Here you can see what the improvements and changes are since Tyre was launched in february 2006.
(Until version 4.0 Tyre was known as 'Google-TomTom'.)

Version 5.70 (build 1):

This new version may look almost the same as the previous one, but there are major changes internally. Google has launched a new version of their API (version 3), and now Tyre is using that new version.
This was necessary, since Google gave their version 2 the 'deprecated' status, and therefore the now old version 2 will disappear some moment in the (near?) future.
There was another reason to move to the new platform: version 3 comes with new possibilities, that are (or will be) used in Tyre.
New or improved elements for now:
• Inserting a waypoint into an existing route has never been easier: if the mouse moves over the route line, you will be indicated that it is possible to insert a new waypoint there, just by clicking.
• A new feature has been added: avoid toll roads. This feature is available from the 'Preferences' window, 'Google Maps 2' tab.
• Another new feature has been added: bicycling routes. Like the previous one, this feature is available from the 'Preferences' window, 'Google Maps 2' tab.
  NOTE: the availability of bicycling routes is currently very limited: as far as I know you can only use it for routes in the United States. But I am sure the area will grow: Google is working hard on this.
• Streetview is working better now.

• Adding, inserting and relocating waypoints has been made easier: if you keep the Ctrl key down while clicking on the map, a new waypoint will be added, inserted or relocated immediately, without displaying the informational popup window.
• The structure of GPS Exchange files (*.gpx) has been adapted slightly again. The <wpt> section is back again, but now as an option on the 'Files' tab from the 'Preferences' window: check the 'Use Garmin waypoints' option if you want to save the <wpt> section in your Garmin .gpx files.
• The menu in the map window has a new item, called 'TomTom', with a subitem called 'Add to favorites'. This item can be used to add the selected location to the favorites in your TomTom device.
  - This feature can only be used if you have TomTom HOME installed on your computer.
  - This feature is not available when Tyre is in 'Garmin mode'.
• There was a bug when in 'walking mode': route tracks could not be calculated in that situation. This bug has gone now.
• Some minor changes.

• There is a new file type (*.freshroute) that can be imported. This is a Navigon file type.
• The 'File' menu in the map window has a new item: 'Save as...'
  It works just like the 'Save as...' item from the menu in the main Tyre window. Can be handy.
• Non-Latin characters were not always displayed correctly on computers with a default setting for Latin characters. This has improved now.
• Tyre needed some adaptation to be able to cooperate properly with the Carminat TomTom (built-in TomTom version for Renault cars). Thanks to help of Patrick Lecadet I was able to realize that adaptation.
• Some minor changes.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• Handling files in Garmin format has improved: if the number of waypoints is over 1000, the 'Reduce' button will be displayed: clicking this button will reduce the number of waypoints to 1000.
• There has been a change in the way that Google Earth files (*.kml and *.kmz) are being handled. Now it is easier to import both waypoints and track points or to make a selection.
• There was a bug in moving a waypoint in the list (in the map window): if a newly created waypoint (at the end of the list) was moved one position up, its name was not properly displayed. This bug has been fixed now.
• Some minor changes.

• The streetview button has been moved to the button bar on top of the map. Thus it is possible to use the streetview functions in all situations.
  (Until now it was only available when creating or editing an itinerary file.)
  If you are using the 'only browser mode' for the map, the situation is as before.
• The road book window can now be resized for better displaying its contents.
• The contents of the road book window can now be saved on disk in the Excel (*.csv) format.
• In addition: the contents of the map window can now be saved on disk as a bitmap file from the 'Print' window (after clicking the 'Print map' button in the map window).
• Since the previous update there was a problem on opening the map window, when the selected language was Chinese (traditional or simplified). This problem has been solved.
• After a waypoints was moved up or down in the list (in the map window) the icon was not always displayed properly. This has been fixed.
• Some minor changes.

• There is a new file type (*.rte) that can be imported. This is a Navigon file type. Thanks to Alexander Strobel, who found the information that I needed to make this possible.
  The extension name (.rte) is the same as the extension name for OziExplorer files. That may look tricky, but Tyre will know the difference between the file formats and will read both file types properly.
• The structure of GPS Exchange files (*.gpx) has been adapted slightly. Thanks to Rick Booth I realized that a useful itinerary file for that format does not need a <wpt> section.
• Again there is some new code on the Google Maps server for displaying maps. Tyre will now be able to read that code properly.
  Thanks to Kevin Lim, who reported about this new code.
• Finally I have found a solution for an irritating but harmless Google bug: the little overview map in the lower right corner was not always displayed properly: its arrow was on the wrong location sometimes. Now it will be displayed on the proper location.
• Dragging a waypoint (in the map window) to another location in the list seemed to select that waypoint several times and displayed its informational popup window several times. This has been adapted and the informational popup window will come up only once.
• There was a bug in adding waypoints from another file in the map window: if the selected TomTom itinerary file (*.itn) was in the UTF-8 format, Tyre was not able to open the file. The bug is gone now.

• Favorites were not sorted properly, if the first characters were mixed lowercases and uppercases. Now they are sorted properly.
• Splitting a file contained a bug, when adding the author's name: the last part of the split file could not be opened because of that. The bug has gone now.
• There was another irritating (but harmless) bug in resizing the map window: it did not remember its size any longer (to use it at next startup). Now this is restored to proper functioning.

• Since April 29, the zoom functions did not work properly any longer. Using the mouse to scroll the map seemed to freeze the application and caused additional errors. Apparently there were some changes on the Google server.
  Anyway, I found a workaround and now things are working properly again.
• There was an irritating but harmless error in the map window: after removing a waypoint, it was not always selected in the list. Now it will be. containe

This is a major update: the map window has been renewed!

• The map window now looks different: the toolbar is no longer located at the bottom of the window, but a new toolbar is located at the top of the window and there is a menu on top of that.
• There is a splitter between the map and the functions bar on the left side of the screen. This allows you enlarge either the map or the funtions bar.
• The are some new functions from the menu and the toolbar, such as 'Save', 'Cut', 'Copy', 'Paste' 'Rename' and 'Center'.
• In the upper right corner of the toolbar there is an arrow that allows you to enter the 'only browser mode'. This feature is for people who want to keep things simple: only the basic functions are available.
• With the new list for waypoints (and POIs) it also possible to move them to another location in the list by a simple drag en drop action.
• The 'Preference', 'From file...' and 'Manually...' buttons are gone: their functions are now available from the menu.
• The Norwegian language environment has been completed, now that the Norwegian help pages have been added as well. Thanks to Gunnar Olaussen!
• Importing Garmin .gdb files has been changed. Some of these files contain a lot of waypoints. If there are more than 500 waypoints, Tyre will restart importing and only use the most important waypoints.
• Some minor changes as well.

• A new language has been added: Norwegian. Thanks to Gunnar Olaussen.
• The map window has a new shortcut to close informational popup windows in a fast way: press Ctrl+Q to close such a popup windows.
• Changing the size of the map window (maximized or not) will take effect immediately to another instance of Tyre: a new map window will be opened with the size of your last choice.
• Some minor changes.

• Creating route tracks can take some time. That is why the progress bar that is displayed while creating route tracks, has been changed: now it better indicates how much time it will take to finish the job.
• Adding a new POI location will raise the rename window, like when adding a new waypoint. This is done to make customizing your list of POIs easier.
• There was a bug in the search box for searching locations on the map: sometimes, if coordinates were entered, Tyre interpreted the coordinates as a postcode. Thus it came up with the message that the address could not be found. The bug has been fixed now.

• The hotkey in the 'Import from website' window has been removed from the 'Example' button, because it could raise an error.
• There was a bug in calculating directions: after using the undo function, directions were not always calculated and displayed properly. This bug has been removed.

• If the POI Manager window is open from one instance of Tyre and you try to open it from another instance of Tyre, the first one will become active.
  This is done to prevent problems in case you would enter conflicting options in different windows of the POI Manager.
• The spreed of the POI Manager has improved. Especially on handling files with lots of content it was rather slow. You will be glad to experience the new speed.
• The 'File' menu has a new option, called 'Always save in ANSI format'.
  Checking this menu option will force your TomTom itinerary files (*.itn) to be saved in ANSI format.
  This feature is necessary, because some older TomTom software is not able to handle files in UTF8 format properly.
  Because this option only affects TomTom itinerary files, the option will only be visible (and usable) for files of that type.
  NOTE: if your itinerary file contains non-Latin characters and you have this new option activated, the non-Latin characters will be replaced by a question mark (?) when the file will be saved.
• Those Google guys did it again: they have changed the code of the output data on their website (or they added a new data format to the existing formats). Anyway, I had to expand the import possibilities for importing from websites.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• Now it is easier to change the properties of a location (waypoint, destination, to visit, visited). Until now you had to change these properties for each location separately. Now it is possible to select more locations and change their properties with one click.
• The 'Tools' menu has a new item: you can use it to display your route on the Google Maps website. This allows you to have a fast preview and it provides you with a link to your route.
  But there are some restrictions:
  - Only the firs 24 waypoints will be displayed, because Google Maps does not allow you to use more waypoints.
  - It is not possible to edit your route in this mode for direct use with Tyre.
  - This menu item is not available for POI files.
• There was a bug in using the arrows that indicate the directions. The bug has been fixed now.
• Some minor changes.

• Indicating the route by arrows has improved:
  - The images are no longer icons, but gif images.
  - The arrows come with a description to tell you what they mean.
  - The arrows moved a bit on the route for more clearness.
• The procedure to read TomTom itinerary files has been changed to accept even files that don't have the fully proper format.

