![]() One can then switch between MapSource,and GE, making any necessary adjustments to the actual PoI location and, where necessary, switch to Street View for final confirmation. The pièce de résistance of MapSource is that with a PoI file open and all its PoIs visible on screen, one can zoom right in to a single PoI, and then pull-down a "View in Google Earth" command that transfers the PoI locations to Google Earth while opening it, and zooms in to the same location to show the position of the PoI on the ground. There are about 63,000 files in total currently. I now have various directories of PoI files, split into categories, so that they load to the sat nav in discrete groups to make selection easy. ![]() I still think its speed, and the ease of dragging the route around, far exceeds the capabilities of MapSource.īut, where MapSource really scores is for building directories of PoI files. So, I persisted with Autoroute, and still use it (Autoroute 2012, its last iteration before M/S dropped it) for route planning. I had been using Autoroute for route planning from since it came on a floppy disk (which was before Microsoft bought it out) and found it superior to MapSource as a route planner. He used it to plot routes and upload them to his sat nav. (Between those was a nuvi 2495LM which I rate the best of the lot!)Įddie also introduced me to MapSource, which was then a fully supported program (sadly no longer supported, although still downloadable free last time I looked, from Garmin's website). The late Eddie O'Callaghan (Judgemental) introduced me to Garmin devices (a nuvi 750) back in about 2008. Infuriating, as the facility to "View in Google Earth" is then lost in both programs, which is the main attraction of either of the above Garmin programs for me as it allows precise checking of PoIs.Ĭan't contact Garmin UK or US at present, they have simply shut up shop! I have now uninstalled GoogleEarth twice and replaced it with an earlier version that integrates properly with both the above Garmin programs, only to have the latest version sneak back in which does not integrate at all. If so, as has happened to me, it seems you have fallen victim to a new Google policy that updates Google Earth to the latest version - whether you want to or not - and, apart from that new logo, gives no indication that it is doing so, and doesn't give an option of rejecting the update. If you do, have you spotted a new Google Earth log on your desktop over the past few days? If you do, and you use the facility to view map locations in Google Earth, do you get a message that Google Earth is not installed? Anyone else use either of the above programs?
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