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myrrh Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 19, 2004 Posts: 41 Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: Routing Software? |
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A friend posed this question to me: He wants to be able to enter 10-20 street addresses into a program and have it determine the most efficient route to all the addresses. He needs this only for a particular major US city.
He wants to use his laptop. Is there software that will do this without a GPS? Or is using a GPS the best way to do this? If a GPS is the way to go, which GPS/software? |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 4:38 am Post subject: |
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CoPilot Desktop does route optimization. The GPS doesn't have to be connected. _________________ Lutz
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myrrh Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:03 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your reply, Lutz. I went to their website and did not see anything called "desktop." Does it go by another name? |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
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Tumbleweed Frequent Visitor
Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 315
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Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: Routing Software? |
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myrrh wrote: | A friend posed this question to me: He wants to be able to enter 10-20 street addresses into a program and have it determine the most efficient route to all the addresses. He needs this only for a particular major US city.
He wants to use his laptop. Is there software that will do this without a GPS? Or is using a GPS the best way to do this? If a GPS is the way to go, which GPS/software? |
Are there two seperate requests here?
Route optimisation is going to be done on a PC, or similar (there might be a GPS system that can do it but 20 routes is a lot of procssing so a PC is probably best for this anyway.)
Second request, does he want the route downloaded to a device to do real time routing, or does he just want a printed list of addresses? If he wants real time routing to them then he'll need something that can send the routes from the PC into a GPS device. That is do-able with various degrees of complexity and might well affect the choice of GPS unit he should choose as some are easier to download routes to.
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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tumbleweed, it is not uncommon to do GPS routing on a laptop. Particularly RV and HGV drivers use that a lot. There are a few programs available, CoPilot, iGuidance, even MS Autoroute. But only CoPilot does the optimisation. _________________ Lutz
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Scarecrow Lifetime Member
Joined: Jun 09, 2006 Posts: 185 Location: Kent
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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MS Autoroute can do optimaisation. If you create a route and save it (be sure to close Autoroute after saving, as it tends to hang on to the .axe file) you can use this utility http://leforres.perso.cegetel.net/itn to convert the .axe file to a one of a number of types of file.
I believe if you use a Tom Tom you can import an itinerary (.itn) file as a required route.
I have a Garmin Nuvi, and the way I use the program is to convert the Autoroute file to a .csv file, which is then saved in my POI file for downloading to the SatNav. To find the route, go to custom POIs and it will be in there under whatever name yousaved the converted file to.
Unfortunately with the Nuvi, youcan't navigate the entire route in one go, as the unit will only allow you to navigate to an end point via one waypoint, but it's a useful way of creating and storing all the waypoints in one place if you want to choose your own route over what the SatNav might otherwise choose. |
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