Streets and Trips 2013
Streets and Trips 2013
- Updated street-level maps of the United States and Canada with more than 2.5 million points of interest from America’s #1 travel and map software.
- Plan your trip including multiple destinations, rest stops, scenic detours, fuel stops and more-all with no Internet connection required.
- New! See customer ratings and reviews on businesses and take the guesswork out of deciding where to go when online.
- View the quickest routes with one-click trip optimization; add notes for planned stops, reservations, phone numbers, and more.
- Change your plans on the go, with no Internet connection; choose specific roads by dragging and dropping the route.
Find adventure on the open road with Microsoft Streets & Trips. With America’s #1 travel and map software, explore new places, generate maps and directions and even add your own contacts – all without an Internet connection.
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August 4, 2012Preliminary Review,
Updated from the 2009 version. All recently new and modified local roads/intersections have been updated. (The most recent local road modification was done about 18 months ago.) The only other modification to the software that I see is that MS has changed the menu icons from multicolor and eye appealing to very flat, basic two-tone blank and white. This obviously doesn’t impact the functionality of the software but it just looks like a step backward.
I also have a Tom-Tom which my wife and I use for short trips and to get directions from point A to point B within the state. Local travel is what the Tom-Tom and Garmin units are designed for. But where S&T beats the small units hands down is when planning long distance trips. There are many congested areas of the country I refuse to drive through (I-95 through the CT-NY-NJ area.) With S&T all I have to do is tell it to avoid this area by dragging the mouse over the map and the planned route is instantly modified. S&T also beats the small units when manually re-routing a trip. All you have to do is click on the route and drag the route marker where you want to go. S&T also provides a much greater overall map view of your trip as you are driving (you can see your progress on the entire trip rather than just a quarter mile ahead of you.) This is great with the kids/grandkids in the back seat watching the progress of the trip and seeing how far they have gone and how far they still have to go.
The little units have their place but my preference for long distance travel planning and GPS tracking is still with S&T. I was planning to upgrade to the 2012 edition but had to wait for 2013. Again, no major software upgrades that I have seen (other than the maps and POIs), but for the price I don’t think you can beat it. The upgrade was worth it for the maps alone.
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