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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Copyright © 1993-2008 ROUTE 66. All rights reserved. ROUTE 66 and the ROUTE 66 logo are registered trademarks. Data copyright © NAVTEQ B.V. IMPORTANT REMARK: No part of this publication may be multiplied, be stored in a databank and electronically, mechanically, through photocopying, on sound carriers or in any other way be copied, without the explicit written approval of ROUTE 66. All other marks are the property of the
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Table of Contents Main Menu Options .................................... 6 GPS Information ....................................... 32 Contextual Menu Options ........................... 7 Route Information .................................... 34 Searching Mode .......................................... 8 Update Landmark ..................................... 36 Search - Free Text [* S60] ........................... 9 Save New Contact ....................
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Use Safety Cameras .................................. 55 Download Travel Guides .......................... 74 Weather .................................................... 55 Use Travel Guides ..................................... 74 Activate Weather Service ......................... 56 Settings ..................................................... 76 Locate Weather Packages ........................ 57 Settings: General ......................................
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Speed: Slider Editor [* S60] ....................... 96 Cameras Interval .................................... 107 Speed: Advanced ...................................... 97 Publish Position [* S60] .......................... 108 Speed: Advanced - Edit ............................. 98 Legend .................................................... 108 Settings: Alarm ......................................... 98 Legend: Symbols .....................................
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Main Menu Options The Main Menu contains the most frequently used options. To open the Main Menu, select Options. The following options are always available during navigation or map browsing: Search – Select a database and find the places you need. Navigate – Select a database and find the places you need. Travel mode – Select the navigation mode that best suits your needs (drive on the fastest route, drive on the shortest route, or walk). Extra
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Help – Open the contextual help. Exit – Terminate the current working session. Two more options are available only during navigation: Stop navigation – Interrupt the current navigation. Define road block – Avoid a segment of the trip and find an alternative route. Contextual Menu Options The contextual menu contains the most relevant options for the current screen. The contextual menu contains maximum six options. To open the contextual menu, pr
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Add to route – Open the Plan new route view. Show information – Place the cursor over any map object (ex. street, house, area) and display an information balloon. The information balloon disappears when you move the cursor to a different position on the map. Call –Dial the phone number of selected item. Save cursor position – Save (in the application) your cursor position. Send cursor position – Send (to somebody else) your cursor position. The
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Use this section to find a location and start navigating to it. A location can be an address, a landmark, a history record, a nearby location (point-of- interest), or a phone contact. Search - Free Text [* S60] Simultaneously search in all available databases. Enter keywords and start the search query. Scroll the list of results. Start the search query. Free Text: Results [* S60] All results that match the Free text search criteria are displayed
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Scroll the list of results. Filter the results, if necessary. Select an item from the list. Search - Address Search locations by street name, city name, postcode or house number. Enter keywords and start the search query. Scroll the list of results. Start a search query. Address: Results All results that match the Address search criteria are displayed in the next view. Scroll the list of results. Filter the results, if necessary. 10
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Select an item from the list. Search - Nearby You can search locations by selecting a category of landmarks. For example, to find all restaurants around your current position, select the Eating & Drinking category. Select a category. Select the search area. Start the search query. Scroll the list of results. All results that match the search criteria are displayed in the next view. The following options are available: along the route – searche
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual around cursor position – searches all locations that are around the current cursor position and which match the selected category. around departure –searches all locations that are around the route departure and which match the selected category. Notes: Coverage for along the route - The results are physically located on an area of 20 km along the road (10 km on the left side and 10 km on the right side). Coverage for the other options - The results
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Search - History This view lists all history records. Any location used during navigation (departure point, destination point, waypoints) is recorded as a history item. Any history record can be used for future navigations. The history records are listed as they occurred: the most recently used record is the first in the list; the oldest record is the last in the list. 100 records can be stored in the History list. When another record must be enter
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Any address, history record, nearby location, or point on the map can become a landmark. Landmarks are used when you start navigating, plan trips, or browse the map. All available landmarks are listed in alphabetical order. Home and Office are two special landmarks available by default. Before you can use them you must configure them. Home is always the first item in the list. Office is always the second item in the list. Refer to Set new home location or
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Set Office Location Office is a special landmark. It is a favourite location of great importance to you. It can be, for example, your real office address. Before you can use the office location, you must configure it. Select a database and find a location. Save that location as your Office landmark. Landmark Editor [* S60] Landmarks are favourite locations you can use for navigation or when you plan trips. The landmark editor is displayed when
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual change the details of a landmark; view the details of a landmark. Scroll the list of landmarks and select an item. Select Options > Edit. Search - Contacts This view lists all contacts available on your mobile phone. Scroll the list of available contacts. Note: If (no data) is displayed in this view, it means that you have an empty Contacts list on your mobile phone. Select an option. Locate – checks all databases and tries to identify a loc
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Contacts Editor [* S60] You can view or modify the details of a contact. Voice Instructions During navigation, for each change of direction (“turn”), ROUTE 66 Mobile 8 provides both a visual instruction and a voice instruction. Generally, a voice instruction is heard twice: first in advance (the warning distance is approx. 300 meters or yards before the actual change of direction); secondly, when the turn must be done (the warning distance is ap
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual To change the language of the voice instructions, refer to Settings > General > Voice language. To configure the sound intensity of your device, refer to your mobile phone’s User Manual. To turn off the voice instructions, press 9. What is Trip Planning? Depending on the complexity of a route, and the frequency of using this route, you can start navigating: by simply indicating your destination and, if necessary, a waypoint along the route. This is a
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual You can start planning your trip from any section of the application, as follows: directly from the map: when the cursor indicates a location on the map, press the scroll key and select Add to route. from the main menu: select Options > Trips > Plan new route. from any list: highlight an item and select Options > Add to route. Provide the trip name. Open Plan new route wizard. Add the Departure location. Add the Destination location. Add othe
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ROUTE 66 MOBILE 8 User Manual Enter Route Name Type the name of the new trip. Define Departure Change – opens the Add waypoint view in order to replace the selected item with a different one. Set departure – opens the Set departure view and allows you to locate the place you need for the departure of this trip. 20
