5. Now choose from up to three different routes based on route length
and estimated times of arrival:
•Fastest: Uses the fastest moving roads possible.
•Shortest: Uses the shortest distance possible.
•Eco (EcoRoute): Uses the most fuel efficient route.
6. Select ‘Start Route’.
You can also choose to cancel the route or to have the system demo the
route for you. Select ‘Route Prefs’ to set route preferences such as
having the system avoid freeways, toll roads, ferries and car trains as
well as to use or not use HOV lanes. (HOV lanes are High Occupancy
Vehicle Lanes also known as carpool or diamond lanes. These lanes are
reserved for people who ride in buses, vanpools or carpools.)
POI categories
Your system offers a variety if POI (Points of Interest) categories.
The main categories are as follows:
•Food / drink & dining•Automotive
•Travel & transportation•Shopping
•Financial•Entertainment & arts
•Emergency•Recreation & sports
•Community•Government
•Health & medicine•Domestic services
Within these main categories, you will find subcategories which contain
more listings. They subcategories are as follows:
•Restaurant•Auto Dealership
•Golf•Govt. Office
•Parking•Public Transit
•Home & Garden•Education
•Personal Care Services
To expand these listings, simply press the + in front of the POI listing.
The system also allows you to sort the POIs by distance, alphabetically
or by WCities listings (if available).
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WCities (if available)
WCities is a service which provides
additional information about certain
points of interest (POIs) such as
restaurants, hotels and attractions
(if available).
Note:WCities POI information is
limited to approximately 100 cities
(92 U.S. cities and eight Canadian).
When you have selected a POI, the
location and information will appear,
such as address and phone number.
If the POI is listed with WCities, you
will also see information such as a
brief description, check in /out
times, when the restaurant is open,
etc.
Press ‘More Information’ for a longer
review, a list of services and
facilities, the average room or meal
price as well as the website (if available).
This screen will display the POI icon such as:
Hotel
Coffeehouse
Food & Drink
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Nightlife
Attraction
This icon will appear when your
selection exists in multiple
categories within the system.
When you are viewing additional information for Hotels, WCities will also
tell you if the hotel has certain services and facilities using icons:
•
Restaurant•24 hr room service
•
Business center•Fitness center
•
Handicap facilities•Internet access
•
Laundry•Pool
•
Refrigerator•Wi-Fi
For restaurants,WCities can provide information such as star rating,
average cost, review, handicap access, hours of operation, and website
address.
For hotels,WCities can provide information such as star rating, price
category, review, check in/out times, hotel service icons and website
address.
Setting your navigation preferences
Your touchscreen system allows you to choose and set preferences which
the system will take into account when planning your route.
•Press Menu > Settings > Navigation to access:
•Map Preferences•Route Preferences
•Navigation Preferences•Traffic Preferences
•Avoid Areas
Map Preferences:Allows you to turn breadcrumbs on/off, select how
you would like to view your turn list (top to bottom or bottom to top) ,
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as well as setting the automatic parking POI notification. If you turn on
the parking POI notification, this will display parking POI icons on the
map when you get close to your destination. This feature may not be as
useful in very dense areas, and may clutter the map if other POIs are
also set for display on the map.
Route Preferences:Allows you to select to avoid freeways, toll roads,
ferries and car trains when planning your route. You can also select to
use HOV lanes (if available), and have the system always select the
shortest distance, fastest time or most ecological route when calculating
a route for you.
Navigation Preferences:Allows you to choose your navigation prompts
to be either voice or tone only. You can also choose to have the system
automatically fill the state and province based on the information already
entered into the system.
Traffic Preferences:The Avoid Traffic Problems setting allows you to
set how you would like the system to handle traffic problems along your
route. Choose ‘Automatic’ for the system to automatically reroute you to
avoid traffic incidents that develop and impact the current route (no
notification is provided). Choose ‘Manual’ for the system to always
provide a traffic alert notification for traffic incidents along the planned
route. You will have a choice to accept or ignore the notification before
the route deviation is made.
You can also activate the display of certain or all traffic icons on the map
(road work, incidents, accidents, closed roads, weather related icons) by
choosing on or off.
Avoid Areas:Allows you to select areas which you would like the
system to avoid when calculating a route for you. Press ‘Add’ to add a
location from one of these categories to your avoid list:
•My Home•Street Address
•Favorites•Intersection
•Previous Destinations•City Center
•Point of Interest (POI)•Map
•Emergency
Once an avoid area is added, the system will try to avoid the area(s) if
possible for all routes. To delete an avoid area, select its listing on the
screen and when the screen changes to the Avoid Areas Edit screen
(avoid area is displayed on a map) press the Delete button at the bottom
right of the screen.
