Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010 with GPS |  | From: Microsoft Software
List Price: $69.95
Buy New: $54.99
as of 11/21/2009 15:21 CST details
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  106 reviews
Sales Rank: 61
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: With GPS
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.3
MPN: ZV3-00023
Model: ZV3-00023
UPC: 882224827355
EAN: 0882224827355
ASIN: B0017KEA6W
Release Date: September 20, 2008
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| • | Plan your perfect trip from sightseeing to fuel stops with Microsoft Streets & Trips 2010, the #1 best-selling travel and map software | | • | Help save time and gas money with optimized travel routes and navigate easily with spoken directions and street names | | • | New compact, cable-free GPS Locator is fast and accurate--simply plug into your laptop's USB port and go | | • | Find stops on the go--1.5 million points-of-interest included (no Internet connection required) | | • | Includes free download of Microsoft Money Plus 2 (over $50 value) and 14-day Entertainment online trial membership for savings in restaurants, hotels and special events |
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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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Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator makes trip planning and navigating easy, so you can relax and drive with confidence--just plug the sleek, cordless GPS device into your laptop and go! Whether you are traveling across country or across town, Streets & Trips with GPS Locator has the easy-to-use tools to help you get there. Streets & Trips with GPS Locator 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.  Get accurate driving directions to just about anywhere in the United States and Canada. Click to enlarge. |  Send your route to your GPS device. Click to enlarge. |  | Product Features - Updated street level maps for U.S. and Canada
- Includes sleek GPS locator that plugs directly into your laptop
- New--Send your route to your GPS device2
- Calculate fuel usage and costs before you leave
- New--Share trip details or itineraries with friends and family2
- 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 offer3
- 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
- Spoken street names and directions during navigation and automatic re-routing if you make a wrong turn
- Improved--Streets & Trips now includes more than 300 unique pushpin images to choose from
The Perfect Trip Is at Your Fingertips. 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.2 A Great GPS Companion
Streets & Trips is a great companion to GPS navigation 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.2 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.3
Plug in your GPS locator and 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! Footnotes
1 The NPD Group/U.S. Retail Tracking Service (Jan 2000–Jan 2009).
2 GPS device sold separately. Sending information to a GPS device must be done via USB or MSN Direct (subscription required after trial period expires). Separate download of free plug-in may be required. Exporting information to a GPS device via a GPX file requires a GPX- compatible device. Not all GPS devices are supported. See http://www.microsoft.com/streets/devices for more information.
3 Trial Offer Details: Free trial lasts for 14 days. Trial begins when you first sign up with Entertainment Online through Streets & Trips. Valid only in the United States, D.C., and Canada with purchase of Streets & Trips. You must activate your trial membership before June 1, 2011, to use this offer. Free trial offer not available to current Entertainment Online subscribers. Additional restrictions apply. See www.entertainment.com/microsoftst/info.html for more information.
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 Different than a car GPS November 19, 2009
J. Abramson (Cranford NJ)
Although This will let your laptop become an automobile GPS for a bargain price, this software is not the same as the single purpose 4 inch units that may be better at just getting you from point A to point B. The big picture you can get on your laptop is great for planning especially when you don't have an exact destination in mind. This can show every hotel, restaurant, pub, shopping center, museum etc. at a scale that lets you see where you have to go. If you are going on a trip you can view the neighborhood around the hotel you are considering and see what's there, and you can print a detailed map of the area. You can easily see all the highways on your route and avoid the shorter routes full of traffic lights that a hand held unit will often send you on. The software has a lot of features that take time to learn. One review says you have to "press spacebar" to get voice commands, you do not have to do this, pressing spacebar will repeat the last command which is not repeated automatically because there is a progress bar at the bottom which tells you how far it is to the next turn. This software and the European "autoroute" version is invaluable for a frequent traveler but it is different than the small GPS units and is not meant as a direct replacement for them.
road types November 15, 2009
Charlene Canon (Texas)
For the most part it's a very good program. One thing that it does need is a legend of some type identifing the different road types. I use it as a GPS while I escort oversize loads and the road types listed by the states are not the one used by the states making it hard to locate the intersedtions.
Great alternative to a small GPS October 30, 2009
Thomas W. Thorpe (Monument, Colorado)
I tried this product in the car and it was most useful with my Net-book as a computer platform. It permits a large screen view of the route and allows the user to explore other POIs in a planned location. Good job - Microsoft!
Pretty good product October 30, 2009
C. Fernandes (Columbia, MD United States)
I had been debating whether to get a GPS (like a TomTom) and didn't want to spend that much on a navigator. So I was glad to try this product out. Of course, you have to deal with your own laptop issues in a vehicle when you want to use this - so it's a little more burdensome than a TomTom. But I found it quite useful.
The software installation was nice and simple for me - I have XP. But at home, my GPS was not picking up many satellites. It did eventually find some, but it took a while. And every time I start up the software, it seems to take a few minutes to find the satellites from inside my home. That part was not good because I wanted to make sure I knew how to use the product before going out on the road! But eventually, it would track enough satellites to give me good directions, etc. The audio was loud enough on my laptop, but I think it could stand to be louder. You never know when you're going to drive through a very noisy intersection, etc. And then there are plenty of tools in this software. Calculate the cost of a trip (you can input gas price, etc.), find good restaurant deals on a certain route, etc. I haven't used all the tools much, but I'm sure these are great for the frequent travelers.
Overall, I think for the price, this is a pretty good product.
 I'd call the description definitely deceiving. October 16, 2009
Donald R. Smith (Palm Desert, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
First, I have purchased previous MS Streets & Trips every year primarily for the updated maps. Then, in 2008 Microsoft included a GPS antenna/receiver with the software, and then again in 2009. Actually the GPS function works pretty good... In fact, it offers more bells and whistles than the navigation systems in my Escalade and Beemer.
Of course, there have always been that pesky cable from the laptop to the GPS device suctioned to the windscreen, and as you are probably aware, people with a technical inclination tend to have multiple devices to mess around with during long trips... And many of those are not bluetooth capable... Yes, too many cables, and the straight cables are always snared by the coiled cables and soon it is hard to tell what's plugged into what.
Amazon sent me an e-mail touting 2010 MS Streets & Trips with a cordless GPS device. Hooray, I shouted, one less cable in the cockpit. Oops... Not exactly true... The GPS device is nothing more than a stick that plugs into a USB port. Or, if you want, you can plug the GPS device into a USB cable (included) and hang the device out the window in order for it to function continually and satisfactorily.
For my money, get the updated maps and use the device you received with a earlier version... Or find the earlier version device... At least it comes with a suction cup!
I'd call the description definitely deceiving.
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