Whats The Difference Between Garmins Ver.6.3 And

[+4x4 Trail Busters]

I have version 5 of City Select and also downloaded from the garmin site the 6.3 upgrade. What the heck is the difference if any?

[gus44]

You are getting Mapsource and City Select confused.

 

Mapsource is the viewer which is installed on your PC to view and download map/route info to your GPS. It is free and downloaded from Garmin. Latest Version 6.3.

 

City Select (latest version V6.0) is the mapping data (roads etc) - you usually have to pay Garmin for an upgrade.

[Neo_Geo]

Changes made from version 6.1 to 6.3:

 

Changed software version number from 6.1 to 6.3.

Fixed issue with searching in multi-product families where a map from the wrong product could be shown behind the search result.

Fixed some alignment issues in the Japanese and Korean resource localizations.

Fixed issue where a route name with Asian characters could be corrupted when displayed in the route dialog.

Fixed issue where products with non-English characters could crash during a search.

Fixed issue where new Marine maps could crash because of new light colors.

Updated some route calculation parameters for more optimal routing solutions.

Fixed issue with searching in multi-product families where features from a non-current product might be ignored.

 

Changes made from version 5.4 to 6.1:

 

MapSource 6.0 and newer will no longer support Windows 95. Also, for NT 4.0 computers, MapSource will now require Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater to be installed.

Updated the toolbar and menu layouts to simplify the experience for new users.

Changed the view toolbar so that the product selection box is not shown unless the user has multiple map products installed.

Added the capability to auto-detect all types of connected Garmin devices. This simplifies the process a user must go through to send/receive data with their Garmin device. Technology was also included into the auto-detection of devices to remember the last auto-detected device. Thus, if the user always has the same devices connected to the same ports, they should not have to search for their device more than once.

Updated various places where MapSource interacts with the GPS to use the new auto-detect technology, including transferring data to/from the GPS, getting the GPS’ unit id, renaming the GPS, and setting the PC Clock from the GPS.

Added ability for the user to associate file links or Internet addresses with waypoints, routes, and tracks. These links will be exported to text and DXF files when a file export is performed.

Added support for waypoint categories.

Added support for terrain shading display for products that have this information in their map data.

Added option to the main Maps tab to include/exclude terrain shading map data in map transfers to the GPS. This option is enabled if any maps in the selected map set contain terrain shading information as part of their map data.

Added support for vertical profiles of routes on maps that support vertical route profile information.

Changed the waypoint dialog to allow the user to show more or less detail. The default setting is to show less detail.

Modified MapSource to detect fully locked map products at start-up and notify the user of available unlocking options.

Changed MapSource to use the UnlockWizard for providing the user with map unlock services in non-Asian language versions of the program.

Added 'find recent' and 'find nearest' options to the route dialog.

Provided users with the capability to limit “find nearest” search results to those matches that “contain” specified words.

Added the ability for a user to perform a 'find nearest' search from the context menu of the via point list in the route dialog. This allows the user to find map features closest to the via point that the user selects in the list when he or she right-clicks to bring up the context menu.

Improved interface for finder. Added “auto complete” technology that uses a drop-down control to display word matches while the user types.

Removed the color field from waypoint and track dialogs since MapSource does not use this value. The color value associated with a waypoint or track is still preserved as part of the item’s stored information so that it will still be present for GPS devices that utilize this value. However, users can no longer view and edit this value from the MapSource user interface.

Updated MapSource to use the new GDB file format.

Added capability to import files from the old MPS file format and export GDB files to the old MPS file format. When importing older format files, the base name of the files is preserved in an effort to simplify the conversion process.

Added the capability to copy and paste between this version of MapSource and other applications (including older versions of MapSource) which may use a different version of the data.

Updated the route dialog to copy a text version of the via-points onto the clipboard. Also provided the capability to copy the text of driving directions to the clipboard from the driving directions tab.

Added temperature and time stamp to waypoints.

Improved the vertical track profile by making the window resizable and adding keyboard support for scrolling and zooming.

