Manual -HP EDITION- TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- User Guide Copyright ©1996-2004 TomTom B.V., The Netherlands. TomTom is a trademark of TomTom BV. Data copyright ©2004 Tele Atlas N.V., The Netherlands. Data copyright ©2004 Tele Atlas Inc, U.S.A. http://www.tomtom.
Introduction Thank you for purchasing TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- as your navigation system. This User Guide is your reference using TomTom Navigator -HP Edition-. Table of Contents 1. What you see on the screen 1.1. The main screen 1.2. The menu 1.3. The route summary 1.4. The map browser 1.5. The schematic view 2. Browsers and locations 2.1. Browsers 2.2. Picking locations 2.2.1 Picking your HOME location 2.2.2 Picking a favourite location 2.2.3 Picking a recent destination 2.2.
4.15. Change Home location 4.16. Set metric units 4.17. Left-handed lay-out 4.18. Set schematic speed 4.19. Change voice 4.20. Switch Language 4.21. POI appendix 5. Installation 5.1. Using the CD-ROM 5.2. Requirements for installation 5.4. (Re-)Installing TomTom Navigator -HP Edition-, voices and maps 1. What you see on the screen 1.1. The main screen The main screen of TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- is used to navigate to your destination. Your position is displayed on the map using your GPS receiver.
"Next highway" indicator "Zoom out" button The dark red path indicates the calculated route. The route instructions will guide you along this path to reach your destination. Your next driving instruction shows an arrow for the direction to follow and a distance indicator (presented in your distance units preference) when to do it. The bottom of the screen shows the is not street name you will reach if you follow the current driving instruction.
see your "current speed". Ignoring the planned route TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- is very flexible. If you take a turn different from the one in the instruction ( by mistake or on purpose) TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- will adjust almost instantly to the new situation. It will keep guiding you to your current position as fast as it can calculate.
When a menu option is not available, the icon is dimmed and cannot be selected. Title Current time Menu options "Next page" button Relevant information (if available) Cancel button The 10 main menu options are explained in chapter 3. The "change preferences" option gives access to several menu pages with preference options, which are explained in chapter 4. 1.3. The route summary The route summary screen gives you an overview of the calculated route.
Current destination Battery and GPS indicators Application version Map showing the calculated route Journey summary Route button Map button Done button The current destination is shown as an address, the name of a favourite or a point of interest. The indicators show battery strength, GPS signal strength, number of GPS satellites and GPS coordinates (if available). Tap this area to see the full GPS details, with the option to configure your GPS hardware.
Tap Map Tap Done to browse around on the map of your route. to start navigating in the main screen. 1.4. The map browser TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- offers many features that allow you to browse around on a map. You can do so by tapping Browse map in the menu, or tap Mapin the route summary screen.
button The blinking position. icon represents your cursor. Simply tap the map anywhere to place the cursor at that To increase or decrease the scale of the map, move the zoom slider (white square at the side of the screen) up or down. The map will zoom in (or out) relative to your cursor position. To browse around, simply tap the map, keep your finger on the screen and drag it around. option function The search button allows you to search for a specific location and place your cursor there.
Tap the GPS button (in the top right corner of the screen) to re-centre the map around your current GPS position. Done Tap Doneto return to the main screen. 1.5. The schematic view Instead of the main screen, a much simpler, schematic design can be used to display driving instructions. Some people prefer the simplicity of this "at-a-glance" schematic display. You can switch to the schematic display using the turn off map display preference.
2. Browsers and locations 2.1 Browsers ● ● ● Tap a line to select it; if you change your mind and wish to go back to the previous screen without selecting anything, press the BACK or CANCEL button If there are more lines than fit on the screen, you can browse to the other pages of the list by tapping and . When a line has too much text to fit on the screen, it will be abbreviated.
You can select a location by several options: ● ● ● ● ● ● Home - your "home" location Favourite - one of your own favourite locations Recent destination - a location that you have recently travelled to Point of Interest (POI) - a point of interest such as a petrol station, restaurant, hospital etc. Address - a city, street and house number GPS position - your current location (as measured by your GPS device) 2.2.
dimmed. Otherwise, you will be presented with a browser listing of all your favourite locations in alphabetical order: See chapter 2.1 for details about how to browse, search for particular items, etc. You can turn locations into favourites using the "Add favourite" option in the menu, or using the "Add as favourite" cursor action in the map browser. You can rename or delete favourites using the Maintain favourites preference. 2.2.
