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| Microsoft MapPoint 2002 | 
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| From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $49.95
You Save: $200.04 (80%)
New (4) Used (6) from $14.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 5269
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Full
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 4.5 x 3.8 x 1
MPN: B21-00249
Model: B21-00249
UPC: 659556682057
EAN: 0659556682057
ASIN: B00005B6U4
Release Date: June 11, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW - Factory Sealed - Next-day shipping, satisfaction guaranteed
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 Leave some things in the dust March 21, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was testing the program, and it was interesting, but still it's not up to date. I looked for a town of 1,000 residents in California, and it wasnt there. I then looked for a town of less than 20, and it was there. Very weird.
 amazing program until you get burned July 27, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been using this program for 3 years. I like many of its features and I used it for many many long and short trips. I wrongly assumed that the data is accurate, so I didn't react when the reality was a little different than the Mappoint results. Unfortunately on a couple of occasions the program fooled me into much longer trips (how about a 600-mile mappoint compared to 400 miles from Mapquest?) For the last year I never trusted anything from the program, I always do the 2 point route with Yahoo or mapquest and then enter it street by street in mappoint, I don't trust it for more than 1 corner. Mappoint gives you options to design the route based on some preferences, but in almost all cases that would use some local roads the result will be 20-30% longer than a yahoo/mapquest result. It seems to be able to find the worst solution over and over again. Otherwise a great program! I was looking for an updated version and reading reviews about streets and trips 2004 I realized that it seems to be their philosophy. I guess you'll also like the program, just don't follow their suggestions out on the road.
Could be better May 14, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very flashy but falls short in several areas. You can't define specific villages or cities for display. You can get around it by cobbling together small areas within the town (blocks) but why should you have to? I'd like to be able to say draw me X, Y and Z village. Then draw my county, etc. The maps are in a comic quality making it hard to use for presentation purposes. Really just good for checking out areas, not for real business needs. I miss the more [costly] packages.
 I suppose it's okay..... February 13, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If it's what you need, it may work well. Unfortunately, it was a waste of money for my company and our needs. We need to be able to define worldwide territories as well as a few within the US, and it wouldn't do both. Importing from an Excel file would not work for both the US and other international regions. Further, it took up nearly a full gigabyte of hard drive.
 Excellent mapping product but... with one exception. December 24, 2002
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have used MapPoint for about three years now and I just upgraded. Overall, it is an excellent, full-featured product that is very intuitive and easy to use. I use MapPoint along with a full-blown professional ArcView-based GIS system. I find that MapPoint allows me to perform "quick and dirty" and relatively simple GIS tasks without having to get into the more complicated and time consuming - albeit more capable - ArcView GIS system. Truth is, I could probably rely completely on MapPoint except for one shortfall in the program. You can only create customized boundaries based on the pre-existing included boundaries (Census Tracts, Zip Code areas, etc.). For example, rather than being able to go in and create a boundary around a neighborhood, I have to conform this "custom" boundary to something like Zip code boundaries or census tracts, etc. that are inluded in MapPoint. Microsoft, include this feature in MapPoint 2003 and you will get 10-stars!
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