User's Manual

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Traffic 32
About TomTom Traffic .......................................................................................................................32
About RDS-TMC................................................................................................................................32
Looking at traffic on the map .............................................................................................................32
Looking at traffic on your route ..........................................................................................................33
Traffic incidents .................................................................................................................................34
Approaching a traffic jam warning .....................................................................................................35
Avoiding a traffic jam on your route ...................................................................................................35
Selecting a faster route .....................................................................................................................36
Advanced Lane Guidance .................................................................................................................36
Time-dependent speed limits ............................................................................................................37
Setting your vehicle type 38
About My Vehicle...............................................................................................................................38
Setting your vehicle type ...................................................................................................................38
Planning a route for a Bus or Truck ..................................................................................................39
Viewing route restrictions ..................................................................................................................40
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive 41
About TomTom MyDrive ...................................................................................................................41
Logging in to MyDrive ........................................................................................................................41
Setting a destination using MyDrive ..................................................................................................42
Planning a route with stops using MyDrive .......................................................................................42
Showing a planned destination in MyDrive .......................................................................................43
Clearing a MyDrive destination .........................................................................................................43
Deleting a MyDrive destination from My Places ................................................................................43
Set a phone contact as your destination using the MyDrive app ......................................................43
Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive ...................................................................................44
Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive .......................................................................................44
Importing a community POI list .........................................................................................................44
Deleting a community POI list ...........................................................................................................45
Importing a track GPX file .................................................................................................................45
Deleting a track GPX file ...................................................................................................................45
Saving and restoring your personal navigation information ..............................................................46
Quick search 47
Choosing which search to use ..........................................................................................................47
Using quick search ............................................................................................................................48
About search ................................................................................................................................48
Entering search terms ..................................................................................................................48
Working with search results .........................................................................................................50
About postcodes ...........................................................................................................................51
About mapcodes ..........................................................................................................................52
List of POI type icons ...................................................................................................................52
Planning a route using quick search .................................................................................................56
Using destination prediction .........................................................................................................56
Planning a route to an address ....................................................................................................56
Planning a route to a city centre ...................................................................................................58
Planning a route to a POI .............................................................................................................60
Planning a route to a POI using online search .............................................................................62
Planning a route using the map ...................................................................................................64
Planning a route using My Places ................................................................................................65
Planning a route using coordinates ..............................................................................................66
Planning a route using a mapcode ...............................................................................................67
Planning a route in advance .........................................................................................................68