Microsoft Streets and Trips 2007 with GPS Locator [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Microsoft Streets and Trips 2007 with GPS Locator [DVD] [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Great product
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this product to use on a trip in the Colorado Mountains. I had a laptop computer mounted in my Suburban, and it served as my navigator. The only thing that I didn't like about it, is that if you have it set on the "shortest route there" option, it will take you on a journey, that is the SHORTEST DISTANCE THERE. If it means taking you off a 70 mph interstate, and taking you in a downtown maze of a metropolis during rush hour - IT WILL DO SO. A great product, but by all means, study your maps and know where you are going, before you leave! LOL!Customer Review: Microsoft streets w gps
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this easy to use without a big learning curve and would suggest this product to others. The GPS setup and use was pretty cool.Customer Review: Very Helpful
Summary: 4 Stars
My husband and I used this on our road trip. My tech-gadget-crazed husband thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread since it told us our speed, elevation and time left on our travel. We had no problems getting around. One small glitch in one of the directions it gave us - it told us to take exit 12B instead of 12A - but we figured it out immediately when it told us we were off route. This was just one bad direction among many good ones. We chalked it up to recent construction. Customer Review: a very useful gadget, but dangerous when driving
Summary: 3 Stars
The GPS took a while to find the correct location when turned on the first time. Unlike even the simplest Garmin, there is no indication what the GPS error might be. But then the GPS worked amazingly well, even in the streets of Manhattan (when driving, not when turned on in a stationary location between tall buildings).
The directions are sometimes wrong ("turn left" while you actually have to "take a ramp right"...). Worse, the progran uses a different language than the highway signs and says things like "turn left on I-999" instead of "turn on I-999 South" (which may require going right first...). Particularly at complicated interchanges something like "follow route 99" might be less error prone.
The program makes one type addresses to find destinations instead of just clicking on a place, and fuss with the mouse switching between the map and the rest of the interface, which is outright dangerous when driving and annoying at any time.
The database of places is rather incomplete. There does not seem to be any online update.
Customer Review: Typical MS
Summary: 3 Stars
This is my first GPS product, so I don't have much to compare to. It is what you would expect from Microsoft, it does basic functions but is unintuitive and poorly designed. I purchased the product to use on vacation from LA to Las Vegas. I had a passenger running the laptop while I drove. It got me to where I was going, especially after I got used to audible directions (like judging how far .2 miles is and the audio glitch of "take tram left" means take next ramp left). If you went past your turn, it took S&T a minute to regenerate new directions. Every time we powered the laptop down, it would loose the communications port and we had to refind through the control panel new hardware screen. This is a very mediocre product, so typical of Microsoft, but, compared to hand held devices, the price is nice. This is why I'll raise it from 2 to 3 stars.
Added your own points is cumbersome and hard to figure out without reading the instructions (a big strike for me). It did have some cute feature like telling your altitude, MPH and time to destination. The streets were quite detailed, including a national park in Nevada.
This is a very mediocre product, so typical of Microsoft, but, compared to hand held devices, the price is nice. This is why I'll raise it from 2 to 3 stars.