Micro$oft Autoroute

I've been looking at microsofts autoroute 2002 to do the same thing especially as it can show you
any near by pubs, heheh. Prob is it doesn't yet take into account footpaths/public right of way etc.

Does anyone know if autoroute 2003 covers foot/cycle paths yet or of any other software packages
that can do this?

My only option at mo is to get the shortest route from autoroute then cross ref on the ordinance
survey maps.

Ta, jerome

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I sometimes use Autoroute to plan cycle trips (mainly to calculate approximate distances).

I asked it suggest a route from Holyhead to Lowestoft, avoiding motorways and A roads.

It suggested I caught a ferry to Liverpool via Dublin!

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I have 2003 autoroute, and it doesn't go down to all the minor roads (thinking the ones marked on
maps as very minor ones - white, I think?) let alone the footpaths or cycletracks.

M$ bought up Autoroute in (IIRC) 1988. That's 15 years since the product was zombified and only the
glitzy packaging was of interest. Don't expect anything _useful_ from it for the forseeable future -
beyond what's been there for a very long time.

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I asked it suggest a route from Holyhead to Lowestoft, avoiding motorways and A roads.

In the Olden Days the Autoroute preferred route form Southampton to Portsmouth avoiding motorways
was via the Isle of Wight :-)

That was before it was Billware, of course.

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I've been looking at microsofts autoroute 2002 to do the same thing especially as it can show
you any near by pubs, heheh. Prob is it doesn't yet take into account footpaths/public right of
way etc.

Does anyone know if autoroute 2003 covers foot/cycle paths yet or of any other software packages
that can do this?

My only option at mo is to get the shortest route from autoroute then

cross

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ref on the ordinance survey maps.

Ta, jerome

I have 2003 autoroute, and it doesn't go down to all the minor roads (thinking the ones marked on
maps as very minor ones - white, I think?) let alone the footpaths or cycletracks. Neither does it
show terrain info (or at least if it does, I can't find the option that turns it on) - which means I
go back to a normal map if looking at places to cycle...

Velvet

Damn that was quick! It's got a terrain map selection thingy that does not seem to do much. Pants.

Ordinance survey has their own Emapping jobbie, does anyone know if it's any good for that
sort of thing?

(really a pub to pub route in kent would be great. think the beer mats should have cycle routes to
the next local)

Jerome

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I've been looking at microsofts autoroute 2002 to do the same thing especially as it can show
you any near by pubs, heheh. Prob is it

doesn't

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yet take into account footpaths/public right of way etc.

Does anyone know if autoroute 2003 covers foot/cycle paths yet or of any other software packages
that can do this?

My only option at mo is to get the shortest route from autoroute then

cross

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ref on the ordinance survey maps.

Ta, jerome

I have 2003 autoroute, and it doesn't go down to all the minor roads (thinking the ones marked on
maps as very minor ones - white, I think?)

let

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alone the footpaths or cycletracks. Neither does it show terrain info (or at least if it does, I
can't find the option that turns it on) - which

means

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I go back to a normal map if looking at places to cycle...

Velvet

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I asked it suggest a route from Holyhead to Lowestoft, avoiding motorways and A roads.

In the Olden Days the Autoroute preferred route form Southampton to Portsmouth avoiding motorways
was via the Isle of Wight :-)

It's a bit like the timetable system on National Rail's website. If you ask for a late night train
between, say, Durham and Chester-le-Street it will suggest the last train to Newcastle (not stopping
at C-le-S), six or seven hours on the platform at Newcastle Central being moved on by the police, or
a hotel room for the night, and then the first train from Newcastle to C-le-S in the morning. All
for what is a five minute journey direct. It's faster by bike I tell you!

Colin

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Does anyone know if autoroute 2003 covers foot/cycle paths yet or of any other software packages
that can do this?

Your not going to be cycling on those footpaths are you? ;o)

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So it does - but then the only road off Anglesey is the A5, and you told it to avoid A roads .....

Remove socks before replying.

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I sometimes use Autoroute to plan cycle trips (mainly to calculate approximate distances).

I asked it suggest a route from Holyhead to Lowestoft, avoiding motorways and A roads.

It suggested I caught a ferry to Liverpool via Dublin!

Love and daftness from Rich x

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So it does - but then the only road off Anglesey is the A5, and you told it to avoid A roads .....

A4080 Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge)

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Mike Draper said:

So it does - but then the only road off Anglesey is the A5, and you told it to avoid A roads .....

A4080 Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge)

A55 too these days. Runs about a quarter of a mile to the side of the old A5. Dual carriageway so
you get to Holyhead a bit quicker.

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So it does - but then the only road off Anglesey is the A5

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A4080 Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge)

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A55 too these days. Runs about a quarter of a mile to the side of the old A5. Dual carriageway so
you get to Holyhead a bit quicker.

Another bridge?

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>So it does - but then the only road off Anglesey is the A5

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A4080 Porthaethwy (Menai Bridge)

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A55 too these days. Runs about a quarter of a mile to the side of the old A5. Dual carriageway so
you get to Holyhead a bit quicker.

Another bridge?

Nah, same old R Stevenson bridge(?), just that they've fiddled around with the numbering. The
primary route seems to be the A55 across the top of Wales rather than Telford's coach road. I think
the A5 and A55 share sonme of the same ground for a bit.

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Nah, same old R Stevenson bridge

I knew that ;-)

I was really just pointing out that there are two bridges off Anglesey, the Brittania and the Menai.

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I sometimes use Autoroute to plan cycle trips (mainly to calculate approximate distances).

I asked it suggest a route from Holyhead to Lowestoft, avoiding motorways and A roads.

It suggested I caught a ferry to Liverpool via Dublin!

Love and daftness from Rich x

I don't know about Autoroute but I once tried asking Streetmap (i think it was) the shortest route
from home (just North of London) to Brighton and at the end of my street it sent me down an alley,
4ft wide with "No Cycling" signs. I did not try it in my car.

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:11:20 +0100, contributor Richard Bates had scribed:

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I sometimes use Autoroute to plan cycle trips (mainly to calculate approximate distances).

I asked it suggest a route from Holyhead to Lowestoft, avoiding motorways and A roads.

It suggested I caught a ferry to Liverpool via Dublin!

The knack to get AutoRoute to offer routes which avoid motorways and use 'A' roads less is to use
the minimum speed setting for motorway and a reduce the speeds to that more realistic of that which
one cycles, reducing dual carriageways and 'A' roads even further. Should a ferry combination be
suggested then mark it/them to be avoided.

Gary

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Does anyone know if autoroute 2003 covers foot/cycle paths yet

Yes, and it doesn't. The clue is in the name, AUTO-Route and the other clue is the sound which
accompanies the splashscreen.

Gary

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The knack to get AutoRoute to offer routes which avoid motorways and use 'A' roads less is to use
the minimum speed setting for motorway and

Having spent many hours trying to get it to do something sensible I have fixed on first marking the
point a to b with a straight line(distance tool) then pushpinning frequently right along the route,
staying close to the line if possible.The tricks mentioned above may reduce the number of pushpins
needed. You might do as well with a paper road map and I usually do, but autoroute does give you
finer detail, road names and distance measures when you want them.Useful in towns and cities
especially.

TerryJ