DrivingEnthusiast.net Prior Blog Posts by Date DRIVING: that's what it's ALL ABOUT! A blog and website for automotive driving enthusiasts, featuring my interests as I see them: news and opinion about manufacturers of interest, significant enthusiast cars, and driving them hard and well. May 2006 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       Apr   Jun RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net Index of prior posts by title Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date. Wednesday, May 03, 2006    Aftermarket in-car GPS - Microsoft Streets & Trips   Personally, I'm not too interested in these types of units - for now. This is an area of intense technological development... and these will IMHO hit obsolescense very quickly. So, instead, I use Microsoft Streets & Trips, which has no route directions whatsoever (the 2006 version has an arrow for directional purposes, but that's all). All you get here is a map, and you have to draw line son it to determine a route in advance. This actually works for me - for example on business trips I know the destination in advance and can follow a pre-drawn route while in my rental car. After an "incident" of getting lost on my way to a customer, I had been looking for a GPS unit for years when I encountered some earlier software... all of which had fussy GPS requirements and quirky software. That is past history, since now S&T can even come (optionally) with a GPS unit. I haven't been lost since... this is invaluable. I also use it to plot drives that I lead... I have a "master" map with interesting routes in Central Texas that I can pull from. As some of you saw in the recent Solstice drive, I can lead the drive using S&T and make any changes necessary in real time - as well as estimate arrival time at the end. Again, invaluable. View and add comments: Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[] Permalink for this post:  See similar posts in these categories: GeekZone - Microsoft Search for similar posts on the web: Google It! RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net About DrivingEnthusiast.net
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