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I came across an old version of Microsoft MapPoint 2002 Trial, which I got at a garage sale for like a buck or something. I got it like 6 months ago.
Yes, it's ancient software but it's software I wish I had remembered & installed on my machine when we were on a trip last month, as we were planning multiple stops to never-before-visited locations (without an Atlas, we forgot it) and this area is a remote area where my smartphone doesn't work & there are few places to stop and use a Wi-Fi to power Google Earth etc. Having nothing but a GPS with a horrible "bird's eye" view I basically had no idea where we were in the scheme of things ("you are here" on a map) & nothing really to help plan the multiple routes. This program on a laptop would've been perfect.
I have been playing around with it tonight on a Windows XP machine, and yes, I sure could've used this on that trip on the road.
Is there anyway to get this registered legitimately etc without it costing a lot (it is 11 year old software after all) vs it being just a 60 day trial etc?
(thecoleman) Wow, 29G, maybe they could offer it on a microSD card if you paid for the microSD & mailing it etc?
I will tell you what I would really like, is such on a TABLET. The 7" screen ought to be big enough to make it work. I actually prefer laptops for "productivity" things but then a tablet's long battery life helps and its form factor sort of is conducive to being a sort of "super-sized fancier GPS" as it were.
I know when I was fooling around with the program last night, my response was "now THAT is what I'm talking about, I so could've used this on our trip." I was easily able to see an overview AND to have it re-route by dragging one of the route lines to another road.
What gets lost regarding GPS units is that, yes, they tell you HOW to get wherever, but then you have no sense of HOW you got there, an "overview," which is where a "bird's eye" view comes in. (Well the units I have anyway, when you switch to "bird's eye" view, the view is awful, my phone does way better, but there was no reception there.) Such is especially helpful if you are doing as we were--plotting out several potential spots & getting a "layout" or "overview" of what it all looks like. It also could've helped us when the GPS told us to go down some gravel-y road off of a main road to connect to the next main road, when the 1st main road, we later learned, connected anyway--but with no "bird's eye" overview, you had no way of knowing.
(oddstray) I haven't found anything other than Waze or Google Maps so far, neither of which seem to download the entire map (as in the entire US at every zoom level) as opposed to needing a Wi-Fi etc, & neither of which handle multiple stops routing. That's what I've seen so far anyway.
I use MS Streets & Trips 2013 for car gps with my Dell E1705 laptops. It's the best! Just use this latest version!
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