Microsoft Streets and Trips
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Microsoft Streets & Trips 2013 startup screen
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| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Last release |
2013 (19.00.18.2600) / July 1, 2012
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| Development status | Discontinued |
| Operating system | Windows XP and later |
| Platform | IA-32 |
| Size | 1.4 GB |
| Type | Route planning software |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | microsoft |
Microsoft Streets & Trips, known in other countries as Microsoft Autoroute, is a discontinued mapping program developed and distributed by Microsoft. Functionally the latest version is a subset of Microsoft MapPoint targeted at the average consumer to do a variety of map related tasks in the North American region including the United States, Canada, and Mexico, such as route planning.
Its primary competitor is DeLorme, particularly its Street Atlas series of mapping software.
The European version is marketed as Microsoft AutoRoute and covers all of Europe, including European Russia, as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Cyprus and all of Turkey. AutoRoute is also produced in several European languages besides English.
Streets & Trips 2006 and later versions install the new text-to-speech voice, "Microsoft Anna", which is part of Windows Vista, onto Windows XP computers for the voice-prompt direction feature. Version 2006 of both Streets & Trips as well as AutoRoute is the last version for Windows 98 / Me and version 2007 is the last version for Windows 2000.
Version 2008 (and older) included 336 pushpin symbols. The new version 2009 replaced these symbols with a new set of 46 pushpins. The Streets and Trips user community thus created a default map template wihich has the 2008 pin set in order to re-add them to the program. The former pushpins were restored in the 2010 version with updated visual styling.
Streets & Trips 2009 adds pronunciation of street names, as part of the voice directions prompts. The map of Mexico now includes street level data of even small towns, but the address-find feature still has not been enabled for there.
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