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Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 [OLD VERSION] Review (continued)
More User Submitted Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 [OLD VERSION] Reviews
Date: 2006-08-10
MS&T
While the performance of the product exceeds the competetive product (DeLorme), the product is less capable in identifying points of interest.
Date: 2006-08-05
Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006
Great upgrade from 2005. Love the voiced directions. It's kind of like having a GPS system in the car with me. The downside to it, is the directions only give you turn by turn directions as a progressive mile format and don't name the streets. If you are alone depending on directions you have to depend on the milage being correct unless you can stop and actually look at the map.
Date: 2006-08-05
Streets and Trips Review
Very helpful in finding and printing out detailed maps and directions.
Date: 2006-08-01
Far short of competition
I bought MS Streets & Trips for use with my iPAQ pocket PC and a bluetooth GPS. Installation and startup went fine, found the GPS without problems and accurately pinpointed where I was. Then the disappointments started. The pocket PC version has no routing capability which makes it virtually useless. I even set up a route on my PC and downloaded it to my iPAQ. I selected the route and all it did was show me a very zoomed out view with the starting and ending locations and not even so much as a higlighted route between the two, which was present when I saved the route on my PC. Tracking where I am is nice, but it does nothing to help me get to where I want to go.
Also I could only download maps for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota, no other Minnesota cities were listed.
It also showed me as slightly off street whereas most other GPS/Mapping software will show you as on the nearest street, rather than driving down someone's sidewalk or down the center median of a divided road.
Date: 2006-07-24
Trip routing doen't work right
One of the most basic features of this program is broken. Specifically it does not always find its own best route between two locations. For example, I can ask it to route me from my house in the suburbs of Boston to a location in the White Mountains in Maine. It gives me a route with a drive time of 4 hours 2 minutes. I can then add a stop that is off the route, ask it to route again incorporating this stop, and now the total drive time is 3 hours and 30 minutes. Since this route is faster, the program should have found it in the first place. A half hour savings on a 4 hour trip is a big error.
Further casting doubt on the routing is the fact that when I add the stop the suggested route changes downstream from a point that is common to both routes. There is no reason for that, either.
This is a very serious flaw since it undermines confidence that any route is the right one. Conclusion: this program's routing algorithm is broken.
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