eRoute Notes:
Brings Garmin's award-winning auto-routing navigation to your laptop, utilizing the larger screen to display a large map and easy-to-read directions.
Performs turn-by-turn route assistance and previewing, including spoken turn reminders and automatic recalculation when off-route.
Tracks your location using either north-up orientation or vehicle-direction up.
Finds places and easily routes to all points of interest and addresses that your MapSource product provides.
Allows you to customize the places that you want to find and route to quickly using 'Find'; for example, 'Nearest Gas' or 'Nearest Italian Food'.
Provides driver with information, including upcoming cross-streets, street addresses, speed, bearing, and elevation.
Provides multiple trip computers that allow you to track distance, time, and speeds for business or personal use.
Allows importing and exporting of user data to and from MapSource files.
Works with all MapSource products. Note that BlueChart and MetroGuide 5 or greater will not support some features.
Designed for use with the GPS 18 and GPS 10, but will work with almost any Garmin GPS over serial or USB.
Available to MapSource owners as a significant improvement and expansion of the real-time tracking capability. Takes advantage of your installed map product's capabilities. For example, you can find an address and it will auto-route on any auto-routing map, like City Select.
Map Source Change History
Changes made from version 6.10.0.2 Beta to 6.10.0.3 Beta:
Changes to solve several problems when selecting track points using the new track draw tools or the track points list on the Track Dialog.
Change to solve a problem when undoing a deletion of track points in the track points list on the Track Dialog.
Change so that copying a complete track in one instance of MapSource will not append that track to the selected track in a separate instance of MapSource.
Change so that when viewing the track properties after selecting a specific track point on the map, the previously selected track point will be selected and visible in the track points list.
Change so that the color of tracks received from certain units (such as the Quest 2) won?t be set to black and will use the correct default color. Tracks that have already been received from these units will need to be manually changed.
Change to solve a problem viewing the properties of route waypoints in Dutch MapSource.
Change to increase the precision displayed in the proximity setting on the Waypoint Dialog.
Change to solve a problem running MapSource on specific Windows locales, such as Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R), Chinese (Macau S.A.R), and Arabic (U.A.E).
Changes to make creating error reports more robust.
Change to remember the portrait or landscape printer setting when doing a print preview.
Changes made from version 6.9.1 to 6.10.0.2 Beta:
Fixed problems updating MapSource from within the application after a beta has expired.
Added support for postal-code based address finding in the U.K.
Added graphical track editing. To enable track editing, turn on the track edit toolbar by going to 'View > Show Toolbars > Track Edit'.
Added the ability to select a track's display color. This affects how tracks are displayed in MapSource and compatible units.
Modified the drawing of interstates and highways so that the line width changes based on the map's zoom level.
Added support for entering Japanese addresses in Kanji, as well as Kana, in compatible map products.
'Portrait' or 'Landscape' layout setting for printing is now remembered.
More robust communication with Pocket PC units, such as the iQue M3 and M5, is now provided.
Routes calculated in MapSource will no longer cause driving-direction problems on certain units, such as the Quest.
Made MapSource compatible with 512 MB Garmin data cards.
*Above information from Garmin International website.
