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Review by Jonathan Birge
Microsoft suffers from a common tech industry delusion: they think a PC is pretty much a good interface for anything. This explains the otherwise inexplicable fact that Microsoft is actually marketing this software for in-car navigation. I don’t know about you, but I have neither the space nor the intention to be running a laptop in my car while I drive.
Having said that, the software still has a place on the desktop, the advent of Google Earth notwithstanding. S&T is still much faster at rendering than Google Earth, given the simpler nature of the vector data it’s showing and the related fact that all of the mapping data is stored locally on your drive. It’s also superior for planning and routing driving trips.
I can’t argue with the others who claim to have found inaccuracies, but for my part, I have found no serious problems with the database.