This is my first post to this site so excuse me if this has already been covered.

I have been using Microsoft Streets & Trips for years and have purchased a new copy each year for the past six or seven years. I just loaded the 2009 version and was pleased until I started to plan a trip. I entered my local address as the start and a campground in Nashville as the destination. I have done this same trip many times in older versions but 2009 routed me north and not south as it should have. It meandered in a large circle from town to town until it came full circle back to the direction it should have taken to start with. I had to place stops along the correct route to keep the router from going in the oposite direction.

This happens even when I enter road preferences. Have others had this problem? Is there something I need to set or is this new version just that stupid. I hope not.

Thanks,

Bob

Hi Bob,

It's hard to give a specific answer without specific data. But it sounds like the problem is in the map data. The behaviour you describe usually occurs if the router cannot find a physical connection in the direction it wants to go so it is forced to find a way around the "break" in the data.

Garmin's maps use the same supplier, Navteq, for the data. It would be interesting to have the start and end points to try and see if they produce the same round-about routing in Garmin's maps. If you're shy about sharing your address -- and you should be -- you could pick a start point in the same general area (lat/long coordinates or the intersection cross streets from a nearby mall or gas station would work), ensure that it produces the same silly routing and share those start and end points so we can have a look at them.

...ken...