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    REVIEW: RV Directions 2009 POI CD

    This CD makes a great companion for Street & Trips (any version).  It contains over 50,000 locations that are focused on the needs of today’s active RV’er.  It includes categories such as:RVDirectionsCover

    • private campgrounds
    • public campgrounds
    • military campgrounds
    • rest areas
    • truck stops
    • shopping locations
    • RV friendly restaurants
    • casinos
    • Elks Lodges that support RV parking
    • mountain passes
    • public golf courses

    It is designed to work with Microsoft Streets & Trips releases from 2004 and later.

    On the CD you’ll find Streets & Trips Template files (.stt) loaded with various POI, icons that can be used for custom pushpin symbols,  CSV files which can be imported in to show multiple categories on one map.

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    What impressed me the most was the huge amount of information for each location!  For example - campgrounds have the usual name, address and phone number but also Affiliation (Good Sam, etc), price, details on the campground sites (wifi, pull thru’s, big rigs, etc), quality rating, directions, contact email address, website, Web Map URL etc.   In fact the information overloads our information balloons and in order to view all the data you need to do the “click and drag down” selecting all the balloon contents.

    Like with any other points of interest that you import into Streets & Trips they become available in the “find nearby places” searches along side the built-in POI.

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    Microsoft Streets & Trips comes with over 1.5 million points of interest so why do I need this?

    • you are looking for more detailed information
    • you additional categories that are of special interest to RVers
    • your copy of S&T is several years old and could benefit from a fresh set of POI.

    Learn more at: http://www.rvdirections.com

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    Hi Bob&Sami -
    Thanks for your comments. I agree with you that there are some places offering free POI but RV Directions not only provides several unique categories but it none have the detail found in this collection. If you want this level of detail then this premium level POI is for you.
    Nov. 3
    Bob&Samiwrote:
    A great companion for S&T? Not for the price they are asking. S&T itself is only $39. Even at their discounted price of $45 this is not a good deal. All this information can be obtained free from places like POI Factory, Discovery Owners, etc. Plus S&T already has a lot of information included.
    Oct. 14

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