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Old 06-28-2004
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MapPoint will definitely take your customer locations and find the best (quickest / shortest / whatever) route.

There are GPS interfaces although I haven't used them, so I can't tell you about their functionality. The "turn left here" voice stuff I don't know about either. MapPoint itself doesn't do that, but it is conceivable that someone has written a plug-in app to do it (eg. one that tracks that you've gone off course and then finds a new route and uses that).

For simple route finding, Streets&Trips would be a cheaper option. This has the MapPoint maps, but is geared towards route finding.
However, as a salesman, you might find MapPoint's extras beneficial. Lots of demographic data; support for territories; plot other data (eg. size/type of account as symbols/pie charts/etc at customer locations).


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