Re: Garmin AutoRouting

From: markjen (mark.jennings4_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:14:55 GMT

Thanks for the explantions. I'm disappointed that the 60/76 doesn't use the
machine-created waypoints in it's routing. While I have had reasonable luck
matching routes between my 60CS and MapSource, others have not and this may
be the reason. And why people report such widely variable luck with
auto-route matching between MapSource and the GPS.

- Mark

"Dale DePriest" <Dale@gpsinformation.het> wrote in message
news:10ipatim84smvc7@corp.supernews.com...
>
>
> markjen wrote:
>
> > Sounds reasonable. So then are their three categories of waypoints?
> >
> > 1. Explictly entered by the user as official waypoints which appear
under
> > the Waypoint tab in MapSource.
> > 2. Via waypoints that are manually created by the user during route
> > creation (either by using the route tool or by dragging the route
line) -
> > these appear in the route dialog in MapSource, but not in the Waypoint
list.
> > 3. Turn waypoints which are created internally by MapSource, don't
appear
> > explicitly anywhere, but get transferred with routes and are used by
some
> > GPSs, but not the 60/76.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> >
>
> Correct but only the ones you save as waypoints are really officially
> waypoints. These are stored in your waypoint memory and are counted
> against the maximum that the unit can store. They also can be used
> outside the environment of the route.
>
> The others are unique to the route. They will be lost if the route is
> erased and are stored in a different area of memory. They are not
> accessable outside the environment of the route itself. They are, of tow
> types, user created and machine created. The user created ones get
> higher priority in the router.
>
> dale
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