Microsoft MapPoint 2009

Business Mapping Made Simple
Microsoft MapPoint 2009 gives you the power to visualize business data, communicate insights with instant impact, and integrate maps into the work you do in Microsoft Office. MapPoint 2009 with GPS Locator adds routing and directions to easily plan your trips and track your location in real-time.

MapPoint 2009 makes it easy for organizations to visualize their business in a whole new way:

• Map business data.
  Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography.
• Identify new business opportunities.
  Combine business data with included demographics to target potential customers and focus decisions.

MapPoint 2009 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.
• Easy-to-see navigation.
  Track your route in real-time in Full Screen display.* Change to the special Night Map display with a single click.

MapPoint 2009 makes it easy to use maps in combination with your Microsoft Office documents:

• 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, Office Outlook, 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.
• Map business data.
  Create and view sales territories, analyze trends, and evaluate performance by geography.

New and Improved Features

MapPoint 2009 builds upon the success of MapPoint 2006 with:

• Refreshed data.
  Use updated geographic and demographic data sets in MapPoint to display trends and illustrate key points on maps.
• Optimize your trip.
  Quickly calculate mileage, drive time, and expenses in advance.
• Send to mobile.
  Send point-of-interest and "business card" details such as addresses and phone numbers to your mobile device.
• Advanced GPS features.
  New full-screen navigation mode with driving guidance tracks your route and provides turn-by-turn directions--including spoken street names.
• Zoom with a view.
  Use the new Navigation view option* to see a perspective map road view of your route.
• Enhanced Live Search.
  Quickly find listings when online and add them to a route. Use descriptive words such as "coffee" and "restaurant" to find points near your location.
• Updated user interface.
  Streamlined redesign simplifies tasks and improves usability while driving.

* GPS functionality requires a GPS device that supports NMEA 2.0 or later.