MapSource 6.5 beta

From: Allory Deiss (allory_at_mac.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:03:36 -0700

http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=625

Changes made from version 6.3 to 6.5 BETA:

* Updated the default document format to the new GDB version 2 format.
* Due to the availability of the Garmin nRoute application, no changes
were made to the MapSource GPS tracking functionality.
* Provided the capability for the user to define up to 64 custom waypoint
symbols.
* Added the capability to import GPX documents that use both versions 1.0
and 1.1 of the GPX schema and export GPX documents using version 1.1 of
the schema.
* Added the ability to batch-edit certain properties of user waypoints.
* Added the ability to open GDB vers. 1, GDB vers. 2, MPS, GPX vers. 1.0,
GPX vers. 1.1, and PCX5 documents using the ³OpenŠ² command in the ³File²
menu. Added the ability to save data to GDB version 1, GDB version 2, MPS,
tab-delimited text, DXF, and GPX vers. 1.1 documents using the ³Save AsŠ²
command in the ³File² menu. Removed the ³ImportŠ² and ³ExportŠ² commands
from the ³File² menu.
* Simplified the selection of symbols in the Waypoint Properties dialog.
* Added the capability to do online software updates for non-Asian
versions of MapSource.
* Provided a right-click context menu available from the main MapSource
window for showing and hiding of the MapSource toolbars. In previous
versions, this could only be accomplished from the View menu.
* Made some modifications to the Route Properties dialog to simplify the
user experience. MapSource now disables the ³Insert Waypoints² button when
there are no waypoints in the active document, and disables the ³Show on
Map² when the route is empty. It is also now possible to insert multiple
via points into the route in a single insert.
* Added the capability for users to create a route by selecting one or
more waypoints in the list on the waypoints tab and then selecting the
appropriate menu option from the right-click context menu.
* Added technology to allow for address searching in Asian map products.
* Moved the capability to adjust map detail from the preferences to the
view menu/toolbar and removed the map detail slider control from the
display tab of the preferences property ***.
* Added the Icelandic Grid (ISN93).
* Added visual feedback on the vertical route profile so that the user
knows the exact altitude and distance for a point they click on the graph.
Also added the capability to select a second arbitrary point on the graph
and determine the altitude and distance changes between the two points.
* Added new auto-routing configuration option to avoid carpool lanes, if
desired. Note that this feature is not supported in all map products.
* Changed the ³OK² button to a ³Close² button on non-editable properties
dialogs (such as the tide prediction dialog) to decrease user confusion
about how to exit the dialog.
* Added the capability for a user to be able to automatically select all
the maps adjacent to a route, track, or waypoint.
* Modified drawing code so that the map labels are now drawn on top of GPS
data like routes and tracks, but still appear below waypoint labels and
the 'find results' marker.
* Added direction arrows on selected routes so that it is easier for users
to discern which direction a selected route is going.
* Lowered the minimum speed on the routing properties page to allow the
use of more realistic speeds for generating routes using alternate
vehicles (i.e., bicycles) and pedestrians. Also raised the maximum speed
to allow more flexibility for the user in route planning.
* Added category and subcategory classifications to property pages for map
features. This was done to help users better understand the classification
scheme and be able to use it in feature finds.
* Added ability to zoom in on sections of a route profile.
* Reorganized categories used by the find places and find nearest dialogs
to make finding items more intuitive.
* Added a reset button to clear the search parameter fields on the find dialog.
* Changed the help menu commands. We now have the command ³MapSource help²
which replaces the two commands ³Contents² and ³IndexŠ² for accessing the
MapSource help file. This was necessary due to changes made by Microsoft
in the behavior of some system help file functions.
* Modified the context menu that a user gets when he or she clicks on the
map window to have the following behaviors: A context menu in the map
window will only apply to one GPS feature (the one under the mouse when
the user right-clicks), and non route-specific menu items should not be in
the route context menu.
* Modified MapSource so that all files, regardless of type, are added to
the 'most recently opened files' list on the File menu.
* Added the capability to create waypoints with known altitudes at any
arbitrary position on maps that contain elevation data. On such map
products, previous versions of MapSource would only fill in the altitude
field in waypoints that were created on contour lines or point features
that had a known altitude.
* Removed option for sending terrain-shading data to GPS from the Maps
tab. The determination to send this information will now be made
automatically depending on whether the GPS to which the maps are being
sent supports it.
* Added technology to the find dialog for address and intersection
searches that will exclude cities from the list of available cities that
don't have any associated road information.
* Modified the process for transferring maps to a GPS device so that
MapSource checks to ensure that it can successfully unlock all the maps
