Hi,
currently you can create a route in RouteBuddy and use that to navigate to a destination with visual and verbal instructions.
- Yes, its not clear on our website that you can do this! The website is going through a major overhaul and in future screencasts will be included to take people through RouteBuddy's features.
Routes can be created by either typing in an address to create a Waypoint / POI or by clicking out a route on the map.
In future there'll be a feature to select the POI and tell RouteBuddy to route you there. You may well ask "why not have this simple feature now?"
The reason being we are putting many changes in place in RouteBuddy 1.4 and 1.5 that would require us to undertake the work on some features twice over; so better we wait now and then implement only once at a later stage after RouteBuddy 1.5
Using a GPS receiver (BlueTooth or USB) is probably the easiest you'll ever find as it's just plug-and-play, RouteBuddy takes care of all the settings automatically.
Note that NMEA devices can only report a location and cannot be Synchronised as Garmin USB devices. (Older Garmin Serial devices can be used via a Keyspan converter to report a position over NMEA which is useful if all you need is a receiver.)
There is greater device support being released in RouteBuddy 1.4 but should you want to use a device that doesn't yet work with our free demo then please contact us via
support@RouteBuddy.com so we can work on it for you.
Neil
CEO RouteBuddy Ltd
http://www.routebuddy.com