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Old 10-22-04 | 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by vrkelley
err... Beware of Mapppoint. Many of the maps have errors on one layer (like when you zoom) and not on another. I've found that parks and some streets tend to be incorrectly named or old.
I can confirm that. MapPoint got me lost in a town I didn't know so well by incorrectly labelling a road on the wrong side of the highway from where I wanted to go. I'll never trust it again for important travelling.

MS Streets and Trips however is much, much better. I easily navigated towns and highways in OR and WA with S&T data downloaded to my PDA. I think the only time the paper map came out was when planning large distances and the PDA screen was
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