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. Streets & Trips 2009 also added pronunciation of street names, as part of the voice directions prompts. The former pushpins were restored in the 2010 version but still with the newer visual styling. In response to this, the Streets and Trips user community created a default map template which has the 2008 pin set in order to re-add them to the program. Streets & Trips 2009 replaced these symbols with a new set of 46 pushpins and removed many pushpins, besides reducing their contrast. Streets & Trips 2008 (and older) included 336 pushpin symbols and they were easy to spot due to the use of bright colors. Streets & Trips 2008 added online services integration like MSN Direct and Live Search Maps for current traffic updates, and an automatic re-routing feature if the driver missed a turn or took a wrong turn. 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. The GPS version of Streets & Trips 2006 introduced voice-prompted directions, a hands-free option with turn-by-turn directional information/ All versions starting with 2006 and later install the new text-to-speech voice, " Microsoft Anna" on Windows XP, which is part of Windows Vista, for the voice-prompt direction feature. Streets & Trips 2005 significantly improved the GPS features with an on-screen compass and support for USB plug and play GPS receivers. Streets & Trips 2004 added drive-time zones, a feature to see on a map how far you could travel within a specified amount of time. Like every yearly update, Streets & Trips 20 were also database updates with Streets & Trips 2003 adding more than 300,000 miles of streets and highways. Streets & Trips 2002 added a Pocket Streets for Windows CE devices. Streets & Trips 2001 dropped the travel guide but added the ability to run without the CD by copying all the map data to the disk drive. Like Expedia Trip Planner, it also included a travel guide with pictures and information on points of interest and tourist spots for a particular address. Streets & Trips 2000 was the first version combining the 2 separate products. History of releases with Streets & Trips branding The technology was also used in MSN Maps which later became Bing Maps. In 2000, Microsoft also developed Microsoft MapPoint as a business mapping program for geographic analysis, based on this technology. After Microsoft spun off Expedia, later releases were rebranded as Microsoft Streets & Trips. In 2000, they were merged into a single product called Microsoft Expedia Streets & Trips 2000. During these early versions, core new features were added like updated maps, pushpins, weather, traffic and construction updates. These were produced as two distinct products under the Microsoft Home division and were later rebranded for a few releases as Expedia Streets, Expedia Streets Deluxe and Expedia Trip Planner. Automap Road Atlas was later rebranded in a future release as Automap Trip Planner. The initial products were 16-bit with Automap Streets Plus 5.0 (1997 version) being the first 32-bit version. In Europe, the Autoroute brand was retained. Microsoft combined the Encarta World Atlas Mapping Technology with new routing technology derived from Autoroute to create Automap Streets/Streets Plus and Automap Road Atlas products. In 1994, the product was sold to Microsoft. The company created a version for the United States called Automap Road Atlas which it sold through its American subsidiary Automap Inc. In the early 1990s, it was ported to the Microsoft Windows operating system. Originally released by NextBase Ltd in the 1988, a UK company, under the name "Autoroute", it was sold for DOS based PCs and later for the Apple Macintosh, Atari ST and Psion PDA. AutoRoute was also produced in several European languages besides English. The European version is branded as Microsoft AutoRoute and covers all of Europe, including European Russia, as well as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Cyprus and all of Turkey. Its primary competitor was DeLorme, particularly its Street Atlas series of mapping software. It was originally developed by NextBase Ltd., which was acquired by Microsoft in 1994. Functionally, the last 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. Microsoft Streets & Trips, known in other countries as Microsoft AutoRoute, is a discontinued mapping program developed and distributed by Microsoft.
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