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Navigation System45
Driving to Your Destination
After calculating the route with the new
method, the system displays a map of
your current location. The calculated
route will be highlighted as a blue line,
and a voice prompt will tell you how to
proceed along the hi ghlighted route.
Touch Voice to have the guidance
repeated.Viewing the Destination Map
Touching View Dest. Map displays a
map of the destination vicinity. Press the
CANCEL or NAVI BACK button to
return. You can view the destination
map anytime while on route saying
“Display destination map.”
Map Screen
When you select OK on the Calculate
route to screen, the map screen
appears, showing your highlighted route
in real time.
Route Line
When driving to a destination on
verified roads in a metropolitan area, the
route line is displayed as a blue line.
When driving in rural areas on
unverified streets (light brown color),
the route line changes to either a blue
dotted “vector line” pointing to your
destination, or a blue-pink line. See
Unverified Area Routing on page81 for
a detailed expl anation of how to enable
unverified routing, and the related
cautions and disclaimers.
NOTE:
You can always view the entire route by
simply saying, “Display entire route.”
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Driving to Your Destination
Acura Dealer
School
Restaurant
AT M
Parking Lot
Post OfficeHonda Dealer
Hospital
Grocery Store
Gas Station
Hotel/Lodging
Parking Garage
Freeway Exit Information
Map Screen Legend
Map Orientation
(see page52)
Map Scale Adjustment
(Mile or km per half inch
appears only when you
ZOOM IN or OUT.)
(see page51) Current Map Scale
(see page51)
ICON Button
(see page55)
“Breadcrumbs”
(see Off-road Tracking on page57)
NOTE:
See Map Legend from the Information screen for further explanation (see page68).
Direction of Destination
(When on route)
(see page49)
Voice
(see page46)
(Announces next
driving instruction)
Distance to Destination
(see page49)
Time to Destination
(see page49)
Waypoint
(When on route)
(see page60)
Current Street
(see page6)
Vehicle Position (see page58)
(Use voice command, “Display curr ent location,” or touch the icon to show the current location.)
Direction List

(see page49)
Blue Line
Calculated route
(see page45) Map Features
Dark Green: Park Violet: Hospital
Brown: Shopping Mall Light
Brown: Indian Reservation
Green: Golf Course Gray: Airport/Stadium/Business
Blue: Body of Water Blue/Green: Cemetery
Matte Blue: University
NOTE:
If you move the joystick over an area (map features shown
above), the name is disp layed on the screen.
Destination Icon
(see page53)
Streets
(see Map Overview on page6, or Unverified
Area Routing on page81)
Red: Interstates or Freeways
Black: Verified Street
Light Brown: Unverified Street
Landmark Icon (see page53)
“North Up”
“Heading Up”
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Driving to Your Destination
Map Scale
Use the ZOOM buttons or a voice command such as “Display 1/2 mile scale” (see page124) to change the scale of the map.
Zooming in increases the detail, while zooming out gives you a vi ew of a wider area. After changing the scale, give the system a
few moments to update the display.
Functions available at various map scales
NOTE:
 You can change between miles or kilometers in Set up (see Units on page
90).
 For information on the available voice commands, see Voice Command Index on page123.
Map Scale (English and Metric)
For selecting uni ts, see page
90.1/20 mi. 1/8 mi. 1/4 mi. 1/2 mi. 1 mi. 2 mi. 5 mi. 15 mi. 50 mi. 150 mi. 350 mi.
80 m 200 m 400 m 800 m1.6 km3 km 8 km 24 km 80 km240 km 560 km
POI icon symbols (like ATM) page 53 X X
Breadcrumbs (off-road tracking dots)page57XXXX
Freeway exit information icons page
50 X X X
Unverified road display (light brown) page
81 X X X
Map orientation “Heading up” page52XXXXX
Map orientation “North up” page52XXXXXXXXXXX
Map features (like park, golf course)page47XXXXXXXXXX
Avoid area shown on map page
85 X X X
Avoid area scales (w hen creating) page
85 X X X
Waypoint “flag” icons page
60 XXXXXXXXXXX
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Viewing/Saving the Current
Location
Whenever you are on a map screen, you
can always obtain your current location
either by touching the Vehicle Position
icon or by using the voice control
system and saying “Display current
location.” A screen pops up which
shows the address of your current
location, as well as the latitude,
longitude, and elevation. NOTE:
The elevation will not appear when the
system is temporarily lacking proper
GPS information. The system elevation
may not agree with elevations shown on
roadside elevation signs, and may
fluctuate plus or minus 100 feet or more.
You can store the current location for
later use. It does not change or cancel
your current route.
For example, you
are following the
system’s directions to get to a
destination. While sitting at a stoplight
you notice a curio shop on the corner,
but do not have time to visit it right now.
You can save the location to select as a
destination at a later date. To save the location, say “Save current
location” or select
Save on the screen.
When you select “User 1” or “User 2,”
the Edit address book screen with the
current location data will appear. You
can edit the name, phone number, or
category name to be saved in your
personal Address Book.
