Microsoft® MapPoint® Add-in

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Usage

The Save Directions Add-in is required to store a route plan including the GPS coordinates of the turn points into a file.

Supported are Microsoft® MapPoint® Europe and North America starting from version 2002. MapPoint® 2004 and above are recommended. At present Wayviewer is able to interpret the route plans of the German, the English, and the French versions of MapPoint®. If required it could be extended for the Italian and the Spanish versions.

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Save Directions Add-in 1.0.3

Installation

Unzip file DirectionsAddIn.zip.
Start the Setup program and install DirectionsAddIn.dll.
The successful installation can be checked in the menu item "COM Add-ins..." in the menu "Extras" of Microsoft® MapPoint®

Usage

Generate driving instructions with Microsoft® MapPoint®.
Call menu item "Save Directions..." in the menu "Extras".
Change into a suitable folder, enter a file name and push "Save". Please avoid umlauts in the file name, since it leads to problems on some mobile phones types.
If the pushpins were set imprecisely, change into a map view with less screen content (menu item "View→Map Style→Data Map"), delete the old pushpins, and repeat the generation.