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Jul 01, 2008 05:09 |  #1

Hi guys

Time for holidays and some traveling, but this time I have a bit of a problem. During last year we changed company laptops from Windows to Mac, and all of a sudden I'm without decent navigation/mapping program. Sure I have TomTom device, and it's cool for car, but it's pain in the a** for planning. Before I did most of my planning on laptop with programs like Microsoft Autoroute (Streets and trips for USA), but what now?
Does anyone have any idea about similar programs for Mac? Yes I know Google earth and maps are great, just as Viamichelin.com, map24.com etc., but in middle of nowhere I won't be online. So that's reason, why I would need something similar to Autoroute, where maps are on your computer and you can do some "planning" on evening when seating on beach of lake in Finland.
Oh and one more thing... maps of Scandinavia (mostly Finland) are must :)

All ideas and suggestions are more then welcome.

Thanks in advance, and have great day :)

PS: Bootcamp and Windows are not an option :lol:

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Jul 01, 2008 18:26 |  #2

If you find something, let me know. That's my biggest tie to Windows, and I have no interest in moving to Vista.


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Jul 01, 2008 18:48 as a reply to  @ Jon's post |  #3

what about this? (I don't have personal experience with it...we keep a windows laptop around for this sort of thing)


RouteBuddy is a GPS navigation software for your Mac OS X. It supports many different manufacturers such as Garmin, GlobalSat, and many more because it speaks the NMEA language. You can connect your GPS receiver via USB or bluetooth, doesn’t matter for RouteBuddy. To bring the feel of vector based Google Maps, developers at RouteBuddy decided to team up with TeleAtlas, one of the biggest map suppliers of the world.


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Jul 02, 2008 05:58 |  #4

What about a map book to go with the mac book?


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Jul 02, 2008 06:46 as a reply to  @ Moppie's post |  #5

Hehe only if it glows at night :P I know it would be obvious solution, and I have used it until few years ago, but it's so much easier to do planning with computer then calculating kilometers through half of Europe from paper map. Yes I know, I got spoiled :)


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Jul 02, 2008 06:47 as a reply to  @ Permagrin's post |  #6

Cool. Thanks for info, I will go and check. And it's not even that expensive :)


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Jul 02, 2008 07:13 |  #7

Try macvroom.com


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