Editorial Review
Microsoft AutoRoute 2006 is the customizable trip planning software that helps you get accurate directions, easily explore new areas and find the services you want and need along the way. With more personalized trip planning features than online mapping sites, and map coverage of 27 European countries, AutoRoute 2006 makes it easy to plan your trip, your way.
Easily display points of interest -- restaurants, cash machines, museums, petrol stations, and more -- that are near your planned route. |
AutoRoute 2006 offers simple tools for planning your trip from beginning to end. |
View the AutoRoute 2006 coverage map (green shaded regions are covered). |
Whether running errands or planning a trip, AutoRoute 2006 lets you travel with complete confidence in knowing what lies on the road ahead. This comprehensive trip planning software offers customizable maps and information on more than 850,000 points of interest, like restaurants, cash machines, museums and more. You can also see at a glance what locations are within any radius of your current position -- up to 250 miles away. On or off-line, AutoRoute 2006 gives you accurate, detailed door to door directions and puts 3.4 million miles of routable roads and motorways throughout Europe at your fingertips. With this version of AutoRoute, you also get new features like voice prompted directions. These verbal turn-by-turn directions provide an easy-to-use, hands-free guidance solution. You can also easily see upcoming turns with an automatically magnified view.
Two other new features in AutoRoute 2006 are also sure to please. The new night map style allows you to enjoy improved night-time viewing with a different map look that's easier on the eye. Meanwhile, the new "Re-route from Here" function helps you get back on track with just a one click while quickly recalculating directions from a new location.
Focus on your destination and enjoy the ride with Microsoft AutoRoute 2006. Customizable trip planning options help you plan breaks, scenic detours and petrol stops -- even add multiple destinations or quickly alter your route by just dragging and dropping it on your map. Personalize and save your maps, adding drawings, notes and pushpins with important information or import your contacts directly from Microsoft Office Outlook and Excel. You can even build a personal driving profile that lets you plan your way with flexible trip planning options like custom start times, driving speeds, rest stops -- even preferred types of roads. And with AutoRoute 2006's updated maps you can feel confident that you have the most accurate maps covering 27 European countries. Plus, you can feel free to take AutoRoute with you. Enjoy on-the-go access to your maps with included Pocket Streets for your Pocket PC or Smartphone, and enjoy multiple print and sharing options for maps and itineraries.
AutoRoute 2006 provides detailed street-level maps and address find capability for a number of countries across Western Europe. These include: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland (south-central only), Germany, Greece (Athens only), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England, Scotland, and Wales). You also get coverage for urban areas of France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom (Northern Ireland). In addition, AutoRoute 2006 also provides some street-level coverage, but does not support address find for, the Channel Islands, Czech Republic, Ireland, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Slovakia, and Vatican City.
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Customer Reviews
Its a good start, but...... 
2007-09-21
Its a good start, but its not Garmin. I bought this for a Dell X30 with a GPS Module, but I sold the Dell and the software and bought a Garmin IQue M3 and a SD card for Italy and Greece. Wow! What a vacation..... Could Not have done it without the Garmin.
Trip to Italy 
2007-01-12
I do not think I could have enjoyed my trip to italy without the maps and gps. we ere we were at all times. It works better with the later version gps receiver. even on the smallest trails it tracked very true.
Great For Notebook PC. THINK TWICE 4 POCKET PC ! 
2007-01-05
I bought this for use on my pocket pc. Very Disappointed, but great for notebook pc or desktop pc as it allows for full function of the software.
Great Program! 2006-11-10
I used the program on a driving trip of Europe and it was accurate and easy to use. The vocal instructions were timely and accurate even in a crowded city. All the hotels and sites were listed in the data base. I saved great amounts of time by having accurate guidance. Worth every penny.
MS Streets Europe 2006-11-10
used this product in Northern&Southern Italy Only,but it was fantastic...
Could have used more info in Venice...Oh Wait
there were no "streets" there.
Helpful but buggy 2006-11-08
Microsoft AutoRoute 2006 is the customizable trip planning software that helps you get accurate directions, easily explore new areas and find the services you want and need along the way. With more personalized trip planning features than online mapping sites, and map coverage of 27 European countries, AutoRoute 2006 makes it easy to plan your trip, your way.
Easily display points of interest -- restaurants, cash machines, museums, petrol stations, and more -- that are near your planned route. |
AutoRoute 2006 offers simple tools for planning your trip from beginning to end. |
View the AutoRoute 2006 coverage map (green shaded regions are covered). |
Whether running errands or planning a trip, AutoRoute 2006 lets you travel with complete confidence in knowing what lies on the road ahead. This comprehensive trip planning software offers customizable maps and information on more than 850,000 points of interest, like restaurants, cash machines, museums and more. You can also see at a glance what locations are within any radius of your current position -- up to 250 miles away. On or off-line, AutoRoute 2006 gives you accurate, detailed door to door directions and puts 3.4 million miles of routable roads and motorways throughout Europe at your fingertips. With this version of AutoRoute, you also get new features like voice prompted directions. These verbal turn-by-turn directions provide an easy-to-use, hands-free guidance solution. You can also easily see upcoming turns with an automatically magnified view.
Two other new features in AutoRoute 2006 are also sure to please. The new night map style allows you to enjoy improved night-time viewing with a different map look that's easier on the eye. Meanwhile, the new "Re-route from Here" function helps you get back on track with just a one click while quickly recalculating directions from a new location.
