User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- What's new
- Get going
- What's on the screen
- Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging in to your MyDrive account
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in My Drive
- Clearing a MyDrive destination
- Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list - MyDrive - NOT CONNECTED
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- Using Quick Search
- Planning a route
- Using suggested destinations
- Planning a route to an address using search
- Planning a route to a city centre
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
- Planning a route using a mapcode
- Finding an alternative route
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a car park
- Finding a petrol station
- Changing your route
- My Routes
- Map Share
- Traffic
- Speed Cameras
- Danger Zones
- My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home and work locations
- Changing your home location
- Adding a location from My Places
- Add a location to My Places from the map
- Adding a location to My Places using search
- Adding a location to My Places by marking
- Deleting a recent destination from My Places
- Deleting a location from My Places
- Hands-free calling
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Updating using MyDrive Connect
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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Planning a route in advance
You can plan a route in advance before you drive it. You can save the route as part of your My Routes
list.
To plan a route in advance, do the following:
1. Select the Main Menu button to open the Main Menu.
2. Select Search.
The search screen opens with the keyboard showing.
3. Use the keyboard to enter the name of the location you want to use as a starting point.
4. Select an address or POI suggestion.
5. Select Show on Map.
6. Select the pop-up menu button.
A pop-up menu shows a list of options.
7. Select Use as Starting Point.
8. Repeat the search steps to choose your destination, and then select the drive button in the pop-up
menu:
Your route is planned using your chosen starting point and destination. The estimated time of
arrival is shown at the top of the route bar.
Tip: If you don't want to use search to choose your starting point and destination, go to the map
view and press and hold to select a location.
Tip: Stops, POIs, Places and the destination can all be selected as starting points using their
pop-up menus.
Changing the starting point to be your current location
1. Select the starting point of the route in the map view.