Re: MapSource 6.5 beta

From: Peter (prathman_at_comcast.net)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:00:04 -0800

Don Holmes wrote:

> Map detail slider is not there in preferences. I used that feature a whole
> lot.
Note one of the new features listed below:
* 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 ***.
>
> Dragging map became very slow - rebooted and problem still remains. Went
> back to 6.3 and everything corrected.

> So much for that beta - next please?
>
>
> "Allory Deiss" <allory@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:allory-1211041503360001@192.168.0.2...
>
>>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 ³OpenS² 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 AsS²
>>command in the ³File² menu. Removed the ³ImportS² and ³ExportS² 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 ³IndexS² 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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