• A new option has been added: you can have arrows displayed on the map to indicate the direction you will go. This option can be found on the 'Google Maps 2' tab from the 'Preferences' window.
• Some minor changes.

• Opening GPS Exchange files (*.gpx) directly from internet or from your email program, could cause problems. These problems are fixed now.
• Using and opening Google Earth is done in another way: less sensitive to errors.
• There was a bug in moving waypoints up and down in the map window. If the number of positions to move the waypoint was left to 0, an error occurred. The bug has been removed: it is no longer possible to set that number to 0...
• There was another bug in the function that checks for updates: if there was more than one instance of Tyre running, the function could raise an error message. The bug has gone now.

• The possibility to install Tyre on a USB stick has been enhanced. If the stick that you have selected is prepared for using portable applications (PortableApps.com), Tyre can be installed as another portable application.
  Therefore, there are three options to install Tyre on a USB stick now:
  - As a standalone application.
  - As part of a U3 environment.
  - As a portable application.
• To avoid problems, the feature to install Tyre on a USB stick, will be disabled, if you already are running Tyre from a USB stick.
• And some more: if you are running Tyre from a USB stick, the 'Documents' folder on the USB stick will be used as the default 'My Documents' folder.
• From the map window it is now possible to enter the number of positions you want to move your waypoint (or POI) up or down.
• For trips with a long distance, it may take lots of time to calculate route tracks (for use in GPX files and in Google Earth). I found a possibility to make things work faster.
  But still: it may consume a lot of time to save such a GPX file or to open such a file in Google Earth.
  If you don't want that, unselect the use of route tracks from the 'Preferences' window.
• Since the Google company seems to change the registry setting for each new version of Google Earth, I had to adapt the code on where to find the 'GoogleEarth.exe' file. Some users may have encountered problems, like messages that told them that files could not be found or not be opened.
• The icon for the main window has been changed. This was necessary for proper displaying the window in the Windows 7 taskbar.
• Some minor changes.

• Since the last build there was a bug in displaying routes and POIs with Google Earth. This bug was only noticed by users who had set the 'Use Google Earth instead of Google Maps' option to true. I could remove the bug thanks to Andrew Melton, who reported it.

• Downloading and installing updates is easier than ever before: if you want to install an available update, Tyre will be closed automatically and the installation of the update will be started.
• MapSource has the irritating habit to make a TomTom device look like a Garmin device by creating new folders on the device. In that case Tyre 'thought' the attached device was a Garmin device instead of a TomTom device.
  That problem has gone now.
• Street view functions have improved.

• A new feature has been added. In the map window, there is a new button, called 'Manually...' You can use this button to add one or more addresses to your list manually.
• Displaying the route in Google Earth has improved: changing your preferences will take effect immediately. So, there is no need to close and restart Tyre for changes to take effect in displaying the route in Google Earth.
• In addition: your preferences for Google Earth will be ignored if Tyre has been set to 'Google Maps mode': in that case only the preferences for Google Maps will be used.
• Searching for post codes could still be improved. That has been realized thanks to feedback of Reg Marjason.
• Editing phone numbers will allow you to use a dash in the number.
• Some minor changes.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• After the adaptation of the search box in version 5.50.1, it was no longer possible to use keyboard shortcuts for clipboard actions (cut, copy, paste). Thanks to Jerome Kelly, who reported this, I was able to re-implement this functions for the search box.

• Searching for post codes has improved. It is no longer necessary to use the 'PC:' prefix for searching post codes.
• In the map window there was a bug for moving up and down a POI element in the list. The bug has been fixed.

A new feature has been added: you can set the default mode of Tyre to 'Garmin mode'.

• This new feature can be activated by setting this preference on the 'General' tab.
• When in 'Garmin mode', Tyre will recognize a TomTom device that is attached and switch to 'TomTom mode' automatically, until the TomTom device will be removed from your computer.
  This is not true for TomTom devices on mobile phones etc. If you want to use Tyre for that kind of device, you have to switch to 'TomTom mode'.
• When in 'TomTom mode', Tyre will recognize a Garmin device that is attached and switch to 'Garmin mode' automatically, until the Garmin device will be removed from your computer.
• Now it is possible to associate GPS Exchange files (*.gpx) to Tyre (from the 'General' tab in the 'Preferences' window).
• Since version 5.5.0.1 there was a problem reading TomTom itinerary files (*.itn) that were created by GPSBabel. GPSBabel is not saving them in the proper format. Until version 5.5.0.1 Tyre detected and repaired such files. Now that is true again.
• There was a problem reading Google Earth files (*.kml) that were created by RaceChrono. The problem has been fixed.
• Some minor changes.

• I have found a new way to calculate route tracks. They are being calculated way faster now!
• There was a bug in saving files: sometimes they were saved in UTF-8 format, when the file needed ANSI encoding. The bug has been fixed now.

Major improvements have been realized, and some new features have been added as well!

• Most of the improvements are not visible to users. But internally there have been major changes in handling files (opening, reading, writing). I started to make these changes because files were not handled properly on computers with a Chinese version of Windows.
  I owe a lot to Kevin Ling: thanks to his feedback and testing I was able to improve Tyre for international use.
• A new language has been added: Simplified Chinese. Also thanks to Kevin Ling.
• A new XML file has been added for downloading and intalling POI files. Again thanks to Kevin Ling.
• The language files that come with Tyre, are now in another format: UTF-8 instead of ANSI. Therefore it is easier to switch to another language.
• Changing the properties of a location is now possible from the map window too: you can turn a waypoints into a destination, and the other way round. Open the informational window for the specific waypoint or location and click on the image.
  Changing this property is not possible for the first or the last waypoint from your itinerary.
• On opening (importing) GPS Exchange files (*.gpx) you will be able to select the file content that you want Tyre to use: waypoints, route points and/or track points.
• Don't you want to use route tracks? Now it is possible to disable that feature from the 'Prefences' windos ('Files' tab).
• The search box in the map window has been rebuilt. Now the mouse can be used for clipboard actions on the search box.
• The 'Garmin mode' has been extended. If you send a route file from the Garmin mode, the file will be sent as a Garmin (*.gpx) file instead of a TomTom (*.itn) file.
• There was a bug in creating route tracks: the last track part (about 30 meters) was omitted. Not much, but a bug anyway. The bug has been fixed now.
• Some minor changes as well.

Major improvements have been realized, and some new features have been added as well!

• The Google Maps 'street view' feature has been added to the map window.
  Of course this feature only works if street view is available for a particular area.
  Use of the Street View Panorama object requires support for the Flash® plug-in on your MS Internet Explorer. So, make sure you have installed that plug-in!
  If you don't have it installed yet, you can download and install it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
• Until now searching for postcodes was a problem: if you were searching for a postcode, Tyre almost always located your waypoint in the neighborhood, but not exactly on the right place.
  Thanks to Jim Brightman I found the website of Tom Anthony. There I found the solution!
  If you want to search for a postcode, enter 'PC:' in the search box, followed by the postcode you want to find.
• Almost the same problem was true on entering map coordinates. Thanks to Gerhard Hummel, who reported the problem, I have been able to improve Tyre. Searching for coordinates will work properly now (without entering any prefixes or something like that).
• Relocating a waypoint has been extended with a new feature: Tyre will offer you to rename it as well.
  This feature will only be activated if you have the 'Try to find proper names for new locations' option checked ('Preferences' window, 'Google Maps 1' tab).
  This feature will only be activated for waypoints and not for POIs, because most of the time you don't want to rename your POIs, even if you relocate them.
• On opening images (e.g. to add an image to a POI file) you will see a preview of the image before opening it.
• Since Tyre is being used worldwide more and more, it was necessary that characters other than Latin were being supported for TomTom files. That has been realised now.
• In addition, the Tyre clipboard function has improved: it can handle non Latin characters (like Cyrillic etc.) now too.
• There are some changes to make it easier to copy your files to your TomTom: you don't have to save them before Tyre will copy them to your TomTom. And more: you can even copy files to your TomTom, even if they don't have the native TomTom format, like .gpx, .kml etc.: Tyre will copy them to your TomTom in a way that your TomTom device will be able to handle those files.
• There are more available functions in the map window now: on selecting a new waypoint, a favorite or a fixed POI*, the informational popup comes with two additional tabs: one to copy the location to your TomTom, and another one to copy the location to the Windows clipboard.
  * A fixed POI is a Point Of Interest that is one of the POIs that you have selected to be displayed on your map every time.
• If you have selected some POI files to be displayed on your map every time ('fixed POIs'), afters some time those files might have changed on their original locations. Now there is a button to update the POI display on your map.
• POI Manager: downloading preselected POI files and installing them on your TomTom device is done faster now.
• The road book feature has been extended: the waypoint names will be displayed (and printed) now too.
• Deleting waypoints from the map window could cause an error. The error came up the first week of April 2009. So, I think it had something to do with changes on the Google website. Anyway, the error is gone now.
• The layout has been adapted for users with a bigger screen font size on their computers than the default one. So, most users will not notice this adaptation.
• Tyre will now be able to find the proper folders for your itinerary files and your POI files, does not matter where those folders are located. (Valid for PDA use only.)
• There was a bug in pasting waypoints from the clipboard into the map window. In some cases you could end up with too much waypoints after pasting. This bug has been fixed now.
• There was a bug in reading the file after editing the preferences from the map window. I was able to remove the bug, thanks to Joost Hendriksen, who reported it.
• There was a bug in the new importing routine for Garmin .gdb files. The bug has been removed. Thanks to Johan Hachmer, who reported it.
• There was an error message if you tried to create two new waypoints within short notice. That error has been fixed, thanks to Breaven Loins, who reported the error.
• I am using a another compiler now. That is the main reason why I moved up the minor version number. (It is easier for me to help people this way.)
  Because of this new compiler I had to change the source code. So, if you encouter any bugs or other irregularities, please let me know.
  Another consequence of the new compiler is the following: Tyre will no longer work on computers with Windows 95, 98 or ME. If you have a computer with one of those operating systems, use Tyre version 5.30.3 or before. If you don't have that older version, go to the download page to get it.
• Users who are testing the new Windows 7 operating system, saw a message about an incorrect parameter when Tyre was launched. I found the cause of this irritating message. And it has gone now.
• Some minor changes as well.

