Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008
Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 has customizable trip planning and mapping software that helps you make the most of any local or long distance trip. Some of its features include:
- Now with more accurate maps of city and highway roads across the United States and Canada.
- 1.6 million points of interest to help you find the hotels, ATMs, museums, campgrounds, and restaurants and other services you need along the way.
- Plan any trip based on your preferences - speed, travel time, or type of road.
- Import contacts directly to your maps from Microsoft Outlook.
- Now with Perspective Map view and Night Map view.
- Full Screen navigation with driving guidance - use it on the road and easily see upcoming turns with Dynamic Turn View and an automatically magnified view.
- Downloadable construction updates to help you find out when and where to expect construction on local, state, U.S. and Canadian roads with free online updates.
- Voice Prompted Directions - verbal turn-by-turn directions provide an easy-to-use, hands-free guidance solution
- Locate Me technology - know exactly where you are, virtually wherever you go by using wireless hotspots to pinpoint your location.
- Live Search - add additional business locations to your map when you’re online, then take them with you when you go. Keyword searches ("coffee," "motel," or "restaurant," for example) make it easy to find current business listings. Search results automatically refresh as you move around the map, so you’ll always have the most useful information.
- Easy reverse route option - simply click to find your way back.
- Estimated drive time - always know how far you are from your destination.
- Easy mileage, time, and expense calculation - you’ll know what to expect before you go and can adjust your plans accordingly.
- Make your maps and printouts more descriptive by adding notes, addresses and phone numbers for your planned stops.
- ReRoute from Here - get back on track with just one click. Streets and Trips 2008 quickly recalculates directions to any new location.
Microsoft Streets and Trips 2008 with GPS Locator combines Streets and Trips software with a sleek and stylish Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver hardware component to create a planning and driving tool that turns your laptop into a real-time GPS tracking device. So you can pinpoint your exact location on the map at all times. Comes USB ready with cable.
- Now comes with SiRFstar III technology.
- GPS Pane that lets you get important information fast, like driving speed, latitude and longitude coordinates, altitude, travel direction and more.
- GPS Trail feature leaves behind a virtual breadcrumb trail that shows you visually where you've been on your map, and makes it easier than ever to backtrack if need be.
Microsoft Street & Trips 2008 GPS with Connected Services comes with an MSN Direct receiver plus a compact GPS Locator and a 1-year trial subscription to the MSN Direct service for traffic updates and gas prices.
- An MSN Direct receiver that enables traffic and gas price updates over the FM band, without an Internet connection, and then works with Streets & Trips 2008 to help you navigate to where you want to go.
- Includes 1-year trial subscription to MSN Direct for gas prices and traffic updates. Gas prices are available in 100 of the largest cities across the U.S.; traffic information is available in a subset of these cities. For service areas, please visit streets.msndirect.com/coverage
- Avoid congestion, accidents, and disabled vehicles. Receive traffic updates through the MSN Direct receiver, and then use Streets & Trips with Connected Services to navigate around trouble spots. Internet connection not needed for MSN Direct traffic updates and gas prices.
- Save at the pump by obtaining and comparing recent gas prices. MSN Direct sends updated local gas prices to the receiver, which then works with Streets & Trips 2008 to route you to the desired location.
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