evaluation software" [...] and installed in on my desktop computer and my Acer netbook computer. I then plugged the USB GPS receiver into each computer and, using the u-center software, monitored the GPS receiver's performance. Here is what I found:
The GPS receiver would not lock up when plugged directly into the netbook no matter how long I left it. It would find one or two satellites but that was all. When I connected it to the netbook using the included USB extension cable, it would lock up in 5 - 10 minutes. After it got a lock, it's performance seemed about as good as the other GPS receivers that I have. When I plugged the GPS receiver into my desktop computer it took 5 - 10 minutes to lock up and again, it's performance seemed about as good as the other GPS receivers that I have. The GPS receiver does not have any type of battery or super-capacitor backup so every time it is unplugged it forgets all of the satellite almanac data and has to do a cold start each time it is plugged in.
I also have a GlobalSat BU-353 GlobalSat BU-353 Waterproof USB GPS Receiver. It is a much better GPS receiver. Because it has a super-capacitor backup, it retains the satellite almanac data and is able to do a warm start when it's plugged in. It is able to acquire a lock in less than a minute. It also works fine with the Streets & Trips software. I recommend you buy Streets & Trips WITHOUT the USB GPS receiver and get the GlobalSat BU-353 GPS receiver instead.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
As a general mapping software, Streets & Trips doesn't do a bad job, though apparently Microsoft doesn't allow their programmers out of their cubicles to understand the real world. After the number of years this program has been out, and with all the new releases, this should be an incredibly good program by now. You can find locations a number of ways...by street address, intersection, and even GPS coordinates (don't forget to add the minus symbol for longitude if you're in the U.S.). Streets & Trips adds some great capabilities over your portable GPS devices. You can see a large screen version of your route and, where you have a stop planned, you can see the mapped locations of a variety of different businesses and points of interest based on your selections. They leave a lot of businesses out, unfortunately, but, still, it provides a fair amount of information. One of the unique features, and a saving grace in the face of other design buffoonery, is the ability to alter the automated route by clicking and dragging the route. Let's say that Streets & Trips sends you one way because it's the shortest route, but it takes you through an area you want to avoid. Simply click and drag the route as necessary to get it to use the route you want to go. Usually this works without a hitch, but occasionally you have to fight the programming.
I just upgraded...strike that...UPDATED from the 2008 version and was shocked that they did away with the selection tool that allowed you to draw a box around a general area and then zoom to that selection. That was a great tool for when you're looking for a location that you know to be in a general area, but you're not sure of the street name...or you need to see an area to look for routing options. Typical Microsoft...if it's working, let's take it out of the program.
Streets & Trips provides you with the travel distance of the route and, based on a fuel cost option setting, will tell you how much the trip will cost. Valuable information. Information basic to planning a trip is how long it will take to arrive at your destination. Thanks to Microsoft's programmers ignoring the user feedback on their design issues for years, the time figure they give is arbitrary. They'll tell you in the Help area that the travel time calculations are based on "average speeds" for different roads. Whose average that may be is anyone's guess because they don't tell you what theirs are. Speeds on different roads can vary significantly from state to state, and even from one area to the next. There is an option where you can vary the speed calculation for different road types via slider controls, but the control labels simply say `faster' and `slower'. You have to go into the Help area to find out that the slider alters the calculation speed in increments of 5%, but it still doesn't tell you 5% of what speed. Unfortunately, this results in you having to get your calculator out if you want any travel time figures that you can rely on.
If you use an external GPS receiver, you can keep yourself located on the map. If you're traveling unknown territory, that's a great feature. The Microsoft GPS receiver is mediocre at best. It doesn't do well unless it is exposed to unrestricted open sky. The USGlobalSat BU-353 is a good receiver choice, but its cord is very short. For my application (operating the laptop in a car in the center console area), the cord was so short that I had to use a USB extension cable to reach the USB port, but then there was TOO much cable. The Holux GR-213 USB receiver was the best of both worlds. It provided excellent reception inside my house and under trees, and had a fast start-up time while the cable length was perfect.