See chapter 2.1 for details about how to browse, search for particular items, etc. 2.2.4 Picking your GPS position If you tap the "GPS position" icon in the location menu, your select your current location (i.e. the position measured by your GPS devices). If your GPS devices is off or disconnected, or if there is no valid GPS signal, the icon will be dimmed, or produce a "no valid GPS signal!" message when you tap it. For more information about your GPS signal, see chapter 4.8. 2.2.
Once you have picked the POI category you want, TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- will provide a list of POI, in order of proximity.
The POI browser only shows the nearest points of interest, not all of them. Therefore, if you are looking for a particular point of interest, say a restaurant with a certain name, you may have to type some (more) letters of that name before it appears in the list. Related topics: See chapter 2.1 for details about how to browse, search for particular items, etc. in the list of POI categories or in the list of POI. See chapter 4.4 about how to show or hide POI on the main screen See chapter 4.
STEP 2. Specifying the street Once you have selected a city, you will be asked for a street name. Once again, a few letters usually suffice. Note that TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- is quite capable of finding streets on the basis of misspelled or incomplete names. This also means that if you are looking for a street such as "Avenue de Mazagran", you could forget about the "avenue" and simply start typing "MAZ".
The street browser initially offers recently selected street names in the selected city. In other words, after you have used TomTom Navigator for a while, you will sometimes be able to pick a street without typing any letters at all. Streets that cannot be entered by car are marked with a special symbol: The browser may also contain items that aren't so much streets as "locations".
3. The menu The menu pops up when you tap roughly in the middle of the main screen. There are two pages. Use the button to cycle through the pages. You select an icon by tapping it. Until you take your stylus or finger off the screen, icons and buttons are only highlighted, not yet selected. When a menu option is not available, the icon is dimmed and cannot be selected. The "change preferences" option gives access to several menu pages with preference options, which are explained in chapter 4.
Add a location to your list of favourites. You can do this using any type of location except another favourite. Enter the location using the picking locations menu. Add favourite Related topic: To learn more about the options to set a destination, see the "Picking locations " description. TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- has many preferences which set the behaviour to your personal liking. Chapter 4 describes all the options from the preference menu in detail.
the case when you are not in your car. "Planning from A to B" is a valuable function when you want to prepare for your trip in advance, you want to find out how long a certain would take or when you want to find out how someone should travel to you. The difference with "Navigate to..." is the departure location of your trip. Where "Navigate to..." uses you current GPS location as the departure, "Planning from A to B" requires you to enter the departure manually.
If you do not want to use your last destination again, use the locations picker to set any type of location as your destination. The calculated route will be presented in the route summary screen. You can review the route on the map, as written instructions and the summary statistics (total distance and estimated total journey time). This gives a good overview of your trip.
an alternative route. 3.2 Alternative routes Alternative route options are available from the menu by tapping Find alternative . Routes are calculated on the basis of the time required to reach the destination. In other words, TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- calculates the quickest way to get you to your destination. If for some reason you want to get rid of a particular route (for instance because you drive into a traffic jam or a road construction), you can request an alternative route.
Scroll through the list using the and buttons. To see the details of a single instruction, tap on it. The instruction is shown zoomed-in on the map using the map browser. The option DONE will get you back to the route instructions.
In the menu, tap Change preferences . There are multiple pages. Use the button to cycle through the pages. When a menu option is not available, the icon is dimmed and cannot be selected. A number of preferences work as a status which can be switched between by selecting it. The icons show what can be activated. For example, Turn off sound will disable the voice instructions. The , selecting next time you enter the preference menu the icon has changed into Turn on sound this will turn on the sound again.
To change the style of the map display, use the "Change map colours" preference option. 4.2. Turn off 3D display / Turn on 3D display You can use the map in the main screen in two modes. The 3D display shows the map from a birds eye perspective similar to the view you have while driving a car. The alternative is the 2D display which shows the map from the sky like your paper maps. If 3D display is used, switch to 2D display by tapping Turn off 3D display .
4.4. Hide POI / Show POI The main screen can show points of interest (POI) as icons in the map. Every category of POI will be shown using its own icon. This Hide POI/Show POI preference either shows all specified POI categories or no POI's on the map. If Points Of Interest are shown, they can be hidden by tapping Hide POI . If no Points Of Interest are shown, you can make them appear by tapping Show POI .