• The 'Import from website' option has been extended: it will read more websites now to retrieve waypoints or POIs from.
  Extending this options has become necessary, because Google Maps websites are in a bit different format since a couple of weeks.
• A new feature has been added to displaying and printing road books: you can have the total time and distance displayed and printed for each separate waypoint. This feature is optional.
• In addition, displaying and printing the total time and distance of your complete trip has also become optional now.
• On updating POIs from the POI Manager, hitting ESC to cancel the operation has been refined: Tyre will no only react to the ESC button, if it is the active application.
• There was a small bug, that could be nasty on inserting new waypoints: the last waypoint was displayed twice. That bug has disappeared now.
• The new feature of using the system colors (since 5.30.1) required some more adaptions than I thought. (On some computers the "Reading file. Please wait." message was kept being displayed. The extra adaptations have been realised now.
• Again some improvement on importing Garmin .gdb files. Thanks to Frans Verhagen who reported a problem. (Again! )
• Some minor changes.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• The display of the map window has been adapted: it is using the system style and colors now instead of its own.
• A new option has been added on the 'Files' tab in the 'Preferences' window: you can select to save some file types (*.gpx; *.kml; *.kmz) in UTF-8 format or in ANSI format. The UTF-8 format is selected by default.
  By implementing this new option, the old ways of opening and saving files in UTF-8 format and/or ANSI format will no longer work.
• The new way of displaying locations (since version 5.28.1) required more adaptation than I first thougth. Those adaptations have been realised now.
• Splitting a file caused an error in the last part, if the last part contained exactly 48 waypoints. This error has been fixed now. Thanks to Peter Keulen, who reported the error.
• On displaying or editing individual waypoints, the numbering of those waypoints was not always displayed properly with autonumbering set to on. Now those numbers will be displayed properly.
• The way Tyre searches for a TomTom application on a PDA has been changed. It will now find the proper folders, even if you did not install the Navigator application on the default location.
• As a result of all improvements and changes, the version number has been changed to 5.30.
• Some minor changes.

• There is a new file type (*.plt) that can be imported. This is the OziExplorer track file type.
  This kind of file type usually contains a lot of waypoints. It may be hard to handle such a lot of waypoints in Tyre. I suggest to reduce the number of waypoints by splitting the file or by selecting 'Reduce' from the 'File' menu.
  Files from this format can only be imported. They cannot be saved using this format type.

• There has been a small change in handling GPS Exchange files (*.gpx), because the online Harley Davidson Ride Planner is a bit stubbern: it only accepts gpx files in a certain format.
• A new feature has been added: on displaying and printing a road book, the locations of waypoints are marked in the list.
• Another new feature has been added: on printing the map, not only the waypoints will be printed, but also the route lines.
• An new language has been added: Frisian.
• Again some improvement on importing Garmin .gdb files. Thanks to Frans Verhagen who reported a problem.
• The search box (for searching a name in a list) will now take the automatic numbering option into account: if automatic numbering is enabled, the numbers will be skipped in searching for the name.
• Since version 5.28.1 there was a small bug in displaying individual locations. This bug has been fixed now.
• Some minor changes.

Tyre has improved a lot!

• The way of painting the map window has been changed. Therefore the map is painted much faster now!
  Until now it was nasty to handle larger files. Now you can handle them almost as easy as small files.
• Calculating a route is speedier now!
• A new very useful feature has been added to Tyre: from the 'Preferences' window you can select POI files that will always be shown on the map.
  You can use this feature to add new locations to your list easily, to avoid speedcam locations, etc.
  I am glad that this feature could be realized now. Lots of users asked for it.
• After editing the preferences from the maps window, the map will return to its previous center and zoom level.
• Since version 5.26 the automatic retrieving names option caused an error on pasting locations from the clipboard to the maps window. This bug has been fixed now.
• Some minor changes.

• The application can be minimized to the task bar, even when the map window is active.
• The map preferences can be edited now from the maps window as well.
  But you should realize that after changing the preferences, all items on the map will be redisplayed and recalculated. That may take some time!
• Saving a file on a network drive caused raising an error. This bug has been fixed now. Thanks to Benjamin Gilardi, who reported the bug.
• Copying files to TomTom HOME was not very useful any longer, since there were some changes in newer versions of TomTom HOME.
  Thanks to a report of Chris Murden, Tyre has been adapted accordingly and everything should work fine now.
• Since version 5.26 the automatic retrieving names option caused an error in the Maps window on undo and redo actions. This bug has been fixed now.
• Some minor changes.

• A new map option has been added: users can enter a home location, where the map will be centered on starting a new file. The zoom level for that location can be entered too.
  As a result, the 'Google Maps' tab in the 'Options' window has been split into two tabs, called 'Google Maps 1' and 'Google Maps 2'.
• If your TomTom device has an additional SD card with one or more maps installed on it, Tyre will recogize the SD card and will offer you to use it for manipulating your POI files (.ov2).
  If you are working on an itinerary file (.itn), Tyre will ignore the SD card, because itineraries are always stored on the main disk of your TomTom device.
• Unlike older versions of TomTom software, newer versions are using the UTF8 format for some files containing device information. That is why some devices could no longer be detected by Tyre. This inconvenience has gone now.
• Newer versions of TomTom software are using a different icon format. Tyre has been adapted to handle the new format.
• After deleting a location from the map window, the previous one will become selected. This will make handling (removing) the next location easier.
• Some minor changes.

Some new features have been added to Tyre!

• The first new feature has been added to Tyre as a new option: on creating new waypoints and points of interest, Tyre will try to retrieve a proper name automatically instead of 'New Waypoint' or 'New Point Of Interest'.
  This option is activated by default and can be turned off in the 'Options' window on the 'Google Maps' tab.
• In addition: on retrieving waypoints or points of interest from an external website (using 'File' / 'Import from webset...') Tyre will try to use the correct names of the imported locations.
• From this new version on, Tyre can be used for walking and cycling too!
  Several users asked for a feature like this. Now it has been added as a new option in the 'Options' window on the 'Google Maps' tab.
• The last one for this moment is an old wish: thanks to increasing possibilities from Google, the 'avoid highways' option is working now!


There are some other enhancements as well:

• The scroll control in the upper left corner of the internal Google Maps window is set to 3D appearance.
• If autonumbering is on, double numbers appeared in the list on adding new points from an external file. This bug has been removed.
• Some minor changes.

• Handling itn files in UTF8 format has improved. Thanks to Jose Jimenez.
• A local itinerary that will be opened at first run has been added for Spain.
• Copying files to TomTom HOME has been changed a little bit, since the folder structure has been changed in newer versions of TomTom HOME.
• Some minor changes.

• I noticed that the Tyre image in TomTom HOME was distorted. Maybe they changed the corresponding code of TomTom HOME in one the latest versions? Anyway, the image will be displayed correctly now.

• Thanks to Arkady Glazov I found out that there are itn files that have a UTF8 format. Maybe newer NavCore versions create itn files in this format. Anyway, until now those files were not recognized. Now they are.

• A new language has been added: Finnish. Thanks to Tomi Hurenius.

• A new language has been added: Russian. Thanks to Antex.
  However, the language file is not complete yet. If someone is willing to complete the translation: you are welcome!

• Thanks to Gert Seiz I was able to improve Tyre some more. You could encounter problems if you have tried to install Tyre on a virtual drive. That problem has been solved now.
• Some minor changes.

• Files that have the readonly attribute set are treated slightly different now.
  Tyre is still able to open and save those files (as until now). But here is the new element: after saving (and therefore changing) such a file, the readonly attribute will be set again.
• A bug has been removed: on inserting waypoints (by clicking the route line) an error could occur. The error has gone now.

• With autonumbering set to true, the numbers were not displayed correctly on reorganizing the route (using the 'First waypoint' option from the 'Waypoint' menu). Now they are.

• A new language has been added: Czech. Thanks to Pavel Kriz.
• A new feature has been added to the map window: if you are about to add a new waypoint, the distance between that new waypoint and the previous one (the last one until that moment) will be displayed as a route line and in the informational popup.
• The 'Extra' menu has a new additional option: 'Install Tyre to USB stick...' Use this option if you want to copy your version of Tyre to a USB stick. Now you can carry Tyre with you everywhere you go and use it anywhere you like.
  Maybe some options are not available if you are using your version of Tyre on a USB stick in some internet cafe. The possibilities depend on the restrictions on that particular computer.
  I did not have the opportunity to test this feature thoroughly.
  If you encounter any bugs or errors, please let me know by sending an email: info@Tyre.tk
• Maybe you use the list of favorites in the Google Maps window frequently? Then you will like this new enhancement: you can create and edit several sets of favourites now, e.g. one for your own neighborhood, one for your favorite holidays location, one for a country where a friend lives, etc.
  Select the set of favorites you want to use from the 'Google Maps' tab in the 'Options' window.
• Older versions could give some irritating error messages, due to errors from the Google Maps database. These messages were not real errors, but irritating anyway. From now on, this kind of messages will no longer come up.
  In addition I have built the possibility to make these messages visible again if necessary (in case error trapping is needed in support situations).
• It has become easier to add an image to a POI file. The 'Point Of Interest' menu has a new option, called 'Image...'.
  This menu option is only available on creating or editing a POI file.
• Another file type has been added for importing: the OZI Waypoint File (*.wpt).
• With autonumbering set to true, the numbers were not displayed correctly on reversing the route. Now they are.

