| Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator (2010) |  | From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $69.95
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Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 62
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: DVD-ROM
Edition: With GPS
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.7
MPN: ZV3-00023
Model: ZV3-00023
UPC: 882224827355
EAN: 0882224827355
ASIN: B0017KEA6W
Release Date: September 20, 2008
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| Features:
| • | 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
Streets and Trips (GPS) 2009 Win32 English Mini Box US Only DVD
Amazon.com
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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 Great Navigator February 28, 2009
Ken (Clearwater, FL USA)
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
I purchased this program with GPS recently to use with my laptop as a navigator on road trips. I have used it on a couple short trips so far, and it works great. Getting ready to use it on a long, 7,000+ mile road trip. Easy to use, easy to change course for side trips. I like the display of all restaurants and motels at any given spot. Great price - approximately $50. I saw this same product at Office Depot for $75. I like it better than a Garmin GPS I purchased a couple years ago for $500.
for starters, this is a great bundle May 31, 2009
fatmav
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Background:
I have been using Streets & Trips 2006 (ST2006) for several years with a Bluetooth SiRF star III receiver, mostly to get from point A to point B when I am driving in unfamiliar cities. I don't actually use its trip planning feature but I do use it to locate near-by gas stations. (That's the only point-of-interest that really interests me when I am on the road.) When I use ST2006, I always rely on a navigator, aka my gf in the passenger seat.
New features when compared to ST2006:
1. This version does Text-to-Speech on street names and I finally consider S&T a respectable product for drivers. But as other reviewers have noted, it doesn't actually understand "US 1" should be read as "you acts one". Instead it reads "us one" which is bearable but not desirable. But since I don't drive alone, the T-to-S feature has not been very useful.
2. Automatic reroute works great. In the past, if I miss an exit, it always keeps looping with "off route" until my navigator presses F3 to reroute (and demand the reason why I didn't follow her instructions... urr, maybe because there is a truck on the right lane just 20 yards behind us and it's too late to approach the exit?). This version will quickly supply us with new instructions. Now everyone is happy when I miss a turn, well, almost.
3. A new minor feature is the navigation view, which is a more natural projection of the map. We don't mind the old style "flat projection" though.
4. The toolbar is now black, and along with the full screen mode (F11), it's very friendly when driving at night.
5. The status bar actually shows how many GPS sats it can lock. In the past you just wait in the blank and wonder what's going on. Now at least you know you only have 1 sat visible and thus there is no lock.
Map quality:
Clearly, this is city specific. Although I don't need a GPS in my hometown, I did try to check the accuracy of the map. I live in Pittsburgh and the city area is very well mapped. The suburb is reasonable too and it even has some roads that were just opened in 2008. And speaking as a tourist, I can say that it works well for us in Philly and DC.
GPS Receiver:
One of the selling points of this particular product is the bundled GPS receiver, which is based on the u-blox 5 chipset. Overall the receiver has great locking performance and the white blanking Microsoft signs looks elegant (to me). In my experience, it is also about as accurate as it gets when you have a lot of high-rises near-by. (This is the one super annoying thing about driving in big cities and I don't think any GPS works really well in this situation, yet.) Thankfully, it does re-lock fast when the signal strength picks up again and so far we have been happy with the performance. In fact, we are using this in place of our older SiRF one. (Yes, most GPS softwares, including S&T, are based on a standard known as NEMA when talking to GPS devices. So you can do mix and match.)
Bottomline:
If I were to start today, I won't mind having this overall package at all. For the price, which is less than half of what I paid for my older solution back in 2006, you get a pretty decent routing software, good-to-great maps (at least for cities), and a terrific receiver that locks fast. This makes it a great gift for starters who do not have a high requirement (i.e., non-commercial drivers). I will seriously consider this when Christmas comes.
Low cost and slick March 9, 2009
H. Hoffman (Mid Atlantic Coast)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
For less than a hundred $$$ and my eeemachine I have a great GPS unit. Works great and will last a long time....... and much better than my mother-in-law giving me directions from the back seat!!!!
Great programs and bonus gps August 3, 2009
Comp Expert (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Been a user of streets since it first came out a long time ago. I love the program so looked forward to this update. I never had the GPS unit previously, so I enjoyed the GPS it really caught a signal quickly and accurately tracked. It's a pity that streets and trips has lost much of its lustre over the years with standalone GPSs now so affordable and online mapping sources having taken over. But still, I love streets because I can quickly map and get detailed stuff printed without ads in the way or getting confused. Scrolling is super duper fast since it's all native to your PC, no remote caching is done.
Helps Me Find My Way June 9, 2009
Sara Hackett (from the Darkside)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have never used a GPS of any kind in a car before. I have, however, used one when sailing, they're excellent for plotting way points and getting you to where you want to be before the sun goes down. I drive a 1966 VW Beetle. I bought it second hand and have had it for years and years and I've seen no need to upgrade my car.
Still, I do get myself misplaced a lot. Oh, I generally find my way, but I make a lot of wrong turns, I suppose because my sense of direction has gone south and now I can't find north without a compass, so when I got a chance to review this program, I jumped at it. And although I'm basically a Mac person now, I do have a Sony laptop that I use on the road and that's generally where I'd be needing this software, so my laptop and Microsoft Streets and Trips are a match made in heaven.
It took a bit of getting used to, especially Microsoft Anna's voice and her sometimes strange pronunciations, but before long she and I were pals and I was actually finding my way about, but gosh darn it, I still make plenty of wrong turns and that's were this program really shines. Instead of being told how stupid I am, I get rerouted. Bow howdy, you can't beat that with a stick.
I've been using this for a couple/three weeks now. Have used it solo and with a co-pilot. A co-pilot may be safer, but once you get comfortable with Anna, you don't have to use the screen all that much, but you do have to take your eyes off the road on occasion, so be careful out there, especially if you see an aging yellow VW headed your way.
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