Microsoft MapPoint 2010 European Maps

MapPoint 2010 gives you more power to visualize business data, communicate insights with instant impact, and integrate maps into the work you do in Microsoft Office. New features include map settings to choose display details, expanded pushpins, and the ability to send routes to your GPS device.

MapPoint 2010

• Updated maps--New geographic and demographic data
• Customize map settings--Choose whether cities, highways, local roads and parks show on your map
• More pushpin images--Includes those from previous versions of MapPoint
• GPS ready--Send your route to your GPS device*
• Data mapping--Use maps to visualize the meaning of your data
• Create territories--Define your own delivery or sales areas
• Programming--Build custom solutions and Office add-ins

FEATURES

• Create maps using custom Map Settings to display your data with only the details you want to appear. Easily turn labels on or off, change font style or map style.
• Dramatically improve decision-making by bringing clarity to tabular data.
• Use information-rich maps to illuminate important data relationships, identify business trends, and illustrate opportunities.
• Create sales territories and share performance maps to clearly visualize, analyze, and communicate business information.
• Combine business data with included demographics to target potential customers and focus decisions.

MapPoint helps you streamline your travel:

• Arrive on time.
  Detailed directions--voice** and text-prompted--make it easy to follow your route.
  
  
• Optimize your trip.
  Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance.
  
  
• Navigate with ease.
  Plan your trip on your PC and then print, or send your route to your GPS device.*

MapPoint makes it easy to use maps in combination with your Microsoft Office documents:
Seamlessly integrate maps into the work you do in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Office.

• Tell a story, visually.
  Insert maps into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations to illustrate everything from sales performance and customer locations to new business opportunities.
  
  
• Tap into existing data sources
  Create maps from data stored in current versions of Office Excel, Office Access, Microsoft SQL Server, or other database sources.
  
  
• Extend your business.
  Take advantage of the extensible MapPoint object model to build custom business solutions such as fleet tracking and business intelligence.
  

* Exporting to GPS must be done via MSN Direct (subscription required) or via USB. Separate download of free plug-in may be required. Not all GPS devices are supported.
** GPS device sold separately. GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later and an available USB port.

Top Reasons to Try MapPoint
MapPoint helps you to dramatically improve decision making by bringing clarity to tabular data, to integrate maps into the work you do in Office programs, and to optimize your business travel with efficient trip planning features. And there's more.

• Visualize your sales, customer, competitor, and other data faster.
  See your business in a whole new way with information-rich maps that illuminate important data relationships, identify business trends, and illustrate opportunities. MapPoint has more than 300 unique pushpins and new labeling features to help you create a customized data map that you can save and reuse.
• Get more impact with Microsoft Office integration.
  MapPoint is designed to work with Microsoft Office--so you can easily create maps from data stored in current versions of Office Excel, Office Access, Office Outlook, Microsoft SQL Server, or other database sources. Illustrate everything from sales performance and customer locations to new business opportunities.
• Save time and gas money.
  Before you hit the road, plug in your stops and MapPoint will plot the most efficient course with turn-by-turn driving directions. Get 24-hour instant and offline access to millions of miles of accurate and current streets and highways in the United States and Canada to help you optimize your travel.
• Reduce travel stress.
  MapPoint can make your business travel easier. Plan your trip on your PC and then print, or send your route to your GPS device.* Select the roads you prefer to travel, choose areas to avoid, and define routes based on your desired travel speeds. MapPoint 2010 includes even more points of interest--from gas stations, restaurants, and hotels, to ATMs, post offices, pharmacies, and more--that you can add in when planning your trips. Navigate with ease!
• Take it with you.
  MapPoint helps you keep destination information at your fingertips with mobile integration. Send points of interest and "business card" details, such as addresses and phone numbers, to your mobile device.**
• Extend your business.
  Take advantage of the extensible MapPoint object model to build custom business solutions (such as Fleet Tracking and Business Intelligence) that use maps, driving directions, data mapping, and demographic data that comes with MapPoint.

* Sending information to a GPS device must be done via USB or MSN Direct (subscription required after trial period expires). Separate download of free plug-in may be required. Not all GPS devices are supported. See MapPoint Compatible Devices for more information.
** You may be charged a fee by your wireless provider to receive messages.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

To use MapPoint 2010, you need:

• PC with 300-MHz or faster processor clock speed
• Windows Vista with 1 GB RAM, Windows XP with 256 MB RAM, Windows Server 2008 with 512 MB RAM or Windows Server 2003 with 256 MB RAM (64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server excluded); service packs for operating systems recommended
• Available hard-disk space: 1.9 GB (some users may require up to an extra 300 MB)
• For installation of software: DVD drive or high speed Internet access
• Super VGA (1024x768) or higher resolution monitor
• Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse or compatible pointing device

Additional items or services required to use certain features:

• For Voice Output: any of the operating systems listed in the system requirements and a compatible soundcard
• Microsoft compatible email software such as Microsoft Office Outlook required to use Send to Mobile and Send To as attachment; Office Outlook 2003 or Office Outlook 2007 required to use Send To as picture
• Broadband Internet service recommended for certain features, which may require payment of a separate fee to an Internet service provider; local and/or long-distance telephone toll charges may apply
• GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later and an available USB port.
• Certain features require Internet Explorer. If not present, Internet Explorer will be installed but will not displace your primary browse

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