• The Turkish language environment has been completed, now that the Turkish help pages have been added as well. Thanks to Metin Akbil!
• The 'File' menu has been expanded. A list of POIs can be sorted alphabetically now, if preferred.

• The background image of the list in the main window sometimes seemed to move up or down. I have found a solution to prevent that. At last...
• Some Google .kml files do not contain waypoints or POIs themselves, but a link to a web site that has them. Until now those files could not be used by Tyre. Now they can, but Tyre will not open them in a regular way, because it is impossible to edit the waypoints or POIs in those files directly. That is why they will be 'imported'.
• On some computers there was an error whenever a new waypoint was added to the list. I don't know why, but I have built an error trap: the error message will not come up any longer.
• Some minor changes.

• The Google Maps window has a new feature: it is possible now to use the Windows clipboard for easier manipulating waypoints and POIs. The clipboard functions (cut, copy, paste) are available from a new tab (named 'Windows') that has been added to the popup for each waypoint or POI.
• Dragging another page or a link into the Tyre Google Maps window will be prevented now: the window will be rebuilt.
• With autonumbering set to true, the numbers were not displayed correctly on cutting and pasting and on moving the waypoints up and down in the list. Now they are.
• There was a minor bug in riding/driving the route. Thanks to Manfred Alfaré I found it. It has been removed now.
• Some minor changes.

• Autonumbering has been enhanced. There are three different ways to use it. You can set this option (on the 'Files' tab of the 'Options' window) to:
  - Unchecked: no autonumbering (this option is the default one).
  - Grayed: autonumbering will be used for itinerary files, not for POI files.
  - Checked: autonumbering will be used for both itinerary files and POI files.
• The autonumbering feature could cause problems if the names of waypoints were starting with a number (road number, etc.). This problem has been solved now.
• Thanks to Tore Sundvisson I discovered that GPX files are saved in differend formats by different applications. Some apps save them in ANSI code (like POIEdit), while other apps use the UTF-8 code (like EasyGPS). That may cause disappointment if you think that all GPX files are interchangeable.
  Until now Tyre was one of the apps that used the ANSI code. From now on you have the choice: select the proper format on saving the file.
• Saving files as .csv file type has improved: you can select which field separator you want to use: a comma or a semicolon. Furthermore: latitude and longitude are saved in a local recognizable format.
• At version 5.23.1 I mentioned that miles are used by default for users in the US, Canada and the UK. That was a little bit too enthousiastic.
  Paul Thompson, who lives in Canada, informed me that Canada is officially metric and all measurements are in kilometres. So, I have adapted Tyre accordingly.
  Like before: this is only valid for new users. Once you have set your preferences, they will be kept.
• Support for peope who still have Internet Explorer 6 installed, has improved.
• Tyre did not run properly on computers with older versions of Windows (95, 98, 98SE, ME). Now it does. Thanks to feedback and assistance of Manfred Alfaré.
• TomTom Itinerary files (*.itn) created by GPSBabel don't (always?) have the exact TomTom structure. That could cause minor problems on opening those files. Now Tyre takes the difference into account.
• On some systems waypoints disappeared without any message. I hope this problem is gone now.
• Some minor changes.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• A new feature has been added, that will make it easier to adapt existing itineraries.
  Maybe you want to use an existing route, but you want to use another waypoint to start riding/driving instead of the first one in the existing file.
  Now you can do this: select the waypoint you want to be the first in your itinerary. And select 'First waypoint' from the 'Waypoint' menu. That is all! Your itinerary will be reorganised.
• If you have a long list of waypoints and you want to reduce the number to the maximum allowed in your TomTom, you can have this done automatically.
  Tyre already had this feature since 5.22.1, but it was hidden. On special request is has been made visible now: the 'File' menu has a new option, called 'Reduce...'. If you select this option, the number of waypoints in your list will be reduced on base of a calculated interval: every x.th waypoint will be kept and all other waypoints will be removed. (The value of x depends on the length of your list.)
  The existing shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+12) of this feature was no longer needed, now that this feature has become visible. Therefore the shortcut has been removed.
• Some users had problems to find the option to switch between displaying distances in miles and kilometers. That is why I added a new element: new users in the United States, in Canada and in the United Kingdom will use diplaying miles by default. All other new users will use displaying kilometers by default.
  This is only valid for new users. Once you have set your preferences, they will be kept.
• Some file types can only be imported (not opened or saved). Until now, if you tried to open files of these types in a regular way, you got an error message. This has been changed now: if you try to open a file that can only be imported, Tyre will switch from 'open' to 'import' automatically.
  Files that can only be imported, are files that cannot be saved in their own format. Tyre will read the waypoints from those files, but if you want to save them, you have to use one of the formats known by Tyre.
• Autonumbering has been refined: if this option is set to on, and you convert your itinerary to a POI file, the numbers will be removed.
• Working with more than one TomTom device attached to your computer has been refined: now you can better see which one you will select.
• Apparently Garmin decided to use .gdb files with a different structure. (Belonging to a new sofware version?) Thanks to feedback of Kees de Vries I could adapt the import function.
• A bug has been removed. If you were running Tyre, using another account than the one you used for setting up Tyre, there were error messages. Thanks to Andreas Hotz, who reported the problem.
• Another bug has been removed. Adding a new item to the favourites' list and selecting it immediately caused an error message to come up. This has been fixed now.
• Undo and redo functions have been refined, especially for the Google Maps window.
• Some minor changes.

• The TomTom HOME add-on feature has been extended: there was only a menu item to run Tyre from TomTom HOME. Now there is also a button on the TomTom HOME dashboard.
  This feature will only be available, if you have at least installed TomTom HOME version 2.2.2.83. Earlier versions of TomTom HOME will not display the additional button.
  Thanks again to Roland Boon. I have been trying and playing, but he has done the real job!
• If you start a new file and Tyre is in the 'Google Maps' mode, the Google Maps window will be opened. Thus it is even more easy to start creating a new file.
• In the Google Maps window, latitude and longitude could be displayed with very long numbers (much decimals). The number of decimals is now set to 5, just like the number of decimals that are used in TomTom devices.
• There was still a bug on handling newly added waypoints. Ron Alflen reported the bug. Thanks to him I managed to fix it.

• The embedded Google Maps window comes with a new feature: the popup window on each waypoint (POI) now comes with an additonal tab, saying 'TomTom'.
  You can use this tab to add the selected waypoint/POI to the list of favourites in your TomTom.
• Since the last update, there was a bug on handling newly added waypoints. Matte Andersson reported the bug. Thanks to him I managed to fix it.

Several new features have been added to Tyre!

• A new feature has been added: undo and redo functions. On editing files, you can go back up to 10 steps, if you change your mind. If you rechange your mind, you can restore this undo actions by using the redo function.
  As a result of this new feature, the button bar in the main window has been adapted.
• Copying itineraries and POI files to TomTom HOME has improved: each file will be stored in its own folder. And the file size, displayed in the .toc file, displayes the size of the unpacked file.
• Tyre is now available as TomTom HOME add-on as well. On installing Tyre, the add-on is installed as well: a new menu item will appear in TomTom HOME, which enables you to run Tyre from TomTom HOME.
  This feature will only be available, if you have at least installed TomTom HOME version 2.2.2.83. Earlier versions of TomTom HOME will not display the extra menu item.
  People from TomTom have been very helpful to develop this feature. Special thanks to Roland Boon. Without him the add-on would never have been realized.
• If you have more than one TomTom device attached to your computer, you will be offered to select which one to use for copying files etc.
• A new feature has been added to the road book: the file can be opened with your default internet explorer. This enabled you to copy the contents and edit them (e.g. in Microsoft Word) after pasting.
• If you have the autonumbering option for waypoints checked, the waypoins will be numbered automatically in the Google Maps window too.
  At the same time a bug in the autonumbering feature has been fixed. Thanks to Danny De Ronne, who found the bug.
• The Google Maps window has been expanded with a new option: the map can be displayed as 'terrain' as well.
• Files can now be saved as Excel CSV file type. As a result you can open, edit, print, etc. your files using Microsoft Excel.
  Excel CSV files cannot be opened, because those files can contain lots of different contents.
• Another new feature has been added, though hidden.
  If you have a long list of waypoints and you want to reduce the number to the maximum allowed in your TomTom, press Ctrl+Shift+F12. The number of waypoints in your list will be reduced on base of a calculated interval: every x.th waypoint will be kept and all other waypoints will be removed. (The value of x depends on the length of your list.)
  Warning: after pressing Ctrl+Shift+F12 the action will be executed without any preceding warning or question.
  This feature is hidden to keep the application simple: most users will never use this possibility.
• Adding waypoints or POIs to your list from the clipboard by pasting has been changed:
  - If you have chosen to use Google Maps, newly pasted waypoints will be inserted right before the currently selected and active waypoint/POI, or (if none selected and active) at the beginning of the list. This is new.
  - If you have chosen to use Google Earth, nothing has been changed: newly pasted waypoints will be inserted according to your preferences on the 'Adding waypoints' tab in the 'Options' window.
• The road book option has two new columns: total distance and total time from start.
• In addition, Tyre has now its own clipboard format. So, no longer problems of pasting waypoints into other applications unexpectedly.
• Entering and editing phone numbers in POI files could be disturbing. Now it will be clear to all, I hope.
• Some minor changes.

