10 Best Mapping Software -

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Drew Sikora has been active in the games industry since 2001, when he co-founded the NJ North IGDA chapter with Darrell Porcher, which has since grown to become one of the leading IGDA chapters in the world. He’s been involved with GameDev.net since 2000, becoming Executive Producer in 2006 and working hard with his team of awesome people to make GameDev.net a valuable resource for game developers of all trades.
He’s also worked with Game Institute since its conception in 2001, supporting the growing community, managing live seminars on game development topics by experienced industry members and judging the institute’s regular game programming challenges. His past writing credits include three chapters in Game Design Perspectives (published by Charles River Media), contributing to and editing the GameDev.net Collection series (Published by Cengage), and well over 100 articles and interviews published on GameDev.net covering industry events and game development topics. Since 2008 he’s been mentoring students attending the GDC as part of the IGDA’s scholarship program.
When he’s not doing anything industry-related, he can be found practicing martial arts, bouncing high on trampoline or tumbling, doing stuntwork, playing his Playstation3, driving really fast in his car or on his motorcycle, hanging with friends.
Specialties: C/C++ Programming, TorqueScript, management
Mapping Software - Comparison Table

Top Customer Reviews
Top Customer Reviews: Microsoft MapPoint ...
Are really dissappointed in Microsoft and his lack of attention to details and accuracy for city and of the Canadian cities. Unless you are using he for locations of EUA so only, does not purchase this product. Prpers Having said this, continuous purchase the plot of products of Microsoft,(I continuous use Streets of CUPS and Travesas), but this compraventa tries the Microsoft still can dip out of the uselessness.
Does not squander your money!
Top Customer Reviews: Rand McNally - ...
Top Customer Reviews: Microsoft Streets ...
has had concerns that an old version would not upload to the mine new YOU, as well as when being able to register a tone of product. After the stubborn start with installation, took it finally loaded and has registered a tone of product. Of of the this was so only the $ 13 risk with S H, has had really he at all partorisca lose if it has not done. Like this happy that can still run this a same way to the equal that have done always. I have laughed in a map of time at night new, which is brilliant of the green streets deep down black.
PROS:
- I finds it invaluable when it has to that find directions (on-the-fly), but not having wi-fi access. You can pull on the map anywhere of the your laptop.
- A program is very flexible to print maps and directions. If no they like him to him some few directions or wants to shorten him, calm can cut him and paste the Word to modify. Besides, you can copy and maps of paste also, like this often press the map detailed of an airport and fate with has has abridged directions inbetween.
- Easy to use
- Can find tents and other elements to interest easily.
GILIPOLLAS
- Some directions of an airport are of a centre of a runway more than a terminal, and often direct you was there is not any street out of an airport. You owe that fudge with a program to do work properly.
_ Sometimes will not leave you click in the street to select the fate, reason thinks something is not there, when in the roughly new actuality has been built there.
- Some directions often are not a better street. A program does not leave you to easily vary your street. Although you clique in a interstate desire to use, some directions take you was a interstate then behind on that. Another example, travelled of Toledo OH the Auburn Collina of MINA, shot it directly on I-75, this in spite of once has taken Detroit, took was a interstate on some street of surface and then behind on for any apparent reason. This confused in fact and result in me taking has lost. This in spite of, this has said, has used NeverLost in Hertz cars long, and his directions are worse that S T.
- Few options of routing (faster, more courts, and has has selected streets so only). For example, has any option to avert strongly congested streets. They resupply constuction information, but any rerouting for construction.
- Some maps are not like this current likes some of some programs of on-line mapping (new streets disappeared).
- A GPS is relatively economic and works but is very heavy. It is hard to find the place to dip a laptop to the equal that can see he without diverting your eyes to many of a street. A sound (in full volume) is not quite strong on noise of street, and some some time used it and has has had to that do the fast stop, a laptop has been flight - like this no longer love risk. Of the extra money for a sensor of GPS has been squandered.
RODEO: Any program of mapping is perfect. This in spite of, this one looks to be worsening every year. Still it likes to of me but really it would like to see improvements of entities. A cost is usually quite economic to dip he with some defects, like this probably will continue to take one.
A note lateralmente: he no in computer of Apple.
the money. Also have the GPS Tom-Tom XXL, which adds with Travesías & of Streets.
