January 28, 2012
Best Buy:Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator 2011
Product Description
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Amazon.com Product Description
Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator helps you plan and map your travels in advance, make your business travel more efficient or inspire your next RV adventure. Streets & Trips helps you to tailor your trip to your personal style, such as preferred road types, multiple stops, start and stop times, and more. Streets & Trips with GPS Locator requires no Internet connection and includes 1.9 million points of interest to help you find interesting stops along the way—no Internet required. Get lost in the adventure, not trying to find it.
Get accurate driving directions to just about anywhere in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Click here for a larger image
Not Just Directions... Inspirations.
A Great Planning Tool
Streets & Trips helps you create the perfect route and find points of interest along the way such as national parks, casinos, hotels, and gas stations. Calculate your mileage, trip costs, arrival time and compare different routes you're considering before you leave. Streets & Trips helps you plan a complete trip including multiple destinations, rest stops, scenic detours, and fuel stops—no Internet connection required.
More Than 1.9 Million Ideas for Stops Along the Way
Looking for a Chinese restaurant in Albuquerque? A post office in Kona? Streets & Trips comes with detailed information on over 1.9 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—even change your trip plans on the go--by start and stop times, driving speeds, or even road types.
Personalized Maps and Directions
Personalize your maps by adding notes about planned stops, reservation details, phone numbers, and more. Find your way easily with detailed, turn-by-turn directions.
With Streets & Tips with GPS Locator, plug the GPS device into your laptop and go!
Personalize your maps by adding notes about planned stops, reservation details, phone numbers, and more.
Spoken Street Names and Automatic Re-Routing.
Streets & Trips with GPS Locator provides spoken directions and street names as you drive. It can also put you back on track if you make a wrong turn!
No DVD drive, No Problem
If your computer doesn't have a CD or DVD drive, you may still purchase and install Streets & Trips. Find out more at www.microsoft.com/streets/activate today.
Product Features
- Updated street level maps for U.S., Canada and Mexico
- More than 1.9 million points of interest including post offices, pharmacies, restaurants and more
- Over 6.5 million miles of navigable roads
- Includes GPS locator that plugs directly into your laptop
- Spoken directions, automatic re-routing and full-screen navigation
- View the quickest routes with one-click trip optimization
- Add notes for planned stops, reservation details, phone numbers, and more
- Full-screen display for easier reading of maps and directions on your laptop
- Change your plans on the go, no Internet connection required
- Easy-to-read night map display for navigating in low light
- Calculate fuel usage and costs before you leave
- Share trip details or itineraries with friends and family
- Get free construction updates to avoid potential delays
- Choose specific roads to use on your trip just by dragging and dropping the route
- Include multiple destinations and stops to refuel
- Streets & Trips includes more than 300 unique pushpin images to choose from
- Microsoft Streets & Trips 2011 with GPS Locator features updated..
- GPS Locator features updated street-level maps for U.S., Canada, and Mexico with over 1.9 million points of interest
- Includes GPS locator that plugs directly into your laptop's USB port, for spoken directions, automatic re-routing, and full-screen navigation
- Change your plans on the go, with no Internet connection required; choose specific roads by dragging and dropping the route
- Calculate fuel usage and costs before you leave, along with free construction updates to avoid potential delays
- View the quickest routes with one-click trip optimization; add notes for planned stops, reservations, phone numbers, etc.
Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator 2011 Reviews
Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator 2011 Reviews
| 60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:  Great Software. GPS Receiver, not so much., This review is from: Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator 2011 (DVD-ROM) I am Donna's husband and I got Microsoft Streets & Trips 2011 with the USB GPS receiver a few days ago. I didn't really notice any changes between the 2009 version and the 2011 version of Streets & Trips. Just newer maps. I give the software 5 stars. The GPS receiver that comes with Streets & Trips is the "u-blox 5 GPS and GALILEO Receiver" by ublox. [...] I downloaded the "u-center GPS evaluation software" [...] and installed in on my desktop computer and my Acer netbook computer. I then plugged the USB GPS receiver into each computer and, using the u-center software, monitored the GPS receiver's performance. Here is what I found: The GPS receiver would not lock up when plugged directly into the netbook no matter how long I left it. It would find one or two satellites but that was all. When I connected it to the netbook using the included USB extension cable, it would lock up in 5 - 10 minutes. After it got a lock, it's performance seemed about as... Read more 27 of 28 people found the following review helpful: Microsoft...Ugh!!, This review is from: Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator 2011 (DVD-ROM) As a general mapping software, Streets & Trips doesn't do a bad job, though apparently Microsoft doesn't allow their programmers out of their cubicles to understand the real world. After the number of years this program has been out, and with all the new releases, this should be an incredibly good program by now. You can find locations a number of ways...by street address, intersection, and even GPS coordinates (don't forget to add the minus symbol for longitude if you're in the U.S.). Streets & Trips adds some great capabilities over your portable GPS devices. You can see a large screen version of your route and, where you have a stop planned, you can see the mapped locations of a variety of different businesses and points of interest based on your selections. They leave a lot of businesses out, unfortunately, but, still, it provides a fair amount of information. One of the unique features, and a saving grace in the face of other design buffoonery, is the ability to alter the... Read more 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful: Does not work with GPS Navigation, By This review is from: Microsoft Streets & Trips with GPS Locator 2011 (DVD-ROM) I purchased Street & Trips 2011 and Microsoft GPS receiver separately and installed 15.6" laptop and connect 3.5mm mini cable to Ford Escape speaker system to use next 6,000mile trip. Installation is very easy and GPS receiver is very good and trip planning is very easy except some street number are in-correct. Microsoft Navigation program need much improvement as bellow: 1) Speech engine is very poor, very difficult to understand voiced instruction, need another speech engine like AT&T natural voice, Real Speak or Acapela speech engine. 2)Instruction for off ramp on the freeway is too late to change lanes, need warning at least one mile before off ramp. 3)Need instruction which way to enter the freeway, like " Enter Interstate 5 north" 4)Need instruction of destination is which side of the street, Left or right side. I purchased and installed AT&T Natural voice speech engine and much easier to understand voiced instruction. I am... Read more |
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