User’s Guide Navigation-Software a-rival maptrip Ver.3.0 English mei – 17.02.2012 Thank you for buying the a-rival navigation system. Good choice. We wish you a lot of fun and congestion-free kilometres with your new a-rival navigation system. In the worst case we will help you. For technical questions and / or problems, please contact us by phone at 0511 / 123 83 506 or via E-Mail to support@a-rival.de If you need additional accessories, e.g.
The use and operation of navigation systems Attention! Don’t operate with the device while driving. Even the smallest and shortest distractions from road traffic for you and other road users - even at slow speeds - have devastating consequences. Type in the destination before starting your journey and start the navigation system before you start driving. If you have to change the route or the settings while driving, you should better stop for it.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide Table of Contents A Navigation Software User‟s Guide ........................................................................................................... 4 1 Quick-Start (for the impatient) ...................................................................................................................5 2 Main Window.............................................................................................................................................9 2.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.6.4 4 Show Tour..................................................................................................................................35 3.7 Map .................................................................................................................................................36 3.8 Coordinates .....................................................................................................................................36 3.9 Route overview .
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide A Navigation Software User‘s Guide IMPORTANT: When employing a navigation system in a vehicle, i.e., this software and the accompanying hardware, it is your responsibility to set up, secure and use the system in a manner that does not restrict your vision in any way and will not lead to accidents, injuries or material damages. You, as the user of this product, are solely responsible for driving safely. Do not handle this product while driving— always park the car first.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide You do not need to enter „umlauts . In place of an „Ä simply enter „A , instead of „Ö enter „O , instead of „Ü enter „U . For example, if your destination is located in „Köln, Germany, just enter „K O L N . You do not need to enter spaces and hyphens. Instead, simply click the empty field to the left of the white triangle (at the bottom, third button from the right). If you make a mistake, click the backspace key to delete the wrong entry.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide After selection of the cities you get to the road selection. You can enter any part of the name. E.G. finds the entry "swimming pool", the "pool road / square" - "The Pool" - to the pool ", etc. Alternatively, you can also choose „TOWN CENTRE" if you want to drive into the center of each city. Now you can enter the house number. If the house number in the database should not be present, your navigation software suggests an alternative in the vicinity.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide After destination input you will see an overview over the route Pleas commit the route on the Button in the upper left corner. If you want you can calculate an alternative route. Just click on the calculated route button on the left side. If no alternative was calculated the navigation starts automatically if you start driving.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2 Main Window After first start you will see following phrase: Please read this carefully. Then confirm with "OK" to enter to the navigation software.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.1 time / battery display / compass The upper left of the screen shows the current time and battery status. In the upper right corner there is a compass, which always pointing to north direction. 2.2 GPS state In the upper right corner of the window you can see the buttons for the GPS and TMC receiving state. By clicking on the icon you can see the GPS receiving state: With the „map“ button in the upper left corner you will get back toe the main window.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.3 TMC state (only for devices with TMC receiver) In the upper right corner of the window you can see the buttons for the GPS and TMC receiving state. By clicking on the icon you can see the traffic jams and the receiving state: In the top right the current channel is displayed (possibly with RDS Radio Text). Use the selection boxes below to order as needed and change the setting of the bypass.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide With the „map“ button in the upper left corner you will get back toe the main window. 2.4 Zoom The two zoom buttons in the corners of the map, you can zoom the map. This also works in the navigation. In 3D mode, the zoom out is limited at a certain zoom level.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.5 Quick-Menu The Quick menu button is on the button on the right side. With the Quick Menu gives you direct access to key functions and settings. Depending on whether the navigation has been started or not, some features are not available. 2.5.1 2D / 3D With this Button you can switch between 2D and 3D view on map. 2.5.2 North This button is used to switch the orientation in the "north" or "direction". In 3D mode the map is always oriented in the direction of travel.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.5.3 From Map With this button you can select a point on the map. You have 3 options at this point: - Take position directly - Nearest Address Search - POI take on the marked position 2.5.4 Destination This feature allows you to enter to the destination view. This button is only active in the navigation otherwise it is gray and not clickable. In the destination view appears a vehicle icon on the right side of the map.