downloading MapSource data to 76csx

Ah, yet another thread from a newly excited 76csx owner!
I only hope that the fine help I have been getting is also benefiting others
in the Garmin community.
Here goes:

When transferring data (specifically a route) from MapSource to the GPS
unit, the option is given to transfer either the route, waypoints or both.
Even when I leave the waypoints box unchecked, they appear on the GPS.
Why?

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Regards,
Richard Harison

LightByrd wrote:

The waypoints in a route are always included with the route. If you had
a route that had only MapSource-owned Via Points in it (no user-owned
waypoints) you would not get any waypoints on the GPS receiver.

A route without user-owned waypoints in it is a route created by using
the Route tool and clicking on spots on the map and/or map objects other
than waypoints you have placed.

Jack

| LightByrd wrote:
others
both.
|
| The waypoints in a route are always included with the route. If you had
| a route that had only MapSource-owned Via Points in it (no user-owned
| waypoints) you would not get any waypoints on the GPS receiver.
|
| A route without user-owned waypoints in it is a route created by using
| the Route tool and clicking on spots on the map and/or map objects other
| than waypoints you have placed.
|
| Jack


So we are back to the old viapoint vs. user owned waypoint discussion
I'll have to try some experimental routes and see if my routing viapoints
are honored or just how much the 76csx wants to have it its way.


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Regards,
Richard Harison

LightByrd wrote:


If you use the point and click route building and take the via points,
having the same mapping in both places and no contradictory preferences
set on the handheld, you'll usually get the same or similar results in
both places.

I often use the point and click and see what I get. If I want to change
it I'll place a waypoint on the road I prefer, add it to the route, and
see what happens.

A good example for that would be a city with a beltway around it and
maybe another Interstate run straight across it. You might get it to
use one you prefer just by putting one waypoint in a blank spot (no exit
there) along the route you prefer. It adds point in the route that the
GPS will count down to and then just advance to the next maneuver when
your get there, just letting you continue on.

But if you place the waypoint near but not actually on the route you
prefer, it may try to route you off the the road and right to the
location.

Jack

| LightByrd wrote:
|
viapoints
|
| If you use the point and click route building and take the via points,
| having the same mapping in both places and no contradictory preferences
| set on the handheld, you'll usually get the same or similar results in
| both places.
|
| I often use the point and click and see what I get. If I want to change
| it I'll place a waypoint on the road I prefer, add it to the route, and
| see what happens.
|
| A good example for that would be a city with a beltway around it and
| maybe another Interstate run straight across it. You might get it to
| use one you prefer just by putting one waypoint in a blank spot (no exit
| there) along the route you prefer. It adds point in the route that the
| GPS will count down to and then just advance to the next maneuver when
| your get there, just letting you continue on.
|
| But if you place the waypoint near but not actually on the route you
| prefer, it may try to route you off the the road and right to the
| location.
|
| Jack


Thanks, Jack...
I modified the now world famous Harison beer store route so that there was
no way the route I created using only the routing tool was either the
fastest or the shortest. I then set the 76csx to "prompt." Here are the
results.

FASTEST: (should have been straight down Hwy 26, as I live on that road and
so are the suds)
It humored me with a right turn off the highway, but wouldn't let me go as
far south as I programmed. It left a magenta go-nowhere "tail" to the road
I had programmed, suggested a U-turn, and told me to turn right when the
map showed left. (result of the u-turn)
It then sent me to the end of another "tail......Well the point is made!

SHORTEST:
Pretty much the same story.

MORAL: If one knows that a certain route is superior, for one reason or
another, as you said before, you gotta own the waypoints!

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Regards,
Richard Harison