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Map multiple locations, get transit/walking/driving directions, view live traffic conditions, plan trips, view satellite, aerial and street side imagery. Do more with Bing Maps. MapPoint is the most used and robust mapping software in the world. As you may have noticed, MapPoint 2013 is going to be the final edition and Microsoft is ending support in July, 2015. MS is trying to migrate (force) everyone from MapPoint to BING Maps.

Remember the peaceful days of the floppy disk?

For some, that era is already ancient history, having grown up in the internet and cell phone age. Still, there are many working in sales who can still recall the challenges of doing outside sales without the modern convenience of accessible GPS mapping.

Think for just a second about how you’d try to find someone nowadays with nothing more than an address to go off of. Now imagine trying to plan your entire day around a series of these addresses — all without the benefit of Waze, Google Maps, or anything else smartphone-related.

Tough, right? Yet that was exactly the problem facing most outside salespeople before smartphones became widespread. Or at least, it was the problem people faced before Microsoft MapPoint was released.

Started by 5 friends in a garage in Esher, a small town in Surrey, England, Microsoft MapPoint was a massive hit almost as soon as it was released. As far as virality went back then, MapPoint went viral — at one point, half the computers in the United Kingdom were running it . Before long, it became one of the best-selling consumer applications in the market.

Then on one day in 2014, it disappeared from the world.

Why did one of the biggest and best selling consumer softwares exit the scene as suddenly as it arrived? And, more importantly, what alternatives are salespeople supposed to use now?

History of Microsoft MapPoint

In 1988, Mark Atherton and Ian Mercer started building the product that would later become MapPoint.

To facilitate the process, the team started a company called NextBase Limited, which focused on creating digital maps. The team was entirely self-funded, and the founders often took outside jobs in order to supplement their income while they worked.

During the late ’80s, most software programs were totally text-based. However, the NextBase team wanted to stand out from the marketplace as much as possible — so they focused on the visual instead.

After over seven months of coding, the crew managed to get together a working copy which team members then distributed to journalists. The press loved it — nobody had ever seen graphics in software quite like this. So it made sense that, after receiving rave reviews from the media, MapPoint quickly blew up.

According to this New York Times article, MapPoint sold over 400,000 copies, making its mark as the top-selling consumer application on the market.

What Was Microsoft MapPoint?

Microsoft MapPoint was a mapping software that allowed its users to view, edit, and manipulate maps using custom data, and then analyze it visually. It might not have been as slick as Google Maps is now, but it made up for it by being early and having a lot of features that even a lot of today’s GPS programs don’t offer.

Priced with an account fee of $250, some of those features included:

One of the first GPS systems
Trip planning tools
The ability to visualize territories
Territory reports
Mileage, drive times, and expenses calculators
The ability to export digital images
The ability to combine business data with demographics to find and target potential customers, and focus your business decisions.

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This was all groundbreaking back when MapPoint was released. At the time, digital maps and GPS were largely unheard of outside of science fiction.

Is Microsoft MapPoint Still Available?

No — although the software still exists on devices across the world, there hasn’t been an update released since 2013, and the support lines were stopped in 2015. Here’s what happened:

Microsoft ended up buying NextBase, at which point the NextBase team moved from England to the United States. For a while, things remained good for MapPoint. Other softwares continued to grow in the consumer sector, but MapPoint remained the preferred tool of enterprise sales.

In 2013, Microsoft was pouring resources into Bing, largely due to an ongoing arms race it was in with Google. It was Microsoft’s hope that Bing Maps would eventually compete with Google Maps, which hasn’t exactly panned out so far.

At the end, MapPoint released a goodbye message urging their customers to use Bing Maps instead. But Microsoft made the mistake of tailoring Bing Maps to everyone, and — as a result — they lost sight of the business market that MapPoint had once held.

Can Microsoft MapPoint be replaced?

Yes — in 2016 we built Map My Customers to replicate the best of what MapPoint had to offer, while adding in modern features that make it mobile-friendly and super insightful.

Most sales teams had wound up resorting to free mapping softwares like Google Maps and manually entering each data point themselves.

This led to a lot of frustrated customers, including (of course) ourselves...

It was 2015, and we were stuck running our sales routes like it was 1988. It was inefficient, boring, and in the end — it just didn’t make any sense.

That’s why we created a new software that does everything (and more) of what Microsoft MapPoint was capable of:

Customer Visualization — Visualize sales opportunities and customers displayed as clickable pins on a map
Route Optimization — Reduce planning and travel time with our leading routing algorithms
Sales Planning and Contact Management — Log activities like cold calls and meetings, track check-ins and sync it all to your calendar
Territory Management — Visualize, draw, and manipulate sales territories on the map
Reporting and Team Management — Track rep activity and surface sales data unique to the field

Unlike Microsoft MapPoint, MMC is built for the phone — meaning you can see your routes, schedule and customer notes from anywhere. On the web, we have dashboards to organize and analyze your team’s data and easily transfer data between team members or your CRM — all with a modern user interface.

Above all — here at Map My Customers, we promise not to disappear.

How Map My Customers Can Replace Microsoft MapPoint

Microsoft MapPoint was a powerful tool that enabled better selling strategy for over a decade. At Map My Customers, we’ve found that many of our users were once MapPoint fanatics. They actually found Map My Customers by searching for an alternative solution.

Map My Customers is unique, thought, because it’s the tool that’s purpose-built for outside sales. In fact, I first built this app specifically for my father, a career field sales professional in the flooring industry.

Because of this, we understand exactly what sales reps need. Here, are the top 5 aspects of what makes Map My Customers so useful for reps and teams in the field:

Microsoft MapPoint Alternative for Customer Visualization

When you get started with Map My Customers, you can import your customers into to display them as pins on a map. This is helpful for routing, but it’s also an important way to visualize and fully understand your sales territories like never before.

In a single field of view, you can see every customer, prospect or contact displayed — making it the perfect visual for the field sales rep (and part of what was so great about Microsoft MapPoint).

Unlike Microsoft MapPoint, however, Map My Customers takes data visualization to new heights. For example, our heat mapping tool can help you to understand the geospatial factors that influence your deals.

You can also use Map My Customers to curate a specific view of certain customers. With Grouping a