Top Customer Reviews: MapPoint 2010 Win32 ...
A bit those that the subjects have with a product:
1) is unable to regulate a measure of bubbles of densities. It would be a lot of gain to leave an user partorisca create the bubble based in the sure distance diamater and has maintains that scrolling of measure in or era. As such, sometimes some bubbles can be distortive when that takes the different view of a map.
2) Qualified of the marcación is poor. It would like to have a focus, commentary, etc. Relating to the paricular record be available to aim in a map when printing more than that has to that look for on he in a screen or use another worksheet partorisca determine another information has associated.
In general, work, but has some simple fixed that it could do it very better.
Uses a function of territory partorisca underline zones of phase for County or code of ZIP. This cost of work, but is the little heavy. Also it finds partorisca transfer the map the Word or PowerPoint documents partorisca be more difficult that would have to be. SmartDraw Is easier and is not even the product of Microsoft.
Tones of bad register. Has has had to that the send behind .
Like my description is directed totally in the easy is partorisca use MapPoint the plots of map and a lot his data. A response: enough the dog gone easy! I have taken die of a Excel file and, less than two minutes, maps to nail to the press has had to that where my employees live during a country. This data is combined easily with, says, given of provider of slowly of health to aim empty in of the medical coverages, or to identify concentrations of people in rural vs. Urban areas.
Another Amazon reviewer there is taken on 3200 words in the description of thorough product to say has not liked the MapPoint - especially some exposures of map. A man junk is the property of another man. Has thinks that some exposures of map were extraordinary - am a lot of elections of colours to use, different methods to show given - and both on screen and in impression, has not had any question that sees a datapoints. Of course, when you are hundreds of mapping of elements of data in the tiny region, can not be able to see everything of them, but ossia where MapPoint resplandores: you can select like this you love given of volume to be showed, so that the different colours denote samples of different population.
But this has said, as obliging is an information that MapPoint churns out of data? Of course, this depends on the one who is by train for the use and so that purpose, but in my application, has produced to interest but no that earth of sobresaltos revelations. A thing that a 3200 word reviewer has said that it mark the total sense is to download a version of test and use a heck out of him for 60 days before that decides. MapPoint Is an incredibly rich program with a lot of figure that grieves poked in. It could take hours to fully for the behind all some discharges of this onion to find some separates that you read for you.
First of all, the installation is slow. Still although I have installed a program of a DVD, still continuous line to install parts of a program. Still with the connection of fast internet, downloading and installing these parts, especially .Cleaned, has taken the long time. Even more annoying is search to install a researcher of Bing and MSN Alive volume for such expensive software, but calm at least give you an option to opt was.
Have actuate first of calm can use it, and has taken four search to actuate in an internet.
A new interface is resembled one the in '04, so only with the main icons. Navigating Is clumsier, this in spite of. In MP 2004, there was it toolbar icon the one who toggled among zoom and way of casserole. If you have loved zoom in in a zone, has resisted down a key of sinister mouse and has tugged the square and clicked inner he.
In MP 2010 sinister click/the tugs is only casserole . To tug to the zoom has to that use the tugs of right/click. An only way to find this was is files of help. I do not last to find, but an unnecessary 'improvement.'
I tugs to the zoom is also whenever he the box of zoom, but sometimes spending on another dialogue.
Has the icon of map of Bing handy, and he no incumplimiento the Ossia.. It uses your incumplimiento browser, the pleasant surprise. Map of Bing defaults in sight 'Aerial', which is main on and often in b&w vs. 'Eye of Bird' that is colour and better resolution. Maps of Google, this in spite of offers better resolution and see more after further of chances.
Another interface quirk has discovered: In a esearch' box, commanded of right click (yard, copy, paste) work. In a Travesía Planner, this in spite of, his no, and has to that use some mandates of keyboard (<ctrl V>, etc).
I place in of the plans of travesía for the known fates and was quite good. Some maps are updated.
Does not have another hardware to try a gps or characteristic of mobile phone.
Him him The business this depends strongly on travel this could be a one for you. If precise simple software calm so only to plan of travesía, Streets and Travesías for roughly 1/8 a prize probably will do like this well.
does not buy this program unless it spend yours to install the disks everywhere took your computer.
