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Used to use Autoroute being driven by an OG garmin gps 12 for navigation and I think there was an option to display live traffic density, that I used via a star
by NikkiA 3y ago
Used to use Autoroute being driven by an OG garmin gps 12 for navigation and I think there was an option to display live traffic density, that I used via a startac holding a 14.4 connection to AOL (why AOL? because they had an 800 number POP that didn't cost an arm and a leg over cell), all running on a NEC P133 laptop.
Microsoft "Streets and Trips" had better maps though, but didn't support GPS tracking, as I remember it. By the end of the 90s MS had a handful of different mapping products, that all competed with each other in some weird way, some were under the Encarta branding, some under the Expedia branding, some just Microsoft and some Autoroute.
This was a year or two after the 'original' release in the title though (Autoroute was a separate company for the first half of the 90s until MS bought them and rebadged their product).
- genocidicbunny 3y ago> Microsoft "Streets and Trips" ...is a trip down memory lane. I remember printing out the directions, plotting the key turns on the paper maps from AAA, having to have a little folder of printed papers while going on a long trip; Trying to figure out how the heck to get back to the route when you made a wrong turn, or trying to reroute around a long-closed street that the directions said you should take. Or having to search for hotels or restaurants where the whole family could stay/eat along the way, and having to do all of this ahead of time because there's no way you're getting internet access once you actually head out. Puts into perspective how much modern mapping/navigation apps have changed things.
- mikestew 3y agoMicrosoft "Streets and Trips"…didn't support GPS tracking, as I remember it. It did, actually. You could even buy a version that had an included GPS unit that supported a USB connection to your laptop, or (IIRC) Bluetooth.