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- Media: CD-ROM
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Microsoft Streets & Trips makes trip planning easy, so you can relax and drive with confidence. Whether you are traveling across country or across town, Streets & Trips has the easy-to-use tools to help you get there. Streets & Trips requires no Internet connection and includes more than 1.7 million points of interest to choose from--plus additional listings that you can view when you're connected to the Web. The perfect trip is at your fingertips.
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Product Features
- Includes updated street level maps for U.S. and Canada
- New--Send your route to your GPS device
- Calculate fuel usage and costs before you leave
- New--Share trip details or itineraries with friends and family
- Get free construction updates to avoid potential delays
- New--Save time by setting your map to always start at a particular location
- Personalize your maps with comments, phone numbers and notes for planned stops
- New--Easily delete or hide groups of pushpins
- Find special savings in restaurants, hotels and events with Entertainment Online trial offer
- Improved--Choose specific roads to use on your trip just by dragging and dropping the route
- Include multiple destinations and stops to refuel
- Improved--Comes with more than 1.7 million points of interest including post offices, pharmacies and more
- GPS Ready--connect your GPS device to your laptop to get spoken directions including street names, automatic re-routing and large on-screen directions
- Improved--Streets & Trips now includes more than 300 unique pushpin images to choose from
Microsoft Streets & Trips makes trip planning easy.
Accurate maps and route-planning options help you get nearly anywhere in the United States and Canada. Customizable features let you plot your course down to the last detail. Once you've planned your trip, you can send your route to your GPS device for navigation on the go.
A Great GPS Companion
Streets & Trips is a great companion to GPS devices. Use Streets & Trips to plan the perfect trip, including multiple stops, points-of-interest, and start and stop times. Then export the route to a personal navigation device for easy navigation along the way.
No DVD Drive? No Problem!
If your computer doesn't have a CD or DVD drive, you may still purchase Streets & Trips. Find out more at www.microsoft.com/activate today.
Calculate your mileage, trip costs and arrival time before you leave.
This is a great planning tool, especially for comparing different routes you're considering.
More than 1.7 million ideas for stops along the way!
Looking for an Italian restaurant in Des Moines? A hotel in Vancouver? Streets & Trips comes with detailed information on over 1.7 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 your trips by start and stop times, driving speeds, or even road types.
Access street-level maps and personalized directions.
Updated street-level maps and turn-by-turn directions make it easy to stay on track. You can also add personal notes to your maps. With addresses, phone numbers and other notes alongside your planned stops, you'll have all the information you need in one handy place.
Spoken street names and automatic re-routing.
With a GPS receiver, Street & Trips can provide spoken directions and street names as you drive. It can also put you back on track if you make a wrong turn!
Product Description
Makes trip planning easy, so you can relax and drive with confidence. Get accurate driving directions to just about anywhere in the United States and Canada. With updated maps and extensive trip planning features, Streets & Trips will help you plan your trip, your way.
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119 of 126 people found the following review helpful
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I've used MS S&T since it was initially offered (pre-affordable GPS) and gradually watched it decline in usefulness as the net and technologies evolve. With this current version, even with the few improvements over the 2009 version, I wouldn't recommend it at all to a new user and only would recommend it as an upgrade if your version is more than 2 years old (unless you can find it for less than twenty bucks).
While netbooks (and to some extent the new generation of energy efficient processors just coming out this Xmas) have extended the life of this product, it is just not as functional while traveling as a good GPS unit. I still use it for planning, but more and more I find other online mapping tools more useful as wifi becomes more ubiquitous and 4G broadband adds coverage. The maps are not updated (I find major local errors still uncorrected after 4 years here in Ohio and on a trip to California, numerous serious flaws in Sacramento, the Napa Valley, and the Sonoma Valley - not to mention an abrupt loss of functionality along the way).
I like (and have) the GPS version while on the road at night (using the night map) and also use it while traveling to find side trips of interest (one thing not a strong point of auto GPS devices). But our Garmin GPS is much stronger for routing and seems to have a much better POI dataset. In fact, the online mapping services also have better POI info and MS S&T is unlikely to improve unless it is integrated with Bing or something.
Overall, licensing restrictions (1 machine - should be at least 2 including a laptop/netbook), lack of adequate data revision/updating, and the availability of cheaper GPS units and wifi, I'd say - give this one a pass unless you have a very compelling reason to use it.
