Road Trip Planner at Mac App Store analyse

This is a very good program, this program is in a class of its own. The developer is updating regularly and very responsive to any comments or questions. There are iPad/iPhone versions. The program to me was intuitive, clear and is easy to work with. It is also not expensive when you realize what you get. I find most GPS programs difficult to work with. The just don’t seem willing to show or do what I’m looking for. Not the case with Road Trip Planner, dates, directions, times, points of interest along the routes, all can be included in this program. I plan my long distance driving this way. In my opinion the best road trip planner for sale for the Mac. High praise!

I’ve been looking for an app for the Mac for planning road trips. I’ve used Streets & Trips for Windows for years but Microsoft no longer has it, and I’m now using a Macbook as my primary computer. This app provides a lot of the functionality of Streets & Trips. It operates differently but is easy enough to use. The one thing I miss from Streets and Trips is that it suggested where we might stop for the night based on how long we usually travel in a day. Then I would pick the closest city to that point. With Road Trip planner I have to experiment and check various places until I find one that gives us the best daily travel distance/time. I like the way you can select points of interest in this app and later move them to the route pin list if you want. Overall this is a good trip planning tool.

Le seul à etre relativement complet, meme si il n’est qu’en anglais. Mise à jour régulière, ce qui est un gage de qualité.

En anglais. Très technique. À éviter si vous ne maitrisez pas la langue de Shakespeare.

The app works perfectly, It’s helping me a lot on planning my next trip. You can check your plan with your iPhone, it’s really easy to use... But I miss the fact that they didn’t create the option to download your plan and access off-line. As I am travelling to a different country, this feature would be an asset. Besides that, still very useful. Cheers!

Die App läuft weitestgehend stabil, und ist eine Erweiterung der Karten App um die Definition von mehreren Wegpunken (via). Allerdings das ist es auch schon, es fehlen zu viele Features um auch nur den Hauch einer Chance z.B. gegen Google Maps zu haben. Hier ein par Beispiele: 1. die Bedienung ist nicht intuitiv 2. Zwischenziele (Pins) sind nicht per Mausklick auswählbar, sondern müssen per Tastatur eingegeben werden 3. PINs können auf der Karte nicht editiert, verschoben oder gelöscht werden 4. Benzinkosten-Berechnung funktioniert nicht, darüber hinaus kann man die Kosten pro Lister nur in US-Dollar angeben 5. Die ausgewählte Route ist nicht weiter verwendbar: z.B. kein Export zum iPhone (iCloud) 6. Kein Export (wahlweise nur Koordinaten der PINs oder PINs plus Route) in eine GPX-Datei zur Weiterverwendung (z.B. für Navigation) Ich sehe einen guten Ansatz, aber gerade die Punkte 2. 3. und vor allem 6. (!!!) sind fehlende Features, die einen Erwerb und Einsatz der App sinnlos machen. Ich lege die App zähneknischend beiseite und warte ab ob sich da noch was tut. Schade.

I have recently purchased this app and have begun using it to plan a trip from Toronto to Florida via Louisiana and home again this winter. The learning curve is fairly easy and there are a number of ‘hidden’ features that you need to discover. For example the Date Tab and the “Time At This Location” feature. The author is very responsive to questions and suggestions and the on-line Support Group is also very helpful. I would recommend this to anyone who is planning a road trip.