In 2000, Microsoft also developed Microsoft MapPoint as a business mapping program based on this technology. In Europe the Autoroute brand was retained. After Microsoft spun off Expedia, they were merged into a single product called Microsoft Streets & Trips 2000, newer versions of which continue to be produced today in the USA. These were produced under the Microsoft Home division and were later branded for a few releases as Expedia Streets and Expedia Trip Planner. Microsoft combined the Encarta World Atlas Mapping Technology with new routing technology derived from Autoroute to create Automap Streets/Streets Plus and Automap Road Atlas/Automap Trip Planner products.
In 1994 the product was sold to Microsoft. The company created a version for the United States called Automap Road Atlas which it sold through its American subsidiary Automap Inc. In the early 1990s it was ported to the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Originally released by NextBase Ltd in the 1988, 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.
