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Software : Autoroute 2001 Great Britain & Europefrom: Microsoft
Accessories: Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: You have a 10:30 meeting in Paris and a lunch date at noon. Time will be tight if the airport traffic's slow but with Microsoft Autoroute 2001 to plot your route in advance you may just make it. Enter your starting point and destinations and the program pops up a route for you, complete with point-to-point time estimates and detailed directions. Points of interest, restaurants and hotels along the way are marked on the map, with contact information and on occasion a review in a pop-up box. A few years ago, it would have looked like science fiction. Microsoft Autoroute 2001 covers the UK and Europe, with maps for most major European cities and address-to-address routing in Britain, France and Germany. It may not cover the very minor streets (the ones your car might not fit down anyway) but the maps are reasonably clear and well delineated, and you can choose from three types--political, geographical or auto. If you use a handheld, running Windows CE 2 or later, you may want to try Pocket Streets, and there's GPS support. Getting started using this program is time-consuming, as you have to fill out each address, but once you've built your database of destinations, Autoroute's intelligently plotted routes may just save you a bundle of time. --Kathleen Keefe Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Microsoft Autoroute 20012001? 1999 more like. Many major roads are missing, such as the M60 link road around Manchester completed in July 2000. I feel that all routing products, not just MS's but all of them, should not display the "year of release" (though this was actually released in 2000), but the year (and month!) that the map is current to. Would this decrease sales? Possibly, but at least before you buy the product, you'd have a fair idea as to wether or not something VITAL to your ... Read More Rating:  - Problems with Autoroute 2001Basically it is an OK product. Not nearly as intuitive to use as it's predcessors and with one or two big shortcomings: Although sold as a '2001' product the UK map base is only acurate to mid 1999 with the omission of major road improvements that opened in September 1999. Try looking for the new section of the A30 from Honiton to Exeter! Also sold as supporting GPS and running under Windows 2000. But sadly not both at the same time! - if you want to use GPS you are stuck with ... Read More Rating: - Could do betterThis is generally a good package. It is all on one CD and occupies much less hard disk space that some other packages (e.g. Inforoute). The map detail is good considering this. However the GPS interface is poor. Position is updated once every 15 seconds which is not enough for in town driving and a bit of a surprise considering that Autoroute Express updates every second. Rating: - Good Software but..Autoroute 2001 is quite a good software, easy use and to install (including windows 2000). The usage of the mouse scrolling wheel is very nice and efficient. The major problem I found was the map set which is rather old and may misslead the users. The information given is not enough. I would expect it to show parkings (a must for the driver) and of course more information like schools for example. The given information is not enough, it gives only phone numbers without any description of the facilities. ... Read More Rating:  - Very impressiveVery impressive and a great improvement over earlier versions. The amount of detail covering the UK and most of Europe crammed into one plastic disk is unbelievable and keeping my lap top in the car avoids the need to keep a library of maps in it. There are however a number of errors: It's not completely up to date, I wouldn't want to navigate through a built up area with the aid of the program alone, and I don't really believe some of the quoted distances. It is however ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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