User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- Features
- Get going
- TomTom services
- Connecting a smartphone
- Wi-Fi connection
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- TomTom MyDrive
- Quick search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using quick search
- Planning a route using quick search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city center
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates
- Planning a route using a mapcode
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a parking lot
- Finding a gas station
- Step by step search
- Choosing which search to use
- Using step-by-step search
- Planning a route using step-by-step search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city center
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route to a POI using online search
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates using step-by-step search
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a parking lot
- Finding a gas station
- Changing your route
- The Current Route menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Finding an alternative route
- Types of route
- Avoiding features on a route
- Avoiding an incident or route feature using the route bar
- 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
- Safety Cameras
- Danger Zones
- My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home or work location
- 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
- Using community POI lists
- Smartphone notifications
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- UsingTomTom MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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Using quick search
About search
QUICK SEARCH ONLY
You use search to find a wide range of places and then navigate to them. You can search for the
following:
A specific address, for example, 335 Madison Avenue, New York.
A partial address, for example, Madison Av NY.
A type of place, for example, gas station or restaurant.
A place by name, for example, Starbucks.
A postal code, for example, 36925 York for York, Alabama.
A city to navigate to a city center, for example, Kingston, NY.
A POI (Point of Interest) near your current location, for example, restaurant near me.
Latitude and longitude coordinates, for example,
N 40°45′28″ W 73°59′09″.
Entering search terms
QUICK SEARCH ONLY
Select Search in the Main Menu to start searching for addresses and POIs. The search screen opens
showing the keyboard and the following buttons:
1. Back button.
Select this button to go back to the previous screen.
2. Search input box.
Enter your search term here. As you type, matching addresses and POIs are shown.
Tip: If you press and hold a letter key on the keyboard, you get access to extra characters if
they are available. For example, press and hold the letter "e" to access characters 3 e è é ê ë
and more.
Tip: To edit, select a word you have already typed to place the cursor. You can then insert or
delete characters.