RouteBuddy Ltd

Finding a Point of Interest

Please note that the search for POIs will not work with RouteBuddy Topo maps on their own. If, however, you also have the RouteBuddy Road Map loaded and enabled for the area you are viewing, the search function will still be able to find addresses and these will show up on map layer you are viewing at the time.

RouteBuddy Maps ship with POIs sourced by our map partner TomTom. For example they supply nearly 2 million POIs for Europe and nearly 5 million for North America giving you, the RouteBuddy user a very wide choice of places to visit.

• Click on the Search tool either in the Library list or in the Toolbar.
• RouteBuddy will take you to the last map view upon which you completed a search.
• Move to the area are of the map you want to search and we would suggest zooming in to a reasonable level so that the centre of the map is the centre of the area from the point you would like to search.
• Choose to find all POIs or select from 9 different sub-categories to narrow down the selection.
• The next option is to select the diameter around the centre of your currently shown map area, this ranges from 1 mile to 1000 miles if your Options / Preferences are set to Imperial or 1 km to 1000 km if your Preferences are set to metric.

When RouteBuddy finds POIs which match your search a list will show in the content area with Name and Kind of POI, and the Icons and names for the POIs will shown on the map.

Adding search results to your database

In the Browser view highlight the POI result you want to keep and drag it onto your Place file.
The waypoint will also be stored in the locations database for use in other Place files.