Edit 7/12/2010 - Somehow I got the licensing wrong, actually S&T DOES allow 2 installs. My bad.
While netbooks (and to some extent the new generation of energy efficient processors just coming out this Xmas) have extended the life of this product, it is just not as functional while traveling as a good GPS unit. I still use it for planning, but more and more I find other online mapping tools more useful as wifi becomes more ubiquitous and 4G broadband adds coverage. The maps are not updated (I find major local errors still uncorrected after 4 years here in Ohio and on a trip to California, numerous serious flaws in Sacramento, the Napa Valley, and the Sonoma Valley - not to mention an abrupt loss of functionality along the way).
I like (and have) the GPS version while on the road at night (using the night map) and also use it while traveling to find side trips of interest (one thing not a strong point of auto GPS devices). But our Garmin GPS is much stronger for routing and seems to have a much better POI dataset. In fact, the online mapping services also have better POI info and MS S&T is unlikely to improve unless it is integrated with Bing or something.
Overall, licensing restrictions (1 machine - should be at least 2 including a laptop/netbook), lack of adequate data revision/updating, and the availability of cheaper GPS units and wifi, I'd say - give this one a pass unless you have a very compelling reason to use it.
Edit 7/12/2010 - Somehow I got the licensing wrong, actually S&T DOES allow 2 installs. My bad.
70 of 74 people found the following review helpful
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While the updated data base was the desire and achieved purpose of getting the latest version, it sufers from classic Microsoft update. Ease of use is severely impacted. My favorite means of navigation was to selct a region and tehn zoom in, you can't do that any more. Now you have to center and zoom, then re-center and zoom, not nearly as easy or effecient.
Also, as a program that needs to be "activated" it is no longer convienent to have on multiple computers. This substantially degrades the value of the product.
Also, as a program that needs to be "activated" it is no longer convienent to have on multiple computers. This substantially degrades the value of the product.
96 of 104 people found the following review helpful
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The new "Streets and Trips" can only be used and registered on one computer.
Would not buy it again for this reason.
Shuts off the second computer automaticly after a 60 days trial. Since I need to use Streets and Trips at home and on my web book while driving its useless for me.
All the older versions could be used on multiple computers. Microsoft should have put a warning sign at the outside of the package about their policy change.
Alfred Voll
Would not buy it again for this reason.
Shuts off the second computer automaticly after a 60 days trial. Since I need to use Streets and Trips at home and on my web book while driving its useless for me.
All the older versions could be used on multiple computers. Microsoft should have put a warning sign at the outside of the package about their policy change.
Alfred Voll
Most Recent Customer Reviews
easy to use, good product
Eventhough this is the "old version" I dont know of anything it is missing. This was recommended to me by someone who uses it alot to plan routes for motorcycle groups. Read more
Published 2 months ago by br549
I can not get it to boot up.
When I attempt to install it I'm told some data is missing, so !!! ??? So how can I give it any stars at all ?
Published 3 months ago by off road man
Great Software
This is my third edition of Streets and Trips and I think it is the best software of it's kind on the market. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jack Welch
not good
I purchased this product and found out that it was used and loaded on so many computers that I could not activate it. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Joseph L. Epperson
Love my new Microsoft Steets and Trips
I have used Microsoft Streets & Trips for years and it come in handy to plan a trip, check a street location in any town. We have relocated a couple years ago. Read more
Published 6 months ago by sportygma
Streets and Trips 2010
This is an invaluable program, especially for RVers and anybody who travels.
Once you get lost, turned around in a strange city, or take a wrong back road, you will never... Read more
Once you get lost, turned around in a strange city, or take a wrong back road, you will never... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Questor
Zoom feature Removed from this version
Microsoft went to a lot of trouble creating graphic buttons across the top.. but then the Zoom feature I was used to (and liked) in 2002 version has been removed in this 2010... Read more
Published 6 months ago by R. Becksted
Mack
More info than old version I have used for years. Like it better, much easier to use than other similar products. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Jack
Tired of the margin printing issues
I print maps for my work. Microsoft seems to never ever learn anything from customers, or about what customers want. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Melissa B
Broken activation, missing features
"Activate over the Internet" never worked for me - have to go through the nasty rigamarole of the phone activation. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Victor S
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