User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- What's new
- Get going
- Connecting to TomTom services
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Syncing TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging into your MyDrive account
- Setting a destination using MyDrive
- Showing a planned destination in MyDrive
- 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
- Deleting a community POI list
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- Using Quick Search
- Planning a route
- Using Destination Prediction
- Planning a route to an address using search
- Planning a route to a city center
- Planning a route to a POI using search
- 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
- Finding an alternative route
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a parking lot
- Finding a gas station
- Changing your route
- My Routes
- Voice control (Speak & Go)
- About voice control
- Starting voice control
- Making your own wake-up phrase
- The voice control screen
- Some tips for using voice control
- What you can use voice control for
- Saying commands in different ways
- Entering an address using voice control
- Going home using voice control
- Going to a POI using voice control
- Changing a setting using voice control
- Map Share
- Safety Cameras
- 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 search
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 Ave NY.
A type of place, for example, gas station or restaurant.
A place by name, for example, Starbucks.
A ZIP 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″.
Planning a route to a POI using search
Important: In the interest of safety and to avoid distractions while you are driving, you should
always plan a route before you start driving.
To plan a route to a POI type or a specific POI using search, do the following:
1. Select the Main Menu button to open the Main Menu.
2. Select Search.
The search screen opens with the keyboard showing.
3. Use the keyboard to enter the name of the place you want to plan a route to.
Using Quick Search