User manual

The search view allows you to search the gazetteer and POI sets. It also

optionally searches the ViewRanger server. You can search by text, area or

category. You can choose to see the results in a list or on the map.

The search panel can be accessed by choosing Search from the Options menu,

or by pressing 3. It can also be accessed from the Organizer by choosing the

Search item.

The search fields are:

• Name – this matches the start of words in the name and description of

POIs. For example, ‘cam’ matches both ‘River Cam’ and ‘Cambridge’ but

does not match ‘Occam’. ‘Ri ca’ matches ‘River Cam’ but not ‘River Dart’.

Apostrophes are ignored by the search. Hyphens and other punctuation are

treated as word separators. You can type full names too.

• County – this is only used by the Gazetteer and matches the county or

area name. Abbreviations are not used, so for example enter Oxfo and not

Oxon for Oxfordshire.

• Type & Sub-Type – these fields allow you to choose the category of the

item you wish to find. The first field sets the broad category, for example

‘Places’. The second field refines that choice. For example for Places you

could choose between towns, lakes, hills and woods. When set to ‘Any’ the

field matches all of the categories or sub-categories.

• Distance – choose the distance from the current location that should be

searched. There are three options:

o Unlimited, which searches the whole country

o Visible map, which searches only the area of map that is shown in

the map view

o Manual, searches the area given by the distance entered in the

second box. For example, if the distance is 20km, the search looks

for results within 20km of the centre of the map.

• Server – controls whether to search for POIs held on the phone handset,

on the ViewRanger server, or to search both server and handset.

• Shared – shared POIs are those that have been created by other users.

Licensed POIs are those that have been provided from commercial

sources, such as Ordnance Survey. This switch controls whether shared

POIs, licensed POIs, or both should be searched.

• Display – sets whether to display the results in a list or on the map. If you

choose the map, the map will zoom and pan to show all the search results.