Observations and questions concerning CS6?

[Bokkie]

Observation 1: Right now, I have the Palm desktop running. I select Map Install. The dropdown list (top left) shows both version 5 and version 6 are selectable. Interestingly, I can select the same detailed map from both versions. They are both listed in the list of maps. CS6 is slightly larger than CS5. I then hotsync the maps. The size of my maps on my SadRisk card is about 1.2Mb.

Question 1: I discovered the above by accident, so which of the two maps is actually the one used for routing?

Observation 2: In QueFind -> Entertainment most of the common POI in my area appear twice, which is consistent with the two maps loaded.

Question 2: Is it possible to disable CS5 from being available in Map Install?

Question 3: As I remember reading elsewhere, I can't uninstall CS5 from my pc because CS6 needs to bolt on top of CS5?

Observation 3: I see CS6 now has coverage of the Isle of Man.

My most pressing question is whether I can dump CS5 as it is way too easy to select identical maps from the wrong version.

Question 4: For those who've installed CS6 what are the wow-factors you've discovered?

[Holgado]

I allways transfer maps through Mapsource, so I can choose maps from one version or the other, indeed not from both maps.

HOLGADO

[Bokkie]

Holgado, that's my point. You can select from one or the other, but unless you eyeball the version it is using, you can indeed accidentally select maps from the wrong version.

[jonasolof]

Originally posted by Bokkie
Observation 3: I see CS6 now has coverage of the Isle of Man.

As pointed out by Garmin. Those areas of GB that were occupied during WWII still are not covered though.


My most pressing question is whether I can dump CS5 as it is way too easy to select identical maps from the wrong version.

We should know within a day or so. Ask Sarah.

Question 4: For those who've installed CS6 what are the wow-factors you've discovered?

I have discovered some pretty strange handling of complex entries and exits to motorways. I went off the motorway to a fuel station that I had routed to to met a person. The exit ramps splits in two, to the left for cars, right for trucks. Well, Betty never told me to turn off the motorway, only to keep left on the road, meaning the left split.

I've seen more inadequate handling of entries to the center lanes on the highly complex Avenue Louize in Brussels but prefer to observe more before stating if there is a systematic error. Roundabouts are handled very well.

[apersson850]

Even if you do keep CS 5 together with CS 6, the last map selected comes up the next time you open Mapsource, or Mapinstall. So you only have to do the eyeballing once, and that is probably within the capability of all of us.

If you then, unlike me, don't have any other types of maps for your Garmin, then you don't have to select the map again, until CS 7 comes out. So it's not that heavy a burden to handle.
I change maps back and forth all the time, depending upon what need and which GPS I'm interested in for the moment, so I'm pretty used to it.

[Bokkie]

Anders, it raises the problem about having to maintain two versions of something, one of which, you don't want filling up your disk. When I install any MS product for example, it may call for an original cd to check upgrade eligibility, but is not dependent on having that original product installed.

Many applications we use at the office ask if want to install the new version alongside the old, or if the old should be fully removed after the new has been installed. It seems counter-productive and against the trend that CS6 will seemingly only run providing CS5 has been installed previously.

I don't know to what extent CS6 replaces CS5 files, so maybe once HardyDoug has chatted to Garmin we'll get the definitive answer, straight from the horses mouth. Not that I'm calling Sarah a horse or anything.:)

[chorlton]

I got my CS V6 upgrade running last night. Once you've deleted your previously selected CS5 maps it should not be much of an issue since it will always default to the CS6 maps you then select etc. I agree that having over a Gig of redunant data on the HDD is annoying.

I also noticed that the map areas are larger i.e. central London is now in just 4 sections instead of the previous 16 sections in CS5. This would seem to be a recognition of the larger storage capacity in the newer GPS units etc. This does make selecting maps easier.

Time to index the selected maps still sucks though. What the hell are they doing that takes so long given the processing power of a modern PC? I also hope that Garmin increase the Hot-sync write speed of the SD card interface on the rev 3 OS from its current snail pace.

At least true to their word, routing through roundabouts seems to be handled correctly now!