TomTom 50 - Manuals

Advanced Lane Guidance 3. 6 Advan- ced Lane Gui- dance Advanced Lane Guidance Note : Lane guidance is not available for all junctions or in all countries. Your TomTom START helps you prepare for highway exits and junctions by showing the cor- rect driving lane for your planned route. As you approach...

Main Menu 4. 7 Main Menu The Main Menu is the starting point for planning a route, looking at a map or changing your device settings. To open the Main Menu from the Driving View, tap the center of the screen. To return to the Driving View from the Main Menu, tap done . Main Menu buttons The followin...

Browse map 5. 9 Browse map To look at the map in the same way as you might look at a traditional paper map, tap Browse map in the Main Menu. You can move the map by touching the screen and sliding your finger across the screen. 1. Scale bar2. Marker Markers point to your current location, your home ...

Planning a route 6. 10 Plan- ning a route 1. Tap the screen to open the Main Menu.2. Tap Plan route . You can enter an address in various ways, but we will enter the full address. 3. Tap Address . 4. Start to type the name of the town where your trip will begin and tap on the name when it appears in...

Finding alternative routes 7. 12 Fin- ding alterna- tive routes Once you have planned a route, you may want to change something about the route, without changing your destination. Reasons for changing a route Maybe for one of these reasons:• You can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead.• You w...

13 Recalculate original Tap this button to replan your original route. This button is shown when you have changed your route by calcula- ting an alternative. Travel via... Tap this button to change your route so that it passes a particular location, perhaps to pick someone up on the way. When you do...

Options 8. 14 Option s You can change the way your TomTom START looks and behaves. Tap options in the Main Menu. Change voice Set clock Change voice Your navigation device is able to provide spoken instructions and warnings using voices which are stored on the device. Some voices have been recorded ...

16 Keyboard preferences Switch map Reset factory settings Keyboard preferences You use the keyboard to enter your destination or to find an item in a list, such as a POI. Tap this button to select the type of keyboard characters you want to use, the size of the keys and the keyboard layout. First se...

F a v o r i t e s 9 . 17 Favori- tes About Favorites Favorites are places that you often visit. You can create Favorites so that you don’t have to enter the address every time you plan a route. They don’t have to be places you especially like, just useful addresses. Creating a Favorite From the Main...

18 Using a Favorite You will normally use a Favorite to plan a route somewhere without having to enter the address. To plan a route to a Favorite location, do the following:1. Tap the screen to open the Main Menu.2. Tap Plan route or Change route . 3. Tap Favorite . 4. Select a Favorite from the lis...

19 Changing the name of a Favorite 1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu.2. Tap options to open the Options menu. 3. Tap Home and Favorites . 4. Tap Manage Favorites . 5. Tap the Favorite you want to rename.6. Tap Rename . Deleting a Favorite 1. Tap the screen to bring up the main menu.2. Tap ...

Points of Interest 10. 20 Points of Inte- rest Points of Interest or POIs are useful places on the map. Here are some examples:• Restaurants• Hotels• Museums• Parking garages• Gas stations Note : Tap Map corrections in the Options menu to report missing POIs or edit existing POIs. Navigating to a PO...

Voices and images 11. 22 Voices and images Voices Your navigation device is able to provide spoken instructions and warnings using voices which are stored on the device. Some voices have been recorded by actors and other voi- ces are computer-generated. The recorded voices are only used for spoken i...

TomTom Map Share™ 12. 24 TomTo m Map Share™ With TomTom Map Share, you can correct errors on your map and share those correc- tions with other people in the TomTom Map Share community, as well as receiving cor- rections made by others. If you find a street that has recently been blocked to traffic w...

25 Making a map correction Important : For safety reasons, you should only mark a location when you are driving. Do not enter the full details of an error while you are driving. Receiving the latest map updates When you connect your TomTom START to your computer, TomTom HOME automatically downloads ...

26 3. Tap Join . When you connect your START to your computer, TomTom HOME downloads new correc- tions and sends your corrections to the Map Share community. Important : Connect your device to your computer regularly and use TomTom HOME to check for new updates. Correction preferences The correction...

29 Report other error Tap this button to report other types of corrections. These corrections are not immediately applied to your map. Your TomTom START sends a special report to TomTomMap Share. You can report missing streets, errors in freeway entrances and exits and missing rotaries. If the corre...

Help 13. 30 Help Help provides an easy way to contact and plan a route to locations that provide emer- gency services, such as a hospital or to other specialized services. For example, if you are involved in a car accident, you could use Help to call or find the phone number for the nearest hospital...

Introducing TomTom HOME 14. 31 Intro- ducing TomTo m HOME Using TomTom HOME you can register and manage your navigation device to receive free updates and buy new services. It's a good idea to connect to HOME frequently so you can do the following: • Download the most recent map available for your d...

Traffic information using RDS-TMC 15. 32 Traffic infor- mation using RDS- TMC The Traffic Message Channel (TMC) Important : The TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver is included with some products and is also available as an optional accessory. When the receiver is used with some navigation devices, some ...

33 2. Tap Minimize delays . Your device looks for the quickest route to your destination. The new route may also include traffic delays, or may even be the same route as before. 3. Tap Done . Traffic incidents Traffic incidents and warnings are shown on the map, in the Driving View and on the Tra- f...

34 Snow Note : The incident avoided symbol is shown for any traffic inci- dent that you avoid using the TomTom Traffic Service.

Addendum 16. 35 Adden- dum Important Safety Notices and Warnings Global Positioning System The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based system that provides location and timing information around the globe. GPS is operated and controlled under the sole res- ponsibility of the Government ...

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38 • Consult an experienced radio/TV technician for help. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user‘s authority to operate the equipment. Important This equipment was tested for FCC compliance under conditions that included the use of...

Copyright notices 17. 39 Copyri- ght notices © 2010 TomTom N.V., The Netherlands. TomTom®, and the "two hands" logo, among others, are Trademarks owned by TomTom N.V. or one of its subsidiaries. Please see www.tomtom.com/legal for warranties and end user licence agreements applying to this p...