• The POI Manager has a new option: if your TomTom is not attached to your computer, you can choose to update your POIs to TomTom HOME.
• Handling images for POIs have improved.
• In some cases there were remainings of an older version after updating to a newer version, which could result in error messages. That problem has now been solved.
• Tyre uses the Windows registry (instead of a local file) to store your preferences and some other stuff.
• There was a bug in creating road books. It was a small one. At least, I did not hear it from anybody. Anyway, the bug has been removed now.
• Users who have Internet Explorer 6 installed on their computers, may have noticed some strange characters. We recommend that you update to Internet Explorer 7, but for those who don't: there are no strange characters any longer.
• The possibility for dragging and dropping files has been restored. For some reason it did not function any longer. Now it will function properly again.
• In previous versions an ampersand (&) in the name of a waypoint or POI was interpreted as a directive to underscore the next character. Now you can use the & as regular character.

• Importing from websites has improved: now you can import waypoints as well, if they are published on that website using the proper format.

• Checking for updates is more powerful: checking and updating is now possible, even if you encountered problems until now on this issue because of a proxy server.
• The POI Manager has been expanded with an extra list: a full overview of all POI files that are selected for downloading and installing.
• On removing waypoints there is some more refinement: the bug that was meant to be removed in the previous update, still existed on removing the first waypoint from an itinerary. Now everything should be OK.
• Some minor changes.

• Since the last update there were problems on using Unicode characters (if that means anything to you) in waypoint names. It caused a message, saying 'List index out of bounds'. Or some waypoints disappeared without any message.
  Thanks to several people who were helpful in testing, that problem has been solved now: you can use any character you like to name waypoints.
• The possibility to add new waypoints from a file had improved.
• The way of invoking the help pages has been changed. Most users will not notice the difference. Users using a proxy server will have the help pages displayed in their own language (if available).
• Recalculing a route, after several actions of removing and adding waypoints, sometimes went wrong. I have changed the way of calculating and I hope the error will not come up again.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• Maybe not all users have noticed, but there were some problems. Suddenly and unexpected. Apparently something had been changed on the Google server, causing error messages for Tyre users.
  I have been working hard to create a solution for you all. So, here is an updated version. A little bit earlier than I had in mind, but at least you have a working application by now.
• A new option has been added: on riding or driving a trip, the speed can be preset.
• Another new option has been added: on riding or driving a trip, you can choose whether or not the route information will be displayed.
• The way maps (i.e. the right folders) on PDA's are found has been changed. There were still some PDA's on which the maps could not be found. I hope all those problems have disappeared now.
• There was a small but not harmful bug in setting and reading the 'Start new files as POI files' option. The bug has been fixed now.
• Files created by www.houghi.org/tomtom have a slightly different format from regular TomTom itinerary files. Opening those files resulted in an error message. That is why I changed the way that files are read. The error message will no longer appear.

• Now it is easier to switch between the two default file types of Tyre: POI files and itineraries. The 'File' menu has been extended with a new convert option for fast converting.
• In addition, the 'Preferences' window ('General' tab) has an new option: 'Start new files as POI files'. If selected, a new file starts as a POI file (*.ov2) instead of an itinerary (*.itn).
• The development of the TomTom HOME application is continuing. Thus were also adjustments in Tyre necessary.
• Importing Garmin files (*.gdb, *.mps) could still more be improved. That is done now. Thanks to feedback of Frans Verhagen.

• A new feature has been added: you can import Points of Interest from a website, if those waypoints are published in the Google Maps format.
  To import POIs from a website, choose 'Import from Website...' from the 'File' menu.
• Editing phone numbers for POIs is completed now: you can also enter and edit phone numbers in the Google Maps window.
  This will not work for editing waypoints in your itineraries. It will only work for POI files!
• The automatic numbering of waypoints has been adapted: a possible mistake on renaming a numbered waypoint will be prevented.
• Using Google Earth is still possible, but this feature is now more on the background in favour of using Google Maps.
• Some minor changes.

• The possibility to send files to your TomTom HOME has improved.
• The French language files have been updated. Thanks to Denis Sorel.

• There was a bug in calculating coordinates near 0. The bug has been fixed now.
• Some minor changes as well.

• On editing POI files, you can enter a phone number for each Point Of Interest.
• On some computers data were not transferred properly from Google Maps to Tyre. So, I changed the way of transferring data. I hope all problems are gone now.
• The option for repairing the Google Earth installation has improved: each new version of Google Earth seems to have new installation items.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

Several new features have been added to Tyre!

• The first new feature is the possibility to use a list of favourite locations. This list has been added to the Google Maps window. You can use this list on creating an itinerary (or a list of POIs).
  Of course you are able to edit this list according to your own favourite locations.
• Another new feature has been added to the Google Maps window too: the possibility to import one or more waypoints from an existing file.
  The selected waypoints (or points of interest) will be added to the list you are creating.
• The search function in the main window of Tyre has improved. Several users could not find it. As a matter of fact, it was kind of hidden. Now it has been added to the 'Waypoint' menu and to the button bar as well.
• The main window of Tyre will be displayed on your desktop center instead of your screen center, i.e. the size of the taskbar, sidebar, etc. are taken into account.
• On downloading POI files, the name of the actual file will be displayed.
• Most users did not know that downloading POI files can be interrupted by pressing the ESC key on the keyboard. That is why I added a 'Cancel' butten.
  (Interrupting by pressing the ESC key is still possible.)
• Some languages use their own names for default folder names. That could cause a problem on some PDA's: the map folder(s) could not be found. Now Tyre will find the right folder(s), even if it does (or if they do) not have the default English name(s).
• The Turkish language files are up to date again. Thanks to Metin Akbil.
• The Swedish language files have been completed, now that the help pages have been translated as well. Thanks to Tobias Ekengren.
• Some minor changes as well.

• A new language has been added: Swedish. Thanks to Tobias Ekengren.
• On calculating a route, the calculate button will be hidden to prevent misunderstandings.
• Before (re)calculating a route, the map will be zoomed to make all waypoints visible.
• There was a bug in calculating routes: on adding a new waypoint for which the directions could be calculated, there occurred an error. The bug has been fixed now.
• If the directions could not be computed by Google Maps, you will get a more specified message now. ("Could not compute directions between A and B.")
• A new option has been added to the 'Google Maps' tab in the 'Options' window: you can choose to locate waypoints exactly on roads or not.
  This only works for waypoints that you add to an existing route and for existing waypoints that are relocated.
  (Points Of Interest are never located exactly on roads.)
• In this new version it is also possible to print the map.
• Some minor changes as well.

• Catalan help pages have been added.
• The Polish language file has been updated.
• On some computers, there were errors on checking the Google Maps web page. So, the way of checking has been changed.
  I hope no errors will occur on other computers...
• Tyre comes with a new setup procedure. This was necessary because of some restrictions in Windows Vista.

• In the Google Maps window, the cursor shape has been changed: now it is easier to locate waypoints on the right spot.
• In the list of waypoints (in the main window) two or more waypoints can me moved up and down at the same time.
• There was a small bug in the Google Maps feature: adding a new waypoint resulted in an error message in some specific circumstances. The bug no longer exists.

• A search box has been added to the Google Maps window: this way you can search for new locations and add new waypoints quickly.
• A search box has also been added to the main window: you can search for a waypoint by entering a (part of the) name.
• On riding or driving the route in Google Maps, information about your route will be displayed.
• The route lines used in Google Maps are draggable now: click on the route line and a new waypoint will appear on that location. Drag this new waypoint to the location where you want it.
• The description of your Google Maps route (steps) can be viewed as a road book. This road book can be printed as well.
• A new option has been added to the 'Google Maps' tab in the 'Options' window: you can use a checkbox to decide if want to start calculating immediately after opening the map.
• Another new option has been added to the 'Google Maps' tab in the 'Options' window: you can select the color for displaying your routes.
• On calculating routes in Google Maps the calculation speed is fixed to 'fast'.
• On selecting POIs in the POI manager you can deselect them all in one time: a new button has been added to perform that action.

• Before opening Google Maps, Tyre will check if the connection will be performed properly.
• On some computers, the names in the list of waypoints were displayed with some redundant square characters in the Google Maps window. Now they are displayed correctly.
• The help pages have been updated. The translation has not been completed yet, so some users will see the help on using Google Maps in English and not in their own language. The Tyre team is working on it...

• There are more possibilities on driving the route: driving can be paused, you can jump to the next waypoint, it is possible to change fast between bike and car, etc.
• It is possible to calculate (and display) only one part of the route (from one waypoint to the next one).
• The Google Maps interface has improved.
• If you have chosen to use Google Maps, you can still add new waypoints (or points of interest) to the list by copying them from Google Earth.
• Some language files have been updated.

• Tyre works with Google Maps now!
  A new feature has been added, which means a major improvement: users can choose to use either Google Earth (as until now) or Google Maps for editing and displaying itineraries.
  Google Maps is fully integrated into Tyre. This means a great advantage: it is no longer necessary to install another application.
  For those who want to use Google Earth anyway:
  
  • The 'Options' window gives the possibility to change your preference between Google Earth and Google Maps.
  • If you have chosen Google Maps, you can run Google Earth anyway (if installed), by a new speed button that has been added to the button bar.
  Executing JavaScript must be enabled in your web browser to use this feature!
  
• If Google Earth cannot be run properly, you will receive an error message with a description that can help you to solve the problem.
• Displaying routes with Google Earth has been adapted, though users will not notice the difference.
• Saving files has been changed a bit, though users will not notice the difference.
• The gtdlgctl.dll file is no longer part of the Tyre installation.

