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Microsoft Streets and Trips 2013

Microsoft 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.

List Price: $ 39.95

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  1. 51 of 53 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Preliminary Review, July 11, 2012
    By 
    David R. Wedge
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    This review is from: Microsoft Streets and Trips 2013 (DVD)

    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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  2. 83 of 90 people found the following review helpful
    3.0 out of 5 stars
    Still quite useful, still quite limiting, and still too many rough edges, July 20, 2012
    By 
    Cory

    This review is from: Microsoft Streets and Trips 2013 (DVD)

    As seems to be the pattern with new editions of Streets and Trips, there is nothing revolutionary about this upgrade, though it was almost two years in the making. While I find it a useful program, it is still quite limiting in ways I wish would be addressed.

    I use Streets and Trips almost daily. In addition to maintaining several thousand points, I receive addresses several times a day from people whereby I find their location and give them directions to the closest point in my database. And, like most people, I use Streets and Trips to plan my road trips. What has forced me to upgrade from 2007 is the new map data so I can match newer addresses.

    Here is a summary of different features, the good and the bad.

    Searches: The address search still needs improvement. When an address does not match anything in their database, the suggested alternatives are often far off. For example, I typed in an address and town containing “Penn Rod Rd.” The search returned a Penn Wood Dr and a Penn Roberts Ln in two places across the state from the town I included with the road. Manually scanning the roads around the town I entered in, I found it: “Pennrod Rd.” The search is unable to handle many of these petty errors.

    Data import: The program allows you to import locations from Excel, Access, or another database. I match by GPS coordinates because the same errors and bad alternative suggestions come up here when I match by addresses, and there is no way to go into the map to find the right info without cancelling the matching procedure. Once the data is in, you have to manually check all the attributes you want to display that did not match their list of predetermined attributes. If there are many sets of data imported and many attributes you want displayed for each point, it is slow going in checking all those boxes to display the data (couldn’t they display all by default?). They also force a comma into numerical data. So, for example, each point has a year attached to it. The box shows it as “Year: 1,949″. Finally, once the data is imported, to change anything about it, you have to update the datasheet and import it all over again. If some addresses did not match before, you will have to handle those errors all over again, check all the show data boxes again, reassign the icon, etc. I wish there were a way to update changes from the datasheet rather than starting from scratch.

    Loading old maps: S&T 2013 does not open any S&T files from 2007 and before. This was unexpected and made a hassle in loading old data. What a short time period to discontinue old file formats of the same extension as presently! The only solution is to reimport all points or download an old trial version of 2008-2011 and convert all your files to 2013 vis-a-vis this bridge. I tried to copy/paste points from 2007 to 2013; the listing appears in the legend, but without points on the map.

    Icons: One reason I did not upgrade after 2007 was that the new icons for points were ugly and busy. When I have several thousand points on my map, pretty detailed icons are not a plus. It has been laborious, but using the “print screen” button and MS Paint, I have replicated many of the old icons and imported them into the new layout. With newer editions, though, you can turn points on and off, which is a helpful feature. However, you have to right click and select that option, a pain when I am frequently turning things off and on. ArcMap has the same feature in a tick box next to the legend listing.

    Handling: The mouse features have improved. No longer do you have to select between a hand to pan the map and box to zoom in. The former operation is the left mouse button; the latter is the right. In addition, when you right click in the box made with the right mouse key, you can delete all points in (or outside) that area. As well, they have kept another handy feature that allows you to prohibit a route from traveling through the boxed area–helpful when S&T wants to take you on a gated fire road in a national park, for example. Just block out that area for all travel.

    Interface: Another reason I did not upgrade from 2007 until now was the interface. The present has improved from 2008-2011 editions, but still not as good as 2007 and prior, which were as straight-forward as I have seen. It is all black and white now, handy when you have the computer on in your car at night, but not so otherwise. I recognized icons in 2007 by color and shape. Just shapes make it harder to commit icon functions to memory. The features you can display are limited to a cluster of four toolbars. I wish I could declutter all the 75% of icons I never use. They have instead added a few more I do not need, but cannot get rid of them since I need several in that toolbar. More flexibility here is desired. The map layout itself is basically unchanged. The map display and scheme is the easiest I know to read,…

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  3. 41 of 45 people found the following review helpful
    2.0 out of 5 stars
    Microsoft Needs to Invest Significantly More Resources in Streets and Trips- No Major Improvements, July 22, 2012
    By 
    P. Scott Pope “Scott Pope” (Chicago, IL) –
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    While I have been a big fan of Streets and Trips over the past decade, Microsoft failed 64 bit users with a flawed DVD. The online free trial download followed by an activation works.
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    The benefits to using software versus ad-supported online maps are many. In particular, the user has more control over how the information is displayed. Moreover, maps can be saved and annotated. Yet, with Google Maps getting better by the day, Microsoft has really let its user base down.

    Frequent users of Google Maps notice that it provides driving, public transportation, walking and bicycling directions. Streets and Trips 2013 *still* only has driving directions. What Microsoft needs to do is offer more sophisticated real-time data inputs such as those from public transit and traffic congestion sources. It surprises me that Microsoft has not made a bigger investment in this software. The product is not much different from the previous six versions. It is especially irritating as users had to wait so long for the nonexistent 2012 version to come out only to here nothing from Microsoft until the 2013 was released July 2012.

    Despite the lack of investment, the benefits of standalone map software warrant purchasing Streets and Trips 2013. However, given the power of online alternatives, users may find themselves using both Google Maps and Streets and Trips 2013.

    Pros
    Ability to annotate and save maps
    Rapid pan and zoom
    No Internet access require
    Powerful search nearby locations
    No advertisements

    Cons
    No bicycle, walking or public transit directions
    Little connectivity with third-party data sources
    No traffic
    Problems installing from DVD for 64 Bit users

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  4. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    usa map, February 28, 2011
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    gmb

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    This review is from: This Land is Your Land Map (Toy)

    I purchased this map for my 6 year old grandson. It is a wonderful map for children (and adults too). It is laminated, although I put it in a poster frame to preserve it. It is colorful, simple, clear, concise, not a huge amount of detail that would make it complicated for a child. He loves it and I am so pleased with this product.

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  5. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
    2.0 out of 5 stars
    Not really laminated, February 8, 2013
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    f8

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    I knew I needed a heavy duty map for my 2 year old and was so happy to find a laminated map designed for kids. When the map arrived I noticed that it did not seem laminated, more like it was printed on heavy weight gloss paper. While I was hanging it the first of many tears occurred (kiddo was helping me). It is a nice looking map but not what I thought I was getting.

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  6. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Great tool for teaching geography, December 27, 2011
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    N. Poore
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    = Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 
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    I love this map and my daughter loves the stickers so we have had a great experience. We live in Texas and our family is scattered in 25 of 50 states so being able to mark down where certain family members live and where we have visited is really fun for my daughter and I’m sure as my son gets older he will like it too. I would recommend hanging it up asap or laminating it with really thick laminating sheets because ours has gotten ripped by over-excited children so the laminating it comes with is not wonderful, but my kids can get a little wild so I’m not holding that against the actual toy this time. All in all very happy with this purchase!

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