AutoRoute is a trip planning and navigation software much like Microsoft Streets & Trips but with European road data. It contains maps for 43 countries! And it will be available in 3 languages – EN-UK, French, and German.
Last version of AutoRoute was released in 2007, so there are 3 years of goodness and great features that needs to be uncovered in this new release.
Here is a quick list of the new features in AutoRoute that you can enjoy!
- New map data from NavTEQ – a world leader in premium-quality digital map data and content.
- 348 pushpin icons!
- Full GPX support (import and export)
- Automatic rerouting
- One click Reverse directions
- Spoken street names
- Full screen navigation
- Click’n'Drag rerouting
- Integration with Bing and Bing maps
- Send data to your mobile devices
- Improvements to help with pushpin management and control
- 5 new POI (points of interest) categories
- Ability to copy latitude and longitude coordinates to your clipboard (ctl+alt+c)
- Ability to rename your route waypoints
- Ability to show or hide individual pushpin sets
- Displays the distance to your next stop as well as your destination
- Ability to search for Motorway junctions
- Easy customisation of your map view
- Ability to pause Windows Media Player during spoken instructions
- Plus numerous other improvements, tweaks and bug fixes
Road coverage: Detail road map data is included for the following European countries: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Germany, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Jersey, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Isle of Man, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Vatican City.
AutoRoute 2010 boasts a staggering 8.3 million kilometres of routable roads.
Address Find: Even though there is road coverage for 43 countries the address find is available only for 16 countries. If you want to find an address from the FIND text box then you can do so for the following 16 countries.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom
60-Day Free Trial: You can download the UK English version of AutoRoute 2010 from here, and we will soon post a full review of the new features in AutoRoute 2010 here.
UPDATE – French and German versions of AutoRoute 2010 are now available!!!
French version – http://www.microsoft.com/france/chezvous/autoroute/trial.mspx
German version – http://www.microsoft.com/germany/autoroute/trial.mspx
Note: The download files are large, so use a high-speed internet connection.
BUY: You can also buy AutoRoute 2010 from Microsoft Online Store
AutoRoute with GPS: http://emea.microsoftstore.com/UK/Microsoft/AutoRoute-with-GPS-Locator
