Mapsource Software

[+Hillbilly Tilley]

I just registered the waypoint manager that came with my 60cs and upgraded the firmware. I also signed up for the email notifications. Today I got a email that there is a new version of mapsource 6.5. I was wondering which mapsource software is the update for topo, city select, waypoint manager? Is there a piece of software just called mapsource? Also, something else came up while upgrading the firmware on the 60cs. On the right of the screen was a message that said that updating firmware would erase the poi installed, and had a file to download to reinstall the poi. I downloaded it and installed it on my computer, it is marine poi recovery program. Should I use it on my gpsr? It is really easy to find updates on the Garmin website but the information about the update and where it should be used is lacking. Can someone guide me through the process of getting the most uptodate system possible. I have a GPSMap60cs and the waypoint manager that came with it. I have also ordered topo usa software (which should be in today) and city select v6 (hopefully should be here week).

 

Thanks for any help

[+RSorak]

After you get your maps you'll understand what Mapsource is for. It's the software that runs on your PC.

[+RSorak]

Garmin is pleased to announce that new software is available for the MapSource.

 

You can download the new software from our website by clicking the following link:

 

http://www.garmin.com/support/agree.jsp?product=999-99999-00

 

Changes made from version 6.3 to 6.5:

 

* 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 “Open…” command in the “File” 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 “Save As…” command in the “File” menu. Removed the “Import…” and “Export…” commands from the “File” 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 “Insert Waypoints” button when there are no waypoints in the active document, and disables the “Show on Map” 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 sheet.

* 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 “OK” button to a “Close” 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 such as pedestrians and bicycles. 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 “MapSource help” which replaces the two commands “Contents” and “Index…” 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 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 the maps are being sent to 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 “waypoints” to be labeled “via points”.

* 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 “non-dangerous” 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 “u-turn” and a “sharp left/right 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 as well.

* 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 'find results' marker on 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.

* Fixed issue where the find dialogs might not correctly remember the category/subcategory of the previous feature search in languages other than English.

* Fixed issue where a marquee created with the map selection tool might select the wrong maps.

* Changed the color of the marine exposed rock symbol.

* Changed the line style of marine clearing lines.

* Fixed issue with reporting transfer errors with removable media.

* Fixed issue where if the pointer hovered over a selected waypoint and it was deleted, the pointer popup wasn’t removed.

* Changed behavior of “Show on Map” for individual route and track points to be consistent with the waypoint’s 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.

[+NickL]

I was wondering which mapsource software is the update for topo, city select, waypoint manager? Is there a piece of software just called mapsource?

MapSource is the core engine that Topo, City Select and Way Point manager use to run.

 

Since RSorak has already posted what was fixed/changed I will not do that as well. But it does look like an extensive list of things.

[+Jim W]

I'm still using MapSource 6.1, can I use this update?? MapSource software version 6.5 as of January 10, 2005

[Neo_Geo]

ABSOLUTELY! I highly recommend it! Lots of good new features!

[+Hillbilly Tilley]

Thanks for the input...any ideas about the "If MapSource data is loaded to this unit, this unit's preloaded POI database will be erased. Please download the file below if you wish to recover this POI database."...comment and the file attached to it.

 

Real question...do I need to do this after the firmware upgrade?

[+Team DEMP]

One of the more useful features in 6.5 is the ability to create a route and then tell MapSource to select the map segments needed to cover the route that was generated.

[+Team DEMP]

Thanks for the input...any ideas about the "If MapSource data is loaded to this unit, this unit's preloaded POI database will be erased. Please download the file below if you wish to recover this POI database."...comment and the file attached to it.

 

Real question...do I need to do this after the firmware upgrade?

If I understand it properly, I think it's indicating that if you just use the basemap without ever loading any map segments from City Select, theirs a POI database for the basemap. If you load a map segment, the POI that come down are related to the detailed map segment.

 

Make sense?

[+tirediron]

One of the more useful features in 6.5 is the ability to create a route and then tell MapSource to select the map segments needed to cover the route that was generated.

Oh? Cool, I missed that!

[+bigcall]

I think I had the beta version loaded - is the final version different?

 

I'll look for that route feature since it looks like it may be useful.

 

Is there a new option or any way to save some memory and not download all the POI data that comes with City Select? I don't think I would use this feature often but planning a route that includes going through any major metropolitan areas just is too memory intensive .

[SergZak]

I think I had the beta version loaded - is the final version different?

Don't know if the beta is actually different than the release version but be warned that your beta version will expire soon so you will need to download & update to the release version...like it or not.

[+Pudman]

I tried to Dl the upgrade and when trying to open the .exe file, I get an error stating "this file is not a valid Win32 application". WTF!? windoz XP home.....found nothing on MS about this....

[Neo_Geo]

I tried to Dl the upgrade and when trying to open the .exe file, I get an error stating "this file is not a valid Win32 application". WTF!? windoz XP home.....found nothing on MS about this....

It happens to me just about everytime I download a file from Garmin. On my first attempt, the file downloads VERY QUICKLY, and when I try to execute the file, I get the same problem. Just try downloading the file again. It should take at least a few seconds for a 1MB file. If the file downloads in about a second, it went to quickly and you need to download it again.

[+AtoZ]

There are two parts to the MAPSOURCE the maps and then the application its self. The upgrade is for the applications as listed above. Garmin makes it money off the maps really as the app will not work with out maps.

cheers

[+Klatch]

This is actually the second version of 6.5 (and no, I am not including the beta version). The second one updated the help file, which originally didn't address many of the new features of 6.5. So if you updated before 1/10/05, you might want to consider downloading the newest one. (yeah, I know it is large)

The issue with the 2 second failed update mentioned above happens every time I download an update from the site. The second attempt always works.

[+Pudman]

I've done it 5 times, same results. Emailed Garmin and they are sending it on a CD. Said it was a known problem.....