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Creating a route

Before you start creating your route, set your Options / Preferences to either Vehicle or Direct routing. 

Create a route using the Route Tool

• We advise creating a new route in a new Place file.
• Click on the Route icon in the tool bar, or use the keyboard commands:
  Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows) Cmd+Alt+R (Mac) then click on the map to start a new route.
  If you click very close to a previously defined waypoint RouteBudddy will use this as the start of the route.
• The route(way)points will be uniquely numbers and have a prefix of RP.

• Double click a point / waypoint at which you want to end the Route (or before you end the route, single click on other waypoints you want to visit). The waypoints will be linked by a blue line and the program will calculate the route according to the preference parameters you have set for routing.
• If you want to move a waypoint after you have finished the route simply click the Select Tool and click on the waypoint. Drag the waypoint to the new place you want it to be. The route will re-draw and re-calculate.

• If you have chosen to complete a route using the road maps and selected the Vehicle option under Routing options / preferences, RouteBuddy will snap the route to the roads using the underlying road network data and calculate the distance.

• If you have chosen to complete a route using either the road maps or topographic maps and have set the routing options / preferences to Direct Travel, RouteBuddy will create the route directly between each waypoint and calculate the distance of the route.

When the route has finished calculating, you can click on the flippy triangles on the route editor window to give you a turn by turn listing of directions between the waypoints.

Change the position of a waypoint in a route

To change the position of a waypoint in the route:

• Select the waypoint you want to move either with the Select Tool or by highlighting the waypoint in the browser view.
• Change to the Move tool and drag the waypoint to where you want it to be. The route will re-calculate (on slower machines it sometimes takes the graphics a while to catch up. Just click on the Route in the Browser View and the route will snap into place).

Add some information about the Route

To edit the route details either:

• Click on the Select tool in the tool bar and then double click on the route on the map.

or

• Highlight the route detail line in the Browser view area in the Content Panel and double click.

The route editor window will appear where you can:

• Change the route name (this name will be the one used if the route is exported to a file)
• Add notes
• Add additional waypoints or move existing ones around
• Link an URL to the route.

You can also view the Detail of the route which shows the turn by turn directions (Vehicle) or the waypoints at which directional choices have to be made (Direct travel)

From the Detail route editor window you can Print out the detail of the route.

Add new Waypoints to an existing Route

• Use Search to Find a Location or Waypoints to add waypoints to the Place file.
• Drag the waypoint(s) you want to keep into your place folder.
• Open the Route editor window, click on the Detail button.
• Use the + to access the Add Waypoints window to locate the waypoint you want to add to the route

• Highlight the waypoint and click Add
• The waypoint will be added to the bottom of the route list.
• Highlight the waypoint in the route list and use the up or down arrows to move the waypoint into the correct position in the route.

• Once the waypoints are in the right order, click re-calculate.
• The new route will be calculated:

Remember that you can also change the Routing Preferences to change how RouteBuddy calculates the route.

If you wish to print the route press the print button on the route editor sheet window and the turn by turn directions will be printed.

Uploading your Route to your GPS Device

RouteBuddy Routing gives you all you need to be able to supply your existing GPS device with the coordinates it needs to use the route you have planned with RouteBuddy. Please note that this will only work if your device has the functionality to make it capable of saving Route information. Please refer to your device manual to find out whether it is capable of saving route information.

Create a Route using Menu option: Tools > Create Route

• Highlight waypoints in the Browser view in the Content Panel.
• Click Tools in the menu bar and then click Create Route. A route will be created and will include all the waypoints you highlighted.
• You can then double click the route to bring up the route editor panel and re-order the waypoints accordingly, and then re-calculate.