Welcome! and I hope your wanderings in here are happy.

MapPoint can definitely work with addresses, in fact is often does a better job with lists of addresses than most "GIS" software because MapPoint has the built-in ability to geocode.

MapPoint also does routing.. there is an high-end add-in called TourSolver that expands on MapPoint's built-in routing capabilities.. I'd bet it's probably similar to the Route Smart software you mention.

Eric

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