RouteBuddy Ltd
Tips and Hints
This page is for tips and hints we may find during testing or from emails or forum postings we have received from customers.
Other help can be found in the Atlas Manual and the RouteBuddy forum
You can also get help by contacting us at support@routebuddy.com
Adjusting screen brightness on the iPad
When viewing the screen outdoors, change the setting from auto-brightness to manual and adjust accordingly. If wearing polaroids the screen goes black when viewing in portrait mode, but turn it to landscape and the image re-appears.
Importing Routes and Waypoints
Exported gpx files will be imported into the Routes folder with waypoints attached (sometimes called route points) to them for turning on and off. There can also be user added waypoints for particular points you want to highlight. Therefore you have three types of geodata:
- Way(route) points which are joined together by a program to create the route
- The route created from the way(route) points
- Optional additional waypoints.
Depending on the program in which the route was created the file could contain some or all of these types of data.
In RouteBuddy for Mac OS X or Windows you can create a route in one Place file and then drag it into another Place file without all it's related waypoints that made up the route. When the file is exported to gpx this gives a much cleaner route. These waypoints are really not necessary in Atlas unless you want to rename them to mark up turning points in a route.
A file saved specifically for waypoints only needs to be imported into the Points file in Atlas.
Also, it really depends on how you want to view the waypoints, whether you want to use them as more permanently on and controlled by the waypoints window as to whether they are turned off (so import them into the Points file, or whether you want to just switch all waypoints of a route off and on by touching the map window near to the route.
A drawback of saving route and waypoints as a kml file is that you also get the turn by turn waypoints of the route. You will get three waypoints on top of each other saying Arrive at / Middle / Leave.
I have copied in a kml or gpx file and the contents are not appearing in the app
If the contents of the file contain a large number of points, it will take a while for the file to completely load into Atlas (you will see it as greyed out in the listing). Please give large files time to copy in.
If the route or waypoints have been copied into the Imports folder but do not appear when you open up Atlas this may be because the app was in a "frozen" state when you copied the the file. i.e. you have previously been in the app and then hit the home button. Then, when you double click the home button, the app is sitting in the bottom bar in a frozen state - Apple's "Fast App Switching" feature. Delete the app from Fast App Switching and then re-start the app from the main window. The route/waypoints should then appear.