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Marvin Hlavac · 05-29-2005, 04:27 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Bugbyte

Microsoft Streets and Trips

Cons - NOT TS friendly, small text, no turn by turn voice guided directions, no 3d view, trouble integrating it into CF, no OSK. Requires you to manually start the GPS tracking each time the program is launched. No way to change bright map colors, making it wash out in sun.

I agree with all of the above, so there is no need to edit it ;-) I just have a couple of additional pieces of information to consider.

1. Since the release of the 2005 version, which introduced improved GPS functionality, the most requested feature appears to be the turn by turn voice prompts, so chances are good Microsoft has listened to the masses and the upcoming 2006 version may bring us a pleasant surprise.

2. S&T 05 does not have night color theme, but there are a couple of less known ways to help this a bit. View one picture >>here<<

3. Perhaps S&T could be made more touch screen friendly and more usable to carputer community by modifications by ResHacker. Dumpper, a member of gpspassion.com has discovered how. In the past I opened the EXE file and there was almost nothing that I could do, but Dumpper today found we have to ignore the EXE and we have to go somewhere else... Read more >>here<<

05-29-2005, 04:27 PM	#29
Marvin Hlavac Maximum Bitrate Join Date: May 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 844	Quote: Originally Posted by Bugbyte Microsoft Streets and Trips Cons - NOT TS friendly, small text, no turn by turn voice guided directions, no 3d view, trouble integrating it into CF, no OSK. Requires you to manually start the GPS tracking each time the program is launched. No way to change bright map colors, making it wash out in sun. I agree with all of the above, so there is no need to edit it ;-) I just have a couple of additional pieces of information to consider. 1. Since the release of the 2005 version, which introduced improved GPS functionality, the most requested feature appears to be the turn by turn voice prompts, so chances are good Microsoft has listened to the masses and the upcoming 2006 version may bring us a pleasant surprise. 2. S&T 05 does not have night color theme, but there are a couple of less known ways to help this a bit. View one picture >>here<< 3. Perhaps S&T could be made more touch screen friendly and more usable to carputer community by modifications by ResHacker. Dumpper, a member of gpspassion.com has discovered how. In the past I opened the EXE file and there was almost nothing that I could do, but Dumpper today found we have to ignore the EXE and we have to go somewhere else... Read more >>here<<