Have downgraded My description of 4 stars to 1, and has deleted entirely my text of original description.
During the travesía recent, has tried open MapPoint and has received a message of error 'Your settings of register for this application has not been copied correctly'. One fijamente has aimed was to uninstall and king-install a program. A significant difficulty of then was in a street, and a lot typically lug around one installs disks for each program I own while I leave house.
This was quite bad, but comprises does sometimes lacking glitches and treated it so only until returning house. I dipped in the bad situation to the equal that have had all my maps and information of the street stored in a MapPoint program. Felizmente, GPS of mine was able to take on and everything is exited.
After returning house, in a course of a prójimo little month has tried uninstalling and king-installing a program, that follows a Microsoft on-line instructions for the clean installs. Message of same error. I then tried uninstall/reinstall, clean reg, takes everything has has saved maps, add another user and then open. Message of same error.
Spends after, contacting Microsoft directly. Unfortunately, unless has a number of paid of precise Product $ 35 for a pleasure to speak or writing to any one. A number of product is, of course, so only accessible inside a calm Paper once ploughs a program - WHICH CAN ANY ONE . If it could open a program, would not require to speak the Microsoft in the program that will not open . See a question here?
Has looked for an internet, has tried never fix and workaround listing, and coming to a conclusion after the few months of messing with this thing that although it could take it up and that careers again, would not trust it never in the not failing during another travesía of street. Like this, rendering the program of Map, which uses for TRAVESÍA, entirely useless.
Have that feels that my roots of question to do one installs of a player of EXTERNAL DVD. My laptop of the travesía does not have a DVD of INNER/CD strolls, like this ossia my only option , but have the feeling is a root of a question.
My suggestion to any one looking is or an up to date MapPoint 2011 east to so only the cost will be to use the exclusively on in the desk half, and so only yes is installing of a DVD of INNER/CD strolls.
Top Customer Reviews: Microsoft Works ...
The Arrived in perfect condition, work fabulously and are the very happy consumer . A vendor has sold his product to the equal that are happy. It has taken exactly that has loved in the prize adds so I am happy. If so only all more in the life was like this to Do them Continuazione 2005 [Old Version].
Has been impacted to find vast transmissions. His so only of the that gives you personnel like this a lot of or to the programs like has done in WS 2002 in my opinion. It was a lot, a lot disappointed. The picture is renewed TOTALLY and looks like this more has complicated. The money remained in a same. Gone of Word ( launch street of task) is a Wizard that you pre-select ways, sources, colours, letterheads etc. The calendar is one the different colour as it desk use of motive. In all the chance, which I , was scrolling the flexible, my favourite WORKS 2002 programs/of personnel concealed done in Word 2002, of my old computer to a new a, and like this far is fact so only well.
I still like an old version of Works thinks is more the friendly user, and know calm gave you more personal and programs to choose of. A lot of Glitz, the picture is REALLY DIFFERENT, but thinks that has lost more than has obtained.
Top Customer Reviews: Microsoft Streets ...
Use in ours motorhome where unit of TRADITIONAL GPS (likes Tom Tom, etc) is not practical. With the rig that is 12' big, 40' long more another 20' partorisca a tow, need more the information and I require more hands-on implication with directions. It TOPS the streets with GPS me do fault quite well in this consideration.
My main complaint with Microsoft is that they do not update never his maps. I have bought it updates every year for five years, but will do like this any plus. I have used his embedded system to inform errors, but any of one has informed the errors have been comprised in any updates. It does not trust in the to take to the location, like the rural RV parco reason is too often bad. Instead, I discharges in an allocution callejera real, And compare to some directions given me for Woodalls RV Directory of Park. In-of the locations of the city probably would do well, but date our measure, is seldom in of the cities or looking for in-of the places of cities.
Leaves to print wonderfully has detailed maps of cities that visit in ours automobiles with which estacionar a motorhome. The details comprise for estacionar spaces, restaurants, business districts, and much more. I can print anything of overviews to turn-for-directions of tower with maps.
Maintenances UPPER Streets with OPEN GPS and in front of me also although my husband driven a RV. This leave to zero in in venue diners when it is time for lunch, or maintain tabs in of the cities that can love walk by means of as the fun pause of travelling.
If simply they would update his maps, would be his person of the main sales . It has taken out of some quite tight situations.