This preference option allows you to change the volume of the spoken instructions, from 10% (very soft) to 100% (very loud). Press the TEST button to hear a sample of the voice at the current sound volume. Related topics: To turn the sound completely OFF, use the "turn off sound" preference option. To select another voice, use the "change voice" preference option. 4.7. Maintain favourites Maintain your list of favourite locations by tapping Maintain favourite .
confirm the renaming. Note: If your favourite list is empty the icon is dimmed and cannot be selected. If the location changes for one of your favourites you should create this as a new location. Deleting a favourite will be executed immediately without a confirmation. Related topics: For an explanation on how to use the browser to select a favourite, see the browser usage description. 4.8. GPS status Check your GPS signal or configure your GPS by tapping GPS status .
● ● ● An icon which shows, when circling, if your GPS device is well connected and it receives data The schematic representation of the sky showing the positions of the satellites Measuring bars for the signal strength of each visual satellite, locked satellites are shown in blue Configure GPS Use and to browse through the list of supported GPS devices until your GPS device is shown. Specify your GPS device by selecting DONE.
Related topics: Whether POI are shown at all is controlled by the "Show POI" preference option. For more information about how to use browsers, see the browser usage description. 4.11. Change map colours Change the way maps are coloured by tapping Change map colours . All maps are shown using a colour scheme, this determines the colours used for each element shown in the map. Use and to browse through the list of available colour schemes until your preferred scheme is shown.
Related topics: To switch between day and night colours, use the "Use night colours" preference option. 4.12. Use larger keyboard / Use smaller keyboard This preference lets you select a larger keyboard (which makes it easier to enter letters) or a smaller keyboard (which leaves more room for items in the list). If you use the smaller keyboard, switch to the larger keyboard by tapping Use larger keyboard If you use the larger keyboard, switch to the smaller keyboard by tapping Use smaller keyboard . .
Related topics: For more information relating to the use of the keyboard, see the sections about using browsers and entering an address. 4.13. About Navigator To see the version and copyright details of your TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- software, tap About Navigator . 4.14. Set name display Set your name display preferences by tapping Set name display .
4.15. Change Home location Change your home location by tapping Change home location . This preference lets you specify the location that is to be used as your "home". The advantage of the HOME location is simply that you can select it with a single tap of your finger. It is therefore useful to set it to the location that is most central in your travels, such as your home, your parking spot or your office. You can pick any type of location as your home location.
4.16. Set metric units Set the preferred units by tapping Set units . This preference lets you specify how distances are expressed (in kilometres or in miles); how longitudes and latitudes are displayed (using decimals or sexagesimals); and how times are displayed (using 24hour format, or using the 12-hour am/pm format).
4.17. Left-handed lay-out / Right-handed lay-out You can optimise TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- for either right-handed or left-handed operation. Lefthanded operation, for example. means that important buttons and controls will be located on the left side of the screen. As a result, you will be able to operate them with your left hand without obscuring the screen. If the application operates for right-handed, switch it by tapping Left-handed lay-out .
Related topics: To turn the schematic view on/off regardless of speed, use the "Turn on/off map display" preference option. For more information about the schematic view, see the schematic view description. 4.19. Change voice Change the voice used for driving instructions by tapping Change voice . This preference lets you change the voice used for driving instructions. Voices are available in many different languages. For certain languages, several different voices are available.
Related topics: To change the volume of the voice instructions, use the "Change volume" preference option. To turn the sound completely off, use the "Turn off sound" preference option. 4.20. Switch Language Set the language used by TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- by tapping Switch language . This preference will set the language in which the menus and screens are shown. Simply tap the language of your choice.
Note: When you switch to another language, TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- will also ask you to select an appropriate voice in that language. Related topics: To change only the language of the voice instructions, use the "change voice" preference option. 4.21. POI Appendix TomTom Navigator -HP Edition- comes with a powerful POI management tool.
5. Installation 5.1. Using the CD-ROM The CD-ROM provides maps and voices and allows you to install the TomTom Navigator -HP Editionsoftware onto your handheld. The CD-ROM also includes documentation and provides links to the TomTom website and helps you register you product for future updates, helpdesk support and product news. To use the CD-ROM, insert it into your PC running Microsoft Windows ME or later.
5.4. (Re-)Installing TomTom Navigator -HP Edition-, voices and maps From the main Setup Menu choose the appropriate option. You will be guided through a number of screens to refine your choices. Note: Maps can be installed directly to a memory card that is inserted into a PC Memory Card Reader that is attached to your PC.
