Place pins on a worldwide map for each location you want to visit, then see your route. Enter trip details for each location and create a complete trip itinerary. You can DEMO this app with Road Trip Planner LITE also available at the Mac App Store. Unlike other trip planning apps, this app has NO SUBSCRIPTION FEES. MAP PINS HOLD WHAT YOU NEED. Each pin shows: - arrival date & time - departure date & time - travel time to this location - time spent at this location - name of pin (such as John’s house) - address of pin - notes and images - custom pin color and icon (choose from over 90 designs or import your own) - URL for related information - URL for related images - weather reports from NOAA and other sources - Flickr photo search - elevation - transport type (driving or walking) - satellite view - Internet Search results - list of activities (lodging, sights to see, etc.) - choose between multiple routes (if available) - set the route color between pins - between pins view driving distance, driving time, fuel cost, travel advisories, turn-by-turn driving directions - import pins from your Contacts (select as many at once as you like) EACH PIN CAN HAVE MANY ACTIVITIES. For each activity you can record: - name of activity - activity date, time and duration - cost - phone - FAX - address - URL - email address - confirmation number - notes - picture There are two types of pins. Route Pins are used to create the route. POI Pins mark points of interest on the map. Choose between Apple Maps and OpenStreet Maps. Choose between driving and walking for each pin. For air and rail routes a straight line can be displayed between pins. Add, remove or rearrange the pins in any order you wish. Search for places such as restaurants or hotels near each pin. Routes and pins can be sent to Apple Maps. Each trip can be saved as a separate document. Perfect for anyone who wants to maintain a record of past trips. PUT YOUR TRIP IN YOUR GPS device. Route pins and routes can be exported as GPX files that can be imported by many Global Positioning System devices. VIEW YOUR TRIP ON YOUR IPHONE OR IPAD with our Road Trip Planner app for iOS, or use our FREE Road Trip Planner Viewer app. Or use apps that import GPX data, such as our GPX-Viewer app. Multiple sample files are available as well, including an informative Route 66 sample file. THE ITINERARY HOLDS ALL OF THE DETAILS. Share it and take it with you. - display the itinerary in a separate window - save the itinerary to disk or share it easily - optionally include a map image with pins and routes, activities for each Route Pin, costs for each activity, total fuel cost, total trip cost, information for Points of Interest Pins, and driving instructions USE THE TO-DO CHECKLIST. Make sure you don’t forget anything. Import location data from our other map-related apps. For a complete list visit website below. For more info, screenshots, videos, and support questions click on the Road Trip Planner support button or visit http://roadtripplanner.modesittsoftware.com PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PURCHASING: The mapping and routing functionality Road Trip Planner uses is based upon Apple’s maps technology. If Apple Maps cannot find a route between map pins, then neither can Road Trip Planner. Please test the area you wish to travel using Apple’s Maps app to ensure that the area can be routed. If it cannot be routed, please submit the issue to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/maps_mac.html. If Apple Maps cannot perform routing in the area you wish to travel then neither can Road Trip Planner.
it does niche really well
This is useful for planing trips. It's a little buggy, and crashes a few times an hour during heavy usage. You have to buy into its way of doing things, but once you understand, it's easy to crank out maps and re-order your stops to fit the drive times. Just be sure to save your work frequently. It does seem a little kludgy, tho, still. The HTML it exports still uses <font face=...> instead of CSS. CSS would make this so much more friendly and useful. Also, it's hard to get *all* of the data out of it after you've spent a couple of days putting it in, but today I discovered the "export to Calendar" feature and it's truly cool. Now I have everything in my trip scheduled in my calendar.
Where am I?
If I press MY LOCATION it shows me somewhere else in the world ??? I double check that no VPN was on and all other maps show where I am. I don't understand this. I close out of the program and try to restart but get same results.
Bad
What is this?
Need some help
When i press update route it says routes are avalible when there are two or more pins visible. need help
Updated to 5 Stars
I am updating my review to 5 stars. The developer works hard to make this a great app. --- This could be very useful, but there are lots of bugs. The developer blames Apple Maps for all the problems, but I'm not so sure. If the bugs get fixed, I could upgrade the rating to 4 or 5 stars.
Still in training
I used this planner a year ago for the first time but still haven't spent the time to learn all the options. I maybe wrong on any thing say here but just haven't found if it can do what I want. I would like the first pin to be labeled the starting point and the second pin to be final designation. Then I would like to say I want to drive 6 hours a day and have the planner plot where on the map I would be. From there I could move those pins to where I find a place to stay. Of course it will may not be a perfect 6hours per day but the planner should be able to adjust to the closest amount of hours per day.
It will take time
I just downloaded this app the other day. I can get to point A to point B and keep adding points. But the big issue for now is all the ins and outs. It would have been really nice to find youtube instructions. A location for me may have to have 2 or 3 backup places to stay. It's hard to figure out how to put addtional points and how to make notes. Don't know if I can customize pins. Like make a KOA pin vs the generic camping pin. I may get the hang of this but I have usually have been able to figure out a software without instructions. There are buttons that I really haven't figure out yet. This may do everything I want but I'm not there yet.
— The preferences now has a Done button instead of a close button making it more intuitive. — A Google map option for display purposes only has been added to the map popup button. — Various bug fixes and app enhancements.
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