Finding
Locations
One
approach to routing is to find the location
first. This is especially useful when you aren't sure of the
location name or haven't quite made up your mind yet.
Finding
a Location Graphically
You
can find a location graphically and then route to it. Let's
suppose you are driving and decide you need gas. Here is one
way to proceed.
1.
Select Tools > Find > All Places by Type. This will
bring up the screen shown below on the left. (Note that this
screen also appears in the Quick
Route command description but the subsequent behavior
is different.)
2.
Select the radius you want to search or take the previous one you used. The check
marks indicate that there are entries for that category within
the radius chosen.
3.
Tap the Gas/Service Station icon.
4. A screen showing all the gas stations in the radius
you chose will be shown. You can tap any of them to find out
what kind of station they are and their locations are clearly
shown on the map. Don't forget to look at the small dots as
well. These are stations that are too close together to show
the big icon. You can zoom or pan until you find the one you
like.
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5. Once you have one in mind tap and hold on the description
to bring up the menu.
6.
Selecting Route To will generate a route to that location.
Or, if you're already running a route, consider Route
Through to add the gas stop to the existing route. This
will route to the station and then back to the route
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Using the
SignPost
The SignPost quick find icon is near the
right end on the command bar. Tapping this will bring up the
quick find menu shown at the below left.
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This menu contains some frequently used find commands
and a list of your favorite locations.
Tap the sign post icon.
- Select
the entry you are interested in.
- Once
the location appears in the center of the screen,
use the tap and hold technique to bring up a menu.
- Select
Route To to kick off the router to route to that location.
The signpost menu can also be
used to display the GPS Position if you have panned away.
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Find with the resultant tap and hold menu
command is a powerful combination. It can be used to set the
starting point for a route or to add vias to an existing route
as well as setting the destination.
It can also be used to add the location
to your favorites for later use and if the target is an address
or intersection it can be placed in your landmark file.
You can set the search origin for future
searches to the location you have found. Using find in this
way can focus a search in a town (Find Place) and then find
businesses or addresses in that town. If the origin is changed
you will search relative to that location in the route command.
The Tools > Find > Favorites command
will allow you to manage your favorites database with the
Organize option in addition to its use for finding
favorites.
