How do I map hundreds of locations at once?

[sirronstuff]

I have a couple of nationwide accounts that have hundreds of locations, and one that has 5500 locations. The only way I've seen to map a route is one location at a time, and my computer seems like it wants to lock up after selecting about 20 locations by holding down the Control Key.

By selecting the locations by right clicking, I can get more locations, but it's completely unreasonable to do hundreds of locations. Any suggestions on mass mapping? Thanks

Steve

[sirronstuff]

Actually, I accidentally found a solution I believe. While reading a topic of a similar nature, there was an instruction to hold the shift key down while using the down arrow to select locations. It successfully highlighted all of the locations without locking up the program, and it did map it out.

Now beyond 100 locations it would not provide turn by turn navigation, but that is completely ok. We really needed mileage numbers.

Once you hold the shift button down and arrow down to select all of the items in question, you can right click on your mouse over one of the highlighted rows and select add stops on the map. It was beautiful!

[sirronstuff]

Well it works for a couple hundred locations, but for the one I have with 5,000 + locations, looks like I will have to break it up somehow. Locked it up big time.

[John Moran_2]

For the benefit of anyone else trying to use The XMap routing features of the Street Atlas Plus versions, are you ADDING the stops in the order you expect them to be routed, or are you INSERTING up to 200 stops and finding that SA2009 Plus will sort them out and route that many satisfactorily? Thanks for the followup.
JM_2

[sirronstuff]

I just queried the data set and selected them in the order they appeared. I found that the program mapped them out in the most efficient way possible. This was nice, as doing that manually would have been a killer.

EDIT

You must select INSERT as stop in order to have them mapped in the most efficient way possible
ADD as stop will map them in the order they appear in the query list

Note: once you've highlighted the locations you want to map out, you must right click on the highlighted portion and then select how to make them. Fantastic feature.

[sirronstuff]

Be aware that when you map over 100 locations the program does not give doorstep to doorstep directions. What this also means is the the mileage numbers are "as the crow flies" These are NOT accurate driving numbers, but would probably work for flying. Your actual numbers for driving may be substantially higher depending on the locations you are mapping. I figured this out by the straight lines across the gulf of Mexico and across the rockies.

[John Moran_2]

Thank you for clarifying your experiences!