Microsoft Streets & Trips®
Microsoft Streets & Trips is targeted at the home and travel market, packing the road and routing abilities of MapPoint in an affordable package. It also comes with Microsoft Pocket Streets allowing you to download maps to your Pocket PC or Smartphone. The European edition is sold under the AutoRoute® brand name. Features include:
- GPS support: Orient yourself on the road with a GPS device running NMEA 2.0 or later.
- Automatic re-routing: Can automatically find a new, better route if you leave the current route.
- Up-to-date maps of the United States and Canada: More than 5.4 million miles of routable local, city, state, and highway roads in the United States and Canada (35,000+ U.S. and 700,000+ Canadian postal codes).
- Route Planner: With Route Planner, you can view, add, delete, and rearrange destinations. Route Planner also lets you set fuel costs, driving speed, and preferred routes.
- Find what's nearby: Includes 1.8 million points of interest, including more than 550,000 restaurants, 90,700 gas stations, 117,000 ATM locations, 7,950 golf courses, and much more.
- Road construction updates: Be aware of local construction and road closures through updated information that's available on the Web for easy download.
- Personal Driving Profile: Customize your start times, driving speeds, rest stops, and preferred road types.
- Voice Prompted Directions: Verbal turn-by-turn directions for hands-free guidance.
The 2008 release adds aimproved visualization of one-way streets, and robust keyword search of roads and businesses. Enhanced GPS support includes automatic re-routing, and a 'through the windscreen' perspective view.
Microsoft Streets & Trips does not include a programming interface, so you will need the full desktop version of MapPoint if you wish to add your own functionality. The desktop edition of MapPoint also adds business data plotting capabilities, demographic data, and Microsoft Office integration.
Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 is also available with a GPS locator
