RouteBuddy
RouteBuddy is the only modern, advanced digital map application for Windows and Mac OS X. It doesn't matter on which platform you wish to use the application as it sports a universal toolbar and comparable features throughout.
- High resolution Road, Topo and Satellite maps can be viewed in the same application using our state-of-the-art animated layer technology.
- Easy planning and management of geodata, Waypoints, Routes or Tracks, over any of the maps you have installed or aerial imagery.
- RouteBuddy provides you plug-and-play GPS support where you can create a library of your GPS activities and safely backup all of your valuable data.
- Road map of Santa Fe
- USGS Topo map of Yosemite Valley
- OSGB Topo map of the Afan Valley).
You separately choose and purchase the maps you want to use with the software.
The reason for this is that RouteBuddy is a multifunctional mapping application which can seamlessly layer road, topo and satllite imagery maps providing you with an all-round experience unrivalled by any other software. It is not just a road map application, and not just a topo map application it does it all!
RouteBuddy Map Products
- Tom Tom Road Maps for North America and Europe for Windows and Mac OS X
- Ordnance Survey Digital Maps for Windows and Mac OS X, and iOS
- USGS Digital Topo Maps for Windows and Mac OS X, and iOS
Get more from your RouteBuddy digital topo maps
An added bonus of buying digital Ordnance Survey and digital USGS maps from RouteBuddy it that they will also work with RouteBuddy Atlas for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. RouteBuddy Atlas is our free app available from the iTunes store.
Experience RouteBuddy for Windows or Mac OS X for yourself
It's simple, easy and free to try out RouteBuddy on your Mac or PC. Just click our Download link above and install on your computer.
Try loading free waypoint, route or track data from the web, or connect your GPS device and safely download and back up all of your valuable data.
iPad, iPhone or iPod touch users can easily back up their geodata from RouteBuddy Atlas via the desktop by accessing the data folders within Atlas and dragging the GPX or KML files onto the desktop, or even straight into RouteBuddy for safe storage.
Please note that the software only comes with demo maps installed.
Upgrade to RouteBuddy 3.0
Click here to find out if you are eligible for a special upgrade price.
Architecture
RouteBuddy for Mac is a 64-bit Cocoa application, and uses Apple's advanced technologies such as CoreLocation and CoreAnimation to provide a fluid user interface that uses some of the latest features available in Mac OS X.
RouteBuddy for Windows uses technologies such as LocationServices or Taskbar progress animations to take full advantage of the latest features in Windows 7.
Whilst both versions are backwards compatible with previous OS versions, Mac OS X (Leopard and Snow Leopard) and Windows (XP and Vista) we have put our support behind the new and emerging geospatial technologies from both Apple and Windows. RouteBuddy, as cross-platform digital map software, now offers power and features beyond any other competitor in the global market-place.
Features
From being the leading digital map application on Mac OS X, we now bring the same features, power and flexibility to millions of Windows users. Although RouteBuddy is now global, multi-platform, digital map software we do acknowledge that there are several existing applications on the Windows platform that, congenitally, suffer from overriding feature-bloat, as well as suspended development; Whilst RouteBuddy's customers on Mac and Windows can now enjoy the power and flexibility inherent in our software, which extends beyond what these traditional programs can offer, our development is dynamic, and we will be bringing carefully thought-out, and useful, new features to both platforms, and at the same time on both.
RouteBuddy offers you:
- TomTom digital road maps for Windows
- TomTom digital maps for Mac OS X
- Ordnance Survey digital maps for Windows
- Ordnance Survey digital maps for Mac OS X
- USGS digital maps for Windows
- USGS digital maps for Mac OS X
- the ability to switch to Bing Aerial Maps from any RouteBuddy Road or Topo map
System Requirements
Mac
Software: Mac OS X 10.5 or higher
Hardware: PPC or Intel Mac
Windows
Software: Windows XP SP3 or higher
Hardware: Intel
RouteBuddy Map products that require RouteBuddy Software
OS Digital Maps (GB), USGS Digital Maps, Road Maps of North America and Europe