• A new feature has been added: it is possible to have your waypoints numbered automatically. This option can be turned on/off on the 'Files' tab in the 'Options' window.
• Another new feature had been added: files can be opened just by dragging them into the Tyre window: drop them there.
• I made some changes to make Tyre suitable for more types of handheld computers.
• If you have more than one instance of Tyre running, only the active instance (or the last activated instance) will receive data from Google Earth.
• If you have more than one instance of Tyre running and the options have been changed, the changes will be passed to all running instances of Tyre.
• Opening and reading GPX files has improved.
• Copying files to TomTom HOME has improved.

• On installing Tyre, the installation path will be saved. It will be used if you are updating Tyre.
• The way Tyres searches for Google Earth has been changed, because of changes in Google Earth. Most users will not notice this change.
• I had to adapt some functions because of changes in Google Earth. Now showing routes should work correctly again.
• The routines that are used to handle TomTom HOME have been changed a little bit. They can handle other locations than the default ones as well.
• The way toc files are created has been changed: the old way prohibited removing files from TomTom HOME. Now they can be installed and removed.
• The function to select all waypoints has improved.
• There was a bug in the function to split long files. The bug has been removed now.

• After adding the new possibility of entering the maximum number of waypoints, there was a bug in splitting itineraries. That bug has been fixed now.
• Saving GPX files has improved.
• Handling names using UTF-8 code has improved.
  (This is the code that is used for languages that use other characters than the characters available in ANSI, which is used for English.)
• There is a new file type (*.bcr) that can be imported. This is the file type that is used by Marco Polo, Falk, MTP and OnRoute.
• The lists in the POI management window are sorted slightly different from earlier versions.

• There is a new option available: in the 'Options' window on the 'Display' tab, you will see the option 'Avoid highways'.
  Checking this option means that both Google Earth and Google Maps will display your itineraries like the same option in your TomTom. Now you can make your routes look (almost) the same, both in Google and in your TomTom.
• Maybe you want to use TomTom HOME to copy your itineraries and your POI files to your TomTom device in stead of using Tyre.
  There is a new feature to take care of that: choose 'Copy to TomTom HOME' from the 'TomTom' menu. Your currently open file will be copied to TomTom HOME. From there you can install it onto your TomTom device.
• In addition to the previous feature, there is also a new feature to run TomTom HOME directly: choose 'Run TomTom HOME' from the 'TomTom' menu.
• The TomTom company limited the number of waypoints to 16 for all Palm versions of Navigator 6. They did it for performance reasons.
  All other versions of Navigator still have the limit of 48 waypoints.
  Now the 'Files' tab in the 'Options' window has an new option to set the maximum number of waypoints for your TomTom device.
• The way emails are being sent has been changed. This is done because the old way apparently caused problems on some computers.
• On opening, saving and importing files, the file path will be saved. It will be used as the default path, the next time you will open, save or import a file.
  For each action (open, save, import), the path will be saved separately.
• Developing Tyre does not only cost me time, it also costs me money. But I want to keep Tyre freeware! So, I would be a good idea to give users the opportunity to contribute to Tyre, if they feel like that.

• Importing Garmin files (*.gdb, *.mps) could still more be improved. That is done now. Thanks to feedback of Rob Arts.

• If you run more than one instance of Tyre, the new instance will not appear on the centre of the screen, but on a different location.
• Importing Garmin files (*.gdb, *.mps) have improved.
• The Danish help pages have been added to the Tyre environment.
• I had to make a few adaptions to make sure that users of the TomTom ONE XL will be able to download and install the Tyre startup screen.
• I discovered a small bug. Apparently you did not, because nobody reported it to me. Anyway, from now on, it will not bother you.

• Receiving data from Google Earth has improved.
• Thanks to feedback of some users, I discovered that there were problems with underscores (_) in user names. Neither Microsoft nor Borland could help me, so I had to solve that problem myself. And I did...

• There is new version of Google Earth (even in Dutch now ). I had to adapt Tyre accordingly.
• Tyre will now recognize the Sony Ericsson-P990 and (hopefully) other Sony Ericsson devices.
• On renaming a waypoint you will see buttons in your own language instead of the default English ones.
• The main window has a new feature: on selecting a waypoint (or a point of interest) from the list, the coordinates of that point will be displayed below the list.
• On updating POIs (using the POI Manager) only new files will be installed onto your TomTom. Files that are already uptodate, will be skipped.

• After editing the preferences. Tyre will check if the current itinerary needs to be split or not.
• In some cases, on copying a POI file to your TomTom, an image was used that could not be read by your TomTom. That problem has been solved now.
• It is no longer possible to update from the old 'Google-TomTom' to 'Tyre'.
  People who still use the old Google-TomTom and want to update, have to remove Google-TomTom first and then download the setup file from the Tyre web site.
• The possibility to repair the Google Earth installation (from the Options window) has improved.

• Tyre can use OziExplorer files. That is not new. But until now it only concerned OziExplorer CE files (*.rt2). From now on, 'regular' OziExplorer files can be opened and saved as well (*.rte).
• A new language has been added: Turkish. Thanks to Murat Araç.
• There was a bug in editing individual waypoints. That bug has been fixed now.

• There was a bug in the previous version. You encountered problems on opening and saving files. The bug has been fixed now.
  Thanks to Joop Deenen, he reported this bug very quickly.

• Some folder locations have been changed.

• After finishing setup and after finishing an update, you can choose whether or not to run Tyre immediately.
• On starting Tyre, the time remaining for initialising is visualised by a progress bar.
• Tyre no longer uses a subfolder of 'My Documents' but a subfolder of Common and User Application Data.
• Some minor changes and improvements.

• Opening files directly from a PDA and saving files to a PDA have improved, because some extra safety has been added: after opening a file directly from your PDA, you will be asked for a file name and location on saving the file.
• Google Maps has a new feature: you can plot a route with waypoints!
  Now you can use that feature with Tyre: click the name (description) of your itinerary that is displayed in Google Earth. A popup window will appear. That window also has a line: 'Show route (Google Maps)'. Click that line and your route will be displayed in Google Maps, not just by straight lines, but following the roads from one waypoint to another.
  To show your route this way in Google Maps, your itinerary may not contain a lot of waypoints! If that is the case, you will get an error message.
  

• On some computers, Tyre hung on startup. There was a workaround, but now you don't need that workaround any longer: I changed the startup procedure.

• Due to some changes, there was an irritating (but not dangerous) bug in the previous version. That bug has been fixed now.
  (You could not start a new file, once you had a file open... )
  As soon as I discovered this bug, I decided to upload an improved version of Tyre.

• A new option makes it possible to open and edit files directly from your TomTom device.
  This option has been added to the 'TomTom' menu.
• Another new feature makes it possible to open and edit files directly from your TomTom device by double clicking on those file names in your Windows Explorer, even if your TomTom device is a PDA.
  This feature will only work if it is supported by your Windows system. (I have developed and tested this feature in Windows Vista only.)

• I changed some routines to make Tyre better work with Windows Vista.
  As a result of those changes, some options can only be set and some functions will only work, if you are logged in with administrator rights.
• Tyre will now better cooperatie with PDA's. Some more different types of PDA's are recognized now.
• The main menu has been reorganised, thanks to feedback of users.
  As a result of this change, using the menu is more intuitive now.
  In addition to this change, some speedbuttons have another location in the main window now.
• Repairing the Google Earth installation (in the 'Options' window, tab 'Google Earth') has improved.
• The German translation is completed, now that the help files are in German too.
• In your list of Program Files, setup now creates an extra shortcut. It is a shortcut to the POI Manager. That will make downloading and installing Points Of Interest on your TomTom device more easy.

• This version was not published. It was used for testing purposes only.

• Tyre was tested with Windows Vista. As far as I could see, there were no problems.
• A new language file has been added: Polish.
  Thanks to Zdzislaw Winkiewicz.
• On importing waypoint from Google Earth, some waypoints were not imported, because their structure was unknown. That problem has been solved now.
• Another problem has been solved too: if you had more than one instance of Tyre runnning, you could receive an error message on receiving waypoints from Google Earth. The error message will no longer appear.

• On displaying Points of Interest in Google Earth, the appropriate image will be used, if available.
• Until now you could save a route to your TomTom as active route. In addition to that, now you can open the active route on your TomTom as well.
  The 'File' menu has been changed accordingly.
• Checking for updates can be done from a new option in the 'Help' menu.
• Two new languages have been added: Danish and German.
  Thanks to Albert van Harten (for Danish) and to Ulrike van de Groep-Heid and Chris Steinfels (both for German).
• The Chinese Help files are now available on line. Thanks to Bert Chen!

• The latest version of Google Earth (4.0.2722) has new options in displaying waypoints. In this version displaying waypoints (placemarks) can be done with more accuracy.
  If you have this version of GE installed (or a higher version), Tyre will automatically use these options in displaying waypoints and points of interest.
• The Catalan language file is now up to date again.
• If the Program Files folder on your PDA has another name (because of another language), Tyre will find it anyway.
• Importing placemarks from Google Earth has improved.
• The '(+)' sign is no longer added to the name of a waypoint in cases of matching names.

• Tyre supports the use of a PDA now!
  So, you can use Tyre to manipulate (copy, delete, update) itineraries or POI files on your handheld computer.
  Of course, TomTom Navigator should be installed onto your PDA. And: your PDA must use ActiveSync to communicate with your desktop computer.
• Downloading and installing POI files can be interrupted by the user by pressing ESC.
  Searching an URL can take some time. That is why it can take some time before the process of downloading and installing really stops after pressing ESC.
• Importing OZI Explorer files has improved.

