Which Units support MDR?

Was just curious. Is there a place that lists all the units that
support MDR?

how about PC software... which ones support MDR?

how about online Maps like GOOGLE, etc.. which ones will do MDR?

THANKS!

larry g wrote:

Not that I know of, and it is not one of the things that gets mentioned
or discussed in reviews very much either. But if you go to the Garmin
product pages and use the compare feature, you can spot the ones that
will and will not do MDR. If they do not list the number of waypoints
allowed in a route as a number that is bigger than "0", then they do not
do MDR.


All Garmin's street mapping products will do MDR when being used on a PC
with nRoute (a free download that uses your installed MapSource mapping).

Also Micro$oft Streets & Trips will do it and last I knew so would
DeLorme's Street Atlas (although I've not used SA in several years).
Last I knew DeLorme's Street Atlas HandHeld versions were useless pieces
of crap and not worth using.


And google maps will do it, you can just keep adding destinations to
that and it goes to them in the order listed.

Jack

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larry g wrote:

What's MDR? I Googled unsuccessfully.

Richard Owlett wrote:

That's a locally created, unofficial, acronym for Multiple Destination
Routing. Basically, it is the ability to add waypoints to a route to
control routing.

Jack

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Jack Erbes wrote:

That would be via routing which is not exactly the same thing as
multiple destinations. Multiple destinations means different things to
different people which is one reason it is not talked about much. Some
considerations for Multiple Destination routing.

1. Is it just adding a via inside a current route? If so is it mandatory
to go through the via point or just use it to guide the router?

2. If the via point actually called a destination. Does the product
report it as a destination and describe ETA etc. to that point.

3. If it is a really a destination then the unit should announce it and
then allow the user to stop.

4. What happens, next. Does the unit attempt to return to the route or
continue on to the destination?

5. Can the destination be added on to the end or only in the middle.

6. If added on, does the unit compute the whole route initially or just
to the intermediate point and wait until the arrival to calculate the
next point? This is easy to implement, by the way, since the
destinations are merely placed in a stack to be popped off as you
arrive, but you don't know the final eta.

7. Many folks want the unit itself to determine the optimum order of the
destinations, or at least a reasonable order. You never want this if you
are adding via point. A Real Estate person, for example, may want to
input a bunch of houses and let the unit determine the order to visit them.

8. An aside capability is after the fact to be able to detour to a side
destination. Such as when you decide to find a restaurant, or gas
station while on a trip, and then you want to return to the original
route (or route a new one).

9. Is multiple 2, or 5, or more?

All of the features could be covered but just saying MDR doesn't really
tell you very much as a check box.

Dale
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