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| Microsoft MapPoint 2009 [OLD VERSION] |
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| Manufacturer: Microsoft Software |
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| List Price: $299.00 |
| Sale Price: $214.99 |
| Availibility: Usually ships in 1-2 business days |
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Product Description |
| MapPoint 2009 gives you the power to visualize business data and communicate insights with instant impact. Before you hit the road, plug in your stops and MapPoint plots the most efficient course with turn-by-turn driving directions. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator adds routing and directions to easily plan your trips and track your location in real-time. Business Mapping Made Simple
Microsoft MapPoint 2009 gives you the power to visualize business data, communicate insights with instant impact, and integrate maps into the work you do in Microsoft Office. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator adds routing and directions to easily plan your trips and track your location in real-time. MapPoint 2009 makes it easy for organizations to visualize their business in a whole new way:
- Map business data.
Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography. - Identify new business opportunities.
Combine business data with included demographics to target potential customers and focus decisions. MapPoint 2009 helps you streamline your travel:
- Arrive on time.
Detailed directions--voice* and text-prompted--make it easy to follow your route. - Optimize your trip.
Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance. - Easy-to-see navigation.
Track your route in real-time in Full Screen display.* Change to the special Night Map display with a single click. MapPoint 2009 makes it easy to use maps in combination with your Microsoft Office documents:
- Tell a story, visually.
Insert maps into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations to illustrate everything from sales performance and customer locations to new business opportunities. - Tap into existing data sources
Create maps from data stored in current versions of Office Excel, Office Access, Office Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server, or other database sources. - Extend your business.
Take advantage of the extensible MapPoint object model to build custom business solutions such as fleet tracking and business intelligence. - Map business data.
Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography. New and Improved Features MapPoint 2009 builds upon the success of MapPoint 2006 with:
- Refreshed data.
Use updated geographic and demographic data sets in MapPoint to display trends and illustrate key points on maps. - Optimize your trip.
Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance. - Send to mobile.
Send point-of-interest and "business card" details such as addresses and phone numbers to your mobile device. - Advanced GPS features.
New full-screen navigation mode with driving guidance tracks your route and provides turn-by-turn directions--including spoken street names. - Zoom with a view.
Use the new Navigation view option* to see a perspective map road view of your route. - Enhanced Live Search.
Quickly find listings when online and add them to a route. Use descriptive words such as "coffee" and "restaurant" to find points near your location. - Updated user interface.
Streamlined redesign simplifies tasks and improves usability while driving. * GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later. |
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Product Details |
- Updated maps--New geographic and demographic data
- Data mapping--Use maps to visualize the meaning of your data
- Custom territories--Define your own delivery or sales areas
- Programming--Build custom solutions and Office add-ins
- Go mobile--Send addresses and phone numbers to your mobile device
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 Overkill outside of business use. |
| Review Date: July 25, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Marshall Carter, Irmo, SC United States |
Microsoft MapPoint 2009 seems like overkill when it comes to personal use. I know you can get directions using it, but you can just as easily do that with MapQuest, Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, etc. I know you can use it as a GPS program with the proper GPS hardware, but that's a fairly expensive solution when there are much more user-friendly, less expensive (and often more up-to-date) solutions readily available at any store that sells electronics. No, for personal use, MapPoint 2009 is very nearly extreme overkill.
What MapPoint 2009 will enable you to do from a business perspective is more useful. The data mapping features are welcome and well-implemented (even though the overall interface is a bit clunky, not exactly surprising for a Microsoft product, but it does work). The ability to pull and import your own statistical data could be useful to someone in a corporate environment, but again, is largely useless for a personal user. Being able to import data into MS Office applications is relatively smooth, which is probably one of the biggest strengths the software has for business users (who are already intimately familiar with MS Office; web-based mapping software is often not as obliging).
MapPoint 2009 is a decent program, if you're in the business demographic that it obviously seems to be catering too. If you're just looking for something to get driving directions, stick to Google Maps or invest in an inexpensive GPS unit. If you're looking for a way to incorporate mapping data into reports or documents, then you might want to give MapPoint 2009 (or now 2010) a closer look. |
A good product
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| Review Date: June 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jim S, Michigan |
| I fell in love with MapPoint before the days where Garmins were as cheap and widely available. Still it's capacity to link up with an excel document make it relevant to me today. I use it on sales trip mapping out all my customers along the way. It provides you with a route that saves you time. I often keep my lap top handy and it's a useful tool. My only problem with this new edition is that the user interface seems more complicated then earlier editions. I know they have updated it for 2010. Maybe they addressed that issue. |
New 2010 Version is Out
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| Review Date: June 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: diljs, |
| While this version is great, note that the new and updated 2010 version has been released, making this one obsolete. |
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