• On turning an itinerary, all waypoints keep their own properties as waypoint or destination, except for the first one (will be marked as waypoint) and the last one (will be marked as destination).
  After turning an itinerary, all waypoints and destinations will be marked as 'to visit'.
• A new language has been added: Chinese. Thanks to Bert Chen.
• Some POI files have a structure that is barely documented. I found out thanks to Bert Chen. This kind of POI files can be read now.
• On editing POIs, the appropriate image will be used to display the items in the list, if it is available.
• On downloading and installing POIs, error messages have become more clearly: they also say what went wrong ('You did not enter a target folder', etc.) and not only the fact that something went wrong.
• You can use any bitmap to be displayed with your POIs, unless its width or height exceeds 24 pixels.
• In previous versions of Tyre, some actions could not be performed on older TomTom devices, such as GO 300 and GO 500. Now they can.
• Some errors could occur if the file name contained underscores (_). That bug has been fixed.

• With Garmin MapSource files (*.gdb and *.mps), the waypoints are not only imported, but they are sorted in the right order too, if that information is available in the file.
• Tyre does more safety checking on opening, saving and importing files.
• Opening Google Earth files has improved.
• Some useful sites with POI files have been added to POI Manager.
• Opening and importing files is done faster now.
• Some visual elements have improved.

• Tyre has improved: Tyre can open and edit POI files (*.ov2) now!
  You can publish those files into an xml file as well.
  POI means 'Points Of Interest'. POI files can contain gas stations, shopping malls, beautiful spots, etc.
  Tyre can also work the other way round: you can import and update your POI files from the internet to your TomTom. That is comfortable for updating your POIs with speed camera's etc. regularly.
  As a result of this improvement, in this document (and in other documents) you can also read 'POI' for 'waypoint'.
• A new file type can be imported, opened and saved: Google Earth KMZ files (*.kmz). KMZ files are the same as KML files, but they are compressed, so they are smaller.
• Some other new file types can be imported as wel. Garmin MapSource files (*.gdb and *.mps) can be imported now. Thanks to Olaf Klein, who helped me out to detect the structure of these file types.
• Editing individual waypoints has improved: on editing you have the choice to take large or small steps.
• Google Earth could not always be found (and used), if GE had been installed from another account on the computer. This inconvenience has been adapted.
• There are some changes in the setup: until now Tyre was installed for the current user only. With this new version Tyre will be available to all users (accounts) of your computer after the installation.
• Tyre uses another way to detect whether a TomTom device is attached to one's computer. Detecting a device is done more accurate now.
• Checking the length of files (max. 48 waypoints) is now done only when the file type is TomTom Itinerary (*.itn).
• There was a bug: after installing Tyre on a system with an English Windows environment, Tyre started with the wrong language. That bug has been fixed now.
• There was a bug in opening and importing some file types. That bug has been fixed now.
• Apparently, Tyre could not be installed onto a computer that has an operating system with Asian characters (Chinese, Japanese, etc.). That problem has been solved now.

• A new language has been added: Catalan. Thanks to Juan Antonio Saez.
• I added another file type that can be opened, imported and saved: the OziExplorer File type (*.rt2).
• The splash screen will only be shown if Tyre was not already active yet. So, if you run another instance of Tyre, the splash screen will not appear.
• You can download and install the Tyre logo as a splash screen for your TomTom. This can be done directly from Tyre.
• Google Earth version 3 is no longer available. That was the right moment to change the code of Tyre a little bit, because the format of the kml files in GE v.4 is a little bit different from GE v.3.
• There were some problems with the Pro version of Google Earth. Those problems have been solved now.
• New users will see a route in the country of their own language (if that route is available).
• Again I have made some minor changes. Probably you will never notice them.

• The most important change is a new name: TYRE.
  TYRE stands for: Trace Your Route Everywhere (Eduardo Ridaura Lopez started with the idea).
  I changed the name of Google-TomTom to prevent difficulties with whomsoever.
  The new name is the most important reason for the new version number.
• The application got a slighly different look and style in accordance to the new name.
• The route can be shown more accurate now, as if you uses the 'Directions' tab in Google Earth.
  If you have an itinerary shown in Google Earth, every waypoint (except for the last one) has a description, which says: 'Show route'.
  Click this description and you will see the route accurately from the selected waypoint to the next one.
  The route can be displayed in Google Maps as well.
  (I don't promise that your TomTom will choose the same directions!)
• Such a route from 'Directions' can be sent to TYRE as well. Just select the route in the list (in Google Earth), right click the route and choose 'Copy' from the menu.
• All waypoints in the list can be selected at once by hitting Ctrl+A.
• Opening and importing GPS Exchange Files and PCX5 Files has improved.
• TYRE is using another way to check the installation of Google Earth.
  Less users will get the annoying message that Google Earth has not been installed correctly.
• On editing individual waypoints, the longitude and latitude were mixed up. I don't know if you noticed, but I corrected that error.
  (Don't worry, only the words were mixed up. Not the coordinates themselves.)
• Turning a route could cause an error. This bug has been fixed now.
• Renaming waypoints could cause problems, if there was a number in a waypoint's name. That bug has been fixed.
• Data will be retrieved from Google Earth in a different way. The new version of Google Earth is a little bit different from the previous one. If you are using Google Earth 4, you won't get silly names like 'KMLFile' for a waypoint any longer.
• Some minor changes as well.

• If you create a route file by yourself, your name will be stored into the file as the name of the one who created it (unless you uncheck this option).
• You can view some properties of the file and the route: select the 'File' menu and click 'Properties'.
• Splitting files is done with more accuracy now.
  (Google-TomTom no longer checks the lenght of a file, only the number of waypoints, max. 48.)
• Opening GPS Exchange Files (*.gpx) and Google Earth Files (*.kml) is now done better: the file name is stored.
  And in addition: any file can now be saved as TomTom Eile (*.itn), as GPS Exchange File (*.gpx) or as Google Earth File (*.kml).

• I have added new functions to the 'Open File' dialog.
  Now you can also open GPS Exchange Files (*.gpx) and Google Earth Files (*.kml) this way.
  Maybe other file types will be added in the future.
  In the meantime: other file types than TomTom Files (*.itn) can still be imported from the 'File' menu.
• Any waypoint can be marked now as destination or as mere waypoint. In addition, they can be marked as already visited or as still to visit.
  These are the same possibilities that you have in your TomTom.
• The speedbuttons that are used to mark waypoins this way, have now a hint function to make clear what they are meant for.
• There was some misunderstanding about the 'temporary.iti' file on a TomTom. It seems to be the currently loaded (active) route in your TomTom.
  I used my new knowlegde to add another option: you can save the current route (list of waypoints) onto your TomTom as the currently active route of your TomTom.
• On manipulating files on your TomTom (copy, delete, etc.), Google-TomTom will no longer look for the files 'system' and 'ttsystem' in the root folder of your TomTom. It will only check for the existence of a folder named 'itn'.
  I have done this to help people with other TomTom systems than a TomTom RIDER.
• And again: some minor changes too.

• Another new language has been added: Spanish. With thanks to Eduardo Ridaura Lopez.
• Now you can edit individual waypoints to make sure that they are at the exact location where you want them.
• I changed the program a little bit: if you want to send me a route to be added to the download page, you can only send a TomTom file (itn), not a Google Earth file (kml).
  Wanna see the routes at the download page? Click here!
• Some other applications can create kml files as well. But, the structure of these files is not always the same as the structure of kml files that were created by Google Earth.
  I adapted Google-TomTom a little bit to make it possible to import these other kml files too.
• I have made some minor changes as well.

• A new language has been added: Italian. Thanks to Stefano Pastori.
• I have made some minor changes again.

• Since the new look of the waypoints (version 3.01) there could be some problems on opening and saving route files, when the option to keep the main window always visible (on top) was set. These problems are solved now.

• I have been told that exchanging route files between a Pocket PC and a TomTom works slightly different from using a regular PC.
  So, I added a new feature to help users with a PPC: they can save the currently active route onto their desktop as 'temporary.iti'.
• Google-TomTom will no longer check for updates the very first time it runs. To some users it was confusing to open a new application, which immediately suggested to update itself.
  (Of course it will check for updates after that very first time, according to your preferences.)
• Again I have made some minor changes. Probably you will never notice them.

• Each waypoint can individually be marked now as waypoint or as destination.
• For some people is was difficult to find the option to repair a damaged installation of Google Earth. I made this easier.
• When Google-TomTom will run for the first time, several steps will be taken. I changed the order of these steps to avoid some conflicts with Google Earth.
• Sometimes files could not be displayed correctly (in Google Earth) after importing from another format. I fixed this bug.
• Miguel Lemos translated Google-TomTom into Portuguese. Kris Deckers did the same into French.
  These new languages have been added.
  For this moment the new languages only count for the program itself. Miguel and Kris are working on a translation of the help pages. I hope those pages will be available in the near future.
  I am glad that Google-TomTom seems to become familiar worldwide...

• Google-TomTom is now multilingual. This is a major improvement. That is why I changed the version number to 3.00. For this moment, the available languages are English and Dutch.
  The idea came from Jose Manuel from Spain. He offered to translate Google-TomTom into Spanish and Catalan, so I hope these two languages will be available in the near future.
  In the meantime, Konrad Dinter offered to translate Google-TomTom into German. He already started translating and I think this language will be available soon.
  Interested in translating Google-TomTom into your own language? Please contact me by email: TomTomRider@JanBoersma.nl
• I have made some minor changes as well. Probably you will never notice I have made them.

• Now it is possible to turn a route, i.e. to change its direction the other way. (This option is comfortable if you want to drive a route from the end to the start.)

