TomTom Citymaps

# Citymaps

## TomTom

Table of Contents

1 Installation and overview

Installing Citymaps

Overview of Citymaps

2 Route-finding

Finding a road

Planning a simple route

Stepping through a route

Different modes

Setting departures and destinations

Using vias

Avoiding roads and area

Setting your personal preferences

Loading and saving routes and avoids

3 The electronic map

Zooming and moving

Adjusting detail

Memorizing positions

Showing and clearing road names

Changing the map appearance

Creating and using overlays

Other features and functions

1

Installation and overview

Installing Citymaps

Connect your EPOC device to your PC using the docking cable, and set link to "Cable". For more instructions refer to your EPOC device manual.

WINDOWS 95/98/NT & WINDOWS 2000

Insert the CD-ROM into your PC’s CD ROM drive and it will automatically start the installation for you; the Installation Wizard will take you through the installation and set-up.

Note: If the installation does not start automatically, you can run setup.exe from the CD-ROM drive.

Overview of Citymaps

Planning a route

First and foremost, Citymaps allows you to plan routes between road junctions. You can even specify other roads that you’d like to include in your journey or areas you’d like to avoid. Citymaps then calculates the quickest route according to your own personal preferences and local traffic laws.

The route is written in tabular form, according to your preferences. A route-following mode allows you to step through the route, junction by junction, tracing your progress on the map.

Staying flexible

In Citymaps we try not restrict you at all. You can elect to start a route from any point along any road. And if, halfway along a planned route, you encounter a hold-up, it’s the work of a few seconds to plan an alternative route around the obstruction. You can name up to ten locations on the map and set them with one keypress as departure or destination for a route.

The electronic map

Citymaps already knows precise details of every road in every city that you loaded from CD. You can use the comprehensive search and zoom functions to explore a city at any level of detail you choose. You can even ask the map to reveal individual road names and easily scroll the map around.

Adding your own information

Frequently used locations can be assigned to numbered memories and jumped to or used in route planning with a single keypress. By using Citymaps overlays you can display items of your own on the main map screen. Whether it’s for displaying customer locations or the homes of all your relatives, creating an overlay is an excellent way of putting them well and truly on the map.

2

Route-finding

You’re probably eager to plan your first route. In this chapter we show you how, including such ‘advanced’ options as choosing roads to avoid and setting up Citymaps to match your own driving preferences.

Finding a road

Start up Citymaps by tapping on Extras and then on its icon. Make sure it’s showing the required city area (if it isn’t, use the "Switch area" command, on the "File" menu).

The very first thing you’ll want to do in the program is to locate a road that’s well-known to you (probably your home or a favourite city street):

1. Use the "Find location by name" command (on the "Find" menu) to bring up the "Go to location" dialog.

Notice that the dialog shows a complete list of every road and place name in your chosen city area, not necessarily in alphabetical order.

2. Start typing the first few letters of the required road name and you’ll find that Citymaps intelligently tries to find all matches for this part of the name. If the road you require isn’t yet shown in the top few entries of the list, type a few more letters, to refine the search further.
3. Once the required road is shown in the list, tap on it (or press Enter).

Now Citymaps needs to know more accurate details of your chosen location. Many roads are quite long and the program offers you the chance to make the search even more precise by specifying a particular road junction.

4. Citymaps will now be showing a dialog with your chosen road name as its title. If you don’t have a particular junction in mind just accept the "Anywhere" choice. If you do want a specific part of the road, tap on the choice box (or press Tab) to reveal all the possible junction choices and then select one by tapping on it or using the arrow keys and Enter.
5. Tap on "OK" or press Enter to complete the dialog. Citymaps’s map will be recentred according to your choices, with the chosen road or junction highlighted in black. The overall scale of the map will probably be very small at this stage and you’ll want to zoom in as far as possible. Use the "Zoom to" command (on the "Map" menu) and choose "Maximum precision" from the available zoom options. Tap on "OK" or press Enter and you’ll find the map redraws at the highest resolution that Citymaps supports.

