Adding selected waypoints from a file to GPS?

[Bateman]

I have some mapsource files that contain all the IBIS and Formule 1 hotels in France. I want to add only the hotels that are within say 10 miles of my trip next week to my GPS as it only holds 500 I think, and there are other ones I also want to add. Is there an easy way to do that without having to individually select or deslect the ones I want?

 

[PanEuropean]

There is a fairly quick way to do it - open the file with MapSource, use the pointer tool to draw a rectangle around the area containing the waypoints you want, select COPY from the edit menu, then open a new (blank) MapSource file, select PASTE from the edit menu, and drop the selected waypoints into the new file. If you are interested in covering a route, rather than a specific city, you might have to draw a long, thin elongated rectangle along a few places that overlap your planned route, and repeat the copy/paste exercise a few times - using the same source and target MapSource files.

Now save the new file and upload it to your GPSR. You will get a '10 mile square' selection, rather than a 10 mile radius selection, but other than that, you'll get what you want done, quickly and easily.

There is another way to get the job done dynamically - if you are using a fairly recent GPSR (26xx or newer), and you have the latest system software in it, try using the FIND feature of the GPSR with the 'NEAR ROUTE' search criteria active. This will return all the hotels that meet your search string specification (e.g. 'Ibis' or 'Formula') from your present position to the end of your route, listed in order of increasing distance from you. This is what I do when I am touring - I like this feature, because I can then make my own last minute judgement about whether to take the one that is 20 miles down the road, or to press on and ride to the one that is 40 or 60 miles down the road. The hotel companies are especially vigilant about making sure that Navteq has all their properties in the database, so you don't have to worry about missing any.

Michael

 

[Fanum]

Michael...you may well know how to do this but I just opened up Mapsource to play with this problem and on the Waypoint panel, there's a heading of 'Proximity'......I would guess that you should be able to set your current position and then the 'proximity' column would show how far away each of the WP's in the list are......it's got up and down sorting arrows on it so If I'm right, you could sort them in ascending distance from point X and then just skim off anything within a certain distance of X with cut'n paste????

I couldn't see how to get any further though.....have I got that completely wrong????


Cheers

Bill

 

[PanEuropean]

Hi Bill:

What you say makes perfect sense, however, I think you are more experienced with MapSource than I am, because I have never tried doing that. I'm not organized enough to try and look for things ahead of time - I usually start to think about looking for a hotel when my ass gets sore, and then I use the 'find' feature on the GPSR, rather than MapSource. In fact, most of the time, I just look at the billboards at the side of the road and use them for hotel-finding guidance.

Michael