Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- Get going
- Connecting to TomTom services
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Setting your vehicle type
- Syncing TomTom MyDrive
- Using Quick Search
- Planning a route
- Planning a route to an address using search
- Planning a route to a city centre
- 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 car park
- Finding a petrol 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 to home using voice control
- Going to a POI using voice control
- Changing a setting using voice control
- Map Share
- Speed Cameras
- Danger Zones
- 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, 123 Oxford Street, London.
A partial address, for example, Oxford st Lon.
A type of place, for example, petrol station or restaurant.
A place by name, for example, Starbucks.
A postcode, for example, W1D 1LL for Oxford Street, London.
A city to navigate to a city centre, for example, London.
A POI (Point of Interest) near your current location, for example, restaurant near me.
A mapcode, for example, WH6SL.TR10
Latitude and longitude coordinates, for example,
N 51°30′31″ W 0°08′34″.
Tip: To search for a specific street in the United Kingdom or the Netherlands, type in a postcode,
then leave a space and then type in the house number. For example, "1017CT 35". For other
countries, postcodes are area-based and will give you a list of matching cities, towns and streets
in your search results.
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