To the Things do not like roughly that.
Has found that with which am dipped in the course (and was zoomed out of the bit while using GPS) and then try cruise it (Zoom in) a thick program 'freak was' and not aiming some names callejeros and beginning to blink (resultant useless and usable)come from the zoom in afterwards be zoomed was after awhile. The majority to time resetting a GPS has solved often this.
Also, Some Directions offers still is not always a better way to go included although you can change some settings of the street more the scarce to has has preferred streets. I often found the better or more fast way I to take to where has required to go. A software has done for an easy behind on where could go has had rodeos or incidents, closures of street and such. It was amused also to be zoomed was when in of the travesías long and see exactly where was inside a state has travelled. Fresco.
Has not gone never able to take some opinions to feed to do in a thing any @@subject that had tried and any @@subject that the time am spent to dip in all a data before my travesía. It has not looked to do for me.
A bit those that time when using in a city, a GPS there is not matched until a map exactly and was was quite bit he. It was the bit fustrating. It has not had this subjects too time, but the little, and enough for me to mention.
Micorsoft Clicar In a plea of annoying authorship (Yes, EVERYTIME) before some starts of GPS up.
To the Things like roughly that.
A map of time of the Night to drive at night are adds. Helps in your eyes that drive at night.
A Receiver of GPS really the work adds! It gives Direction, Speed, and another information adds in an easy-to-see icon. It maintains the map centred on your place or calm can owe rotating dizzing effect of a map that direction of transmissions with you.
The source of map can be easily regulated, as I can do a street appoints enormous like calm easily can see while driving.
Diagrams by heart of some maps, and a precise direction goes is to add and easy to see/read.
Owes voice to speak your by means of directions, which so only is annoying mine, but my woman has loved some directions that is spoken out of strong. Also it will aim calm in another screen in a subordinated your transmission of next direction with the bar of emotional progress in a desire subordinated . I have closed of a voice and a screen of direction mostly. Doing these frames an elder of main map and easier that see while driving. So only prendiendo attention to a main map and a colored subject of where are supposition to go is a lot enough for me.
Using your characteristic of the roll in yours tampon to touch enable you the zoom in or was easily while driving.
Ossia The global product well and give you the tool of navigation adds for you to use in yours portable in place of a typically small screen the units of GPS have CONSECRATED that it is there. For less then $ 100. On-line, really calm can any gone bad with giving this software tries he for a prize is offered in. In general I think that that it is the really ordered container for any travesía concealed from time to time. NO MORE MAPS of PAPER Or TAKING LOST FOR me!!
FYI: Purchasing a speaker of EXTERNAL AMPLIFIED PC would be a lot of value of the money of the speakers of notebook are to soft to be listened well in a noise of street while travelling in 65/70 MPH.
Is driving And expect a functionality would take of the much more expensive GPS, forget it. If has more in a car the one who can cruised a software for you, then are adds.
For judge of the exited like this big the screen like your laptop resupplies. A software takes the small taking used to. It would recommend to take the pocolos travel short with him before the use in a travesía of entity. It learns to drive to a next plus McDonalds. Figure out of that to do misses the turn . A software is good but is not to perfect calm so much has to that accept the little gotchas. They like him some of some other descriptions have indicated, a voice can be the little low - no the question this in spite of if any another that an engine is navigating a software. Calm sometimes will take instruction to leave a start - and is in a far sinister route and does not have a time and distance for the do.
In everything, this in spite of, has very characteristic for a money and once spend the good hour or two learning roughly everything of some characteristic different, feels comfortable with him. In this chance thinks that volume more than those stops of has paid.
Gilipollas: A mountain of the cup of the suction is useless. Another that that it is the product adds for a prize.
Some users that complains on some points/of construction of information to interest when being lack to need give that this data is so only available rid for users or some cities that do a construction. Microsoft Could be the big name but included they cant has 20000 people that stroll all the streets 24/7 mapping a construction/of places LoL.
Top Customer Reviews: Microsoft Streets ...
Top Customer Reviews: Microsoft Streets ...
Partorisca Begin, a program is like this as well as other Streets of version & of travesías of the Microsoft... Much more it updates callejeras, more locations, etc. calms can not complain with a quality and accuracy of a global program. For real it is the program adds, but with a stupidity that will explain down.
