Functionally, the last version is a subset of Microsoft MapPoint targeted at the average consumer to do a variety of map related tasks in the North American region including the United States, Canada, and Mexico, such as route planning.

Originally released by NextBase Ltd in the 1988,[4] a UK company, under the name "Autoroute", it was sold for DOS based PCs and later for the Apple Macintosh, Atari ST and Psion PDA.

[7] Like Expedia Trip Planner, it also included a travel guide [8] with pictures and information on points of interest and tourist spots for a particular address.

Streets & Trips 2001 dropped the travel guide but added the ability to run without the CD by copying all the map data to the disk drive.

[14] Streets & Trips 2008 (and older) included 336 pushpin symbols and they were easy to spot due to the use of bright colors.

In response to this, the Streets and Trips user community created a default map template[15] which has the 2008 pin set in order to re-add them to the program.

The map of Mexico now includes street-level data of even small towns, but the address-find feature still has not been enabled for there.

This release saw the first user interface update in many years with new colorful and optionally, large toolbar icons.

The last version, Streets & Trips 2013 was released on July 1, 2012 with a new online custom ratings and reviews feature[19] and Metro UI-style icons.

Microsoft announced the discontinuation of Streets & Trips in 2014, with online support for existing users to end on July 14, 2015.

[23] All versions of Windows 10 include a free GPS-ready mapping app similar to Streets & Trips.