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We're officially release MapPoint 2009 European English Edition into the wild. Now our friends across the pond can experience the greatness of our desktop mapping application with data updates and a new user interface.

MapPoint 2009 European Edition is available in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Here are a list of the features (I snatched from the MapPoint 2009 Marketing web site):

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.

I always wanted to see Paris at night.

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.

I also ripped this from the product sheet:

European Map and Demographics

Microsoft MapPoint 2009 with European maps will provide detailed street-level maps and address find capability for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

In addition, MapPoint European edition will provide some street-level coverage, but does not support address find, for Andorra, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Hungary, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Monaco, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Vatican City.

Demographic data

MapPoint 2009 European maps contains the following demographic data for the following 8 European countries: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and Great Britain/UK.

Coverage Chart

Country/Region	% of Pop. with Street Coverage	Find Address	Routing
Austria	100%	Yes	Yes
Benelux	100%	Yes	Yes
Bulgaria	24%	No	Yes
Croatia	12.6%	No	Yes
Czech Republic	71%	No	Yes
Denmark	100%	Yes	Yes
Estonia	29%	No	Yes
Finland	30%	Yes	Yes
France	100%	Yes	Yes
Germany	100%	Yes	Yes
Greece	35%	Yes	Yes
Hungary	21%	No	Yes
Italy	61.3%	Yes	Yes
Latvia	32%	No	Yes
Lithuania	3%	No	Yes

You can purchase MapPoint 2009 through your volume licensing agreement, your local retailer or your favorite online e-tailer.

CP

Click here to view the article.

I'm a bit disappointed that not a single country was added to the map of this new version. Neither has the Find feature been extended to include more countries. I'm glad MP09EU is out, but I would have liked to see more of European coverage. I posted my first impressions in Review: Microsoft MapPoint 2009 Europe

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Laptop GPS World

WTF is the point of having street coverage if you cannot search for addresses? idle, idle, idle.
The new interface is insignificant.
A really clueless edition. Your friends across the pond are (as usual) less than fully appreciative of your efforts.

Select / zoom is there.. you have to right-click.

Took me a while to figure that out.

Eric

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Thanks Eric, I failed to find it until looking at Marvin's review

IMHO, many (most) users will never discover the feature .

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Laptop GPS World

Hmm, well I doubt that, but could be.

I have seen several posts from Programmers who have applications that have over-ridden the right-click and now have to decide what to do with this new wrinkle.

Up until now, at least since 2002, there have been practically zero required code changes with new versions.

Eric

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