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<font face="Arial"> Cheap Way To Update MapPoint 2004 With Newer
Road Data<br>
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If you are using Microsoft MapPoint with either UIview/UIpoint, or
with APRSpoint, this can update your MapPoint database very
inexpensively. <br>
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I just found out about this on a MapPoint developers' message board.
All statements below about Streets & Trips apply to AutoRoute as
well. [ AutoRoute is the European version of the product called
Streets & Trips in North America. ]<br>
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Microsoft Streets & Trips is the feature-limited consumer-oriented
"lite" version of MS MapPoint. However both programs use the same
raw data files for drawing their respective maps.<br>
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A new version of the consumer Streets & Trips is issued every year,
but MapPoint is only updated every other year on the even years (2002,
2004, 2006...). <br>
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To update MapPoint 2004 with 2005 road data, purchase a copy of Streets
& Trips 2005. At the present time, this is available at Wal-Mart in
the U.S. for USD $30. Do the full install that places all the data on
the hard disk, rather than running from the CD. Under the main
Streets program directory, locate the sub-directory \DATA . Select
and copy all the files in this directory to the corresponding \DATA
directory under the main directory for MapPoint 2004. 14 files,
totalling about 1GB, will be overwritten with like-named files. [You
may want to make a backup copy of the \DATA directory before
overwriting it. Call it something like "DATA.2004" .]<br>
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You can then uninstall Streets & Trips to recover the
approximately 1 GB of disk space used by it. Or you may wish to leave
it installed since it's built-in GPS handler for stand-alone (non-APRS)
real-time moving map displays is so vastly superior to the GPS driver
in MapPoint. <br>
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Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf (at) aol.com<br>
EchoLink Node: 14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]<br>
Home Page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.com">http://wa8lmf.com</a><br>
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"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/DigiPaths">http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/DigiPaths</a><br>
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Updated APRS Symbol Chart<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/miscinfo/APRS_Symbol_Chart.pdf">http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/miscinfo/APRS_Symbol_Chart.pdf</a> <br>
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New/Updated "Rev G" APRS <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs">http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs</a><br>
Symbols Set for UI-View,<br>
UIpoint and APRSplus:<br>
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