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01-31-04, 09:54 AM

I've been playing it a little bit, and the new features are very nice.
The "Find-All Places by Type" is quick and easy, there will be a check mark next to the appropriate category if there's one within the radius you choose, and clicking on that icon will return you to the map, with an icon on the map showing the location. Maybe now I'll buy the Place Guides as this new feature will make it very easy to quickly locate anything you're looking for.
The new voice prompts now will announce the street name (not sure if this works w/GPS yet, jut been using indoors for now). You can assign a new "Voice Info" to a hardware button which will provide current time, eta, speed, altitude, heading.location. and next turn; each of these can be turned on/off.
There's also some new events to assign sounds to, First Turn Notice and Turn coming at Next Street.
There's also a new option in the Map setting, Show GPS Trail (I think it's new, don't remember seeing it before.
I've been used to seeing Mapopolis releasing updates almost on a monthly basis and was wondering if there would be any more for version 4, now I realize they've been very busy adding some very nice goodies, and it was worth the wait:)
Anyway, I'm going skiing tonight and will be using Mapopolis to guide me on my journey; I'll report back on the new features when I return.

01-31-04, 09:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
Gdio53 Guest Posts: n/a	I've been playing it a little bit, and the new features are very nice. The "Find-All Places by Type" is quick and easy, there will be a check mark next to the appropriate category if there's one within the radius you choose, and clicking on that icon will return you to the map, with an icon on the map showing the location. Maybe now I'll buy the Place Guides as this new feature will make it very easy to quickly locate anything you're looking for. The new voice prompts now will announce the street name (not sure if this works w/GPS yet, jut been using indoors for now). You can assign a new "Voice Info" to a hardware button which will provide current time, eta, speed, altitude, heading.location. and next turn; each of these can be turned on/off. There's also some new events to assign sounds to, First Turn Notice and Turn coming at Next Street. There's also a new option in the Map setting, Show GPS Trail (I think it's new, don't remember seeing it before. I've been used to seeing Mapopolis releasing updates almost on a monthly basis and was wondering if there would be any more for version 4, now I realize they've been very busy adding some very nice goodies, and it was worth the wait:) Anyway, I'm going skiing tonight and will be using Mapopolis to guide me on my journey; I'll report back on the new features when I return.