User manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to navigation with TomTom
- Get going
- What's on the screen
- Traffic
- Syncing using TomTom MyDrive
- About TomTom MyDrive
- Logging into your TomTom account
- Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
- Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
- Importing a community POI list - MyDrive - NOT CONNECTED
- Deleting a community POI list
- Importing a track GPX file
- Deleting a track GPX file
- Saving and restoring your personal navigation information
- Step by step search
- Using step-by-step search
- Planning a route using step-by-step search
- Using destination prediction
- Planning a route to an address
- Planning a route to a city center
- Planning a route to a POI
- Planning a route using the map
- Planning a route using My Places
- Planning a route using coordinates using step-by-step search
- Planning a route in advance
- Finding a parking lot
- Finding a gas station
- Changing your route
- The Current Route menu
- Avoiding a blocked road
- Avoiding part of a route
- Finding an alternative route
- Types of route
- Avoiding features on a route
- Avoiding an incident or route feature using the route bar
- Adding a stop to your route from the current route menu
- Adding a stop to your route using the map
- Deleting a stop from your route
- Skipping the next stop on your route
- Reordering stops on a route
- My Routes
- About My Routes
- About GPX and ITN files
- Saving a route
- Navigating using a saved route
- Navigating to a stop on a saved route
- Adding a stop to a saved route using the map
- Recording a track
- Navigating using a track
- Deleting a route or a track from My Routes
- Exporting tracks to a memory card
- Importing routes and tracks from a memory card
- Map Share
- Safety Cameras
- My Places
- About My Places
- Setting your home or work location
- 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
- Using community POI lists
- Settings
- Getting Help
- Product certification
- Updating using MyDrive Connect
- TomTom account
- Addendum
- Copyright notices
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About TomTom MyDrive
TomTom MyDrive is the easy way to import community POI files on your TomTom VIA.
Logging into your TomTom account
You must log into MyDrive to sync to your TomTom account. When you log into your TomTom
account from your navigation device or when using a web browser, syncing with your account
happens automatically.
Logging into MyDrive on your VIA
1. Connect your VIA to your computer using MyDrive Connect.
2. In the Main Menu on your device, select TomTom Services.
3. Select MyDrive.
4. Enter the email address and password you use for your TomTom account.
5. Select Log In.
Your VIA connects to your TomTom account.
6. Return to the map view.
Your VIA automatically saves your personal navigation information to your TomTom account.
Logging into MyDrive using a web browser
Log in using your TomTom account email address and password. When you are logged in, you can
see your personal navigation information from your navigation devices, and you can select
destinations and create Places to sync with your navigation devices.
Finding and syncing locations using MyDrive
When you are logged into TomTom MyDrive, you can find locations in MyDrive and sync them with
your VIA My Places locations.
1. Connect your VIA to your computer using MyDrive Connect.
2. In a web browser, log into your TomTom account.
3. On the map, select a destination.
Tip: You can search for a destination or you can move the map and select a destination. You
can also select a destination from your My Places list.
4. Click on the location, then open the pop-up menu and select Add to My Places.
The location is shown in the Favorites list in the MyDrive My Places menu.
5. Log into MyDrive on your VIA.
Your VIA syncs with your TomTom account and receives the new Favorites location. The loca-
tion is stored in My Places.
Syncing My Places locations with MyDrive
When you are logged into MyDrive on your VIA, the locations you have added to My Places are
automatically synced with your TomTom account. You can see your My Places locations and the POI
place lists when you are logged in to MyDrive in a web browser.
Syncing using TomTom MyDrive