I just upgraded...strike that...UPDATED from the 2008 version and was shocked that they did away with the selection tool that allowed you to draw a box around a general area and then zoom to that selection. That was a great tool for when you're looking for a location that you know to be in a general area, but you're not sure of the street name...or you need to see an area to look for routing options. Typical Microsoft...if it's working, let's take it out of the program.
Streets & Trips provides you with the travel distance of the route and, based on a fuel cost option setting, will tell you how much the trip will cost. Valuable information. Information basic to planning a trip is how long it will take to arrive at your destination. Thanks to Microsoft's programmers ignoring the user feedback on their design issues for years, the time figure they give is arbitrary. They'll tell you in the Help area that the travel time calculations are based on "average speeds" for different roads. Whose average that may be is anyone's guess because they don't tell you what theirs are. Speeds on different roads can vary significantly from state to state, and even from one area to the next. There is an option where you can vary the speed calculation for different road types via slider controls, but the control labels simply say `faster' and `slower'. You have to go into the Help area to find out that the slider alters the calculation speed in increments of 5%, but it still doesn't tell you 5% of what speed. Unfortunately, this results in you having to get your calculator out if you want any travel time figures that you can rely on.
If you use an external GPS receiver, you can keep yourself located on the map. If you're traveling unknown territory, that's a great feature. The Microsoft GPS receiver is mediocre at best. It doesn't do well unless it is exposed to unrestricted open sky. The USGlobalSat BU-353 is a good receiver choice, but its cord is very short. For my application (operating the laptop in a car in the center console area), the cord was so short that I had to use a USB extension cable to reach the USB port, but then there was TOO much cable. The Holux GR-213 USB receiver was the best of both worlds. It provided excellent reception inside my house and under trees, and had a fast start-up time while the cable length was perfect.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
I purchased Street & Trips 2011 and Microsoft GPS receiver separately and installed 15.6" laptop and connect 3.5mm mini cable to Ford Escape speaker system to use next 6,000mile trip.
Installation is very easy and GPS receiver is very good and trip planning is very easy except some street number are in-correct.
Microsoft Navigation program need much improvement as bellow:
1) Speech engine is very poor, very difficult to understand voiced instruction, need another speech engine like AT&T natural voice, Real Speak or Acapela speech engine.
2)Instruction for off ramp on the freeway is too late to change lanes, need warning at least one mile before off ramp.
3)Need instruction which way to enter the freeway, like " Enter Interstate 5 north"
4)Need instruction of destination is which side of the street, Left or right side.
I purchased and installed AT&T Natural voice speech engine and much easier to understand voiced instruction.
I am now final week of 3 weeks road trip(June 30,2011), this gps with Street & trip is useless for long trip, I could not get signal in Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park,Banff,Alberta area and many highway near the National Park.
I got lost in Great Falls, Montana using voice instruction to change I15 south to Highway 87 south.
Installed on Windows 7 64 bits
Installation is very easy and GPS receiver is very good and trip planning is very easy except some street number are in-correct.
Microsoft Navigation program need much improvement as bellow:
1) Speech engine is very poor, very difficult to understand voiced instruction, need another speech engine like AT&T natural voice, Real Speak or Acapela speech engine.
2)Instruction for off ramp on the freeway is too late to change lanes, need warning at least one mile before off ramp.
3)Need instruction which way to enter the freeway, like " Enter Interstate 5 north"
4)Need instruction of destination is which side of the street, Left or right side.
I purchased and installed AT&T Natural voice speech engine and much easier to understand voiced instruction.
I am now final week of 3 weeks road trip(June 30,2011), this gps with Street & trip is useless for long trip, I could not get signal in Yellowstone National Park, Glacier National Park,Banff,Alberta area and many highway near the National Park.
I got lost in Great Falls, Montana using voice instruction to change I15 south to Highway 87 south.
Installed on Windows 7 64 bits
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