New Mapsource (beta) with new features

http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3333

Changes made from version 6.11.6 to 6.12.0:

• Changed the default file format to GDB version 3.
• Added web links. This feature allows user created internet search options to appear on context menus. These search options can use either location or name information.
• Added a MiniMap.
• Added new waypoint symbols (contacts, geocache, hunting, etc.).
• Added support for multiple links on waypoints, routes, and tracks.
• Added additional guidance for the user when clicking on the ?View in Google Earth? menu item.
• Added support for writing waypoints, routes, and tracks to SD cards for new chart plotters.
• Enhanced the driving directions page in the route dialog to provide additional statistics.
• Added two options to the routing preference ?Try to Avoid? list: ferries and seasonal road closures.
• Added support for multi-line comments for waypoints.
• Added a transfer preference to specify if (and which) serial ports should be searched for Garmin devices. This should solve problems for users that have badly behaved internal modems that cause MapSource to hang.
• Added the ability to join tracks from the Tracks page.
• Added track color to the list on the Tracks page.
• Changed the behavior of the track draw tool to populate the elevation in tracks if the map product has DEM elevation data.
• Changed several feature symbols (mountain peak, city, and airport) to be smaller so they don?t obscure as much of the map. This only applies when the large symbol size is selected.
• Adjusted the layout of several preference pages for improved usability.
• Changed the behavior of several dialogs to ignore the degree symbol in user provided coordinate strings.
• Fixed an issue when selecting map sets larger than 4 GB in size.
• Fixed an issue with saving files to offline network drives.
• Fixed an issue with preserving line feeds inside of comments in GPX files

Ta

Details of City Nav v9 here: http://www.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/citynavEuro.jsp

Not showing in the ready to dispatch, yet

Minimap,
The new minimap feature is more useful than I thought; if you’re drawing a route you can use it to move the map without changing the tool from route to hand (and back again)

Waypoint,
That very usefully extended ‘comments’ field in waypoints behaves oddly, it seems to take loads of text but most of its unreadable because the field is too small and the text doesn’t ‘wrap’ Still it is a Beta release, and should get fixed.

Anyone else any thoughts?

I've found this comes up with some very strange routings - to get even near to mapsources previous routing I have to up the "prefer highways" slider by one notch and even then the routings are strange.

Try loading a route done with a previous version, duplicating it and recalculating with this latest version and you'll see what I mean (unless it's just me)!

Still no support for reading routes from Zumo then? I'ts quite surpricing that the route export files can't be read by Mapsource!

Why do i get this message

"This version of Mapsource beta will expire on 10/03/07 After it expires you will need to download and install a newer version"

They seem to give the beta versions a life. All you have to do is download the most current actual version for you to be up and running again. It's not unknown for that to have to be done.

Because Beta is only a prototype of the next update, I think there is a disclaimer with the download. But I have never had any probs I think this is where Garmin rely on a little feed back from its customers

Cheers guys, no need to worry then