MapPoint file Compatibility with Streets & Trips

Our organization has users of both applications in Engineering and Marketing. 
However, we have had numerous occasions where work has been done in Streets
& 
Trips which needed to be accessed with MapPoint 2006.

MapPoint is supposed to be able to open .est files from S&T but we haven't 
had much success doing this. We get a "Map Has a Bad Format" error in

MapPoint.

Is there any activity underway to make these two applications more 
interoperable? Is there an update to MapPoint 2006 that will address ST&T 

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:16:00 -0700, BWheeler
<BWheeler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Our organization has users of both applications in Engineering and
Marketing. 
>However, we have had numerous occasions where work has been done in Streets
& 
>Trips which needed to be accessed with MapPoint 2006.
>
>MapPoint is supposed to be able to open .est files from S&T but we
haven't 
>had much success doing this. We get a "Map Has a Bad Format" error
in 
>MapPoint.
>
>Is there any activity underway to make these two applications more 
>interoperable? Is there an update to MapPoint 2006 that will address
ST&T 
>2008 files?

There probably lies your problem - MapPoint can open S&T files (not the
other
way 'round), but only up to versions that are "contemporary" - it is
not able
to open files created by S&T versions that were released after itself. So
MapPoint 2006 cannot open e.g. S&T 2007 files.

MapPoint is usually updated every two years, so there should be a
"MapPoint
2008" already (the releases usually happen in Q3/Q4 the previous year) -
maybe
there is still hope although it is definitely overdue ...

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