Reorganized route and track dialogs to make more commonly used fields more readily accessible to new users.

Added a preference for avoiding unpaved roads while autorouting. Note that this preference may not be fully supported by some older Garmin map products.

Removed the use of the F3/Shift-F3 shortcuts, which were used for navigating the recently found places.

Added the accelerator Ctrl-Alt-F to bring up the Recently Found Places.

Changed the 'recently found places' dialog to automatically select the first 'recently found place' when it is brought up.

The strings specifying the types of files MapSource can export were translated so that they will appear in the same language as MapSource. The previous version always displayed these in English regardless of what language MapSource was using.

Changed the color of the question mark being displayed over the vessel (when its location is unknown) to white for enhanced visibility.

Modified the application so that all dialogs with system menus in the upper-left corner (such as the route dialog) will now display the MapSource icon for this menu. The previous version displayed the default Windows icon to mark the menu.

Added code so that MapSource beta builds now expire 60 days after their build date. After expiration, the application will instruct the user on how to update their application to the latest version.

Changed MapSource so that the entire map is not redrawn when the crosshair is enabled.

Added access to the “duplicate routes” function in applicable MapSource context menus.

Removed the “make waypoint” button from the finder dialog in situations where the user opens the finder from within the route dialog.

Changed style of MapSource toolbars to have “grippers” so that the individual toolbars are more easily visible to the user.

Added notification for transfers to the iQue reminding the user of the need to perform a Hot Sync with the device to complete the transfer.

Added new waypoint symbols to MapSource. Added the following symbols in the colors red, green, and blue: flags, pins, circles, ovals, rectangles, blocks, letters A-D, numbers 0-9, and triangles. In addition, added the following individual symbols: blue diamonds, blue squares, bike trail, police station, fishing hot spot facility, ski resort, ice skating, wrecker, no anchor, beacon, coast guard, reef, weed bed, drop off, dock, marina, bait and tackle, and stump. Modified the waypoint symbol previously called 'marina' to now be called 'anchor' to better associate it with the symbol.

Because of quantity of new waypoint symbols, the color descriptor for the waypoint symbol types that have colors was moved to the end of the symbol ID so that like icons would be grouped together by symbol type and not by color (for example, “red square” is now “square, red” and will be grouped with squares and not red waypoint symbols).

Added the RT 90 grid.

Modified the scale on map window to display text notifying the user when all map detail is locked and, thus, not visible or available for transfer to a GPS.

Added the capability to display a highway’s cardinal direction as part of its map label.

Added the capability to display tide stations notes when a station has this data available in the map.

Added the postal code parameter to address and intersection searches to allow users to limit these results to those in certain postal codes. The postal codes users are able to use are specific to the Garmin map product in which they are searching. Some map products may not support this capability.

Made the waypoint, route, and track dialogs consistent in the way that they handle repositioning and zooming of the map window that occurs while the user is in the properties dialog. Now, each dialog will remember the initial position/zoom scale of the map when the user opens the properties for a waypoint, route, or track. If the user exits the dialog by clicking 'cancel', MapSource will return to the position/zoom scale it was at when the dialog started. If they exit by clicking 'Ok', the dialog will remain in the last position/zoom scale that it was while the user was in the dialog.

Added new map symbol for non-dangerous underwater rocks.

Added inherent support for mouse wheel scrolling to the map window, vertical track profile, and tide dialog. This is necessary on both machines with Microsoft’s Intellipoint version 5.0 and newer (since Universal Scrolling was removed in version 5.0) and on machines that lacked Intellipoint.

Changed how MapSource interacts with the system clipboard so that users can cut and paste between instances of MapSource without having to leave Mapsource open for this to work. In previous versions, if you copied something to the clipboard and exited MapSource, the information would not be on the clipboard for pasting when you opened up another application. Now, MapSource data will stay on the clipboard until the next time the user does a new cut or copy.

Changed the precision of the display of inter-tidal depths to be one tenth of a unit. Also, changed the way inter-tidal depths that are actually heights above the water are displayed to be consistent with the manner in which they are displayed on paper charts.

