Microsoft Streets & Trips 2004 North America (CD-ROM)

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Product Features

• All-in-one travel and mapping resource for the USA and Canada
• Over 6.7 million miles of routable local, city, state, and highway roads
• Comprehensive array of maps, points of interest, routes, and driving directions
• GDT and NavTech data; Real-time GPS support; Pocket PC compatibility
• Automatically recalculates map and driving directions with Snap Route technology

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009Q6KO
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,764 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description
MODEL- MS-CD37521DVD VENDOR- MICROSOFT CORPORATION FEATURES- Microsoft Streets and Trips 2004- DVD Microsoft Streets and Trips 2004 is the all-in-one travel and mapping Solution that delivers a comprehensive array of maps, points of interest, routes, driving directions and Pocket PC compatibility all in one value priced software package. Whether you are planning a long-distance trip, want to find your way around an unfamiliar town or are trying to find the closest post office or ATM in your home town, Streets and Trips 2004 provides accurate information quickly. * Whats New - Drive Time Zones. Generate zones from a specific location indicating points that can be reached by car in an equal amount of time. * Standard Features - GPS Supported NEW real time support. Streets and Trips 2004 allows you to find your location while on the road with a GPS device running NMEA 2.0 or later is required. Simply plug the device into your machine running Streets and Trips and see your location. - All updated maps of the USA and Canada. More than 6.7 million miles of routable local, city, state and highway roads in the United States and Canada-representing the 35,000+ US zip codes and all 700,000+ Canadian Postal Codes. - Find Whats Nearby. Locate points of interest on your route or virtually anywhere on the map. Simply check the places or restaurant types you would like to display. There are more than 492,317 restaurants, 58,788 gas stations, 47,215 ATM locations, 11,277 campgrounds and RV parks, 7,302 golf courses and more. - Pocket Streets for yo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

65 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Map Software, Improvements over S&T 2003, September 18, 2003

By	Patrick S. Pope "Scott Pope" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Streets and Trips 2004 is the third version of Microsoft's popular map software that I have owned and reviewed. This latest edition offers both major and incremental improvements over its predecessor. It is vastly superior to online map offerings and other map software that I have owned. For more information on how S&T compares to competing products, please look at my previous reviews for 2002 and 2003.

Specific Improvements for 2004 include:

1) Real-time GPS
2) Drive-time zones (show me where I can go in X minutes)
3) Arrows showing one-way streets on maps
4) Markers representing exists on major highways

Apart from these improvements, there appears to be an increase in accuracy. However, Microsoft doesn't seem to have a good method of removing long-defunct restaurants from its points of interest database.

What it is lacking:

1) Integration with real-time traffic
2) Map and location data updates via the Internet
3) Paths for pedestrian and bicycle travel
4) Coordination with other online map services, such as municipal door-to-door public transportation travel planners
5) Better integration and standardization of imported data so data sets like health clubs and WiFi hotspots could be included in the points-of-interest database at the user's choosing.

In general, the absence of connectivity is my biggest complaint. However, I would guess there is no business model for this as it would have to be supported by user subscriptions or advertisements, neither of which would be accepted in the marketplace.

As a final note, I recently tested the real-time GPS as a passenger with my Deluo USB GPS receiver. It is operates smoothly and with [apparent] great accuracy. Unlike OEM navigation systems, it doesn't include real-time direction, speed and travel status. Perhaps this is intended as watching the screen as a driver would be extremely dangerous. Nonetheless, it was helpful for finding obscure locations in rural areas.

70 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good program, but don't bother upgrading, August 26, 2003

By	TG - See all my reviews

Streets and Trips is the best mapping software I've used - and I make a lot of maps. It's easy to use, generally gives good driving directions, and makes great printed maps. I much prefer it to using online maps such as Mapquest or Yahoo.

That being said, there isn't much new in the 2004 version. I upgraded from 2001, and there are really no new useful features to speak of (a few small things, but come on, it's been *three* releases since 2001!). The only major improvement I've seen is that the maps have been updated with some road changes around here and I would assume some of the business listings have been updated as well.

Bottom line: if you don't have Streets & Trips, this is a good version to buy. If you have S&T 2001 or later, don't bother upgrading.

51 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother with an upgrade..., August 4, 2003

By	Nick Heath "Cheek" (Modesto, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been using the streets & trips package for a while, and was excited to see that 2004 had finally come out. I decided to go ahead and try it out and see what was wonderfully new and improved. So I went though the install process, and launched it for the first time with anticipation...

My thoughts chronologically: "Hmm, new spash screen.. Yay, I'm in. Ok.. whats new? Um.. (click click click) where's the new stuff? I wonder if there is a versions.txt...nope. Maybe they fixed that one route bug.... (crash) nope. ARGH! Wait, is this 2004? Maybe something happened, and it left 2003 on my system... Lets see.. (Help->about) No "2004" there... Well, it did have that new spash screen. WHAT DID THEY CHANGE?!"

I was so depressed to see so little changes. They didnt incorporate any kind of new support for waypoint files like GPX like I was hoping they would, they didn't fix the bugs i was hoping for... In fact, I'm still not positive they made ANY changes except for the spash screen.

Bottom line is this: If you have 2003, keep it. Don't waste your money. If you don't have anything this is a great piece of mapping software that you should definately check out.