Set Options / Preferences

The Options / Preferences window allows you to choose your default RouteBuddy settings.

To access this window:

• Windows: Select Tools > Options from the Menu Bar
• Mac: Select RouteBuddy > Preferences from the Menu Bar

General

Appearance:

• Measurement: to change between Imperial and Metric units
• Coordinates style: Choose between ddd.ddddd; ddd mm.mmm; ddd mm ss.ss; OS Grid Reference

Maps

• If your computer supports it, RouteBuddy will use OpenGL to increase performance while drawing maps.
  If you experience problems with the map display, such as corrupt or blank images, we recommend selecting Software rendering instead. This can be found on the General tab in the Options/Preferences window.

• WebMaps: Choose your default online map provider for the Web tool

Routing

Navigation

• Provide spoken guidance - turn on or off

• You can click to select none of these hazards to avoid or any combination of them.

Routing

• Route For:
  Vehicles (for Road Maps using the Network data contained in the map)
  Direct Travel (Road or Topo maps - route between specific points which you set)
• Select to route by either:
  Quickest journey
  Shortest distance

• Select more parameters to:
  Avoid toll roads
  Avoid major highways
  Avoid unpaved roads

Style

Here you can change the style, size, colour and opacity of lines for Routes and Tracks

Devices 

• When importing data from Devices you can choose to convert the text to:
  Capitalized sentences
  Capitalized words
  UPPER CASE
  lower case

Updates 

• Schedule the frequency that RouteBuddy checks for software updates or check manually by clicking Check Now