After the location is saved, select
Return to return to the map screen.
You can then use Address Book from
the Enter destination by screen to
select the saved loca tion, and return to
the same spot.
Driving to Your Destination
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Information Features
There is a tutorial available for the voice
command help. Say or select Getting
started , and the display changes to:
Select the line number of the desired
tutorial you want to view, and the
tutorial will automatically be read out.
Press Stop to stop the reading. When you make a selection, you will
see the help commands that can be used
with the voice control. You can say or
select
Read List , and the system will
read the list to you.
For a listing of all voice commands, see
Voice Command Index on page123.Calendar
The Calendar option allows you to
enter events and be reminded of them in
the future. When you say or select
Calendar , the system shows the
calendar with the current calendar day
highlighted.
Dates with an icon indicate there is a
schedule entry for that date.
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System Set-up
Display
There are two screen display modes:
Day and Night . The recommended
setting is Auto, which automatically
switches the screen between Day and
Night modes as you turn the headlights
on or off.
You can select Day or Night mode to
override the Auto mode. This is a
useful feature for driver’s that like to
use headlights during the day, and want
to temporarily override Night mode.
However, the screen in Day mode will
be extremely bright at night.
Day ModeNight Mode
Display
Mode How setting affects
display mode: To override setting
while driving: But remember:
Off Turns off the navigation
display. To “wake up” display,
press
NAVI TALK
button, and select the
mode by voice. Remember, your route
guidance stops when the
display is off.
Auto
(factory
default) Automatically switches
between
Day and Night
mode by sensing if the
headlights are on. Override night display
-
Adjust dash brightness
to full bright.
Override day display
- Turn on headlights and
ensure the dash
brightness is not at full
bright. Remember to adjust the
dash brightness back to
normal to allow auto
switching by sensing
headlights.
Day Stays in Day mode. Push and hold the
joystick for 10 seconds
(switches to Night
mode). There is no auto
Night/
Day mode change with
the headlights on/off.
You control the setting.
Night Stays in Night mode. Push and hold the
joystick for 10 seconds
(switches to Day mode). There is no auto
Night/
Day mode change with
the headlights on/off.
You control the setting.
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System Set-up
Unverified Area Routing
Allows you to receive turn-by-turn map and voice guidance in unverified areas when on route to a destination (see Map Overview
on page6). The chart below illustrates the rou ting differences with this setting On or Off.
Unverified Area Routing: Off (factory default) Unverified Area Routing: On
Decision:
Why choose
On or Off? The driver wishes to navi
gate manually by using the
navigation map and choosing the streets that lead to
the destination. The driver understands that unverified
roads may not be a ccurate, and can contain errors in
location, naming, and address range. The driver chooses to let the na
vigation system suggest possible
routing. The driver understands th at in some cases guidance may
not be appropriate. Unverified ro ads may not be accurate, and can
contain errors in location, naming, and address range.
What you will
see… A blue dotted vector line is
displayed on the map that
continually points to your destination. The driver
should stop and then use the ma p to select streets that
lead to the destination. A blue-pink dashed route line
highlights suggested unverified
streets on the map while traveling to your destination. This is in
sharp contrast to the normal blue route line displayed in verified
areas.
Cautionary
messages There are cautionary pop-up screens and voice
announcements, before and
during the route. These
serve as reminders that you should obey all traffic
restrictions. There are cautionary pop-up sc
reens and voice announcements,
before and during the route. These serve as reminders that you
should exercise additional ca ution, and obey all traffic
restrictions.
Guidance
(map/voice) There is no turn-by-turn map or voice guidance. Voice gu
idance commands end with the words “If possible.” This
is to remind the driver to verify all traffic restrictions before
making a maneuver.
Directions list A direction list is typicall y not available. However,
depending on your route, dire ctions are provided to
help you reach the first available verified road. A direction list is provided s
howing street names and turn
symbols in pink.
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82Navigation System
System Set-up
Unverified Area Routing
When driving to your destination, you
have the choice of using or not using
“unverified” roads. You make this
choice in Set up screen (second). The
next few pages contain an example of a
route to a destinatio n in an unverified
area explaining the routing differences
found in unverified areas.
With Unverified Area Routing Off ,
the system tries to use verified roads
whenever possible. In this example,
since only verified streets are used, it
created a longer rout e than necessary.
With Unverified Area Routing On ,
the route is shorter, but consists of
unverified (light co lored) streets that
may not be accurate. Because the streets
are unverified, there may be errors in
street location, name, or address range.
Additional caution is recommended in
these areas. Always obey posted traffic
restrictions.
Because both routes bypass or use
unverified streets, an initial Disclaimer
screen is provided. It is recommended
that you stop and review the map. Unverified Area Routing “Off” Unverified Area Routing “On”
NOTE:
Unverified roads are shown only when
viewing the map in the 1/20, 1/8, and
1/4 mile map scales, or the 80, 200,
and 400 meter map scales.
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