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Making your first journey

Chapter 2 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:

• City centre - tap this button to set your destination as the centre of a city or town.

• Street and house number - tap this button to set an exact address as your destination.

• 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 address.

4. Tap Street and house number.

5. Start to type the name of the town where you want to go.

As you type, the names of the towns that match what you have typed are shown.

6. Start to type the name of the street.

As with the name of the town, the names of the streets that match what you have typed are shown.

7. Now enter the house number of your destination and then tap Done.

8. NAVIGATOR asks you whether you need to arrive at a particular time.

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.

Arrival times

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.

Tap YES to enter an arrival time.

Your NAVIGATOR calculates your arrrival time and shows you whether you will arrive on time.

You can also use this information to work out when you need to leave. If your

NAVIGATOR shows you that you will arrive 30 minutes early, you can wait and leave in 30 minutes time, rather than arrive early.

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 arrive 19 minutes late.

If the estimated arrival time is later than the time you entered, it is shown in red.

What are the other navigation options?

When you tap Navigate to..., you can set your destination in many ways, not just by entering the address. The other options are listed below:

Home

Tap this button to navigate to your Home location.

You will probably use this button more than any other.

For information about setting your Home location, see Change Home

location on page 31.

Tap this button to select a Favourite as your destination.

For more information about Favourites, see Favourites on page 17.

Favourite

Tap this button to select your destination from a list of places you have recently used as destinations.

Recent destination

Point of

Interest

Tap this button to navigate to a Point of Interest (POI).

For more information about POIs and navigating to a POI, see Points of

Interest on page 21.

Point on map

Tap this button to select a point on the map as your destination using the map browser.

For more information about the map browser, see Using the map on page 14.

Tap this button to enter a destination with latitude and longitude values.

Latitude

Longitude

TomTom

Buddy

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 page 38.

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 a journey is going to take before you start.

• Check the route of a journey you are planning.

• Check a route for someone who is coming to you and explain the route to them.

To plan a route in advance, follow these steps:

1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu.

2. Tap Advanced planning.

3. Select the starting point for your journey in the same way as you would normally select your destination.

4. Set the destination for your journey.

5. Choose the type of route that should be planned.

• Fastest route - the route which takes the least time.

• Shortest route - the shortest distance between the locations you set. This may not be the quickest route, especially if the shortest route is through a town or city.

• Avoid motorways - a route which avoids motorways.

• Walking route - a route designed for making the journey on foot.

• Bicycle route - a route designed for making the journey on a bicycle.

• Limited speed - a route for a vehicle which can only drive at a limited speed.

You have to specify the maximum speed.

6. Your TomTom NAVIGATOR plans the route between the two locations you selected.