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MAP MODE
To access map mode, press the green bar in the upper right area of the
touchscreen. The map screen will display.
Your system offers advanced map viewing comprised of both 2D city
maps as well as 3D landmarks (when available).
2D city mapsshow detailed outlines of buildings, visible land use and
land elements and detailed railway infrastructure for the most essential
cities around the globe. These 2D city maps also contain primary
features such as town blocks, building footprints, and railways.
3D landmarkswill appear when available on your current map. When in
3D map mode, these are clear, visible objects which are typically
recognizable and have a certain tourist value.
You can adjust how your map
appears. Press the arrow icon
repeatedly on the upper left side of
the screen to choose between:
•Heading up:Select for direction
of forward travel to always be the
upward direction on screen.
Available for map scales up to 2.5
mi (5 km). For scales above that, the setting for Heading-Up is
remembered, but the map is shown in North-Up only. If the scale
returns below this level, then the Heading-Up setting is restored.
•North up:In this mode, the
northern direction is always the
upward direction on screen.
•3D map mode:This map view
provides an elevated perspective
of the map. The viewing angle
can be adjusted and the map can
be rotated 180 degrees by dragging your finger along the circle tool
that appears in the center of the map.
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Re-centering the map:Whenever
you scroll the map away from your
vehicle’s current location, a
centering icon will appear in the top
left of the screen. Press this button
to re-center the map back your
vehicle’s current location.
MAP ICON DESCRIPTIONS
•Vehicle mark:This icon is shown
in scroll mode also. The ring
around the vehicle mark will
flash. The vehicle mark is shown
in the center of the map display, except when in scroll mode.
•Scroll cursor:This icon is fixed
in the center of the screen. The
map position closest to the cursor
is in a window on the top center
part of the screen.
•Address book entry default
icon(s):This icon indicates the
location on the map of an address
book entry. This is the default
symbol shown after the entry has been stored to the Address Book by
any method other than the map. A different icon can be selected from
the 22 icons available; each icon can be used more than once.
•Home:This icon indicates the
location on the map currently
stored as the home position. Only
one entry from the Address Book
can be saved as Home. This icon cannot be changed.
•POI (Point Of Interest) icon:
Icons such as this can be
displayed on the map and can be
turned on or off. There are about
56 subcategories of POIs that can be selected to be displayed on the
map one at a time.
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•Starting point:This icon
indicates the starting point of a
planned navigation route.
•Waypoints:This icon indicates
the location of a waypoint on the
map. The number inside the
circle is different for each
waypoint and represents the position of the waypoint in the route list.
•Destination symbol:This icon
indicates the location of the final
destination on the map.
•Next maneuver point:This icon
shows the location where the
next turn should occur on the
planned route.
•No GPS symbol:This icon
indicates that insufficient GPS
satellite signals are being received
for accurate map positioning. The
symbol may be intermittently displayed under normal operation in an
area with poor GPS access.
Quick touch buttons
When in map mode, touch anywhere on the map display to access the
following options:
•Set as Dest:Press to select a scrolled location on the map as your
destination. (You may scroll the map by pressing your index finger on
the map display. When you reach the desired location, simply let go
and then press ‘Set as Dest’.
•Set as Waypoint:Press to set the current location as a waypoint.
•Save to FavoritesPress to save the current location to your
favorites.
•POI Icons On/Off:Press to select POI icons to be displayed on the
map. Up to three icons can be selected for display on the map at the
same time.
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•Traffic List (if SIRIUSTravel Link™ is active):Press to display
nearby traffic incidents when a route is not active. The incidents can
be sorted by distance, incident, or A-Z. When a route is active, the
system will automatically display traffic incidents on route. If there are
not incidents on the current route, the system will indicate that and
switch to the Other Traffic Places screen which will allow selection of
Traffic near My Home, Traffic Near Favorite Destination, or My Traffic
Places. These selections refer to locations previously entered into the
system.
•View/Edit Route:Press to access the following features when a route
is active:
•Cancel route•View route
•Edit route preferences•Edit traffic preferences
•Edit destination/waypoints•Edit turn list
Map Scrolling:The map is touch sensitive, so you can use a swipe
scrolling method (as you would on your portable music player) to scroll
the map.
A scrolling circle appears in the
center of the screen when in 3D
map mode. Trace the circle with
your finger to rotate the map.
Reporting map errors:Tele Atlas is the digital map provider for the
navigation application. If you find map data errors, you may report them
directly to Tele Atlas by going to http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com Tele
Atlas evaluates all reported map errors and will respond back via email
the result of their investigation.
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