Review: Microsoft AutoRoute 2010
Marvin Hlavac
Review & Free trial version download
http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/microsoft-streets-trips/2709-review-microsoft-autoroute.html
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Marvin Hlavac
Laptop GPS World
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Steve Firth
> Microsoft AutoRoute 2010
Since the previous five versions have been utter crap, I think I can
confidently predict that this release will also be crap.
PeterD
wrote:
Sorta the 'vista' of GPS/Mapping products? <bg>
John Williamson
With any luck, it'll be the Windows 7 of mapping software. I'll have a
look when it's finished downloading.
In the meantime, is there anything else that will do the same job as well?
I've tried the Mapfactor Map Explorer version 9, and the mapping seems
rudimentary with very few POIs available, and the search tools are
absolutely useless, both on the PC Map Explorer program and on the PDA
Navigation program.
Its only advantage over TT6 is that the maps are a bit more up to date.
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Tciao for Now!
John.
Steve Firth
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> With any luck, it'll be the Windows 7 of mapping software.
What, a bad copy of something that does the job much better?
John Williamson
A marginal improvement on their worst ever product, as I see it.
Then again, I've been using Autoroute since the original DOS version.
Which I still have somewhere round here on the original floppies, if
only I could find a DOS machine to run it on.
Steve Firth
> I've been using Autoroute since the original DOS version.
The team that created that version of Autoroute which I also used, and
which still has features absent from every version of Autoroute since
Microsoft ruined it, used to work for the same organisation as me. They
were talked about quite a bit as having done very well for themselves.
One of the rumours was that the routing algorithm had been "fixed" to
ensure that it didn't send traffic past their own homes.
There was another good free/shareware routing package that I can
remember which had the ability to plot the position on a scanned OS (or
any other) map. It also had a vector map of most roads in the UK so it
was able to route but display the position on a good clear copy of a
Landranger map. Ideal solution IMO.
Sadly, I've forgotten the name of the bloke who created it and the name
of the software. It had something to do with the Sun IIRC and he was
based somewhere in Thames Valley.
William
This one?
http://www.gpss.force9.co.uk/
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Steve Firth
> >
> > Sadly, I've forgotten the name of the bloke who created it and the name
> > of the software. It had something to do with the Sun IIRC and he was
> > based somewhere in Thames Valley.
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> This one?
> http://www.gpss.force9.co.uk/
<slaps forehead>
Sunninghill, not "the Sun", yes that's it thanks.
RsH
You do not need a DOS machine... You need to download and install
DosBox and away you go <grin> fro www.dosbox.com so your excuse just
went out the door.... Have fun running it on your Windows 7 machine.
John Williamson
DosBox works fine on the XP machine I use for day to day stuff. I just
CBA fiddling about other than to prove it works.
As for Windows 7, unless the next computer I buy comes with it, I'm
planning to go to Linux when support for XP dries up. There seemed to be
almost as much to learn to get Windows 7 running the way I want when I
tried it as there was to get Linux doing what I want. Of course, by
then, Windows will have moved on to the Next Great Thing (tm)....