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<font face="Arial">Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 is now out.
Along with the usual Microsoft feature upcreap (it now has talking
turn-by-turn navigation prompts), it has an updated road data base. I
verified that several major roads and a freeway extension that didn't
show in the Denver, CO area (caused me considerable confusion when I
was in the area last week) in the 2005 version are there in the 2006
version. <br>
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UIview users using the UIpoint add-on with MapPoint, or APRSpoint users
(APRSpoint uses MapPoint directly as it's display system) can use
Streets as an inexpensive update to the road data in the now nearly
three-year-old data set in MapPoint 2004. <br>
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I posted several months ago about using Streets 2005 as an update for
MapPoint. (The original post is re-quoted below). I have just tested
and verified that Streets 2006 WILL update MapPoint North America
exactly the same way that Streets 2005 did. <br>
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I have not yet been able to get a copy of Automap 2006 (Automap is
essentially the European version of Streets & Trips) to verify that
it can update the Euro version of MapPoint 2002/2004. Automap 2005
DID work to update MapPoint Europe 2002/2004.<br>
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***** Cheap Way To Update MapPoint 2004 With Newer Road Data
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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 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 (other places are selling it for $40 with one of
those nuiscence $10 mail-in rebates). 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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