MapSource version 6.16.2.0 update is available

Just downloaded and installed the update. Thanks for the heads-up.

We've made some changes to the road slider in the routing preferences.

The most obvious change is that now there are only 5 settings where there were 7 before. But that's not all, we've actually changed the way this slider works and we hope this will work better for most of our users.

There were some issues with the old slider:

1. Setting a route to "shorter route" and "prefer minor roads" would yield really odd results.
2. Using the slider in conjunction with "faster route" would not really work at all with NT maps.
3. A feature most people are interested in: reliably avoiding highways, did not really work.

If you do not care about the road type, please leave the road slider in the middle. This will yield the best results and the fastest route calculation times.

If you would like to avoid major highways, set the slider into position 2 (between "minor roads" and the middle). This works fairly well now.

If you would like to avoid major highways and other larger roads, set the slider all the way to the left.

The two settings to the right will try harder to avoid small roads. But it is not necessary to set it if you just care about a fast/short route. MapSource will use Highways preferably already in the middle setting.

Now, some caveats: the slider works well if the map data contains enough roads for each road class. If there are not enough smaller roads the algorithm might fall back to highways even if you picked "minor roads". You might get better results by using position 2 in that case.

It is likely that MapSource will recalculate routes differently now for the "minor roads" / "prefer highways" setting. Sometimes the route might be a "better" one, sometimes it might get "worse". But overall we hope this change will allow users to calculate scenic routes more reliably.

If you get very odd results for Garmin map products, feel free to post a gdb file of the route and we will investigate.

We will keep working on routing improvements, one of the next releases will hopefully speed up routing as well.

I installed this update but haven't actively used the program. Changes are:

Fixed display of ampersands on the map.

Does anyone know where to get the FULL version of this software? I can only seem to find the updates, and I bought my GPS so long ago, I have no clue where my original install disk. Is there a legit way to get the full install of this software?

Kevin

Remember though that if you have a GPS with preinstalled maps there may not be any maps on your PC for Mapsource to use. The link provided my CraigW will give you the full version of Mapsource on your PC but it maybe void of map data until you update your GPS maps using the "install on GPS and Computer" option.

Follow this procedure:
http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-install-mapsource-if-it-didnt-come-with-your-gps/