You’ll probably not want the rectangular locator window displayed at this time, so let’s also get rid of it by selecting the "View locator" command (on the "View" menu).

Planning a simple route

You’ve already zoomed the map to "Maximum precision" and a specific road is highlighted. To show what can be done, let’s plan a simple route that starts from an exact point on this road.

1. Tap on the "Mode" toolbar button or press Enter until the message "Cursor mode" appears in the top right of the screen.
2. Use the arrow keys to position the cursor at a specific point along a road: perhaps your home, or office?
3. Use the "Set cursor as" command (on the "Route" menu) or tap the "Set" toolbar button. Select "Departure" from the choice dialog and tap on "OK" or press Enter.

That’s the starting point of the route sorted out. A small ‘Go’ icon will now be shown at the location you chose. Now let’s look at your destination.

4. Use the "Plan route…" command (also on the "Route" menu) or tap the "Plan" toolbar button.

Although there’s a lot you can do in the "Plan route" dialog, we’re only concerned here with a simple route, so proceed as follows:

5. Set the "Find" line to "Quickest route". Your "Departure" point is already set (from the steps above), so move the highlight to the "Destination" line by tapping on it or using the down arrow key.
6. Type in the first few letters of a suitable road name that you think would make a good test route. Citymaps will try, as before, to match the road name even as you’re typing. When the road you thought of appears in the list on-screen, select it the arrow keys and Enter.
7. As before, you’re given the option of specifying exactly where on the destination road you’d like to get to. Either leave the dialog set to "Anywhere" or choose one of the available junctions. Tap on "OK" or press Enter to complete the "Destination" line.

The rest of the dialog can hopefully be left as it is. "Planning accuracy" should be left at "95%" and the bottom three lines should all be greyed out. If any of these lines are shown in black, it is because you have already set "vias" or "avoids" during previous work with Citymaps and you should clear them.

8. Tap on "OK" or press Enter to start the calculation of the "Quickest" route between your "Departure" point and "Destination".

A grey bar will appear for a few seconds, informing you of how the calculation is progressing, followed by a summary screen which gives the total distance and expected duration of the route. Don’t worry about how Citymaps knows how fast you expect to travel as you can change this (and much more besides) in "Preferences" later on. See the section "Setting your personal preferences" for more details..

9. Tap on "Continue" or press Enter to clear the "Route summary". If you want to see the summary again at any time, just use the "Route summary…" command (on the "Route" menu).

The map will now have zoomed out automatically to show you both departure point and destination, with a broad line highlighting the quickest route. Citymaps will decide on a suitable detail level for the surrounding map, but you can adjust its choice to show more or less roads or places. Either use the "Detail…" dialog (on the "Map" menu) or use the toolbar controls. There are also some keyboard shortcuts which you might find useful: press "+" or "-" to increase or decrease road detail, and ">" or "<" to increase or decrease the number of road and place names shown.

Route instructions

Use the "Table view" command (on the "View" menu, under "Switch view") or tap the "Table" toolbar button or press Tab, to bring up the table of instructions for the calculated route. This is filled with the sort of notes a real life navigator might make, e.g. "After 80m, turn left onto Chequers Way."

Note that you can use the silver zoom command icons to change the font of the instructions if it proves too small for your eyes.

Stepping through a route

One of the most useful features of Citymaps is being able to step through a calculated route, junction by junction. Let’s do this now for the route calculated above. It will be easier for you to understand if you ask Citymaps to display both map and instructions at the same time.

1. Use the "Horizontal split view" command (on the "View" menu, under "Switch view") to split the screen into two horizontal windows. The bottom one now shows the table of instructions whilst the top shows the relevant portion of the map.

Note the outlined arrow pointing to your departure point - this is the ‘route indicator’, which can be thought of as your current ‘position’. Note also the thick border around the bottom window, meaning that this is the ‘active’ view. Citymaps normally offers a route instruction strip in a large font, suitable for reading at a glance and only available when the map is ‘active’. This won’t be showing at the moment between the map and table, so press Tab or tap on the map and the special instruction strip will be displayed. The thick border will now be shown round the map window instead.

