User 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 TomTom account
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Planning a route with stops 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
- The Current Route menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Types of route
- Route features
- Avoiding a route feature on your route
- Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu
- Adding a stop to your route using the map
- Deleting a stop from your route
- Skipping the next stop on your route
- Reordering stops on a route
- My Routes
- About My Routes
- About GPX and ITN files
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Navigating to a stop on a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Recording a track
- Navigating using a track
- Deleting a route or a track from My Routes
- Exporting tracks to a memory card
- Importing routes and tracks from a memory card
- 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
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Updating using MyDrive Connect
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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About postcodes
When searching using a postcode, your results depend on the type of postcode used in the country
that you are searching in.
The following types of postcodes are used:
Postcodes that navigate you to a street or part of a street.
Postcodes that navigate you to an area comprising, for example, a single town, several villages
in a rural area or a district in a large city.
Postcodes for streets
Countries such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom use this type of postcode. When you
search using this type of postcode, enter the postcode, then leave a space and then optionally enter
the house number. For example, "1017CT 35". Your device then plans a route to a specific house or
building on a specific street.
Postcodes for areas
Countries such as Germany, France and Belgium use this type of postcode. If you search using a
postcode for an area, your results include all the streets in a city district, the whole town, or the
villages within that postcode.
You may get results from multiple countries if you enter a postcode for an area.
Note: If you search using a postcode for an area, you will not get a specific address in your
results.
This type of postcode is still very useful in reducing the number of search results. For example, a
search for Neustadt in Germany returns a long list of possible results. Adding a space followed by
the postcode for an area narrows the results down to the Neustadt that you are looking for.
As another example, if you want to search in a city, enter a postcode for an area and select the city
centre you are searching for from the results.
About mapcodes
In countries where roads and houses have no names or addresses, you can use a mapcode instead. A
mapcode represents a location.
Every location on Earth, including those in the sea like islands and oil rigs, can be represented by a
mapcode. Mapcodes are short, and easy to recognise, remember and communicate. They are
precise to a few metres, which is good enough for every-day use.
Go to mapcode.com for instructions on how to find the mapcode for a location.
Mapcodes are more precise and more flexible than the address on a business card. You can choose a
location that you want to associate with your address, for example, the main entrance or the
entrance to a car park.
List of POI type icons
Legal and financial services
Court house
Cash dispenser