Updated the map transfer process so that if the user selects a map set that is too large for his or her destination device, MapSource will provide them with a more useful error message. The message lets the user know how big their selected mapset is and how much room the destination device has, so that the user will have an easier time determining how many maps must be removed from the current set in order for the new set to fit.

Moved via point properties button on route dialog from the route dialog’s toolbar to a standard button labeled “Properties”.

Changed how waypoint name conflicts are handled. We now will automatically resolve these conflicts when possible. If this is not possible, we have added a more informative error message for situations where the user must make a decision about how to handle the conflict.

Updated the Austrian datum to match the new standards.

Modified the route and track dialogs to allow the user to paste into the dialog when no item is selected if the route or track is empty.

Updated route dialog to allow copy, cut, or delete when the item is selected.

Changed transfer to GPS code to strictly enforce Garmin-defined waypoint specifications. This was done to prevent failures that occurred on some GPS’ when waypoints with extremely long names/descriptions were transferred.

Updated waypoint dialogs to only change the symbol and display type after the user exits the field when they have made a change to the value. The previous code would change the icon every time the field changed which resulted in the icon changing while the user was merely scrolling through the list using the arrow keys.

Provided some optimizations for improving the drawing speed of the map.

Changed right-click menu option on tide stations from “Feature Properties…” to “Predict Tides…” for added clarity as to what this menu selection actually does.

Changed the menu option for bringing up map data unlocking features from “Unlock Regions” to “Unlock Maps”.

Added menu shortcut key ‘M’ for the File menu’s “Send Mail…” feature.

Added the ability to export waypoint categories to DXF and tab-delimited text files.

Changed medical facility symbol to a blue cross.

Added ability to receive tracks from the ForeRunner GPS.

Added access to duplicate routes function in the context menu you get when right-clicking on routes in the Routes tab.

Added the ability to search for partial strings in the finder for feature search feature names and city search city names.

Updated the trademark symbol after the name 'MapSource' in the splash screen to be a registered trademark.

Modified file export dialog to automatically fill in the base name of the current gdb file as the default name for the exported file.

Modified track stats display so that if a track is selected from either the tracks tab or the map window, the statistics display will always show the track stats for the entire track.

Added capability to remember the last file extension type from which the user imported.

Fixed issue where a detailed map might not be visible at certain zoom levels if the map is very close to the edge of the screen.

Fixed issue where basemap labels were not being displayed if a user zoomed to a level where detailed maps should be drawn, but the map product lacked detailed maps in that area.

Fixed issue where the right-click context menu was not always getting updated to display the correct options to the user in certain situations.

Fixed issue where some data input locations were not properly validating the text that a user input.

Fixed issue where MapSource was not gracefully handling the case where the language resource file was missing.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when the user attempted to use the system menu while in print preview mode.

Fixed issue where the print preview flickered when MapSource was real-time tracking.

Corrected issue where the product selectors in the view menu and view toolbar were not always showing the same product being selected.

Added code to more robustly handle an issue where MapSource would fail if the map product registry key became corrupted.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail if a value in the registry became corrupted.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail if the user switched between various types of map products in a certain sequence.

Fixed issue where it appeared that a waypoint was still visible on the map if you find the waypoint in the finder and then delete it.

Fixed issue where the 'recently found places' toolbar button was not being properly disabled/enabled when the “number of recently found places to remember” was updated in the find preferences.

Fixed issue where the open file dialog was not being correctly cleared from the screen when a user opened an extremely large data file.

Fixed issue where waypoint dialog would incorrectly display the depth of waypoints when the depth units were not in feet.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when selecting certain maps in MetroGuide Canada v4 and trying to send them to a GPS or card programmer.

Fixed issue where the route dialog would be slow to redraw itself when the user was viewing driving directions and resizing the dialog.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when the proximity of a waypoint was set to an extremely large number.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail if the location of a map product on the user’s PC changed since installation, and then he or she tried to send some maps from this map product.