Focus on your destination and enjoy the ride with Microsoft AutoRoute 2006. Customizable trip planning options help you plan breaks, scenic detours and petrol stops -- even add multiple destinations or quickly alter your route by just dragging and dropping it on your map. Personalize and save your maps, adding drawings, notes and pushpins with important information or import your contacts directly from Microsoft Office Outlook and Excel. You can even build a personal driving profile that lets you plan your way with flexible trip planning options like custom start times, driving speeds, rest stops -- even preferred types of roads. And with AutoRoute 2006's updated maps you can feel confident that you have the most accurate maps covering 27 European countries. Plus, you can feel free to take AutoRoute with you. Enjoy on-the-go access to your maps with included Pocket Streets for your Pocket PC or Smartphone, and enjoy multiple print and sharing options for maps and itineraries.
AutoRoute 2006 provides detailed street-level maps and address find capability for a number of countries across Western Europe. These include: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland (south-central only), Germany, Greece (Athens only), Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom (England, Scotland, and Wales). You also get coverage for urban areas of France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom (Northern Ireland). In addition, AutoRoute 2006 also provides some street-level coverage, but does not support address find for, the Channel Islands, Czech Republic, Ireland, Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Slovakia, and Vatican City.
Get Lost ! - it's easy with this software 
2006-09-24
We just returned from a trip to France where we had a rental car for 10 days and covered about 2000km.
We used this software on a laptop with an earthmate USB GPS receiver ( you will need the driver from the DeLorme site to make it appear as a serial device to make it work with this software )
The driving directions were very bad, for example it would have you on an autoroute for 60 miles, and the next direction would be "at exit so-and-so continue on the A61" which is the road you are already on. A bit confusing.
It also gave us incorrect directions at several roundabouts, saying "Take the 3 exit off of the roundabout" and it should have been the 2nd exit or the 4th, and you don't know this until you are off course, then you need to turn around or reroute from the current position.
Also it would tell you that the next roundabut was 17 miles away and to take the 2nd exit, but there were 5 roudabouts in between that weren't mentioned, in these cases you were just treating the roundabouts as intersections and going through them, but that should be included in the driving directions.
Also it refers to all routes by number D376, E9 and so on, unfortuntely the normal map based navigation in France is done by knowing the City or "direction" you want, with a map it's easy to determine this. Almost without exception at roundabouts the route numbers ( except autoroutes ) are not given. This combined with it being confused about exits on the roundabouts, makes it very hard to depend on.
Another problem we had was in the autoroutes around Toulouse, it would not give correct ( or at least useful ) information about which direction to go. there was one point where the autoroute split into 2, and you had to know before hitting toll booth ( 2 sets of booths, about 20 booths total, one set was the right one, but it wasn't clear if it was the left or the right set ) and we made a wrong turn, rerouted, was given a similar situation, which we guessed wrong again on, did this 3 times, thinking it would get better. We switched to looking at a AAA map to determine the City we wanted to go toward and that worked fine. Didn't make us miss our flight, but if we hadn't figured extra time it could have.
The interface is clumsy and hard to figure out, I was talking my wife through things at 6:00am to catch a flight, in the dark, on an autoroute and it was not as simple as it should be.
I would go Tom-Tom next time, but that is much more expensive, for less money a good detailed Michelin guide served us very well on previous trips and wished for it many times during the trip.
All things considered, I would not suggest it, it did route OK, but the directions were not very good.
Other than determining approximate travel time and general routes between locations ( which you can do on line ) I would stay away from it.
Auto Traveling in Europe - A breeeeeeeeze 2006-09-20
In 2004, had to buy Autoroute from English merchant for more than twice this price - and it was worth it. On arrival in Calais, to departure from Paris three weeks later (thru Reims, Bastogne, Strasbourg, Dijon, Caen, Paris, Bordeaux, Rennes, etc, this gem (with a GPS unit) offered continual real time "this is where you are" as well as "re-calculated routes" to get us where we wanted to go, no matter how many unplanned detours we took. Would never travel without it...
The four stars is only because I can't use speech to tell it how to operate - a real plus while driving!
AutoRoute 2006 - town data missing 2006-08-01
The program is nearly the same as Streets and Trips for the US. It's generally good but does not include many of the streets in towns in Ireland where I used it. Excellent for going town to town but real deficiencies in the towns when looking for specific addresses.
Good for laptop, not for PDA 2006-07-30
AutoRoute Europe 2006 is a very good, GPS based routing software for the laptop. It is a fraction of the price of equivalent routing software for Europe. The laptop version does everything one would expect ranging from address searches, GPS location and routing from point A to point B. It is a very good product.
However, Microsoft continues to not understand the power in modern PDAs. The worst applications on my PDA are all from Microsoft and this one joins the group. Whereas the laptop version understands "Europe" as a whole, the PDA version can only "see" a city at a time -- and only those cities you individually download. The PDA version has no routing capability. You can search to locations by address and find them on the map and you can use a GPS to locate where you are, but it will not "route" and give directions on how to get there. The data and resolution on the PDA version is very limited.
If you are buying this product for your laptop, then I highly recommend it. For your PDA, this is mostly just a set of city maps with the ability of the GPS to tell you where you are. This is no where near the capability of other GPS routing packages. They cost significantly more, but they also do a LOT more!
