Automatic Itinerarie planning

billconant · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject: Automatic Itinerarie planning

My wife has a new job that takes her all over the state of Massachusetts in the USA. She's originally from Pennslvania so isn't very fammiliar with all the towns and citys. She's looking for a way to input a bunch of waypoints, in a random order, and have the logical routes planned for her. She is using TT6 on a Palm Zire72. Anyone know of some software to accoplish this?

Bill Conant

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject:

A lot of people use Autoroute to achieve this. See HERE.

However you can now do a similar thing with a program called TYRE.

I've never used it so can't advise on how good it is.
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Trevor1234 · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

Hi billconant
I have used Autoroute and ITNconv many times but I have never found away for Autoroute to sort the waypoints into a shortest/fastest etc route for me. No, I have had to insert the waypoints into what I think is the best route in Autoroute then transfer to Tomtom (via ITNconv).

It would be great if one could just enter the postcodes etc into Tomtom, press a button and the logical route flashed up with all the drops in order, but alas that’s just a dream.

However, I no longer use Autoroute. I use the new Google map (Not Google Earth) on http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=
It really is brilliant. Having then sorted my route and waypoints on my PC to my satisfaction I manually insert them into my Tomtom Itinerary and the method works just fine. All my coming holiday routes and excursions in France have been planned this way.
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billconant · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:56 am Post subject:

Thanks for the replys. This to me would be a logical thing for mapping software to do. Geez they plan a 3000 mile across the country analyzing 1000's of roads but don't offer this basic function that I'm sure alot of delivery type people would really like to have. Anyway ,rant over, we also have Delorme Street Atlas that runs on the PC and can use it to try and plan itinaries. I was hoping there was a better way. Thanks again for the replys.

Bill Conant

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject:

Trevor1234 · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject:

Hi Andy_P2002 and Oldboy
Thanks for the info. It goes to show that there is always something new to learn and there is nearly always someone on the Forum that can put you on the right track. I no longer have Autoroute on my PC and as I find the Google Map brilliant I am about to follow the advice given by Andy_P2002 and try the free script on the website at http://houghi.org/tomtom/index.php to see what happens.
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Trevor1234 · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject:

Hi Hi Andy_P2002
It works. The new Google Map and the convertor make planning an itinery so easy. Yes, I will be using this method quite a bit. Thanks.
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billconant · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject:

I've looked at the Google solutions and they are cool but require to much fiddiling around. My wife has all her stops(nursing homes) setup in a poi folder. I'd like to see away to display those poi in a list then put a check mark next to the ones you want to visit then click 'make itenary' optimised for the best route. Now isn't that what software is for, how could TomTom not have seen this with all there years of doing this.

Bill Conant

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:50 pm Post subject:

ddaddy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 06, 2005 Posts: 20

Does anyone know if its possible to IMPORT addresses into google maps?

That would then make an ideal solution with the app that can convert the route into an .itn

Thanks

billconant · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:38 am Post subject:

Since I'm the original poster to this thread and it has a recent post to it I thought I'd chime in on what I did about the original post. Firstly thanks to Oldboy for the idea of using Autoroute, which is MS streets and trips in the USA. Secondly someone mentioned POIEdit in another post. I used this to convert the TT ov2 files to comma delimited files that could be imported into Autoroute. These ov2 files contain all the places my wife needs to visit. Then I add the poi for the days work into a route in Autoroute and have Autiroute optimize the route, as Oldboy suggested. Lastly thanks to Trevor1234 for mentioning ITconv. After saving the route that Autoroute creates the resullting file can be input to ITconv which converts it to a TT itinary file. I then use a card reader to move the file to the SD card. This seems like a lot of work but once all the poi are setup it doesn't take to much effort to get it done. I saw a post in another forum section a few days ago that said some one is working on solution to this.
Bill

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