Comments on: RouteBuddy - GPS on Mac

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:52:14 +0000

RouteBuddy 2.0 “Like iTunes™ for your GPS”

Geo-data and Map management on a Mac made easy.

RouteBuddy 2.0 was released at Macworld San Francisco 2008 and a free demo is available from http://www.routebuddy.com

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:30:51 +0000

Hi,

since this article was written there have been many changes to RouteBuddy, there are also many more to come. Currently RouteBuddy 1.3 is on offer and RouteBuddy 1.4 waits in the wings with many new features and greater connectability.

There are three main points to clear up here:
1) Price
Essentially you get what you pay for.
RouteBuddy is the only modern up-to-date Digital Road Mapping application for the Mac and one whose feature set is growing all the time. There are many differences between us and the other applications listed, more below..

2) RouteBuddy is a Road Map Mapping application, whereas the majority of the applications above are not. RouteBuddy also uses high quality, high definition and up-to-date vector-based road data from Tele Atlas whereas the others don’t.

3) RouteBuddy is unique.
RouteBuddy has been built from the ground-up so that it will be able to use many types of maps, vector and raster for example, within the same application. To do the same with any of the above would mean buying more than one, maybe several applications, to suit all the data a user wishes to own and use and still not offer access to modern road map data..
RouteBuddy has been built to work seamlessly and easily in a ‘one app fits all’ way.

More here from another posting: http://tinyurl.com/2obmk7

If you wish to know more then please visit our Forum to search, make comments or ask questions: http://forum.routebuddy.com/

Thanks for reading..

Neil

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:06:00 +0000

Shayne, I believe that GPS should work if you buy a Keyspan USB-to-Serial adapter (the cable that comes with it connects the GPS to a serial port, not to a USB port… so you connect the included cable to the Keyspan adapter, and connect the Keyspan adapter to your computer). Then it *should* work fine. However, it’s worth considering buying a cheap USB or Bluetooth GPS “mouse” such as the Holux GM-210 (USB) or GPSlim-236 (Bluetooth)… at least the USB one won’t cost much more than a Keyspan, both are easier to put somewhere with a good sky view, and they both definitely work well with all Mac GPS software.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:26:02 +0000

I have a MacBook Pro and considering purchase of a Garmin Street Pilot III model c320. Has anyone managed to make this work with OS X please and if so, how ? Thanks

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:33:07 +0000

Although it isn’t primarily designed as a GPS mapping program (it is a wireless network scanner), you could easily include KisMAC in the list, as it has excellent map importing, moving map display, and GPS track logging.

Incidentally, gps2ge’s home page is now located at http://www.grandhighwizard.net/gps2gex.html

Have fun with the reviewing… it’s certainly encouraging to see how many apps there are out there now!

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:42:00 +0000

Here is another one for your list. I just released iPhotoToGoogleEarth which exports your GOS tagged images from iPhoto as KMZ files ready for sending to anyone with Google Earth.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:29:13 +0000

Don’t forget about gpsdrive http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/