Off-road routing in Mapsource

[Tim Cullis]

Just got a Garmin 2610 which came with Mapsource 5.2 and City Navigator 6.0.

I'm now playing with Mapsource trying to create a route in northern Morocco. Is there a way that I can connect waypoints together without Mapsource trying to route me on roads?

In the example above, I can route off road from Ketama to pass, but as soon as I include Taounate, the software insists on routing me round the houses. It doesn't even go the quickest way either as it ignores the road going south east from Ouazzane.

Any ideas?

Tim

 

[Howard Millichap]

You'll probably have to set up sperate routes for the road bit and the off-road bits. Off-road you'll have to make lots of waypoints along the tracks (if you know where they are) and link them using the "direct" setting.
Just think yourself lucky to have auto-routing in Morocco at all. What mapping is it please?

Oh! And by the way. Mapsource is now on version 6.3 which you can download (free) from the Garmin website. At around 13mb, broadband is recommended.

 

[Tim Cullis]

I've since downloaded v6.5 beta and it looks like I've found the way to do it. Under >Edit >Preferences you can switch between auto-routing and direct-routing (i.e. off-road or off-map). I've found I can start a route in auto-routing mode, then when I go off-road switch the preference over to direct-routing, then when I'm back on the mapped roads, switch back to auto-routing.

However, I'm not totally certain whether this functionality is supported on the 2610--from reading the manual it seems that you have to manually switch between on- and off-road. Some experimentation needed in the UK before setting off!

And yes, I already have GPS waypoints for many of the pistes, and have maps with lattitude/longitude references for the rest.

Tim