Create routing in Mapsource

[lurkin]

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Quite a few GPS newbies were asking questions about creating routes in Mapsource.

While Mapsource in general is a good tool to visualize your travel plans, most users just go for the default routing settings which may result in unwanted or inconvenient routing. So, how to create an optimal or better routing in Mapsource?



OK, in the first step you should navigate to Edit -> Preferences and click on the “Routing” tab.
Now you will see that in addition to “faster time” or “shorter distance”, you have a slider scale to favor minor roads or highways.

Open “Driving Speeds” and you can specify speeds to be used for various types of roads when calculating driving times.
Vehicle drop-down menu allows selection of Pedestrian, car/motorcycle, bus, truck, taxi, emergency, delivery or bicycle.
Under Advanced, you can select areas or roads to avoid in route calculations.


After a route is created, open Route Properties and if you have ‘Via’ points, you can use the yellow arrows on left side to move highlighted points in the route up or down to change the order of the route.


Hope that helps to clear up the routing mystery in Mapsource.

[Ryo]

Hi lurkin, That was a good tips to be introduced

From Vietnam Mapper's point of view, I also have a suggestion for users. It's about vehicle setting. When you plan to travel by car, Vehicle type should be Car/Motorcycle. That is probably pretty normal but when you plan to travel by Motorcycle, I suggest you to set vehicle type as "bicycle". The reason behind this suggestion is that Mapsource and other Garmin mapping tool can not set "motorcycle only road" when we create the map. However, there are so many thin roads and human powered ferry boats to cross rivers. I simply set this kind of attributes to "pedestrian" and "bycycle" only.

So, when you set default setting (which is car/motorcycle) mapsource will not give you those path. Please use "bycycle" when you plan to trip on the motorbike. It is same on the GPS unit. You have to set vehicle to motorbike when you want to travel with motorbike/bycycle road.