Fixed issue where user was erroneously prompted to save an empty document when he or she tried to open a corrupted file and it failed.

Fixed issue where a user might get a partially opened GPS data file when a corrupted file is opened.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when merging two files using cut/copy and paste with certain combinations of data.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when doing certain combinations of data operations in the route dialog.

Fixed issue where clicking on the tide prediction window would not set the keyboard input focus to the window.

Fixed issue where a user could not tab to the list of tide extremes in the tide prediction window.

Fixed a drawing artifact that happened when users were constructing routes, had a pop-up appear over the route tool’s black line, and then exited the route tool using the 'esc' key.

Made changes to decrease the amount of flickering that occurs when resizing certain dialogs in MapSource.

Fixed the status bar so that it lists the correct number of via points in a route when the route is selected using the selection tool.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when clicking on Find from within the route dialog and 'No Map' is the selected product.

Fixed issue where MapSource would scroll back to the top of the list in the Waypoints, Routes, or Tracks pages after a modification was made to an item far down in a long list and the property page for that item was closed. Now, the program ensures that the selected item is visible in the list control after modifications.

Fixed issue where users would experience problems in data transfer between the application and certain GPS devices after aborting a transfer and then trying to send to the GPS immediately afterwards.

Fixed issue where the document title was not set back to 'Untitled' if MapSource had a valid document open and it then failed when opening a different document, even though the document was empty.

Fixed issue where copyright string was not being correctly displayed on some map products.

Fixed issue where Lake Erie was not visible at certain zoom scales in America’s BlueChart v6.0.

Fixed issue where waypoint altitudes were not getting correctly set in some new waypoints when MapSource was in metric units.

Fixed issue where the text displayed in the fatal dialog for some MapSource exceptions was incorrectly being overwritten.

Fixed issue where MapSource would not make the Properties button available when a user found tide stations in the 'find nearest'.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail when the user opened the Product Info with certain map products installed.

Changed software version number from 6.0 to 6.1.

Updated address searching for compatibility with some new map products.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail under certain situations when trying to auto-detect a USB GPS device.

Added the display of a 'wait cursor' when doing potentially lengthy operations saving the current file to disk or exporting it to MPS format.

 

Changes made from version 5.3 to 5.4:

 

Fixed an issue in the Find Waypoints feature.

Fixed issue where MapSource was improperly handling waypoint names that contained invalid characters that were sent to it from Asian GPS devices.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail if it tried to send waypoints with extremely long names to certain GPS devices.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail on start-up if the registry contained an invalid key. Now it detects the invalid key and notifies the user that the program must be reinstalled.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail if the user pasted auto-generated routes from one instance of MapSource to another non-empty instance of the program and then tried to replace any duplicate waypoints.

Changed MapSource so that all devices that allow map transfer will consistently and correctly handle how they check for whether a map set of a given size can be transferred to a device. Also added code so that if the size of a set of maps is greater than the size of the destination device, it will alert the user to this problem much earlier in the process.

Added support for IOS tide stations.

Fixed issue where MapSource would exit with a Window error message if the language dll file was missing. Now the program detects that the language file is missing and notifies the user that he or she must reinstall it.

 

Changes made from version 5.2 to 5.3:

 

Fixed issue where the abbreviations for north, south, east and west were incorrectly displayed as localized strings in latitude and longitudes.

Fixed issue where the go to position dialog was not working correctly in Asian localized versions of MapSource.

Fixed some translation issues in Asian language resources.

Fixed issue where MapSource would fail on some builds of Windows 95, because it tried to enumerate available USB devices. This feature is not available on operating systems older than Windows 98.

 

Changes made from version 5.0 to 5.2:

 

Internationalized MapSource to support multiple languages. Localized the program into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Traditional), and Chinese (Simplified).

Fixed issue where the Vertical Track Profile was incorrectly displaying the distance zoom scale in the horizontal axis label when the scale had a decimal point in the value.

