high point on a hwy route?

        I'm running MapSource and TopoUS2008 under Wine on Fedora 10
Linux. I want to find the highest point on the highway from my house to
my in-laws', a couple hundred miles away.

        The routing function insists on straight lines some times, and
follows roads other times -- regardless how I edit my preferences. How do
I make it go the way I want?

        Once I do get it to do that, and then tell it to show the
profile, how do I get it to show me the various peaks *on* the *map*??



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Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeonly Codger Learning Linux
On the Internet, you can never tell who is a dog --
supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind.

        Just go to whatever you want, then the GPS will obey and continue from
wheverever you start.

On Sat, 16 May 2009 19:24:41 -0500, Joel wrote:
        [....]

        Even if that made sense (and it doesn't to me), I don't see what
a comment about the GPS has to do with a question about Mapsource. Both
are from Garmin, but one (which I had no reason to mention) is hardware,
and the other is software.
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Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeonly Codger Learning Linux
On the Internet, you can never tell who is a dog --
supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind.

        If it doesn't make sense then don't use it.

Beartooth Curmudgeon wrote:

After you make the route pick the selection tool and left click on the
route. The route should turn yellow and when you let off the mouse
button you should see rubber band lines going from the start of the
route to the end. Move the cursor to another point and left click again
and the route should recalculate. This is running under windows, it
might work different on your system.
This I can't help you with.