Microsoft MapPoint 2002

Microsoft MapPoint 2002

 
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Product Description:

Business users seeking the shortest route between two points-of-purchase should examine Microsoft MapPoint 2002. It has all the standard features a business map user would expect--place finder, route planner, mileage calculator, and so on--but also permits extensive data manipulation throughout the United States and Canada.

Installation is a breeze, and setting up the program to any user's specifications should take only a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the nature of imported data. Once it's running, MapPoint will pay for itself quickly with improved sales and marketing reports, trip planning, and projections. The interface will be intimately familiar to Office users, so importing and exporting files and data is painless. The look and feel of other Office-suite programs is preserved--the learning curve of nonstandard tools and features is quite gentle.

One extremely powerful new feature is territory creation, which allows user-defined, overlaying boundaries that are simple to create manually or compose from pre-existing data. Combining territorial categories with the vast reams of census and demographic data contained within MapPoint should yield plenty of fresh business ideas. Nonbusiness users should pick up some much cheaper trip planning software; the most expensive features of MapPoint will offer little of value to them. --Rob Lightner

Product Details
  • Binding: CD-ROM
  • Brand: Microsoft
  • EAN: 0659556682057
  • Edition: Full
  • Format: CD-ROM
  • HardwarePlatform: PC
  • Label: Microsoft Software
  • Manufacturer: Microsoft Software
  • Model: B21-00249
  • MPN: B21-00249
  • OperatingSystem: Windows NT
  • PackageQuantity: 1
  • ProductGroup: Software
  • ProductTypeName: SOFTWARE
  • Publisher: Microsoft Software
  • ReleaseDate: 2001-06-11
  • Studio: Microsoft Software
  • UPC: 659556682057

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Customer Reviews

Leave some things in the dust2005-03-21
I was testing the program, and it was interesting, but still it's not up to date. I looked for a town of 1,000 residents in California, and it wasnt there. I then looked for a town of less than 20, and it was there. Very weird.
amazing program until you get burned2004-07-27
I've been using this program for 3 years. I like many of its features and I used it for many many long and short trips. I wrongly assumed that the data is accurate, so I didn't react when the reality was a little different than the Mappoint results. Unfortunately on a couple of occasions the program fooled me into much longer trips (how about a 600-mile mappoint compared to 400 miles from Mapquest?) For the last year I never trusted anything from the program, I always do the 2 point route with Yahoo or mapquest and then enter it street by street in mappoint, I don't trust it for more than 1 corner. Mappoint gives you options to design the route based on some preferences, but in almost all cases that would use some local roads the result will be 20-30% longer than a yahoo/mapquest result. It seems to be able to find the worst solution over and over again. Otherwise a great program! I was looking for an updated version and reading reviews about streets and trips 2004 I realized that it seems to be their philosophy. I guess you'll also like the program, just don't follow their suggestions out on the road.
Could be better2003-05-14
Very flashy but falls short in several areas. You can't define specific villages or cities for display. You can get around it by cobbling together small areas within the town (blocks) but why should you have to? I'd like to be able to say draw me X, Y and Z village. Then draw my county, etc. The maps are in a comic quality making it hard to use for presentation purposes. Really just good for checking out areas, not for real business needs. I miss the more [costly] packages.
I suppose it's okay.....2003-02-12
If it's what you need, it may work well. Unfortunately, it was a waste of money for my company and our needs. We need to be able to define worldwide territories as well as a few within the US, and it wouldn't do both. Importing from an Excel file would not work for both the US and other international regions. Further, it took up nearly a full gigabyte of hard drive.
Excellent mapping product but... with one exception.2002-12-23
I have used MapPoint for about three years now and I just upgraded. Overall, it is an excellent, full-featured product that is very intuitive and easy to use.

I use MapPoint along with a full-blown professional ArcView-based GIS system. I find that MapPoint allows me to perform "quick and dirty" and relatively simple GIS tasks without having to get into the more complicated and time consuming - albeit more capable - ArcView GIS system.

Truth is, I could probably rely completely on MapPoint except for one shortfall in the program. You can only create customized boundaries based on the pre-existing included boundaries (Census Tracts, Zip Code areas, etc.).

For example, rather than being able to go in and create a boundary around a neighborhood, I have to conform this "custom" boundary to something like Zip code boundaries or census tracts, etc. that are inluded in MapPoint.

Microsoft, include this feature in MapPoint 2003 and you will get 10-stars!

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