Microsoft MapPoint 2010 gives you the power to visualize business data, communicate insights with instant impact, and integrate maps into the work you do in Microsoft Office. Get trip routing and turn-by-turn directions to easily plan better trips.  Use new Map Settings to customize features of your map. Click to enlarge. |  Detailed driving directions keep you on track. Put in multiple addresses and MapPoint will optimize your route. Click to enlarge. |  More than 300 pushpin images--includes those from previous versions of MapPoint. Click to enlarge. | MapPoint 2010 - Updated maps--New geographic and demographic data
- Customize map settings--Choose whether cities, highways, local roads and parks show on your map
- More pushpin images--Includes those from previous versions of MapPoint
- GPS ready--Send your route to your GPS device*
- Data mapping--Use maps to visualize the meaning of your data
- Create territories--Define your own delivery or sales areas
- Programming--Build custom solutions and Office add-ins
Product Features MapPoint helps you visualize your business data: - Create maps using custom Map Settings to display your data with only the details you want to appear. Easily turn labels on or off, change font style or map style.
- Dramatically improve decision-making by bringing clarity to tabular data.
- Use information-rich maps to illuminate important data relationships, identify business trends, and illustrate opportunities.
- Create sales territories and share performance maps to clearly visualize, analyze, and communicate business information.
- Combine business data with included demographics to target potential customers and focus decisions.
MapPoint 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.
- Navigate with ease.
Plan your trip on your PC and then print, or send your route to your GPS device.* MapPoint makes it easy to use maps in combination with your Microsoft Office documents: Seamlessly integrate maps into the work you do in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Office. - 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, 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.
* Exporting to GPS must be done via MSN® Direct (subscription required) or via USB. Separate download of free plug-in may be required. Not all GPS devices are supported. Visit www.microsoft.com/mappoint/devices for more information.
** GPS device sold separately. GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later and an available USB port. |
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- Microsoft MapPoint 2010 lets you visualize business data, communicate insights with instant impact, and integrate maps into the work you do in Microsoft Office
- Create maps using custom Map Settings to display your data with only the details you want to appear--easily turn labels on or off, change font style or map style
- Combine business data with included demographics to target potential customers and focus decisions; dramatically improve decision-making by bringing clarity to tabular data
- Use information-rich maps to illuminate important data relationships, identify business trends, and illustrate opportunities
- Create sales territories and share performance maps to clearly visualize, analyze, and communicate business information
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 Business Use for MapPoint 2010 |
| Review Date: July 26, 2010 |
| Reviewer: D. Rich, Chicago, IL USA |
I recently purchased MapPoint 2010 through Amazon, so the price was already better than buying it directly from Microsoft or at any office supply stores. I am finding it to be very useful for my business. We have to generate a lot of maps for our clients and MapPoint is better than alternative mapping software, from the standpoint of clarity of the maps and boundary definitions. We do not need the wayfinding function, so having that is of no value.
We use the territory function to highlight market areas by County or ZIP code. That works okay, but is a little cumbersome. I also find transferring a map to Word or PowerPoint documents to be more difficult that it should be. SmartDraw is easier and it isn't even a Microsoft product. |
Why would you get this instead of Google Earth?
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| Review Date: June 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Dustin F, |
Well, let me tell ya!
This little thing is like an encyclopedia of information. It's amazingly handy and interesting when you're researching different locations. More than that, information I might have about places can be thrown on here easily, organized, and used. Easily.
Manipulating and moving information to other systems, programs, even your cell phone, is trivially easy. Making routes and scheduling meetings makes a lot of sense. I never thought of it this way before, but many things on my schedule can be planed on a map now. I can save time and organize what I'm doing to reduce my traveling. This is the core of the program: planning things in real space and real time. You can have a complex plan, simplify what it looks like, and everything is easy to understand and change.
Many aspects of the interface are head smackingly obvious yet huge improvements. Back and forward buttons on a map. Great! Almost like surfing the web.
This is a terrific product and while I usually have a problem with MS's decisions for interfaces, this is really something I would recommend to anyone who would manages information about locations, travels, or just has a busy life.
The best feature is that this is a lot of fun to do. It certainly doesn't feel like work! |
Ok visual tool, but not so great for business planning. Would prefer free map updates.
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| Review Date: April 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: RJL, Texas |
| MapPoint is definitely a step up from your typical online mapping tools. However, I'm not sure that it's practical for use in business planning like it tries to be. You can map territories, match your product to demographics, and map clients and prospect business, but there is no real compelling reason to do this in MapPoint. The data is likely a couple of years old already, and it does not come with free updates (except for road construction updates, which is the last thing you care about for business planning). Other features like routing and finding nearby places is likewise crippled by old data, so I have found I am better off with technology like my GPS, iPhone, or the internet in general. The most useful feature to date has been the ability to import our client and prospect data, so that I can see where our clients are, where our course attendees are coming from, and where there is a high concentration of untapped prospects. Again, one doesn't really need MapPoint for this, but it does give a nice visual representation of the data. |
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