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Microsoft MapPoint 2006 Standard Edition
Thursday, 07. January 2010. 09:53
- Use updated geographic and demographic data sets in MapPoint to display trends and illustrate key points on maps.
- New Driving Guidance takes your location from a connected GPS device and combines it with a route you have created to give you voice-prompted driving directions.
- Group common areas and overlay key information to these regions with maps that you create maps.
- Create maps with your own data. Step-by-step instructions guide you through applying your sales information and demographic variables to a variety of map types.
Product Description
MapPoint 2006 combines powerful data mapping, information analysis, and communication tools with the simplicity of the Microsoft Office System. Make smarter business decisions and spend more time with customers using MapPoint 2006 to analyze data and integrate rich location information into Outlook. This edition does NOT include a GPS device…. More >>
Microsoft MapPoint 2006 Standard Edition
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January 7th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Mappoint is a great product but I don’t understand why there aren’t more city maps for Mexico included. This product is supposed to be for North America, to which Mexico belongs. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon and Mexico City were improved this time but it is very disappointing that the other major cities are still just shown as crossroads,
Rating: 4 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
All I want is a political map of the world with a group of 60 countries on it shaded. There is little control over shades — I have a choice of sixteen colors for my group of shaded countries. That’s it — and oddly, none of them are colors I would willingly choose. The map is labeled not only by country names but also by certain states in the United States. There is no way to turn off this labeling. For my simple purposes, this program is unusable.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Once I began defining the territories, using the US census geographic unit, my system crashed. I was not even halfway through the process. Microsoft’s suggestions were to uninstall and reinstall but this did not fix the problem. Currently I am able to use about half of the functionality. I am very unhappy with this purchase.
Rating: 1 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
This product is fine if you do not want to print your map. I created a territory and added locations via the pushpins. At a lower zoom level, my pushpins overlap and are unreadable. I wanted to print the whole territory at a certain zoom level to allow veiwing of all the pushpins without overlap onto however many pages it takes. This is not possible. It will only print what you see on your screen. If you want to print your whole map, you literally have to save your screen view into a graphic file, scroll to the next area, save it as well and repeat until you have saved your entire territory. Once you have saved the whole map in peices, you can print all your files and tape them together to make one big map. Ridiculous!!
Rating: 2 / 5
January 7th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
There is a lot of meat to this product; identify drive times from a certain location, overlay income or other demographic info and convert selected areas into zip codes and export to Excel. Export maps in Word with push pins showing the location of important locations for others without MapPoint. Not particularly easy to learn and the book MapPoint for Dummies is an earlier version. Still, its a powerful program with great tools.
Rating: 4 / 5