2. If you’d like to zoom into the map to see more detail at this point, either use the ‘zoom bar’ or press "i" or "o". For more detailed information, see "Zooming and moving" in chapter 3.
3. Press the down arrow key several times, stepping along the planned route (and down the table of instructions). Note that the route indicator on the map keeps pace with your progress through the planned route, displaying the current road name or junction. Note also that the route instruction strip ‘looks ahead’, giving you junction information that you’ll need very shortly.

In this way you can step right through to the end of your route.

To return to the main (full-screen) map, use the "Map view" command.

Different modes

Once a route has been calculated, the Space bar switches the route indicator off and on again. Try it now. With the indicator off, you’ll be able to browse around the street map freely and will also regain a bit more screen space for the map.

Most of the time the map screen will be in its default ‘Scroll’ mode. Try using the arrow keys to scroll the map around. Pressing Enter or tapping the "Mode" toolbar button switches between this ‘Scroll’ mode and ‘Cursor’ mode, which you’ll remember you used above to set a departure point for a planned route. Try pressing Enter a few times now and notice the difference between the two modes. In the former you scroll the map around, in the latter you move the cross-hair cursor. And of course, to switch the route indicator on again and re-focus on your planned route, just press the space bar.

See "The electronic map" chapter for more tips on getting the most from Citymaps’s maps and modes.

Setting departures and destinations

As we discovered earlier, there’s more than one way to tell Citymaps where you’d like to start and finish your journey.

By name

You’ll usually know the name of the road, so:

1. Use the "Plan route…" command (on the "Route" menu)
2. On the "Departure" or "Destination" lines, start typing the road name. Citymaps will try to match it - just press Enter or tap on it when correctly found.
3. Select the road junction required from the next dialog.

By map position

If the location you want to select is already shown on the map:

1. Press Enter to switch to ‘Cursor’ mode.
2. Position the cross-hair with the arrow keys.
3. Tap on the "Set…" toolbar button or use the "Set cursor as…" command (on the "Route" menu) and choose "Departure" or "Destination" as appropriate.

By numbered memory position

If you use your departure or destination roads (or particular overlay locations) often, it’s well worth entering them into one of Citymaps’s ten memories. Each memory stores the location and custom name of something you want to return to quickly. See "Memorizing positions" in chapter 3 for more details on this feature. Once entered in a numbered memory, a location can be quickly set as departure or destination by typing its number directly into the departure or destination lines in the "Plan a route" dialog.

By overlay location

Once set up (see "Creating and using overlays" in chapter 3), you can specific overlay locations as departure or destination:

1. In the "Plan a route…" dialog, tap on the "Overlay" button.
2. Choose which overlay file to use in the "Select location from" dialog and tap on "OK" or press Enter.
3. From the two choices on the top line of the next dialog, select either a specific overlay location or simply the nearest location to your departure point. If the former, either enter a search clue to help Citymaps find your overlay location or leave the field blank to choose from a scrollable list of all available locations. Tap on "OK" or press Enter.
4. Finally, from the resulting shortlist, select the location you wanted and tap on "OK" or press Enter. The nearest road segment to this location will be filled into the dialog automatically.

Using vias

Vias are roads and junctions you wish to include in your planned journey. For example, if you need to drop a package into a customer en route to your ultimate destination. Up to 4 vias can be set in exactly the same way as departure and destination points, i.e. by name or memory position number in the "Plan a route" dialog or by setting the cursor as a particular via number in "Cursor mode".

Each via you set up is worked into the planned route in numbered order, i.e. Via 1 is visited first, then via 2, etc.

Avoiding roads and area

There are several reasons why you might want to set up avoids in Citymaps. Perhaps there’s a known traffic ‘black-spot’ that you’d rather go round? Or you hear on the radio of a major accident? Or perhaps the local authorities have permanently closed off a road, turning it into a pedestrian precinct?

Whatever your reasons, Citymaps can accommodate you through temporary and permanent avoids. Although treated in the same way for route planning purposes, using the two categories will help you periodically delete those avoids which are no longer applicable, whilst leaving the permanent ones in place.

