Some questions re CP6

[Robin2]

I have been playing around further with the Calais-Soissons route which I described at the beginning of this thread, and it seems that the problem may be a mapping error rather than a fault in CoPilot.
If I route from Calais to the St Quentin bypass on the A26 it plots a perfect route. Similarly, if I start a new route from the D1 just after it has left the A26 to Soissons, again the route is perfect. It seems as though the map does not allow you to leave the A26 at Junction 11.
Annoying, but it's not CoPilot's fault!
Robin
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[PONDEROUS]

Robin2 attributes his Quickest routing problems to the maps rather than the CP 6 software, and I bow to his no-doubt-better technical knowledge. However, I have reservations about any suggestion that this somehow excuses the error so far as the software house is concerned. CP 6 is after all sold as complete product, so ALK has the responsibility. Let's not forget, also, that ALK is the one with the power in relation to Navteq.

Like Robin2, I want to be fair, so I'd like to come back to something I said a few posts ago; i.e. that CP 6's Shortest routing is not yet all it could be. This is still true, but it may well be state-of-the-art or better. Other navigation products with which I am familiar also produce routing issues, but they do not have CP 6's excellent waypoint facility which, apart from being extremely useful for planning multiple stops, usually enables users to iron out the routing issues.

Having said excellent waypoint facility, I have immediately to say that I mean excellent once Copilot has satisfactory Route-review and Jump-to facilities - which other products do have. At the moment, the waypoints facility is spoiled by the need to pan and scroll around, often getting lost, on maps that do not display sufficient information - so much so that I often can't spare the time to do it.

There is a mounting list of CP 6 bugs. That is not too great an issue as long as swift action is taken. I believe that ALK really ought to take the opportunity, while producing the necessary patch, to include the missing commonsense facilities (of which there are more). Then, Copilot users would be able to point out the features that should be setting CP 6 head and shoulders above the competition without having at the same time to mention the many basics that just aren't there.
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[Skippy]

Don't be too quick to blame map errors... Garmin uses the same Navteq maps and it calculates the Fastest route from Calais to Soissons as being 148 miles via the A26, leaving at J11 and joining the D1 which seems correct to me.

Perhaps CoPilot can't handle the way the J11 doubles back on itself at the Échangeur De Gauchy?
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[bcnorwich]

Before opening CoPilot select the landscape mode on your PPC. Then open CP6. Now when you add a stop there is a qwerty option. Would anyone use CoPilot in landscape There's still no caps key though
I to am very dissapointed with CP6 having spent about six weeks trying to get it to work. Two weeks arguing with ALK only for them to say sorry CP6 will not work on WIN98 even though the manual says it will. It took them another week or two and me reminding them before the web site was changed to reflect this.
Regards

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