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TomTom NAVIGATOR
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Chapter 1 Before you start... Before you start... Installation If you have purchased TomTom NAVIGATOR on a TomTom memory card, insert the memory card in your device. Then go to step 4 below. If you are installing TomTom NAVIGATOR from a DVD do the following: 1. Connect your device to your computer, or insert the memory card you are using into a card reader/writer attached to your computer. 2. Insert the DVD in your computer. 3. Follow the instructions in the setup program. When setup is finis
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Tap Automatic, then enter your product code. The product code is printed on the product code card that is included with your product. TomTom NAVIGATOR will connect to TomTom using the wireless data connection and activate the map. • Manually To activate a map manually, do the following: 1. Tap Manual. 2. Go to this website: www.ttcode.com 3. Follow the instructions on this page to get an activation code. 4. Enter the activation code on your device to activate the map. Once you have answered t
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Chapter 2 Making your first journey Making your first journey Planning a route with TomTom NAVIGATOR is very simple. To plan your first route, follow the steps below. Note: You should always plan your journeys before you start driving. It is dangerous to plan routes when you are already moving. 1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu. 2. Tap Navigate to... For your first journey, we will navigate to an address. 3. Tap Address. When you enter an address, you can choose from four options: •
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• Postcode - tap this button to enter a postcode as your destination. Note: You can enter a postcode for any country. In the UK and the Netherlands, postcodes are detailed enough to identify a house on their own. In other countries you can enter a postcode to identify a town or area. You will then have to enter a street and house number. • Crossing or intersection - tap this button to set your destination as the point where two streets meet. For your first journey, we will enter an exact add
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Tap YES to enter an arrival time. NAVIGATOR shows you whether you will arrive on time. For more information, see Arrival times on page 6. The route is then calculated by your TomTom NAVIGATOR. 9. When the route has been calculated, tap Done. TomTom NAVIGATOR will immediately start guiding you to your destination with spoken instructions and visual instructions on the screen. Note: Before you can plan a route in this way, TomTom NAVIGATOR must first locate your current position. Arrival times
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Your arrival time is constantly recalculated during your journey. The status bar shows whether you will arrive on time or late, as shown below: You will arrive 55 minutes before the arrival time you entered. If the estimated arrival time is more than five minutes before the time you entered, it is shown in green. You will arrive 3 minutes before the arrival time you entered. If the estimated arrival time is less than 5 minutes before the time you entered, it is shown in yellow. You will arri
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Tap this button to navigate to the current position of a TomTom Buddy. Don’t forget that the Buddy may move before you reach him. For more information about TomTom Buddies, see TomTom PLUS on TomTom page 38. Buddy Tap this button to navigate to the address of a contact on your device. Contact Planning in advance You can also use your NAVIGATOR to plan journeys in advance by selecting both your starting point and your destination. You could, for example, do the following: • Find out how long
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More information about a route To find out about your route in detail, tap the Details button on the route summary screen. You can then select from the following options: Tap this button for a list of all the turn instructions on the route. This is particularly useful if you need to explain a route to someone else. Browse as text Tap this button to see each turn in the journey. Tap the right and left arrows to move forwards and backwards through the journey. Tap the screen to turn off the 3D
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Chapter 3 Driving View Driving View A Buttons to zoom in and zoom out on your position (touchscreen devices only). To zoom in and out on your position on devices without a touchscreen, push the joystick up to zoom in, and push the joystick down to zoom out. B Your current position. C The name of the next major road or road sign information, if applicable. D The next instruction. This area shows you what to do and when you will have to do it. Tap this area to repeat the last spoken instruction a
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Chapter 4 Menus Menus Main menu Tap the screen at any time when TomTom NAVIGATOR displays the Driving View to open the Main Menu. • Navigate to... Tap this button to start planning a route. • Find alternative... Tap this button if you want to avoid part of your route, travel via a specific location or calculate an alternative route. • TomTom Traffic Tap this button to enable or disable traffic information. For more information, see TomTom Traffic on page 36. • Add favourite Tap this button to
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Chapter 5 Finding alternative routes Finding alternative routes Once you have planned a route, you may want to change something about the route, without changing your destination. Why change the route? Maybe for one of these reasons: • You can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead. • You want to travel via a particular location, to pick someone up, stop for lunch or fill up with petrol. • You want to avoid a difficult junction or a road you don’t like. Tap Find alternative... in the Main
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Tap this button to change your route so that it passes a particular location, perhaps to pick someone up on the way. You choose the location you want to pass in the same way as you choose a Travel via... destination. So you can select from all the same options: for example, Address, Favourite, Point of Interest and Point on map. Your NAVIGATOR will calculate a new route to your destination that passes the location you chose. Using this button, you can only travel via one location. If you wa
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Chapter 6 Using the map Using the map Every time you use your TomTom NAVIGATOR to plan a route, you are using the map. However, you can use the map in many other ways. To open the map, tap Browse map in the Main Menu. Note: If you are using TomTom NAVIGATOR on a device without a touchscreen, the map browser looks slightly different. There is no scale bar and there are only two buttons: Options and Done. The Find and Cursor buttons are part of the Options menu. Use the number keys to zoom. S
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in the map browser: the Find button and the Cursor button. You can also set what is shown on the map and centre the map on your GPS position. E The cursor F The Find button Tap this button to find specific addresses and Points of Interest on the map. G The Cursor button Tap this button to navigate to the cursor position, make a Favourite of the cursor position, or find a Point of Interest near the cursor position. See below for more information. H The zoom bar. Change the scale of the map by
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Tap this button to create a POI at the cursor position. For more information about POIs, see Points of Interest on page 21. Add as POI Tap this button to travel via the cursor position. This button is only available if you are currently navigating to a destination. Travel via... 16
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Chapter 7 Favourites Favourites What are Favourites? Favourites are places that you go often. You can create Favourites so that you don’t have to enter the address every time you want to navigate there. They don’t have to be places you like, just useful addresses. How can I create a Favourite? From the Main Menu, tap Add Favourite. Note: The button Add Favourite may not be shown on the first page of the Main Menu. Tap the arrow to open other pages in the Main Menu. You can then select the lo
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You can add a Point of Interest (POI) as a Favourite. Does it make sense to do this? Point of If you visit a POI you particularly like, for example a restaurant, you can add Interest it as a Favourite. To add a POI as a Favourite, tap this button, then do the following: 1. Narrow your choice of POIs by selecting the area where the POI is. You can select one of these options: • POI near you - to search from a list of POIs near your current position. • POI in city - to choose a POI in a partic
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Tap this button to create a Favourite by entering latitude and longitude values. Latitude Longitude Tap this button to make a Favourite of the current position of a TomTom Buddy. For more information about TomTom Buddies, see TomTom PLUS on TomTom page 38. Buddy Tap this button to make a Favourite of the address of a contact on your device. Contact How can I use a Favourite? You will normally use a Favourite as a way of navigating to a place without having to enter the address. To naviga
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2. Tap Change preferences to open the Preferences menu. 3. Tap Manage Favourites. Tip: Tap the arrow to move to the next page buttons. 4. Tap the Favourite you want to rename. 5. Tap Rename. 20
