It has built-in GPS support for the driver who keeps a laptop on the front seat, and its performance is faster. The interface retains the elegance and ease of earlier versions, with new details like a location-indicator bar slotted in unobtrusively.
Optional panels display map legends and large-scale overview maps.
Different kinds of points of interest can be hidden or displayed, so you can view Italian restaurants but no French restaurants, banks but no police stations, or subway stops but no bus stations. You can modify the program's suggested route by simply dragging a section of the route to any point you want to visit or road you prefer to use. In the six New York City blocks closest to this writer's office, the program displays a bank branch, a post office, and two restaurants that all closed two years ago. It misspells two restaurants and misnames another, shows the library as two icons with different names, and shows two so-called hotels where you definitely do not want to take the family. ZDNet and ZDNet logo are registered trademarks of ZD Inc. Content originally published in Ziff Davis Media publications is the copyrighted property of Ziff Davis Media.