Fixed issue where the File menu’s 'Open From' and 'Save To' menu options were not disabled during real-time tracking.

Fixed issue where program would fail when F3 was used to view recently found results and the result was an address.

Fixed issue where the route dialog would fail if an 'undo' or 'redo' action resulted in an empty route and the user clicked on the driving directions tab.

Fixed issue in the route dialog where an attempt to add consecutive duplicate via points in the route resulted in the undo button being activated—but when the user clicked on the button, nothing was undone.

Fixed issue where the autorouter was sometimes adding unnecessary loops when calculating autoroutes.

Fixed issue where, if a route had non-consecutive duplicate via points and the user tried to delete any one of these duplicates, MapSource would always delete the first one, even if the first waypoint was not the one selected.

Fixed issue in MapSource where the redo button was not being disabled correctly when the user performed a waypoint insertion and the redo button was already enabled.

Fixed issue where MapSource would have a pronounced delay if the user tried to insert a waypoint into a route with no insertion point selected in that route.

Fixed issue where copyright strings would get cut off if they were greater than the width of the page while printing or print previewing maps. Added the ability to word-wrap these copyright strings to the page width.

Fixed issue where the GPS tab’s compass would be drawn to overlap the position field in some cases.

Fixed issue where some grid selections would cause the position text to get cut off in the position field of the GPS tab.

Fixed issue where the select device button would become unavailable if the selected COM port was already in use by another device when the user tried to start real-time tracking.

Fixed issue where the seabed nature text was not being correctly centered in BlueChart products.

Fixed various issues that caused the finder to not perform some searches correctly.

Fixed issue where the undo button would be erroneously enabled when maps were automatically removed from an mps file. This issue could cause MapSource to fail if the user then clicked on the undo button.

Fixed some translation issues in Japanese resources.

Fixed issue where autoroutes were not correctly following the roads in the detailed maps in some parts of the middle of long routes.

Fixed issue where portions of larger copyright logos were being cut off when MapSource showed these images after the display of the MapSource splash screen in map products that have logos.

Fixed issue where map transfers to the iQue 3600 actually required twice the size of the map data being transferred in free disk space for a successful transfer.

[+Imajika]

Wow! I think you win the prize for the longest post ever! But it was informative so thanks!

[Neo_Geo]

Thank God for Copy-n-Paste!!!

It probably wouldn't have been quite so long if I had to type it all out by hand.

Edited August 14, 2004 by Neo_Geo

[+Couparangus]

Now all they need to do is fix the bug where selecting tools needs to be done twice for them to work properly. :|

 

CA

[Neo_Geo]

I'm using 6.3, and my tools work just fine.

[+4x4 Trail Busters]

You are getting Mapsource and City Select confused.

 

Mapsource is the viewer which is installed on your PC to view and download map/route info to your GPS. It is free and downloaded from Garmin. Latest Version 6.3.

 

City Select (latest version V6.0) is the mapping data (roads etc) - you usually have to pay Garmin for an upgrade.

OK! I got it! City Select is all the data that is read by Map Source, ok. Sometimes you have to bang your head against the wall before you realize just how much you don't know. What would I do with out GREAT people like you. Thanks all.

[+Couparangus]

I'm using 6.3, and my tools work just fine.

 

Then I must be imagining the whole thing on two different computers with different operating systems.

 

Bring up Mapsource and another application window. Select the other application window now try to select one of the tools in Mapsource. Note that it doesn't select the tool with one click any more.

 

Cheers!

Coupar-Angus

[Neo_Geo]

You mean another application like MS Word or Netscape Messenger? I tried working in BOTH of these applications and going back to MapSource, and it works just fine for me.

 

Is it maybe one particular application you are working with that is causing a problem? Maybe you have a particular application running in the background like that "harmless" Weatherbug maybe. I'm not saying that that particular program will cause a problem for MapSource, but I have seen it cause problems in other apps. Maybe you're running a similar application, or possibly have a virus or spyware running on both of your computers...

Edited August 16, 2004 by Neo_Geo