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.5.5 Route This feature allows you to enter to the route overview. This button is only active in the navigation otherwise it is gray and not clickable. Like in the destination view appears a vehicle icon on the right side of the map. A click on this button brings you back to the actual position and the navigation view. 2.5.6 Volume With this button you can adjust the volume of announcements. Click on the crossed-mounted loudspeakers on the menu to mute / silent.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.5.7 Day/Night With this function you can switch between the day and night view. Please also look at Geo-Daylight. 2.5.8 Zoom If this feature is enabled, you can drag a rectangle on the map, the map scale to temporarily change, for example for a increased oversight. If you draw a box around the target form the upper left to the lower right (green), the map viewer zooms in the selected area.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.5.10 Block Ahead The purpose of the Block KM function is to block the upcoming road section for a certain number of kilometers during active navigation. The navigation system will determine an alternative route bypassing the blocked section. This function is useful for circumventing traffic jams or blocked roads. When you have blocked a road, a button “Free” appears in the Options Menu. Use this button to free the blocked road. 2.5.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.6 While on Road 2.6.1 Arrow, Repeat last announcement While navigation you get the upcoming maneuver and distance on the left side. When the bar (left of the arrow) is "full", you have reached the point where you have to turn. By clicking on the symbol the last announcement will played again. 2.6.2 Street name The next street name and maneuver is displayed in the upper middle. The actual street name is displayed in the upper middle.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.6.3 Driving information On the left side in the navigation bar, you can find from top to bottom, the arrival time, left minutes and left kilometers. The label in the Bottom left shows the current speed. 2.6.4 Tour list A click on the drive information in the navigation bar opens the tour list. There you can edit, add or delete via points.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide If you have more than one target, the numbers are displayed in the top left corner: By clicking on this field, the driving information is displayed from your current position to the currently selected target. So you always have an overview when you reach a selected waypoint. 2.6.5 Highway e.g. street signs If you get onto a freeway or highway the road signs are displayed in the upper middle, with the direction in which you have to drive.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 2.6.6 Lane information / Lane assistant If there are lane information in the map data and your device supports this feature, you can see the lane information at the bottom in the middle. The tracks, which you can use are color coded.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide Now click the menu item "New Destination": 3.1 Address With de Address Button you get to the address destination input window. Enter the city name with the screen keyboard. Possible matches are presented to you on the list. If the searched city is displayed in list you can click directly on the list to select your city. You can open the whole list by clicking on the list icon to the right.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide To open the list of possible cities, streets or house numbers, please click on the List Button on the right. The previously entered letters are displayed in the top row of the screen. While you tap some letters may hidden on the keyboard. You do not need to enter „umlauts . In place of an „Ä simply enter „A , instead of „Ö enter „O , instead of „Ü enter „U . For example, if your destination is located in „Köln, Germany, just enter „K O L N .
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide If you make a mistake, click the backspace key to delete the wrong entry. After selection of the cities you will see the road selection. The street name will entered as in the city input window. Alternatively you can also choose "DOWNTOWN" if you want to drive into the center of the city.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide In large cities it is possible that streets with the same name exist in different districts. In this case, choose the desired destination based on the zip code or the district indicated in the list. Now you can enter the house number. If the house number in the database should not be present, your navigation software suggests an alternative in the vicinity. If you do not know the house number, you can right click on "Without a house number.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.2 Favorites Favorites are frequently used addresses you can store in a list. This facilitates quick access to these destinations. When you start up the system for the first time, the favorites list is empty. You can add addresses, pois and coordinates.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.3 Recent Under "Recent" you can find the latest targets approached. This can be addresses, pois and coordinates.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.4 POI (Points of Interest) POIs are special destinations like restaurants, gas stations, railway stations and so on. You can input them on different ways. If no navigation is started, the buttons “POI near route" and “POI near destination” are hidden and not clickable. Please select a search method. After that, you can choose a category form the list. Please select a one of it.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide Here you can see the category restaurants for example: The POIs are sorted by distance (direct distance).