There are three ways to set up specific roads or areas to be avoided:

Avoid area

This is best used for traffic black-spots, where severe congestion means that not only an individual road is to be avoided, but all roads adjacent to it:

1. Use the "Avoid area" command (on the "Route" menu, under "Avoid area/road"). A small framed, flashing square will appear on the map.
2. Drag the square into position with the arrow keys. Enlarge it if necessary by either dragging any of the corners using Fn and the arrow keys.
3. Press Enter to finish defining the avoided area, which is now shown on the map as a shaded grey rectangle.

You should now use the "Plan route…" command again, making sure the "Use avoided areas" line is ticked in the dialog.

Avoid road closest to cursor

Use this feature to tell Citymaps about a specific road, prior to planning a route:

1. Switch to "Cursor mode" if necessary. Position the cross-hair on the road you wish to avoid.
2. Use the "Avoid road closest to cursor…" command (on the "Route" menu, under "Avoid area/road").
3. An "Avoid [road name]" dialog is now shown, enabling you to give Citymaps enough information to plan the route as well as possible. "Part to avoid" simply lets you widen the scope of the avoid from a single point to the whole road if necessary. "Type of obstruction" specifies whether the road is totally blocked or just heavy with varying degrees of traffic. In cases where a critical road has slow-moving traffic, Citymaps may still include it as part of a planned route. "Duration" lets you categorise the avoid as "Temporary" or "Permanent" - use these sensibly and it’s possible to give Citymaps a lot of day-to-day city intelligence.

You should now use the "Plan route…" command again, making sure the "Use avoided roads" line is set to an appropriate choice.

Avoid part of route

This feature is excellent for occasions when following a planned route and hearing of an accident up ahead:

1. Use the "Avoid part of route" command (on the "Route" menu, under "Avoid area/road"). A "Move indicator to avoid part of route" message flashes up at the bottom right of the screen.
2. Use the down arrow key to advance the route indicator to the road on your route that is affected.
3. Press Enter. A similar dialog to that described above appears, with "Type of obstruction" and "Duration" settings.

You should now use the "Plan route…" command again, making sure the "Use avoided roads" line is set to an appropriate choice.

Clearing avoids

The "Clear avoided area(s)…" and "Clear avoided road(s)…" commands (on the "Route" menu, under "Clear avoid(s)") let you remove either individual avoids or all of them in one go. The use of these dialogs is self explanatory.

Setting your personal preferences

Another important way to customise Citymaps for your own use is to tell it the types of road you prefer to drive on and the speeds you expect to average on each type. This information can then be taken into account when planning routes and calculating expected journey times.

1. Use the "Preferences…" command (on the "Map" menu).
2. Tap on the "General" tab and switch the "Units of measurement" if necessary, to "Miles" or "Kilometres".
3. Tap on the "Speeds" tab and adjust the average speeds for each road type to suit your driving style and the area being driven in.
4. Tap on the "Preferred" tab and use the arrow keys to adjust the +/- sliders as appropriate. For example, you might hate motorway driving and would then move the top slider to the left.

Loading and saving routes and avoids

With support for potentially complex routes and sets of avoided areas and roads, it’s important not to have to re-input them regularly. Avoids and the last route planned are remembered anyway for each Citymaps area, but it’s a good idea to use the "Save route…", "Save avoids…" or "Save route and avoids…" commands (all on the "File" menu, under "Save") when appropriate, to make sure parameters which may be needed again can be recalled.

When needed in the future, saved files can be loaded with the "Load…" command (also on the "File" menu).

3

The electronic map

Citymaps is much more than a route-planning aid. In this chapter we show you to how to get the most from its detailed street maps, its graphical interface and geographical features.

