Route 66 : Route Usa Software

[Team VaxCave]

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 that

there 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.