Microsoft MapPoint 2009

Product Description:
MAPPOINT 2009 WIN32 SNGL DVD NORTH AMERICAN MAPS DVD

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MapPoint 2009 gives you the power to visualize business data and communicate insights with instant impact. Before you hit the road, plug in your stops and MapPoint plots the most efficient course with turn-by-turn driving directions. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator adds routing and directions to easily plan your trips and track your location in real-time.

Business Mapping Made Simple
Microsoft MapPoint 2009 gives you the power to visualize business data, communicate insights with instant impact, and integrate maps into the work you do in Microsoft Office. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator adds routing and directions to easily plan your trips and track your location in real-time.

MapPoint 2009 makes it easy for organizations to visualize their business in a whole new way:

• Map business data.
  Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography.
• Identify new business opportunities.
  Combine business data with included demographics to target potential customers and focus decisions.

MapPoint 2009 helps you streamline your travel:

• Arrive on time.
  Detailed directions--voice* and text-prompted--make it easy to follow your route.
• Optimize your trip.
  Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance.
• Easy-to-see navigation.
  Track your route in real-time in Full Screen display.* Change to the special Night Map display with a single click.

MapPoint 2009 makes it easy to use maps in combination with your Microsoft Office documents:

• Tell a story, visually.
  Insert maps into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations to illustrate everything from sales performance and customer locations to new business opportunities.
• Tap into existing data sources
  Create maps from data stored in current versions of Office Excel, Office Access, Office Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server, or other database sources.
• Extend your business.
  Take advantage of the extensible MapPoint object model to build custom business solutions such as fleet tracking and business intelligence.
• Map business data.
  Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography.

New and Improved Features

MapPoint 2009 builds upon the success of MapPoint 2006 with:

• Refreshed data.
  Use updated geographic and demographic data sets in MapPoint to display trends and illustrate key points on maps.
• Optimize your trip.
  Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance.
• Send to mobile.
  Send point-of-interest and "business card" details such as addresses and phone numbers to your mobile device.
• Advanced GPS features.
  New full-screen navigation mode with driving guidance tracks your route and provides turn-by-turn directions--including spoken street names.
• Zoom with a view.
  Use the new Navigation view option* to see a perspective map road view of your route.
• Enhanced Live Search.
  Quickly find listings when online and add them to a route. Use descriptive words such as "coffee" and "restaurant" to find points near your location.
• Updated user interface.
  Streamlined redesign simplifies tasks and improves usability while driving.

* GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later.

Features:

• Updated maps--New geographic and demographic data
• Data mapping--Use maps to visualize the meaning of your data
• Custom territories--Define your own delivery or sales areas
• Programming--Build custom solutions and Office add-ins
• Go mobile--Send addresses and phone numbers to your mobile device

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Useful data visualization tool
This software is quite useful for visualizing business data on a North American map.It has three primary functions that help accomplish this goal.

First, it allows for "territories" to be assigned by region.This makes it possible to highlight areas of interest (for example territory by salesperson) and then visualize those regions on one map.

Second, it is also possible to add sales data to the map by importing a file (.txt .xls etc).This function offers several different ... Read More
Rating: - Good But Very Expensive
Works great with SQL and Access databases. Built-in demographic data can be combined with your own company data to produce almost unlimited maps.However, this is quite an expensive product and I'm sure you could find something cheaper that does just as well.

Rating: - This product is great for business, overkill for personal use
I've wanted MapPoint for about four years now but had hesitated to purchase because I wasn't sure it was worth the price. After using it for two days now, and going through the tutorials, I realize just how powerful this software is.

For the average home user looking for a routing solution, this is overkill. Just stick with Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 or Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 with GPS, or for free, use google maps or mapquest.

This software is integrated with the US ... Read More
Rating: - Won't install natively on Mac OSX Leopard or via Crossover
This program will not install on a Mac running OSX (only) or via "Crossover."

It may install just fine on a Mac using Bootcamp or Parallels, and I'll update this review if successful at that.But, since I have not needed to use either of those interfaces on my Mac for more than three years (everything else "just works"), it seems a little burdensome to boot into Windows just to use MapPoint 2009.

Having a native OSX interface would be the best.However, many "Windows only" ... Read More
Rating: - Not your mom's map!
First off, Microsoft MapPoint 2009 is NOT a Google Maps wanna be. Yes they can both be used to map out trips. Yes, they can both be used to find nearby businesses. But for me, that is where the similarity ends. Only a few years ago to map out demographic data took months of research and the hand recreation of data onto a map. With MapPoint 2009 a click of a button imports select US Census data and automatically overlays that information on the map. Tie this with the software's ability to define territories ... Read More