Multi Routing

magicman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 27, 2003 Posts: 4

I have bought a Dell Axim with TT2,
when i was looking round for a suitable sat nav system, one of my concerns was the need to plan a route with several stop off and being able to list the all the address and find the quickest route to them all.
Can this be done with TT2? is my question and if so how or do I need another app to do this
I visit many address every day
ie routeplanner as on autoroute

TIA

lbendlin · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 10:18 pm Post subject:

No, but...

This can't be done yet with the current version of TTN2. But the next version is supposed to have that feature. In the meantime you could add your waypoints/stopovers to your favourites, and then navigate to them one by one.

Let's face it - technically navigating with stopovers is the same as navigating in single unrelated journeys. The only real advantage of stopovers is convenience.
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magicman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 27, 2003 Posts: 4

Right another gripe with dell then....
because my address change day by day and i only get the addys and post codes on the morning i could end up doing alot more miles
If i could get access to autoroute on the morning i could work out a route and then program TT2
So there is no 3rd party software to do this at the mo

Oldie · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 1:21 pm Post subject:

Magicman

If you use Postcodes to identify your destinations then you could use CodeSearch (look in the Downloads area) to create a TTN POI overlay. When loaded into TTN you can use Tap-and-hold on the map display to bring up a menu which has Nearby points of interest... at the bottom. Select it and then your POI file from the drop-down box. Your Postcode POIs will be shown with the closest (as the crow flies) at the top. You can then navigate to the next closest POI. Overall this will not necessarily give you the optimum route covering all locations, you would need a Travelling Salesman program for that Smile

Richard

lbendlin · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:29 pm Post subject:

You may also want to look into CoPilot - they have this feature that Oldie is describing. In CoPilot you can enter any number of stopovers, and then have the application calculate the optimal route between them
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Oldie · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:41 pm Post subject:

Lutz,

Thank you for the information about CoPilot having an optimal route capability. Today I wrote a PC program that would read a TTN POI overlay file and sort the entries into optimal route order. However, the distances between points on the route were "as the crow flies" not distances along roads. It was an interesting exercise but of no practical use. Crows can easily cross a river when there isn't a bridge Laughing

Lets hope that TomTom incorporate an optimal route algorithm in the next release.

Richard

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