Why I buy this one ?
- Over 1.6 million points of interest such as ATMs, hotels, landmarks, and more
- Enhanced Keyword search helps you quickly find nearby business and POIs immediately
- Customizable trip planning options allow you to plan stops, scenic detours, and more
- Navigation Mode lets you estimate drive time before you leave your house
- Includes sleek USB GPS receiver

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What our customer's say!

"Very good, but some features need more work", Microsoft sells three products that all have some level of commonality: Streets & Trips (S&T), MapPoint, and AutoRoute Europe. All three products work similarly but create incompatible files - and should never be the case with MS products. I save maps of customer locations around the country, as well as marked-up maps of enjoyable back roads for car club drives. I've switched to S&T a few years ago since I don't require all the programmability features in MapPoint. Now I have a sizable library of MapPoint routes that can't be read by S&T and there is no way to convert them.

I don't understand why there are 3 products that are so alike - and yet are totally incompatible. There should be one, in a standard and pro version, locale-specific, with and without programmability.

I've been using S&T for business trips for 10 years - you certainly don't want to be late to a customer meeting. However, S&T 2008 is in some ways a step backwards. The 2008 version occasionally makes bad choices of routes and has even chosen some circuitous routes in the DC area (the last place where you need errors!). The 2008 updates to the Navigation Mode are very poor: the interface has terrible usability, isn't resizable, and doesn't integrate well with the maps being shown. It's also frustratingly difficult to use on smaller laptop screens.

The interface itself has is too complex to use while moving - in fact it can be outright dangerous to do anything but take a quick glance at the screen. This would be a great candidate for the Office Ribbon interface and it also needs much better integration with the TabletPC (particularly touch). A TabletPC is my laptop of choice and is the ideal platform for S&T.

What's the situation with the dev teams for these products? Are they one and the same? Is there a multi-year product plan? Is there any code sharing? Features like the Navigation Pane seem to take a tiny step forward each year - but where is the product going long term? What will the final Navigation Pane look like and how long will it take to get there? Has anybody thought about usability of the spoken directions?

I had a big long phone call with the S&T developers several years ago and made some suggestions for their then-fuzzily-defined GPS module requirements (t was very difficult to find a GPS device which would work with MapPoint or S&T). I suggested at the time that they use their corporate resources to include a GPS receiver in the box, since their requirements for one made it very difficult or impossible for the average person to buy. Apparently they got that reaction from a bunch of people since that was one of the big improvements they've made in the product. Yes, you can get a better GPS receiver, but you have to know what you are doing and the one they've chosen solves the problem for 95% of the potential users.

Despite my complaints, I depend heavily on S&T and have better hopes for the 2009 version. What would I like to see over the next release or two?
- move to a Standard and a Pro version. With and without API programmability. Consider a move to a bluetooth GPS instead of the wired model.
- consider allowing the end user to draw in new roads. This may be the Pro version. A graphical interface to the underlying database would be needed. And of course any changes made must be able to be moved to new future versions.
- completion of the evolution of the Navigation Pane. All components resizable, undockable, etc.
- move to the Office 2007 (or 10?) Ribbon - TabletPC and touch enabled. Make sure that the map size slider is physically large so that it can be easily accessed by finger, pen, or mouse. A too-small slider on the bottom (for example, the one in Word 2007) would be unusable. Use the full Ribbon methodology - the current product has too many small icons and they need to be grouped appropriately. The Ribbon also has to be accessible with voice commands for usability and safety purposes.
- a single file format for all S&T, MapPoint, and AutoRoute. Plus upwards migration for old files.
- rethink the algorithms for route selection. Somehow that took a downtown for 2008. A usability plus would be to allow the selection of "quickest route" or choices such as "most direct" or "greatest use of highways" right n the ribbon, so that users can choose the most appropriate route for the particular circumstances. Showing two or three route choices would be very useful.
- think about commonality with future versions of Microsoft Auto. If, for example, Sync were to gain a navigation function it should obviously be in common with the S&T interface and maps. Both to help users who are used to this format, as well as to share development expenses and yield better and more complete maps.
- I have a strong need for this product to cover Japan, but with an English interface. I know, I ask for a lot, but a cell phone interface is too small for that task and I can't find anything that will service this same purpose as well.

Yes, I ask for a lot! But there isn't a better product to be had on the market and I depend on this on nearly a daily basis.


"Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 with GPS ",
very good, always has good satellite signal and offers very good information during the journey

"Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008", Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 with GPS

The product is not satisfactory-we wanted to find our son's church so could have a July 4 supper there with him and his wife. Address entered, not found. Went to Google maps and it was immediately shown. That is a shame, since I was such an enthusiast for my earlier version of the same software.

"Great for Planning Your Trip", Works well on my computer and is great for our road trips, very accurate and easy to work.

"Couldn't get it to load...", I had great hopes for this product, however I couldn't get it to load on my XP OS Laptop. I am not computer illiterate however I didn't want to invest the time in a product with no visible support mechanism, so back it went.

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"Great software", With my laptop and the gps that comes with the software, I had a good time driving to Big Bend. Helps to have a co-pilot to run the program.

"Great", Very good and always gets me where I'm going. Never missed an address and never had any problems...

"Campground POI's shown incorrectly", RV Park and campground POI's are shown incorrectly to the SE (as much as 30 miles) from where they should be. Also many Canadian campgrounds are missing all together. The sites that I tested show up correctly on the older 2006 version.

"Not that good!", When in the city, it will be a little to slow to provide anticipation for turns... Slow to redirect you to the correct address... sometimes it gets disconnected for no good reason... in the countryside it works well.

"Best mapping software available", Microsoft Streets and Trips and/or MapPoint are the best mapping software available in my book. Now with the Streets and Trips with the GPS antenna package, it doesn't get any better. You actually get a GPS, with full functions, for less than $100 when installed on your laptop. Great for the business traveler who has their laptop along with them anyways. Would recommend this to those who already have a mobile GPS for trip planning from your office as well.
On a final note, if you take it to the next level, you can import from a tab delimited file (Excel), and place push pins with information on your map from a client database.