Re: Auto routes

Bob L wrote:
<rehobeth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:081b3ca5-932c-43e6-a9ca-dbd9cab16066@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 6, 9:21 pm, I. Care <ic...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <2277e666-b7a1-4c39-8fdb-df1a603b2b53
@n77g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, rehob...@xxxxxxxxx says...> I apologize if this is the wrong group to post this question but I
don't know where else to go.
I need a program, website or something that will allow me to import a
spread*** with addresses and then will automatically lay out the
best route to hit each address (possibly 200 addresses or so). I have
a Garmin 76cs I would like to upload the route to or a print out would
also work.
Thank you!
If I recall correctly this question was asked and answered awhile back.

Here is one product:

http://www.soft14.com/Home_and_Education/Science/Frontbase_GPS_8708
_Review.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/2qsw9m
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I. Care
Address fake until the SPAM goes away ;-}

Thank you very much for the reply ;->

That program solves half my problem, I still have to have something
that will take all the addresses in the spread*** and make the most
direct route of hitting each address. Any ideas?

I don't know about the 76cs but some GPS units have optimal routing built in - the Garmin Quest for example. You can create a route with multiple via points in Gamin's MapSource program, upload to Quest, and have it reorder them optimally (for faster time, shortest distance, or off road). I think you can have up to 254 points in a route - never tried anywhere near that many though.


The older Garmin 2610 if you can find one, and the 2820 will do this within the GPS. You would have to convert the addresses to GPS coordinates, which you can do on a couple of sites on the internet, upload those to the GPS, pick a start and a finish waypoint, add the others as vias, then tell the GPS to pick the optimum route. I have did it with mine with six or seven points and it worked like a charm. I would check with Garmin as to how many vias you can use because it doesn't say in the manual.
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