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide About the "AZ Search" it is possible to select POIs by name. In this example, we enter "pizza": If you want to cancel you have to press the x button in the upper right. If the search string is complete please confirm with ok.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.5 Zip-Code With this function you can enter zip codes for finding your destination. The input is nearly the same like in the address input. By clicking on the list button on the upper right side, you will get the whole list too. After choosing a zip code you will see the street and house number input dialog like in the address input.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.6 Tour With the tour function you can define Itineraries and save them. Depending on whether the navigation is active or not, some buttons are gray and not clickable. 3.6.1 New Tour With this function you can create a new tour. With the button „new destination“ you kann successively add different addresses, POIs or coordinates.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide After entering some destinations, for example, the list looks like this: Each destinations can be marked as an intermediate destination or as a via point. To do this, click on the flag in front of it. Here the “Mediapark” is marked as a via point. Via-points are destinations on which the route leads along, without informing the user about it.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide When you select a location you can switch the order or delete it. Click "OK" to start the route guidance to the first destination or via point. When you reach an intermediate destination, please confirming the route guidance to the next station. When you reach a via point, no message is issued. Attention! If you click directly on "OK", the route will not be saved. Please make use of the " Save Tour" and enter a name for this tour.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide Über „Simulation“ kann die Tour simuliert werden, ohne dass sich das Fahrzeug bewegen muss (Demo-Modus). In this case, you need to define a start point to start the simulation. 3.6.2 Load Tour If you saved a tour before, you can use "Load Tour" to call and use it again. 3.6.3 Edit Tour During navigation, you can edit and change the current tour. 3.6.4 Show Tour During Navigation the current tour can be shown.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.7 Map With the map function you can choose a destination via map: Like in the main window you have three several ways for choosing a destination: - Take position directly - Nearest Address Search - POI take on the marked position 3.8 Coordinates On the coordinate input, you can enter exact WGS 84 coordinates. These consist of W / O or N / S as well as a decimal number with 1-2 and 0-7 digits before the decimal point.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 3.9 Route overview After destination input you will see an overview over the route Pleas commit the route on the Button in the upper left corner. If you want you can calculate an alternative route. Just click on the calculated route button on the left side. If no alternative was calculated the navigation starts automatically if you start driving.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4 Options In the options you have 3 pages of setting which are necessary for navigation(see the three points in the upper right).
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.1 Map In this menu you find all settings regarding the map.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.1.1 Map The map can be used in 3 different views. - 3D direction (The camera angle behind the vehicle position icon and the map is turned in the direction of the vehicle icon) - 2D Northwards (map will remain pointing North) - In the direction of 2D (map rotates in driving direction)) 4.1.2 Autozoom With this panel you can turn off the automatic zoom into the ma. When it is on, the map is automatically reduced at higher velocities, so the driver has a better view.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.1.4 Day/Night The day/night view can be changed in addition to the quick menu here: There is a day view, a night view which is not blinding so much at night and there is the function Geo-Daylight. In this day and the night view automatically switches to the actual sun setting and rising. For this function the date, time and the GPS position will be considered correct. This function is much more accurate than for example a fixed switching at certain times. 4.1.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.2 Routing In this setting menu, all settings are made concerning the route: 4.2.1 Route This setting determines by witch criteria the route will be calculated. The fastest route is mostly on the existing highways and is the default. The shortest route is the shortest route from the path. The economic route is the route with the lowest expected fuel economy.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.2.2 Vehicle Here you can select a vehicle profile. This has an impact on the routes and the calculated travel and arrival times. Depending on model and equipment you will find different options. Attention! The selection of the profile "truck" does not automatically switch on the truck routing options (see next section)! 4.2.3 Highways You can avoid highways, if you wish. 4.2.4 Toll roads You can avoid toll roads, if you wish. 4.2.