A value of a unit of GPS is poor, and here is reason:
You can not use a GPS partorisca give you gone back by on duty directions, enough so only follow your current location to the long of the pre-the subjects have created. A big disappointment in my alcohol.
As, can not use a GPS with Streets of Pocket, which is absolutely ridiculous. Because has streets of pocket and the unit of GPS when it calms can not integrate one 2 near? These are of entities drawbacks of a container/of hardware of the software that would be necessary direct to consider another product.
Has finalised to buy DeLorme Atlas of EUA callejero like a adjunct to a unit of GPS to use with my hand-held device. A microsoft the device is compatible to a software, so that it has not had a @@subject to buy the device of NEW GPS. If your devices have Bluetooth, so only go with DeLorme program and device in general, although no like this coloreados and the friendly user, will take a bang for your buck.
Are sure in a 2006 container of the travesías & of Streets will comprise a characteristic has spoken so only roughly his missing, how is microsoft, and wants to you partorisca buy each alone new version possible.
A bad is that a software and a GPS does not resemble 'the work jointed' in that does not snap to a street, draws a location of a car has based so only in a data of GPS SO MUCH in my chance are them always the few feet west of a real street. And it does not aim a turn this is coming up or have any navigation of voice of the type. This the fact after impossible to follow has driven for calm. Any only that, does not say you where is unless you look in a map and the figure was based in the place of the yours car and some streets around you.
All near a lot a prize with which (...)For me because the always go in travesía of street with my promise or familiar as they can say me when to turn reasons is very attentive in a navigation.
1. Automatic rerouting
2. Tour for the instruction of tower saws voice
3. It would owe that calculate and distance of show and time to fate.
Top Customer Reviews: National Geographic ...
This 3d sew of the ball has looked an easy to use produced as I bought it. In $ 19 I figure has done the main deceptions. It has arrived today have dipped like this in CD 1. When I Asked the one who bondadoso of the installation there is wanted, there is remarked the 'habit' concealed said would run he without inserting a CD. ( You do not hear some products that hunts of frames that down every time loves the use?) Has abundance of room in my hard walk, so that it was to go. After the short while it has wanted to CD 2, and has continued. I have had to that spend for a XP paper to start with to find 3D BALL, but now has it nailed '' as that can access quickly. (Each one another product has insists on that dips an icon in a desk.) But ossia the trivial nit choose.
Once begun, was impressed immediately with a map. I zoomed in in a Moon and all some craters' the names have looked. ( You can toggle these on and was, thinks.) A zoom-in era more than has required, also - very good.
Now for a 'big test.' I have spent on an Earth at night - gorgeous. Has transmission to Political Ball and spent on a box of control. I have selected to FIND and has looked for Mundelein, HE (a leading residence). A zoom was so only a level, as I have not seen a detail has looked for, but that considers a measure of a planet, this can have required an order of magnitude more spatial of disk, and is enough for me.
Has looked for that has thought was the fictitious city in Iran (of the show of television), but was there! I have selected a Nile River and the, also, has been centred and could his zoom, also.
On everything, ossia the subject real and am very pleased with him.
He no run in of the Windows 7 64 Professional.

Games Industry Peon.
Drew Sikora has been active in the games industry since 2001, when he co-founded the NJ North IGDA chapter with Darrell Porcher, which has since grown to become one of the leading IGDA chapters in the world. He’s been involved with GameDev.net since 2000, becoming Executive Producer in 2006 and working hard with his team of awesome people to make GameDev.net a valuable resource for game developers of all trades.
He’s also worked with Game Institute since its conception in 2001, supporting the growing community, managing live seminars on game development topics by experienced industry members and judging the institute’s regular game programming challenges. His past writing credits include three chapters in Game Design Perspectives (published by Charles River Media), contributing to and editing the GameDev.net Collection series (Published by Cengage), and well over 100 articles and interviews published on GameDev.net covering industry events and game development topics. Since 2008 he’s been mentoring students attending the GDC as part of the IGDA’s scholarship program.
When he’s not doing anything industry-related, he can be found practicing martial arts, bouncing high on trampoline or tumbling, doing stuntwork, playing his Playstation3, driving really fast in his car or on his motorcycle, hanging with friends.
Specialties: C/C++ Programming, TorqueScript, management