• A bug has been fixed: the program sometimes came up with an error, when an empty drive was found on searching the TomTom.

• In previous versions, selected waypoints were deselected on changing the property of the main window from 'on top' to 'normal' (or the other way). This bug has been fixed now.
• I discovered that some conversion utilities do not use exactly the same format to define waypoints that a TomTom uses. However, a TomTom can use that other format. Since I know that, I adapted Google-TomTom, so now it can handle that other format too.
• If a waypoint does not have a name (after opening a file), it will be given a name. (The name is the number of the waypoint in the route list.)

• Multiple waypoints can be selected in a route list to be edited, shown, etc.
• Shortcuts have beeen added to move waypoints up and down in a list.
• Common actions like cut, copy and paste are added to the program to handle waypoints more easy.
• Soms speedbuttons have been added: to cut, copy and paste waypoints. Another speedsbutton has been added to keep the main window in front of other windows. This option was already available in the 'Options' window, but with this new speedbutton this option can be toggled on/off.
• Speedbuttons have been reorganised in the main interface.
• In previous versions, if you tried to save a file with a new file name (save as...) you were asked twice if you want to overwrite the existing file name, if there was already a file with that name. That is a little bit overdone. So, now the question will come up only once.
• There was a bug in the menu 'Waypoint'/'Remove'. The bug has been fixed.

• If the Google Earth installation has been currupted, there is a problem in cooperating between Google Earth and Google-TomTom.
  Previous versions already had a start of the possibiliby to repair an installation. From this version on, Google-TomTom has improved a lot.

• Copying files to your TomTom has become more easy now. You can copy them directly to your TomTom from within Google-TomTom: use the newly added speedbutton or choose 'Copy to TomTom' from the 'File' menu.
• The 'File' menu has even more new features: you can delete itinerary files (*.itn) from your TomTom using Google-TomTom, so there is no need to have the space in your TomTom filled up with files that you don't want to use anymore.
• After saving a file (using the 'Save as...' option in the 'File' menu) the file is added on top of the recently used files on the bottom of the 'File' menu.
  (Until now only files that were opened by the 'Open...' option were added to the list of recently used files.)

• From now on, Google-TomTom will automatically check every week for updates, unless you uncheck that option in the 'Options' window.

• Downloading and installing an update is much more easy now.
• On splitting files the previously used folder will be used as a suggestion to save the new files in.
• Splitting files is done more accurate now.
  (Some files that had been split, were still a little bit too large.)
• Dialog windows for opening and saving files are faster now.

• Splitting files became more easy: if necessary, a large file will be split into three or more new files of a proper size.
  (Until now, files that were too large, were only split into two new files.)
• The 'open', 'import' and 'save as' dialog windows are also in 3D style now.

• I noticed that other applications than Google Earth also have a strange way to handle special characters (ë, ö, ß, etc.). I adapted Google-TomTom accordingly.
• If you set the main window to stay on top of other windows, you could encouter some problems on opening a dialog window. These problems have been solved now.
• Adding a list of waypoints did not always work properly. Now it does.

• Kml-files are files that belong to Google Earth. So, they should be connected to that application. If not (or if Google Earth 'loses' that file type), you will encouter problems on trying to display your routes from Google-TomTom into Google Earth.
  Now the 'Options' window has an extra tab that might be helpful to this situations: this tab has a button that reconnects (if necessary) kml-files to Google Earth.
• There was a problem on saving files with an existing file name via the 'save as...' option. That bug has been fixed now.

• A new option had been added: you can choose where new waypoints from Google Earth should be inserted in your current route: on top of the list, at the end of it, or below the currently selected waypoint.
  On importing a complete list of waypoints, you will have the possibility to reconsider your choice. That new choice will not override the choice you have made in the 'Options' window and will only be used for the current import.
• Another new option has been added: you can choose whether or not Google-TomTom will receive data from Google Earth when the main window has been minimized.
• The 'Options' window has gone through a face change, as a result of newly added options.
• The way items in the list of waypoints are moved up and down, has been changed. Moving waypoints up and down in the list has become easier and faster now.
• Now more than one route can be sent from Google-TomTom to Google Earth to be shown. (Until now Google Earth asked if the old route should be replaced, when it received a new route from Google-TomTom.)
• Sometimes Google-TomTom asked if you want to save the file (because of the changes), even when there were not any changes. That bug has been fixed now.
• Another bug has been fixed also: on canceling an 'open' dialog box or a 'save as' dialog box, the program will always return to the previous state. (Until now things went the wrong way in some cases.)
• As a result of all the changes since the start of this program, the the version number has been changed to 2.00.

• With importing other file types, Google-TomTom remembers the last file type that was imported. The Import Dialog will start with that file type, next time you want to import a file.
• Importing files can take some time... Now importing waypoints will be shown until the file reading has completed. If it takes to much time, importing can be canceled.
• If you try to import an invalid file type, you will receive an error message.

• Google-TomTom automatically adds a '(+)' to a waypoint name, if the name already exists in the route. But sometimes a '(+)' was added to a name that did not need that extension.
  That bug has been fixed now.
• Other file types can be imported now (*.kml, *.gpx, *.trk, *.wpt).
  Files cannot be exported to one of these file types, because Google-TomTom is meant to cooperate with Google Earth. It is not meant to be a conversion program.
  If you want to convert files, there are lots of other programs available for that purpose at the internet. I prefer GPSBabel from www.gpsbabel.org.
  

• I use another way to build my web pages now. I adapted Google-TomTom accordingly.

• If you create a route in Google Earth, Google Earth will add the last created waypoint ('new placemark') on top of your placemark list.
  What to do, if you want to import a complete list of placemarks in one time? You would have a route that starts at the end!
  So, here is the solution: from now on, if you import a list of waypoints in one time, you can choose how the list will be imported: in reverse order or not.
  And: your choice will be remembered for the next time!
• Sometimes there could be a problem opening and saving files on your desktop. This problem is history now.
• The program is automatically set to 'Hold' if you open a dialog window. And if the program was activated, it will be set back to 'Active' again after closing the dialog window.
• An extra file is added to the setup package: gtdlgctl.dll. This file contains several routines, needed by the main program.

• Some more special characters can be handled now.
• You may have noticed that Google-TomTom automatically adds a '(+)' to a waypoint name, if the name already exists in the route.
  From this version up, the '(+)' is only added if the names are exactly the same.

• I have added a new option: if a TomTom file is too large, you can choose what to do: just let it happen, come up with a warning, or come up with the suggestion to split the file.
  This option can be set in the 'Options' window.
• The 'Options' window has been changed.
• I discovered another bug in retrieving data from Google Earth. I hope you did not...
  Anyway, the bug has been fixed now.

• Google Earth has a strange way to handle special characters, like ä, é, ß, etc. I did not know that, until I planned a route in Germany.
  Now I know and I adapted Google-TomTom accordingly.
• There was a bug in retrieving data from Google Earth: in some cases the coordinates were not read correctly. This bug has been fixed now.
• The size of the TomTom Itinerary Files is calculated more accurate now.
• If a TomTom file is too large, you can have the file split into two parts. This option has been added to the 'File' menu.

• Until now Google-TomTom could only receive data from the free version of Google Earth. Now you can retrieve data also from Google Earth Plus and Google Earth Pro.
• There were still two bugs in the previous versions: after setting the program to 'Hold' and back to 'Activate' again, data were retrieved again in some cases. And the program came up with an error if it tried to retrieve other data than waypoints from the Clipboard. These bugs have been fixed now.

• The most important improvement is the possibility to show your routes in Google Earth: not only as waypoints, but also as a route (line).
• By setting the options you can choose to display the waypoints, the route (line) or both.
• An extra option has been added for the individual waypoints: you can choose to display them or not.
• I added an extra website to exchange route files for even more fun!
  So, if you have a beautiful route (it doesn't matter where on earth it is), please send me the file and I will place it on that website.
  Here is the link to the file exchange page: www.JanBoersma.nl/gett/download/
  The site can be entered directly from Google-TomTom.
• Route files can be sent by email now!
  You can do this directly from Google-TomTom.
  The files can be sent to me (to place them on the exchange page) or to a friend or someone else.
  The files can be sent as a Google-TomTom file (*.itn) or as a Google Earth file (*.kml).
• The 'File' menu now contains a list of recently opened files.
  By setting the options you can choose how many recent files should be displayed in the 'File' menu (from 0 up to 9).
• I added the possibility to rename waypoints. That is convenient in cases that you don't like the name of a waypoint, but you don't want to delete it.
• The 'Google' menu has been reorganised. In addition to that, it is renamed to 'Waypoint'.
• Two minor bugs are repaired. (On showing one waypoint and on handling long file names.)
• Now Google-TomTom comes with a small route file. For new users it will be opened automatically the first time Google-TomTom will be run.
  This route file ('Somewhere on earth.itn') is useful to explore the possibilities of Google-TomTom.

• The program interface has been changed: Google-TomTom now works even more intuitive:
  A menu has been added.
  The speedbuttons are smaller and come without titles.
• Google Earth can be run directly from Google-TomTom, even without showing a waypoint or a list of waypoints.

• The most important improvement is the cooperation with Google Earth: the cooperation is mutual now.
  Waypoints can be exported from Google-TomTom to Google Earth, so you can see them in the right place!
• These waypoints can be shown with some extra options: set the altitude and tilt for showing individual waypoints in Google Earth.
  These options can be set in the Options Window.
• The function of the buttons in the main window is shown by hints.
• Updates for Google-TomTom can be checked. This can be done from the 'Options' Window.
• An extra option has been added: hints for the buttons in the main window.
  This option can be toggled on/off in the Options Window.