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Thu, 12 Nov 2009 RouteBuddy intros OS Region Maps for iPhone, iPod touch

RouteBuddy Atlas allows you to instantly access Ordnance Survey mapping wherever you are

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RouteBuddy has recently launched a range of new maps for Apple iPhone and iPod touch users.

Priced at £7.99 and £99.99, iPhone users can now load a complete and detailed Ordnance Survey map of the whole UK on their phone from the two scales available, 1:250K and 1:50K.

According to RouteBuddy, the 1:250K Region Maps are ideal for tourists, or those who occasionally visit other
parts of the UK. This map can be purchased as the whole  of Great Britain for £7.99 or as eight individual Region maps for £3.99 each.

The 1:50K Region Maps are a more serious and costly option, aimed at the more demanding user suggests the company. Covering the whole of Great Britain, the 1:50K Region Maps costs £99.99, and like the 1:250K versions are offered as eight individual 1:50K Region maps for £39.99 each.

Based on Apple's iPhone platform, rather than an expensive and proprietary GPS device, RouteBuddy Atlas allows you to instantly access  Ordnance Survey mapping wherever you are - even in areas without mobile phone coverage.

Loaded from either Mac or PC into the iPhone, RouteBuddy now offers nearly seven-hundred topographic maps from the Ordnance Survey insists the company, giving iPhone users nationwide coverage and a wide choice of detail.

Available from the Apple iTunes App Store, users need to download the free RouteBuddy Atlas software, available to load and display multiple Ordnance Survey maps. More information on the RouteBuddy Atlas is can be found here.

RouteBuddy Atlas supports both Mac and PC, and any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update or later.

RouteBuddy Atlas also supports the iPhone's compass and GPS features, and can display and record tracks to view in Google Earth or RouteBuddy's  desktop software.

Mac users can also use the same Ordnance Survey Maps they've purchased for their iPhone in their flagship software - RouteBuddy for Mac OS X.

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TigerTony said on Thu, 12 Nov 2009

£7.99 will do me, good deal, thanks for the info.

Roger said on Fri, 13 Nov 2009

Don't forget to pick up the required application for $99 to go with your £7.99 product. Why can't they include an in-app purchase with their iPhone app? Memory Map on PC give away the viewer for free, but charge for maps. In my opinion I prefer this business model to that of RouteBuddy.

Kadoogan said on Fri, 13 Nov 2009

The 1:50K region maps are actually £34.99, not £39.99.

Neil Wilson-Harris said on Fri, 13 Nov 2009

Roger said on Fri, 13 Nov 2009

Don't forget to pick up the required application for $99 to go with your £7.99 product. Why can't they include an in-app purchase with their iPhone app? Memory Map on PC give away the viewer for free, but charge for maps. In my opinion I prefer this business model to that of RouteBuddy
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Roger,

your comments are incorrect. Memory-Map charge for the software with every map, that's why their map prices are much, much higher than ours.

Check out my full reply on the RouteBuddy Forum>RouteBuddy Atlas>MacworldUK responses.

Thanks,

Neil

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