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Microsoft Expedia Streets 98 and Trip Planner 1998 near mint in two boxes
with all CD's, books and instructions as they came with the software new.
The box tops are missing on both boxes, other wise they are near mint.
Both programs come in their original CD cases.
This
software is not installed on any computer nor has been copied or
duplicated.
Microsoft's Expedia Trip Planner
98. The classic question "Where are we on the map?" is now a
lot easier to answer with Microsoft's Expedia Trip Planner 98. This
comprehensive travel and trip planner, which was formerly called AutoMap,
is a valuable tool for business or personal travel throughout the U.S.,
Canada, and Mexico. The heart of the program is the updated route planner,
which allows for customized and rapid point-to-point planning from start
to destination. It includes numerous automated features for tweaking and
fine-tuning your trip.
The new version provides excellent travel information,
including 17,000 restaurant listings from the Zagat survey and detailed
listings on 19,000 hotels. Direct links to the Microsoft Expedia on-line
service let you book flights, hotels, or rent al cars for a trip. Trip
Planner has plenty of detail on points of interest and stopovers, though
this is probably of more appeal to a family on vacation than to a typical
business travel er. Still, this extra information, along with attractive
and well-done maps, helps round out this product. Support for the Global
Positioning System is built in, though you need to purchase a GPS receiver
separately.
Overall, the features in Trip Planner 98 are pretty much
on par with Rand McNally's new TripMaker (and TripMaker Deluxe). Both
products let you plan your itinerary, print out detailed directions and
maps, and access their additional resources. Trip Planner has superior
hotel and restaurant information, while TripMaker has a few more features
for route planning. Still, for $39.95, Trip Planner 98 is an excellent and well-priced resource for any
type of general business or family travel in North America and Mexico.
Microsoft's Expedia Streets 98, priced at $49.95, is
similar to Street Atlas.
The program is an excellent address finder. Westchester
County Airport, for example, is listed under place names, so you don't
have to know it's in White Plains to find it. Streets 98 also pinpointed
an address that Street Atlas could locate only by cross street.
Microsoft Expedia Streets 98 is a Windows program
that generates street maps for just about any place in the country. And
with the Pocket Streets utility, which is free for download from
Microsoft's Web site, you can transfer Expedia maps to your handheld PC.
Whether you're traveling to a trade show seven states away or a client's
office seven blocks away, you'll have a handy map that won't get ripped
and doesn't require complicated folding.
Streets 98 is a little trickier to operate than Street Atlas. Some map
symbols couldn't be identified even after a search of the help menu, And
the printed maps are less detailed and less colorful than those in Street
Atlas.
Streets 98 offers a more comprehensive points-of-interest database,
however, including restaurants listed in the popular Zagat Survey series
of city guides. After locating an address, you can click on "find point of
interest" and draw a circle on the screen to limit the selection to within
a certain radius.
By placing the cursor over the symbol and clicking a mouse button, you
get information about an attraction or city For example, you can learn
that Philadelphia's population is 1,524,249, that 15.2 percent of its
residents are college-educated, that the median income is $24,504, and
that the median house value is $49,400.
You can also place "pushpins" on points on the map by clicking the
cursor and adding a text box for each containing information such as name
of business and time of appointment.
If you have access to the Internet, you can link Streets 98 to
Microsoft's online travel-booking service, Expedia, which has more than
16,000 listings for hotels, airlines, and car-rental locations.
The Deluxe Edition of Streets 98 includes an important extra
feature--the ABI Yellow Pages USA. Its more than 25 million listings can
be accessed by name, type of business, phone number, or address.
System requirements: Multimedia PC with a 486DX/33 MHz or higher
processor; Windows 95 or later; works fine with XP; 8MB of ram, 24
recommended; CD-ROM
We only have one to sale.
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Microsoft Expedia Streets and Trip Planner 1998 near mint in two boxes
with all CD's, books and instructions as they came with the software new.
Microsoft's Expedia Streets 98 is an excellent address
finder.
Microsoft's Expedia Trip Planner 98.
Plan your trip according to a number of preferences, including preferred
routes, avoiding highways and specific ETAs. |
NS-00193 |
20.95
13.95
Both programs at this price.
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