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.3 Truck Routing(available at Lkw-/Truck-Devices with appropriate equipment) In this dialog you can enter the dimensions of your truck and hazardous loead. These are used when calculating the route and during navigation. Attention: Please note that not all roads recorded for truck restrictions, and that there is no guarantee for a complete or error-free recording. Therefore, the signs on the road always take precedence over the details of your navigation system.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide After entering the profile name, you get to the screen for entering the dimensions. Please enter the dimensions. Bellow you find the settings for the Hazardous goods.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide The map shows the truck restrictions in two ways: Firstly, road sections with truck restrictions are drawn with a pink border. On the other hand, the road signs with the actual values are shown. Please note that not all the signs in each map can be displayed simultaneously. The presentation is to scale-dependent, meaning that above a certain speed the truck restrictions can’t be displayed. Of course, they still continue to be taken into route calculation.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.4 Warnings In the warning settings you can set the settings fort he speed and speed cam warnings. Attention! The camera database is installed and enabled only for those countries in which these warnings are allowed by law! Cameras for other countries (eg Germany, Austria, Switzerland, etc.) If required you can conveniently and easily downloaded from the arival website and install. The option „display maximum allowed speed“ switch on the speed signs in navigation.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide The alerts can be switched on or off as follows: The speed camera detector can be independently turned on and off. His warnings are issued by a different tone and a display screen. Warnings for speed, red light speed cameras etc. issued. ATTENTION: Please note that not in all countries speed restrictions are covered and that there is no guarantee of a complete or error-free recording of all road classes.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.5 Quick-POI In the Quick POI menu, the selected POIs which can later be selected in the Quick Menu. The two selected POI from the POI Quick Setup menu are displayed in the Quick Menu. You can select a maximum of 3 Quick-POI categories. In the following example, only 2 categories (pharmacies and physicians) are selected.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.6 Hardware In the Hardware settings menu you can configure GPS und TMC. Please note: The values for GPS and TMC (if your system has TMC) are already set correctly for your system and should not be changed! Other settings may cause malfunction or failure of the system or parts of it! The GPS can be set either manually by clicking on the Com port and baud rate, or simply search by clicking on the Button in the bottom right. The TMC setting can only be done manually.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide works just like the GPS settings dialog. 4.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide The time setting is used to switch from 12 - (AM / PM) on the 24-hour format: Use the "Restore Factory Settings" to reset all settings. This can be helpful if the navigation system was used by another user or you have forgotten witch settings were changed.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.8 Laguage / Text-To-Speech In the language dialogue you can choose between different languages. The voice and the language changed will be changed. The languages in the system menu of the hardware (see Hardware Manual) is not affected. The software must be restarted after this adjustment to take effect. Languages with the addition of "TTS" or "with street announcements" contain text-tospeech data.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide 4.9 Configuration Wizard Here you can run the configuration wizard, which appears when you first start the navigation software again if necessary. He will guide you through the language, the general settings, routing settings, and help you to create a home address.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide B Copyright Notice The product and the information contained in this document are subject to change without prior notification. This manual or any parts thereof may not be modified or duplicated without the express written permission of infoware GmbH. Data Source © <2011> Tele Atlas Austria © BEV, GZ 1368/2011.
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide D End-User License Agreement („EULA“) This End-User License Agreement (“EULA”) is a legal agreement between you (either an individual natural person or a single legal entity) the “End User”, and infoware Gesellschaft für Informationstechnik mbH, Riemenschneiderstrasse 11, 53175 Bonn, Germany) (“infoware”).
maptrip 3.0 User’s Guide c) Some countries may not allow the exclusion or limitation of damages. If this Limited Warranty is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not invalidate or render unenforceable the entire Limited Warranty, but rather the Limited Warranty shall be construed as if not containing the particular invalid or unenforceable provision or provisions, and the rights and obligations of each party shall be construed and enforced accordingly.
