GPS for Dummies.pdf - Engineering Surveyor

208Part III: Digital Mapping on Your ComputerMicrosoft Streets & TripsMicrosoft’s Streets & Trips is a popular alternative to DeLorme’s software. Theprogram has all the basic street navigation features, including some advancedfeatures such as saving a map as a Web page, downloading current road constructioninformation from the Internet, and creating drive time zones (suchas show me all the places I can drive to from a certain location in under an hour).The software is easy to use and comes bundled with Pocket Streets, the PocketPC version of Streets & Trips. See Figure 12-9 for a screenshot of the user interface.To discover more about Streets & Trips, go to www.microsoft.com/streets.Rand McNally StreetFinder &TripMaker DeluxeRand McNally, in the map business for over 130 years, is one of the mainproviders of U.S. paper street maps and road atlases. The StreetFinder &TripMaker Deluxe software package provides all the features you’d expectin a street navigation program, along with Mobile Travel Guide ratings forhotels and restaurants and suggested scenic tours and one-day driving trips.To read more about the product, go to www.randmcnally.com.Figure 12-9:Streets &Trips userinterfacewith a mapdisplayingan address.