Is it me or is Route Buddy awful?

**RouteBuddy** · 07-09-2009, 07:40 AM

Not for Road Maps this time, but for those of you who hit the trails here's what we have waiting in the wings: http://www.routebuddy.com/atlas

Neil
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**malcom2073** · 07-09-2009, 07:41 AM

Not double, not triple, but hextuple post + zombie thread resurrection?

Edit: Sorry, Septuple

**RouteBuddy** · 07-09-2009, 07:53 AM

Then why are you watching it...

This is the internet, posts live forever.

Neil
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**Sonicxtacy02** · 07-09-2009, 08:10 AM

Please dont flood a thread promoting your business.... especially a thread from 18 months ago.

**RouteBuddy** · 07-09-2009, 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

Please dont flood a thread promoting your business.... especially a thread from 18 months ago.

Hi,

I respect your opinion, however some forum members here are interested in our products, which they'll want to hear about. There was also a great deal of misinformation, this certainly needed clarifying and is also of benefit to those using RouteBuddy.

Posts never really die, otherwise we wouldn't have the rich resource that is the internet, and if updated in formation is of aid to others then it should be posted and seen. IMHO.

Neil
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**Sonicxtacy02** · 07-09-2009, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by RouteBuddy

Hi,

I respect your opinion, however some forum members here are interested in our products, which they'll want to hear about. There was also a great deal of misinformation, this certainly needed clarifying and is also of benefit to those using RouteBuddy.

Posts never really die, otherwise we wouldn't have the rich resource that is the internet, and if updated in formation is of aid to others then it should be posted and seen. IMHO.

Neil
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www.RouteBuddy.com

it wasnt an opinion. It was a request from moderator to user. Its perfectly fine to use an existing thread to further on a discussion regardless of how old it is. But its generally considered poor forum etiquette to have 7 posts consecutively when 1 could have easily achieved what you were going for.

**Relientone** · 07-17-2009, 03:01 AM

-1 for Routebuddy spam. Was bashing bugbyte really worth it? I mean you could have asked him if there was a solution he came up with or if he needed assistance. I agree 4 posts is a bit of excess and I doubt I will try this software as it takes 18 months to get a reply.

**Bugbyte** · 07-26-2009, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by RouteBuddy

TomTom
- Tap, move finger, tap, move finger, tap move finger, tap number?
RouteBuddy
- Type part of the address? ...and click once on the desired result.

Okay, let's be honest about this. Tap, move finger, tap is the same thing as Type, move finger, type.

Originally Posted by RouteBuddy

Hmm..

I think what it comes down to is not getting in touch with Support and/or reading our manual, there's an awful lot we could have done to brief you on getting the best out of RouteBuddy and at the same time understanding that what we do (and have built in a new way) is for a reason, which takes the product into the future.

Well, that's a classic one. Must have been user error. I actually do read manuals quite often and I'm sure there's a philosophy behind how Route Buddy works, but I'm not interested in having to contact tech support or do a lot of reading when I can use competing products right out of the box without difficulty.

I really do wish you all the best with Route Buddy, but you can't possibly think it is a reasonable solution for use in the car.

Let's start with the part where you have to TYPE. In a car, that is difficult.

You guys may have experience with desktop/laptop mapping, but you really don't have a fielded product and user experience in a mobile environment like the car.

I've just returned from a 2,000 mile trip using almost all of the iPhone nav software available and a portable Tom Tom unit. The Tom Tom is better. Not by an incredible amount, but it is better.

If you've got something for the iPhone or even touchscreen on the Mac, let me know and I'll be happy to review it.

**mr2mac** · 07-27-2009, 11:21 PM

I made the mistake of buying Routebuddy, In the hope of it eventually being the "Tom Tom" equivalent for the mac world.

How wrong was I.

Its totally un-intuative. I drove to holland a while back and it was very hard with routebuddy/

I use navigator 7 with a VM which is far better.

just my two cents

**aychamo** · 08-09-2009, 09:09 AM

RouteBuddy looks nice, but it really seems to not have a place. Am I supposed to use it while having my laptop in the car with me, with a GPS antenna plugged into it? That sounds like a pain in the butt

Like BugByte said, it needs at least an alternative interface for use with a touchscreen. Everyone in the MacCar community wants a Mac GPS software, but none really exist. If you just made a little touch screen UI for RouteBuddy that allowed you to easily enter destinations, navigate, do all the other GPS things, and also to terminate the app, that would be fantastic. All of the Mac front-end coders could just recommend RouteBuddy as the default GPS software, etc.

Just an idea. It just feels as it is, RouteBuddy doesn't have a home. If I were going to use it while at home I would use google maps, and in my car if I wanted a simple navigation I would just use my iPhone. (Despite programming a front end, etc, I still find myself printing out google maps and using them for 1,200 mile journeys.)

I just can't imagine a better place for routebuddy than as a GPS program for a car front end software thing