|  Microsoft Streets & Trips 2009 makes a good accessory product for your portable GPS and has some advantages over online mapping. If you haven't bought lately, the 2008 edition was a major update and 2009 smooths out some of 2008's rough edges. Buy it for $35 and keep it for two or three years. Then the cost is a rounding error compared to all you spend on technology. Microsoft Streets & Trips is disk-based mapping and door-to-door directions. Unlike Google Maps or Yahoo Maps, you pay actual money to use it, but unlike them, Streets & Trips is always available, say if you're using a laptop and have no internet connection. It also prints out better but not perfect maps. And it's the largest portable navigation device for cars when loaded on a notebook PC and connected to a USB receiver.
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