Re: Mapsource 6.5 Route preferences tab missing - HELP



tjhuot@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I don't have City Select. I have Mapsource US Topo. I can't for
> the life of me believe that you can't route by road with Topo. If
> that is the case and I have to buy City Select for over $100, I'm
> not impressed with this software...

Believe it. US Topo came out long before auto-routing was offered in
either MapSource or the Garmin GPSRs. The mapping products that do
auto-routing indicate in Garmin's web site descriptions, "Will
automatically create point-to-point routes in MapSource and on
compatible Garmin GPS units."
--
Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com

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