07-05-2004, 12:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,350
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Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005
Marvin Hlavac has posted some news on the GpsPasSion forums that should be of interest to Streets & Trips users out there:
"August 16, 2004 will be the release date for Microsoft Streets & Trips 2005. Interestingly, on the box of my one year old 2004 version it says it includes 6.7 million miles of streets and highways. The upcoming version will only have 5.4 million miles. However we have more POI's to look forward to. There will be 550,000 Restaurants (492,000 in 2004), 90,700 Gas Stations (58,000 in 2004), 117,000 ATM's (47,000 in 2004). Microsoft will also release a version which will include a GPS unit."
So that should probably mean a newer version of Pocket Streets will be released as well and I wonder if that will bring any new functionality. What would you like to see added to Pocket Streets?
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07-05-2004, 12:34 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Wo, does it actually include a GPS unit? I'm still using Streets and Trips 2003.
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07-05-2004, 12:38 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 418
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Pocket Streets is crap... the only thing going for it is that it's very easy to load maps from Streets and Trips. Improve it in these ways and it'll rock:
- Have the same scale for North/South as East/West (the aspect ratio is, for whatever dumbass reason, currently wrong)
- Show scale on map (but allow it to be toggled off)
- Have more detail levels (so it doesn't take so damn long to pan and zoom)
- Have a declutter option like on Garmin's handhelds
- Have better menus (it takes too many clicks to do certain tasks)
- Have customizable menus
- Make the maps look perty like they do on Streets and Trips
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07-05-2004, 01:10 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 545
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I used to like Streets and Trips and I will probably buy it again, but I wish Microsoft would step up and finally give us a version on the desktop at least that has better GPS support and is actually giving us new features. I don't think we've had a actual new feature in several years on Streets and Trips on either version. Come on Microsoft! Where's things like auto re-routing, text to speech direction while we are driving and other things. Last year was a start with the new "feature" of real time gps support which should have been in it since gps support was added!
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07-05-2004, 01:20 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 119
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One of the early S&T packages actually had decent information about POIs, including reviews, phone numbers, and even some pictures. This feature was removed in subsequent versions, and it's still the one thing I miss the most.
I tried my GPS unit with Pocket Streets 2004; that lasted about five minutes. Yecchh!
Now that I'm using Mapopolis, the only thing I use S&T for is to locate county boundaries so I know which Mapoplis map to download (Note to Mapopolis programmers: please figure out a way to to a graphical map selector!!).
--Welmoed
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07-05-2004, 01:25 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 73
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Pocket Streets has always been usless to me. No adress to adress routing is far and away the biggest draw back. However, I have recently moved out of the US and to Kuwait. Neither Streets & Trips nor Street Atlas (or any other GPS package) provide any mapping for this part of the world. I would fall over dead if someone actually provided a mapping solution (with street level detail) that was GPS enabled for this region. Thats what I'd like to see.
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07-05-2004, 01:31 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 42
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It would definately help if they'd include features for "offline" use. That is, use without a gps device.
E.g. I know where I am, I know where I want to go, I should be able to enter both addresses, and it would show me the best route.
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07-05-2004, 01:44 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 6
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Can anyone say anything about the GPS-Receiver? It'd be pretty cheap for $130.
Herrner
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07-05-2004, 01:56 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 119
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I got my Pharos receiver and Ostia software for $99, so it doesn't seem like $130 is too low for something that works. Mine works fine (of course, I had to shell out another $99 for a software package that actually WORKS well, but that's another issue!)
--Welmoed
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07-05-2004, 02:00 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 597
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Originally Posted by welmoed
Now that I'm using Mapopolis, the only thing I use S&T for is to locate county boundaries so I know which Mapoplis map to download (Note to Mapopolis programmers: please figure out a way to to a graphical map selector!!).
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If you download the entire state to your memory card, load the MAJOR file(s) and you should see icons for each county. Tap and hold on the icon and it will ask you to load or unload that county. Works pretty well so you don't have to guess which ones to load, you can look at the entire state and pick the ones you need/want.
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