Team VaxCave Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 I recently bought Route USA by Route 66 for driving and autorouting directions for geocaching. I bought this because my computer is a Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther). This is really the only decent mapping program available for OS X. At 40-some dollars, the price was right. Many people have posted on various forums that the software has poor support. I have to agree. After sending 10 to 15 emails over the past 3 weeks, I *finally* received an answer. Below, find my email and the response that I received: I bought your Route USA software and was disappointed to find thatthere is no way to enter a Latitude and Longitude coordinate search. Is there a way to search via WGS84 coordinate systems? Is there a way to create a pushpin file based on latitude and longitude? Thanks for your help! -Dave To which they responded: Dear Mr. Dave, You cannot introduce the latitude and longitude information in the ROUTE 66 application to find a place. However you can use the ruler tool which indicates the latitude, longitude, and altitude of a point on the map to locate the desired place yourself . Kind regards, ROUTE 66 Customer Support I post this information purely as academic information for my fellow cachers. On a PC you may want to go with a different program and on the Mac you may want to do some more research before buying this software. I'd be happy to answer any questions that anyone has. I like the program for what it is. The map details are great, but I just wish it was possible to create a search or a pushpin based on Lat/Lon info. Quote Link to comment
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