Chapter 8
Points of Interest
Points of Interest
Points of Interest or POIs are useful places on the map. Here are some examples:
• Restaurants
• Hotels
• Museums
• Parking garages
• Petrol stations
Showing POIs on the map
Enable/ disable POIs
1. Tap Enable/disable POIs in the Preferences menu.
2. Select the POI categories to display on the map.
Tap Find to search for a POI by name.
3. Tap Done.
The POIs you selected are shown on the map as symbols.
Navigating to a POI
1. Tap the screen to bring up the Main Menu.
2. Tap Navigate to... in the Main Menu.
3. Tap Point of Interest.
4. Narrow your choice of POIs by selecting the area where the POI is.
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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 particular town or city. You have to specify a town or city.
• POI near Home - to search from a list of POIs near your Home location.
If you are currently navigating to a destination, you can also select from a list of
POIs which are on your route or near your destination. Choose one of these options:
• POI along route
• POI near destination
5. Select the category of POI:
Tap Any POI category to search for a POI by name.
Tap the category of POI if it is shown.
Tap the arrow to choose from the complete list of categories. Select the category from the list or start to type the name of the category and select it when it is shown in the list.
Once you have selected a POI, the route to the POI is calculated by your
TomTom NAVIGATOR.
Managing POIs
Tap Manage POIs from the Preferences menu.
Manage POIs
Note: The Manage POIs button is only available when all menu buttons are shown. To show all menu buttons, tap Show ALL menu options in the
Preferences menu.
You can, for example, do the following:
• Create your own POI categories and add POIs to them.
• Set warnings when you get close to POIs.
Why would I want to create my own POIs?
A POI acts like a shortcut - once you have saved a location as a POI you never have to type the address of that POI again. But when you create a POI you can save more than just the location.
• Phone number - when you create a POI, you can save a phone number with it.
• Categories - when you create a POI you have to put it in a category.
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For example, you could create a category of POIs called ‘Favourite restaurants’.
With each POI, save their phone number so that you can call them from your
NAVIGATOR to reserve a table.
How can I create my own POIs?
Add POI category
1. Tap the screen to bring up the Main Menu.
2. Tap Change preferences.
3. Tap Manage POIs.
4. Before you can add a POI, you have to create at least one POI category. Every
POI is assigned to a POI category. You can only add POIs to POI categories you have created yourself.
Tap Add POI category.
5. Enter a name for your POI category, for example, ‘Friends’ or ‘Favourite restaurants’. Then select a marker for your POI category.
6. Tap Add POI.
7. Select the POI category you want to add the POI to.
8. Select the location of your POI from the list below.
Add POI
Home
Favourite
Address
You can set your Home location as a POI.
If you want to change your Home location, you can create a POI of the Home location before you change it.
You can create a POI from a Favourite.
You can only create a limited number of Favourites. If you want to create more Favourites you have to delete some Favourites first. Before you delete a Favourite, make it into a POI so that you don’t lose the address.
You can specify an address to be a POI. When you enter an address, you can choose from four options. The same options as appear in the Navigate
to... menu:
• City centre
• Street and house number
• Postcode (fully supported only in UK and the Netherlands)
• Crossing or intersection
Select a POI location from a list of places you have recently used as destinations.
Recent destination
You can add a Point of Interest (POI) as a POI. For example, if you are creating a category of POIs for your favourite restaurants, use this option instead of entering the addresses of the restaurants.
Point of
Interest
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GPS postion
Point on map
Tap this button to add your current postion as a POI.
For example, if you stop somewhere you like, while you are there you can tap this button to create the POI.
Tap this button to create a POI using the map browser.
Select the location of the POI using the cursor, then tap Done.
For more information about the map browser, see Using the map on page 14.
Tap this button to create a POI by entering latitude and longitude values.
Latitude
Longitude
TomTom
Buddy
Tap this button to make a POI of the current position of a TomTom Buddy.
For more information about TomTom Buddies, see TomTom PLUS on page 38.
Tap this button to make a POI of the address of a contact on your device.
Contact
How can I set warnings for POIs?
1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu.
2. Tap Change preferences.
3. Tap Manage POIs.
Warn when near POI
Note: The Manage POIs button is only available when all menu buttons are shown. To show all menu buttons, tap Show ALL menu options in the
Preferences menu.
4. Tap Warn when near POI.
5. Select the category of POI you want to be warned about.
Select the category from the list or start to type the name of the category and select it when it is shown in the list.
6. Set how close the POI should be when you receive a warning.
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7. Choose the warning sound for the category of POI you selected.
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