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Driving to Your Destination
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 en route by 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 page86 for
a detailed explanatio n 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.” “Vector line” (unverified routing off)
Blue-pink unverified route line
(unverified routing on)
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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 page
56)
Map Scale Adjustment
(Mile or km per half-inch
appears only when you
ZOOM IN or OUT.)
(see page
55)
Current Map Scale
(see page
55)
ICON Button
(see page
59)
“Breadcrumbs”
(see Off-road Tracking on page
61) Direction of Destination
(When en route)
(see page53)
Voice (see page
50)
(Announces next driving
instruction) Distance to Destination
(see page
53) Time to Destination
(see page
53)
Waypoint
(When en route)
(see page
64)
Current Street
(see page6)
Vehicle Position (see page
62)
(Use voice command, “Display current location,”
or touch the icon to show the current location.) Direction List

(see page
53)
Blue Line
Calculated route
(see page
49) Map Features
NOTE:
If you move the joystick over an area (map features
shown above), the name is displayed on the screen.
: Par k
: Hospital
: Shopping Mall
: Golf Course
: Water Area
: Cemetery
: University
: Indian Reservation
: Airport/Stadium/Business
One-Way Traffic Icon
(1/20 mile scale only)
(see page 57 )
Streets
(see Map Overview on page
6)
Interstates or Freeways
Verified Streets
Unverified Streets
Landmark Icon - Generic (see page 57)
“North Up”
“Heading Up”
NOTE:
See Map Legend from the Information screen for further explanation (see page
74
). Destination Icon
(see page
57)
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Driving to Your Destination
Showing Icons on the Map
Touching the ICON button on the map
screen displays the following screen:
The screen consists of the following
items:
Icon Bar (row of icon symbols)
The icon bar allows you to manually
select the icons that are displayed on the
map (see page57 for a list of these
icons). In the screen above, both gas
stations and restaurants are selected.
Touch the icons to select (goes blue) or
remove them (goes gray). You can also
display or hide the same icons by using
the “Display” or “Hide” voice
commands (see page137).
Icon Options
This feature allows you to “fine tune”
some of the icons on the Icon bar (see
Icon Options for more information).
Guidance Mode
When en route, this item allows you to
select between a single-screen (with
occasional pop-up guidance windows),
or a split-screen (containing one-half
map and one-half guidance/directions
list window). See page54 for an
explanation of this feature, and see
page93 for Setup.
Exit Screen
Select Return to return to the map
screen.
Icon Options
Selecting Icon Options displays the
following screen:
This feature allows you to “fine tune”
some of the icons on the Icon bar. The
three icon choices, “Parking” (lot or
garage), “Restaurant” (specific type or
types of food), and “Other icons”
(hospitals, schools, etc.), can each be
tailored to your needs.
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For instance, let’s assume that your
hospital icons are not displayed on the
map. You would do the following:
 First, you would ensure that the OTHER ICON button on the Icon
bar is blue (see Icon Bar on page59).
 Second, you select Icon Options
and verify that hospital option is also
on (blue). This procedure is explained
below.
If you select Other Icons from the
Select category for icon settings
screen, the other icons options are
displayed: In the example above, POST OFFICE
and
SCHOOL are selected and will
show up on the map. To also see
HOSPITAL on the map, this would
need to be turned on to select it so it
appears as below.
Exit, and save your settings by selecting
Done . NOTE:
 When viewing the
map screen, you
can turn some icons on using voice
control.
 See Navigation Display Commands
on page137 for the available
“Display” and “Hide” icon
command.
Driving to Your Destination
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Information Features
Information Screen
When you say “Information” or press
the INFO button, the display changes to:
NOTE:
If some items appear to be grayed out
and cannot be selected, it is because you
did not select OK on the initial
Disclaimer screen (see System Start-up
on page16), or there is no phone paired
to the system (see Bluetooth®
HandsFreeLink® on page18).
Setup
When you select Setup, you will see
the following screen:
For details of the Setup screen, see
System Setup on page76.
Cellular Phonebook
The Cellular Phonebook option
allows you to store up to 1,000 names
and 10,000 phone numbers in the
phonebook of Bluetooth®
HandsFreeLink® (HFL) from your
cellular phonebook. With HFL, you can
then automatically dial any name or
number in the phonebook.
Say or select Cellular Phonebook
from the Information screen, and the
display changes to:
NOTE:
 For more information on this feature, see your vehicle Owner’s manual.
 For questions about the HFL Cellular Phonebook, call HandsFreeLink
customer support at (888) 528-7876.
In Canada, call (888) 9-HONDA-9.
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Information Features
Key to Zagat Ratings
When you display data for a Zagat-
surveyed restaurant on the Select a
place screen, you will see the
description of ratings as follows:
By saying or selecting Key to Zagat
Ratings on the Information screen,
you can see the explanation of the data
displayed for the Zagat-surveyed
restaurants.
 “Food,” “Decor,” and “Service” categories (red circle) are rated using
numbered values (e.g., 0-9, 10-15,
etc.).
 “Cost” (white circ le) is the average
cost of a meal (including drink and
tip).  The symbols, if displayed (blue
circle), indicate the following
information:
Use the joystick or touch the scroll bar
to scroll through the Key to Zagat
Ratings screens.
open on Sunday
closed on Sunday
open on Monday
closed on Monday
open for lunch
lunch not served
serving after 11 PM no credit card accepted
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System Setup
Unverified Area Routing
Allows you to receive turn-by-turn map and voice guidance in unverified areas when en 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 that 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 gui
dance 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 showing street names and turn
symbols in pink.
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With Unverified Area Routing Off ,
the moment you enter an unverified
street, a caution box appears on the
screen and is read by the voice. This lets
you know that you are about to enter an
unverified area and that you will be
following a dotted “vector line” that
points to your destination.
With Unverified Area Routing On ,
a caution box appear s on the screen and
is read by the voice. In this case, you
will be presented with a dashed blue/
pink line instead of the regular blue
route line. This is your signal to pay
attention to posted traffic restrictions.
You cannot assume that all guidance is
appropriate.
In both cases, when you actually enter
the unverified street, a short caution will
remind you. You will see and hear this
short caution message whenever you
enter unverified areas. Unverified Area Routing “Off” Unverified Area Routing “On”
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