I like that the points in route are now "dots" rather than anchors but it looks like I have to recreate all of them to get the dots. I still need a way to count points in a route because my plotter is limited to 250 per route.
NOT SO FAST!! I am still gettign the DREADED ANCHOR for points created in a route using track points!!! AARRRGH!!!!
If you create a New Route using a Track, it uses the anchor icon for each point!! Garmin, I thought you guys fixed this?? And why don't you just create real waypoints when doing this so we can edit them later?? OR at least give us the option when creating a track: "Use WP's or un-editable points?"
Ok, just created a quick brand new track of 3 points. Then right clicked on the new track and selected "Create Route from Selected Track". It created a new route, with the ANCHOR?????
See attached.
Well, I'm "complaining"!! It has nothing to do with the cost of the software. It has to do with some basic desperately needed functionality to go with the other $15k we spent on Garmin hardware. ;)
This is not a rocket science, it's a pretty simple program/process really and the functionality has been around for 20 years in other software, so were not inventing the wheel here.
Being a programmer and in the IT business for 30 years now, I FULLY understand finding problems after the release and have absolutely no problem with that whatsoever. There is no possible way to antincipate and/or test every possible scenario. For example, I bet my problem (wth anchor) ends up being some isolated thing...
But I do have a problem with how slow the progress has been on Homeport. Give us some sort already!! Some filtering!!
It's really difficult to get around in the data right now. To simply create a new route from some saved track points and part of another existing route just took me over 1 hour. This would take me 30 seconds in Mapsource. The reason for time? No sorts or filters. So I have to create a fake route, then select the track I want to start with. Highlight the track points in the list I want to copy, copy them, now scroll down the list of 1200+ items (wp's, tracks, routes...) to find the newly created Route, select it, now position the curser at the front of the data list, Past the track points in. Now find the couple of fake track points I used to create the route, delete them from the route. Now go back to the 1200+ data list and scroll around and try and find those coupel of "fake" points, to delete them from the data. Now scroll around the 1200+ lsit again to find the route I want to copy some WP's from, select it, then highlight the WP's in that route I want to copy, select copy. Now again scroll down a giant 1200+ list again to find the newly created route, select it, now scroll down the data points in the route to where I want to insert the copied WP's, Past them in.
GEESH!! Have you guys at Garmin tried doing some basic tasks like this PRIOR to making your programming descisions???? I wonder!! I have to say, I'm really disapointed in this release (and that statement has nothing to do with the anchor problem, I'm sure that will get solved/figured out).
Honeslty, the way HP currently is, it makes simple tasks so difficult to do. I really think I'm going to go back to Mapsource somehow, I just DREAD the conversion of all my data back and how that may or may not go.... Adn then I have the issue of the mutli folders.. hmmmm...
