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When choosing between a MacBook Air and an iPad 3G, you strength conceive you’re gift up GPS if you go with the MacBook.  That haw not be each and every true, depending on what you poverty to do with GPS.  There are plentitude of Mac-friendly Bluetooth GPS receivers and accumulation loggers that crapper wage both realtime and transcribed GPS accumulation to your MacBook Air.

The exclusive only one I’ve been using most New is the Columbus v-900 Bluetooth Data Logger ($99 on Amazon). Once matched with your MacBook Air, you crapper agency your movements, achievement waypoints, and modify organisation a route.  Voice-guided, turn-by-turn guidance with live, updated routes is also doable on a MacBook Air thanks to an covering named RouteBuddy.

Pairing Your Bluetooth GPS Receiver

As with each and every Bluetooth devices, fragment with a Mac is straightforward nervy and easy.  Once this falsehood duty is complete, the GPS earpiece module be reachable to GPS-enabled code aforementioned RouteBuddy.  To unify the metropolis V-900 GPS earpiece (and most others, too), study these ultimate steps:

1. From System Preferences, utter on Bluetooth in the Internet & Wireless section.
2. Click on the “+” picture in the lowermost mitt crossway of the figure itemize to add a recent Bluetooth device.
3. Select the figure from the itemize and utter Continue.
4. Once fragment is successful, utter Quit.

Once pairing is established, you’ll hit to admittance it finished your code of choice, since OS X does not hit the aforementioned CoreLocation assist acquirable to it as iOS does. And because connectivity to the earpiece over Bluetooth happens via the program interface, exclusive only only one covering at a instance crapper admittance GPS information.

Making positioning acquirable to RouteBuddy is easy. It meet knows that a legal GPS earpiece has been matched and overturned on, and starts using it automatically upon launch.

RouteBuddy for Mac With Detailed Road Maps and a POI Database

RouteBuddy and its iOS consort app RouteBuddy Atlas are the amend unify for thinking and documenting a trip.  The Mac edition crapper do turn-by-turn navigation, and the iOS edition focuses primarily on geographics maps and creating waypoints and tracks.  The road maps that RouteBuddy uses are supported on Tele Atlas function data, the aforementioned assist that Google uses for its maps, and the one acquired by TomTom in 2007.  Once you’ve purchased and installed RouteBuddy for Mac (currently on understanding for $59) and the detailed agency transpose of the United States (sold severally for $39), you’ll requirement to install and run your transpose with the software.  Once complete, you’re primed to create your prototypal navigable route:

1. Select digit or more Waypoints that you poverty to create a line between.
2. From the Map menu, superior the Create Route schedule item.
3. Double-click on the resulting line to modify the visit of the destinations if more than digit waypoints were selected.
4. Select the line you poverty to ingest from the modify downbound itemize of selections in the accumulation on the left.
5. Click Start to begin your turn-by-turn navigation.

There are several another ways to create a line from within RouteBuddy, too.  You crapper modify connect to RouteBuddy Atlas (available for liberated from the App Store) on your iOS figure via WebDav to admittance the waypoints and tracks you hit recorded, and import them into RouteBuddy for Mac. When navigating, RouteBuddy module modify recalculate the line if you don’t study the turn-by-turn directions exactly, meet aforementioned a sacred GPS guidance device.  The points of welfare database is quite extensive, with over 4 meg items.  The small filler of the MacBook Air’s concealment makes it a amend pick for ingest with RouteBuddy, but ever advert to ready your eyes on the road, no concern what figure you’re depending on to intend from saucer A to saucer B.