Microsoft AutoRoute Europe 2007 | 
| From: Microsoft Software
Buy New: $39.95
Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 268
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1296358
Model: 689-00901
UPC: 882224256193
EAN: 0882224256193
ASIN: B000JK64B0
Release Date: October 31, 2006
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| Features:
| • | Customizable trip-planning software and maps for Europe | | • | Provides accurate driving directions; map coverage of 37+ countries | | • | Instantly find more than 747,000 points of interest | | • | Import contacts from Microsoft Office Outlook and Office Excel | | • | Add multiple destinations with simple drag-and-drop controls |
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Product Description
Going to Europe
Use Microsoft AutoRoute 2007, the customizable route planning software that provides accurate driving directions and helps you easily explore new areas, so you can make the most of your trip in Europe. With more personalized trip planning features than major online mapping sites and map coverage of more than 37 countries, AutoRoute 2007 gets you where youre going quickly, easily, and without all the guesswork.
Instantly find more than 747,000 points of interest such as hotels, restaurants, ATMs, museums, campgrounds, and more. Live Search makes it easy to find current business listings when youre online then take them with you on the road.
Get accurate, detailed door-to-door directions along 3.9 million miles of road and motorway throughout Europe.
Plan breaks, scenic detours and petrol stops you can even add multiple destinations or quickly alter your route with simple drag-and-drop controls. Personalize your maps with drawings, notes and pushpins to mark important information. Import your contacts into your maps and routes directly from Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Office Excel .
Use your customized travel guide on-screen as you go, or print it out in a variety of helpful formats. You can even e-mail it to your friends or post it online!
All this at your fingertips, online or off:
Personal Driving Profile.Plot your own route with flexible trip planning options such as personalized start times, driving speeds, rest stops even preferred types of roads.
New! Increased map coverage for Eastern Europe and updated maps for Western Europe. New countries covered include: Andorra, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Lativia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia. 37 European countries in all.
Voice-Prompted Directions. Hear turn-by-turn directions, with an easy-to-use, hands-free guidance system.
New! Full Screen navigation with driving
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 Tremendous! January 21, 2007
Phlogiston (West Hartford, CT USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
As far as GPS software goes, there is nothing better available than Streets & Trips and AutoRoute. There are dozens of features that you can't find with the self-contained GPS units. It is easy to add multiple stops and to optimize them into the best order, night-view is another great feature, as are the topographical maps. The new feature offered this year, of easy-linking to satellite photos of places on the map, is also a welcome addition.
The only reason I'm giving it a four is because of the following:
1) There is STILL no ground-level or 3D view of the roads for use in the GPS function
2) They still haven't added an option to exclude roads that ban trucks or commercial traffic form using them.
3) There isn't a lot of coverage for Eastern European countries, most notably, nothing in Russia.
Nonetheless, it is still better than any other GPS software on the market.
 Helpful, But Beware of Idiosyncrasies December 5, 2006
Nat Roadrunner (Phoenix, AZ USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Our experience with AutoRoute 2006 while traveling the UK and Ireland left us with the feeling that we were glad we had it but disappointed in its performance. Initially, its calculations of the "quickest route" led us on very narrow, one-lane, two-way roads--at least they were paved. We learned to be very wary of its directing us onto "local roads" instead of staying on numbered highways. A good map became an essential help in pre-evaluating AutoRoute's recommendations. Also disappointing was the degradation of some features; for example the "add pushpin markers" feature stopped working after we used it only a few times. Also, we could not zoom-in the map while using the Provide Driving Guidance feature, which uses GPS Tracking.
Microsoft AutoRoute Europe 2007 February 19, 2007
Scott Mcneilly (Bridgewater, MA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
AutoRoute Europe, not surprisingly, is very similar to Microsoft Streets and Trips. It is easy to use, the maps are very legible, and it has many convenient features such as distance measuring and route marking (highlighting), trip planner, etc. It seems to lack some of the detail of Streets and Trips. For example, it could not find Via Martinuzzo in Reggello, Italy. I believe the street appears on the map, but is unnamed. However, this is minor. Most of what you would be looking for is available and easily found. (I had no problems finding streets in Germany, even in small towns like Wittingen.) All in all, a very good product.
with the GPS locator device, its quite great May 12, 2007
techmannn (New York, NY United States)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I recently used this software and GPS while driving extensively around Scotland (never been there before). The only important issue is that you need another person in the car to keep an an occasional eye on what's happening on the laptop if you're in a new country and arent familiar with at least some of the roads.
I would plan the route the night before and mapping that out was a breeze. When first learning the software, it takes a good hour of one's time to figure out all of the different things the sofwtare can do but the basics can be learned in 30 minutes.
It was VERY handy if we went offroute to simply press one button to give us directions to get back on route. In our over 1000 miles of driving in Scotland, this software only goofed once when creating driving directions and it was an obvious goof that was easy to see and fix.
Faults? The GPS hardware was perfect. No complaints there. The software knows streets of course but it doesnt understand street addresses like 28 Main Street. It will only get you to Main Street. So you need to know the cross street of whereever you want to go. You can learn that info simply using any on-line maps (which do undertsand street addresses).
Over all, we never had to look at a paper driving map ONCE. As long as I planned my waypoints the might before, there was no problem getting to where we wanted to go.
If you are somewhat patient with yourself learning how to use new software, and you'll be traveling with someone, you really should check out Autoroute.
 Defective Product March 29, 2007
MA Peter (MA, USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I just installed AutoRoute 2007. There is a feature in AutoRoute where you can display various places of interest on the map. In this version, for some installations you can not hide restaurants. This has been reported on the Microsoft UK AutoRoute community website. I loaded the program on a second computer with the same result. Both systems run Window XP Pro. This means for certain cities, like Paris, at certain magnifications, the map is completely cluttered with small green squares which indicate the location of a restaurant. MicroSoft only indicates that they will enter this bug into the work request for the next version of AutoRoute. They also say earlier versions were not affected. You may want to buy 2007 but check out your ability to show/hide all of the items of interest right away and be prepared to be dissappointed. I am going to try finding AutoRoute 2006 for sale.
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