One other little trick about S&T 2003. One of the deliberate (built-in) limitations is its update cycle. It will only update from the GPS about every 10 seconds. As MS would say "It's not a navigation program, it's a planning and route program". So when driving a car, 10 seconds is way too long. There is a third-part hack available out there to make it update every second or so. Otherwise I agree, it's a great little program for navigating in a car. Joe Engel MS Certified Partner Portland, Oregon -----Original Message----- From: Bob Owens [mailto:tugly@i-55.com] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 12:09 PM To: Trawler List Subject: TWL: Great almost free software I'm sure others have found this already but I just purchased Microsoft's Streets and Trips 2003. Not more than 20 minutes later I plugged my Garmin 12 GPS into my laptop, drove down the street with a "map plotter" AKA Chart plotter with all of the roads, streets, etc for ALL of the US including Alaska and Canada. SNIP

I've been using DeLorme Street Atlas in a similar fashion to Bob and it seems to update about once a second, and has voice output of route data, e.g., "turn right .1 mile, 3rd street". It's more expensive, though. Hal > -----Original Message----- > From: trawler-world-list-bounces@lists.samurai.com > [mailto:trawler-world-list-bounces@lists.samurai.com] On > Behalf Of Joe Engel > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:31 PM > To: Trawler List > Subject: TWL: RE: Great almost free software > > > One other little trick about S&T 2003. One of the deliberate > (built-in) limitations is its update cycle. It will only > update from the GPS about every 10 seconds. As MS would say > "It's not a navigation program, it's a planning and route > program". So when driving a car, 10 seconds is way too long. > There is a third-part hack available out there to make it > update every second or so. >