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Summary: Streets & trips 2004 is a disaster
Review: Do NOT waste your money on this version. I made the mistake of installing it and uninstalling my previous version. Now I'm screwed. This crashes most of the time and when it doesn"t its not nearly as good as the older version.
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Summary: Same old, same old
Review: Do you ever feel that buying upgrades are a waste of money. Well, this one is a waste of your money. I bought into the hype that you can locate ATM's anywhere in the country and the maps were updated. If your looking for an ATM in Maine, Alabama, Vermont, Wisconsin, and other states, don't bother. Streets and Trips show there are no ATM's in most of the United States. Canada has a few. The Maps are not updated as well. A seven year old neighborhood still isn't showing up in Streets and Trips. Other programs and the internet map sites have had our neighborhood for a few years. If you have an old copy of Street and Trips or MapPoint, continue to use and save your money. I guess this is how a company can continue making a billion dollars a month without creating anything new. Lets hope in a few years Streets and Trips will be brought up to date and include what the marketing guys tell us.
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Summary: Another Microsoft Ripoff
Review: Evidently all the makers of mapping software use the same,
error-filled, database. Delorme used to be excellent, but
each new edition goes down hill. Someone suggested that
Microsoft's "Streets & Trips 2004" was useful. Nope!
It has the same errors plus a few new ones. All of them route people from I-65 back onto I-65 instead of
onto the road to my home. Microsoft added insult to injury
by putting the wrong name on my street.
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Summary: GPS Support nearly non-existent
Review: Good for maps, really poor support for GPS. It only shows your current location as a car icon on the map. No direct support for major GPS brands (i.e. no waypoint management or downloading, track upload or download, etc.)
No route downloading to or uploading from GPS!
No speed, heading, direction indicator on the car icon, etc.
No map rotation (North is always up)
No Track recording
No Screen and/or Voice turn commands! (it won't tell you that you turn is coming up) It amazes me that some of this functionality with is available in freeware apps isn't included in S&T 2004. Gonna try Street Atlas. Good ease of use and functionality for regular map users.
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Summary: Nice product for new users, but no update from 2003
Review: I agree with what many other reviewers have already posted. This is a very nice piece of mapping software that I have used since 1998. Of all the upgrades I have purchased since that time, the 2004 version has the least improvement over the prior year. It does show the direction of one way streets, and Interstate exits are better shown and numbered, but the map database itself appears to be completely unchanged. I have not been able to find a single map update that was not in the 2003 version. I live in Atlanta, GA, and have extensively used the maps for GA, SC, NC. Hopefully next year they will actually update the maps again.
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Summary: Awesome product!!
Review: I almost never say this - but I gladly paid [money amount]for this Microsoft product. I think this is the only MS product I'm actually happy paying for. It rocks - PERIOD. We have MapPoint 2002 and had 2001 - this has almost all functions + some for [money amount]less. It's the most accurate GPS/map I've ever used - and we've used a lot of them. Much MUCH better then Delorme, etc. You won't be sorry!! 2004 version also includes the drive-time feature of MapPoint 2002.
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Summary: Prefer paper in most cases
Review: I bought Streets and Trips thinkign that I would be able to get directional information and guidence with my GPS for my pocket pc. All i got was a you are here Circle on the map. I am switching
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Summary: Better Off Using Mapquest
Review: I bought this higher priced product thinking it that it would be easy to use and up to date. Well, I was wrong. I used it to check to see if this product showed a shopping mall in my neighbor and it didn't. It didn't even show the roads being there and the fact that the shopping mall has been there for 3 years is quite maddening. Trying to get directions from the help section is truly a nightmare. The one thing that it does do well is connect you to the website where they try to sell more microsoft products.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: I bought this product just for the pocket street as it doesn't make sense to take your lap in the car to look at maps and directions. Well was disappointing for 2 reasons: 1- you have to cut the map yourself for instance I tried to put whole michigan on my PDA , it wouldn't let me , although I had enough memory on my iPAQ memory card. It let me put part of a map e.g. The Detroit area. The company should pre-divide the maps to larger parts that can be place on the PDA 2- The GPS: I was happy that the pocket street worked on my GPS system, but was of not much us because it tells you where you are but you can't plan a route and doesn't tell you where to go. not much use. In short a disappointment. There are better systems for PDA and for planning your route.
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Summary: Only half of it works!
Review: I bought this software mainly for Pocket Streets and Trips. As it tuns out, when I export a map to my PocketPC the pushpins are in the right spot (relative each other) but the map is of an entirely different county! No updates are available and of course Microsoft insists everything is fine.
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