Quick Tips for Routing

Quick Routes

Quick Routes always route from your current location.

Route to a Favorite Location

You can generate a route to any of your favorite locations. Press the Favorites Button Select a location from the menu that appears. You must have a fix for this to work.

Quick Detour Route

	You can generate a route to the nearest Gas Station or the Nearest Restaurant. or other specific category. Press and Hold the Detour button for a second. Tap the category you wish. A menu will appear for you to select from a list of close by locations. The direction will be indicated as shown below. The check marks indicate that there is a nearby entry for that category.
4. Tap the one you wish to generate a route to that location. Tapping outside the box will cancel the command. The categories shown on this screen can be customized to be any available category in the database.

Other Routes

For other routes you need to start with the Tools > Navigation > Find Route command. If there is no route active it can be found on the detour button which normally does the detour command when you are navigating a route.

The first steps are always the same.

1. Tap the Choose Destination.
2. Select a Choice from the menu.

Notice that your favorites are listed among the choices. If the Find Route form already has data on it from a previous route then you will also need to tap the Choose Starting Point to change it. Choose Use GPS Position for the starting point.

Route to an Address

Select Find Route and then perform the first two steps above and tap Select Address.

3. The top left corner box contains a selection. Choices include Within 25 Miles, Anywhere, Current View Area, A list of all loaded towns, and a list of all loaded zip codes. Pick what you want. You can enter the first letter to aid in searching the dropdown list. 4. Enter the search data using any of the available entry methods. You can start with the number or the street name. The Search spy glass will appear to show that a search is in progress.

5. When addresses begin to appear you can scroll to select one or just enter more data to trim the list. Scrolling can be done with the scroll bar, the cursor key, or the thumb wheel but you will need to tap the field to scroll since the top field can also be scrolled. 6. Tap OK with the one you want highlighted. The list can be sorted by nearest or in alphabetical order. 7. Tap OK on the route form to kick off the route.

Route to a Landmark

Start with Tools > Navigation > Find Route and then tap Choose Destination. Choose Select Landmark from the Menu. A landmark can be a point of interest, Business, Rest Area, Government facility, Tourist Attraction, or some place you saved in your own locations database.

The top left corner box contains a selection. Choices include: Within 25 Miles. Within 25 miles Anywhere. Current View Area. A list of all loaded towns. A list of all loaded zip codes. Pick what you want. Entering the first character can help to move rapidly through the list.
	Tap the category or name field to limit the choices. Select the Category you wish. You can move more rapidly through the list with the keyboard by entering a few starting letters. You can also tap this entry field and use the cursor key or thumb wheel to move through the list.
Find the one you want, either scroll for it or enter a few characters in the name field. The name field also has a pull down list of recent places you picked. Tap OK with the one you want highlighted. The list can be sorted by nearest or in alphabetical order Tap OK on the route form to kick off the route.

Route to a Contact

You can route to an address in your contact list.

1. Start with Tools > Navigation > Find Route and then tap Choose Destination.
2. Choose Select Contact from the Menu.

3. Select the correct entry from your contact list. You can scroll or search the list. If the entry has two addresses select the button to choose which one you want.

4. Tap ok to allow the program to search for your address. If successful a list of choices will appear on the next screen. If you get a no match error you can try to modify the address a bit. For example, you might pick a different town or edit the street name. Remove any suffixes on the address and apartment numbers.

5. Once you have the correct address selected, tap OK to return to the route screen.

6. Tap OK on the route screen to generate the route.

Route to an Intersection

You can route to an intersection of two streets.

1. Start with Tools > Navigation > Find Route and then tap Choose Destination.
2. Choose Select Intersection from the Menu.

3. Select the first street. You can limit the choices by selecting a particular city from the drop down list or choose within 25 miles and other choice (See above) for more details.

4. Type enough characters to see the street name and then select it from the list.

5. Tap ok to bring up the cross street list. You can scroll through the list or enter a few characters to reach the entry you want. The list can be ordered based on your preference. If the street is not present then the first street is likely not the one you want. You can tap change to return to the earlier screen.

6. Once you have the correct location selected, tap OK to return to the route screen.

6. Tap OK on the route screen to generate the route.

Advanced Routing

The Quick Tips assumed you were starting at your GPS location. All of the Other Route choices will also allow you to specify a starting point as well as a destination. The starting point is selected identically to the way the destination is selected.

If the route doesn't go the way you want you can enter one or more vias to control the route. The router will reroute using your vias to control the roads it chooses. A via is selected by tapping on a road segment. Then tap and hold on the box that appears. Select Route Through to identify the via. You can find the road segment by any means you wish such as scrolling the map, using any of the find options, or scrolling through the route description and tapping on the turns.

You can save any route you generate so that you can reuse it later.

You can reverse the previous route as a quick way to return back to your starting point.

On any of the route screens you will see the origin command. You can use this item to make the within 25 miles menu choice mean within 25 miles of anywhere you wish, not just the current GPS location.