mapping app suggestion

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DFord wrote:
So now that Microsoft is discontinuing Streets and Trips, what are people switching to?

It's still my main goto program for a quick look & see.
It will be years before it becomes completely useless.
It will always give distance, time and cost to your destination or close to it if it's not on the map.
After that you fine tune with Google searches.

So now that Microsoft is discontinuing Streets and Trips, what are people switching to?

I've used S&T for years to pre-plan my travels on my laptop and hate to hear the news that MS is dropping it like they've done with so many other products.

I used Street Atlas years ago and thought it lacked intuitiveness, had a steep learning curve and even though I purchased their so called updated maps, found major road changes around me still missing after 10 years (like a 10 lane bridge over the Missouri river at St Louis and a regional airport near O'Fallon, IL)! Reading recent reviews for Street Atlas, it doesn't sound like they've improved any.

I see Co-Pilot is an option (at $100) for the PC version that I paid much less for on my phone. I'm not sure I want to spend that much without knowing how easy and intuitive it is to use on a PC.

I pretty much like all the features, ease of use and map printing capabilities of S&T and would love to find something as good or better to replace it.

Thanks for all the replies.

Fishy

Copilot app. Find it in Itunes store. RV Setting and multiple stops. You can also subscribe to traffic info.

I do Bing Maps on my I-Pad!
Never had a limit of stops.

Tyre is free mapping software for a PC that will let you route multiple destinations. It uses Google Maps for its basemap so you must be connected to the internet for route planning. Once you have a route you can upload that route to a Garmin or TomTom GPS attached to the USB port of the computer so that you can take the route on the road. You could also print out the route. The routing is NOT RV specific. It will route where RVs can't go - I have yet to find routing software that is affordable that will do that. Once in the GPS the GPS may apply its own route to the stops planned and it may be necessary to go back into the software and put in more waypoints to force the route that you may like better. We use this for all of our trips and it works well - and it is a free download, free for use.

Doing planning on a small screen and without print capability is frustrating. Doing planning on Street Atlas is much easier to manage. Street Atlas has a lot of capabilities that you don't need to use. It will mark where you should plan the end of your day and/or where you should start looking for fuel.

Matt

Tom Tom and other brand GPS will allow itinerary planning where you can put in up to 20 destinations so you just choose the destination you already planned

Delorme has a street atlas software for computers. I use it on my laptop. GPS store sells software which includes a USB GPS adapter for your computer for $47.