What to do when your navigation product costs almost as much as a cheap portable navigation device but requires a laptop for use in the car? Bring out a version with a simpler, USB key GPS module. That’s Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 with GPS Locater. It’s just over $50 street price, vs. $65-$90 for the same software with a GPS module on a long USB cable.
The software works just the same as on other versions of Streets & Trips 2009 that we’ve reviewed earlier in the year. It’s a great convenience on a laptop and has some benefits over online trip planning software. It also has some quirks that have crept into recent versions of S&T. For instance, zooming is much less precise than in versions from the middle of the decade: Now, you press + or – keys to zoom, rather than grab the area with your mouse and zoom to the precise size of the bounding box.
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