being transferred on the destination GPS before starting the lengthy
index-building step. This will prevent customers from having to sit
through the index building of their map set and then find out that some of
the maps are unable to be unlocked (and therefore unusable) on their GPS.
* Changed the label of the column on the Routes tab that was previously
labeled ³waypoints² to be labeled ³via points².
* Improved the error text that a user gets when a write operation to a USB
card programmer fails to verify.
* Added some improvements to the device auto-detection code to decrease
the likelihood of a failure while searching for user devices.
* Changed behavior of route dialog so that if a user aborts the
calculation of driving directions when clicking on the driving directions
tab, they will stay on the Via Points tab and not see the Driving
Directions tab with empty driving directions.
* Removed term ³non-dangerous² that was in the description of some marine
map features.
* Put in improved error reporting to assist the user when problems are
encountered trying to transfer a map set to a Garmin iQue device.
* Added additional error reporting parameters such as stack traces to
certain error messages to improve the ability to debug the error.
* Changed the logic in the driving directions generation software to
better discriminate between the need for a ³u-turn² and a ³sharp
left/right² turn in appropriate conditions.
* Modified MapSource to provide the user with more useful feedback in
certain situations where the program failed because of an invalid entry in
the MapSource registry entries.
* Modified the transfer dialogs to correctly reflect the fact that the
cfQue device does not currently support route transfer.
* Modified the waypoint dialog to correctly truncate the timestamp string
when it was too long for the field it is displayed in.
* Added an improved description of the removable media devices that show
up in the list of devices that are automatically detected.
* Added additional postal code filtering to the finder logic to help speed
up searches being done when a postal code is provided.
* Modified the 'find nearest' logic to speed up the 'find nearest' searches.
* Modified 'find places' and 'find nearest' so that the user has the
ability to abort finds that take a long time.
* Added elevation information to the position information that we
currently display on the status bar when the user hovers the mouse over
the map. This will be available in certain map products that include
altitude information.
* Repositioned the toolbar on the Track Properties page so that it would
be easier for users to understand that the toolbar functions will work in
the name field as well as the trackpoints list.
* Modified the 'find nearest' dialog to remember when the user types an
entry in the 'containing' field.
* Modified the 'find nearest' dialog so that the 'Waypoints' category
option is not displayed if there are not currently any waypoints in
MapSource (so that the find would always fail).
* Modified the 'find' dialog so that the Find button will be pushed if
user hits the enter key after typing in some entries in the find
parameters.
* Modified MapSource so that when a waypoint is created on a city map
feature, the application will automatically use the 'City' icon.
* Modified the 'find places' dialog so that input typed in the parameter
fields is saved after the user clicks 'find'. This was done to create a
consistent behavior with the find nearest dialog. The previous version of
the find places dialog saved the input data immediately after the user
typed it into the field (whether find was hit or not). It was decided that
this could be confusing to users.
* Added support for scroll-wheel in the auto-complete fields on the 'find'
dialog.
* Removed maximize and minimize buttons from the Waypoint dialog since
these buttons were not appropriate and did not work correctly.
* Added the 'select all' menu option to the context menu that is brought
up when the user right-clicks on the via-points list in the route dialog.
* Fixed issue where the 'find results' marker on the map was not correctly
cleared in the map window when the user cancelled out of a 'find recent'
or 'find nearest' search.
* Fixed issue where some controls on the route dialog were not being drawn
correctly when the dialog was being resized.
* Fixed issue where detailed map data was not correctly display in some
maps associated with certain BlueChart products.
* Fixed issue where the auto-router would fail when trying to route in
certain map conditions.
* Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when certain modifications were
made to a waypoint in the Waypoint Properties dialog.
* Fixed issue where the Waypoint label was covered up by the map feature
label in some instances.
* Fixed issue where vertical route profiler could fail on extremely long routes.
* Reworded potentially confusing prompt that was displayed when MapSource
was started with no map products installed.
* Fixed issue where the wrong color was being used to fill in certain
non-map areas at some zoom scales.
* Fixed issue on the 'find nearest' dialog where the search distance was
not being updated correctly if the user modified this value and then
initiated a search by hitting the Enter key.
* Changed behavior of ³Show on Map² for individual route and track points
to be consistent with the waypoint¹s behavior.
* Fixed some localization issues in several Asian languages.
* Fixed several auto-routing issues.
* Fixed a vertical profiling issue.
* Fixed issue with trying to create a route near the North or South pole.

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