Zooming and moving

You’ll have noticed by now how Citymaps will by default automatically zoom the Map view to show both departure and destination, and how it scrolls the map as necessary to follow a planned route. Most of the time, however, you’ll be in control of how the map appears:

Zooming in and out

Citymaps offers you several alternative ways of zooming the map in and out, depending on how quickly you want to zoom:

- Using the ‘zoom bar’. Drag the pen up and down the ribbed vertical bar on the right of the screen to zoom in and out respectively. The screen will show you a low-resolution preview throughout, enabling you to zoom to exactly the level required.
- Using the "i" (and "o") shortcut keys, standing for "In" and "Out". Each press of either key raises (and lowers) the zoom level by around 20%. The "Zoom in" and "Zoom out" commands (on the "Map" menu) behave in exactly the same way.
- Using the "Zoom to…" command (on the "Map" menu). This offers five common zoom settings and situations:

1. Route
. In the likely event that you’ve altered the zoom since a route was last planned, this option resets the map view to show both departure and destination.
2. Closest road
. Useful especially when you know a road’s name and want to see its extent. The map is zoomed in or out to show the whole road on screen at the same time.
3. Rectangle
. This is useful when already zoomed out, for selecting a particular section of map to concentrate on.
4. Maximum precision
. Extremely useful after having found a particular road or location, saving several consecutive zoom operations. This takes you ‘in’ as far as possible and shows maximum detail.
5. Full map
. The opposite of Maximum precision, this zooms ‘out’ as far as possible, giving you an overview of the map. Note that you can get a quick overview more easily by toggling "View locator" to be ticked (on the "View menu).

Moving the map around

To scroll the map around on the screen, switch to "Scroll mode" (if necessary, by tapping on the "Mode" toolbar button or pressing Enter). Use the arrow keys (plus PgUp, PgDn, Home and End), moving the map centre in that direction by suitable increments.

Other map areas

If in scrolling the map you reach the boundary of the current map area, Citymaps will shade the adjoining area and label it with the name of the next map area needed. Tap on this shaded area and the program will offer to switch maps for you, automatically selecting the correct one if loaded on your EPOC device.

You can manually switch maps at any time, of course, using the "Switch area…" command (on the "File" menu).

Adjusting detail

Although Citymaps will do its best to present each map screen in a suitable level of detail, there will be times when you need to override its choice and manually adjust the detail displayed:

Road detail

You can adjust the number of roads displayed using either "+" or "-" or by tapping on either side of the "Roads" gauge at the bottom of the toolbar. The same gauge is also available by using the "Detail" command (on the "Map" menu), in which you can also turn off the traffic direction ‘arrowheads’ from one-way streets.

Place detail

You can also adjust the number of area and village names displayed using either ">" or "<", the "Detail" command (on the "Map" menu) or by tapping on either side of the "Places" gauge at the bottom of the toolbar. Note however that when zoomed in to street level, there’s rarely more than one ‘place’ name on the screen at any time and that the last few ‘notches’ on the Places gauge will effectively just turn on the naming of individual roads.

Label sizes

You can at any time increase or decrease the font size used for road and place names, using either the standard zoom command icons or the "Zoom font in" and "Zoom font out" commands on the "View" menu.

Memorizing positions

Most users of Citymaps find that they refer to handful of locations over and over again, either by looking them up on the map or as departure or destination in route planning. For example, home or work, parents’ home or perhaps a major customer. Citymaps has ten ‘memories’, each of which can be named and used with a single keypress.

To memorize a location:

1. Switch to "Cursor" mode (by tapping on the "Mode" button or pressing Enter.
2. Use the arrow keys to move the cross-hair to the desired location on the map.
3. Use the "Memorize cursor…" command (on the "Map" menu).
4. In the "Memorize cursor" dialog, choose a single-digit memory number to store the location and give it a name, e.g. number "1" and "Home".

To centre the map at any time on a memorized location, just press the appropriate number key. This can also be used directly in the location lines of the "Plan route" dialog, as described in chapter 2.

Showing and clearing road names

As long as you’re not in "Cursor" mode (i.e. as long as the cross-hairs aren’t displayed), tapping on any road segment pops up a label with the name of the road. You’ll probably have discovered this for yourself by accident by now and may be wondering how to make the labels disappear again.

Either tap on the individual name labels to remove them from the map one by one or use the "Clear names…" command (on the "Find" menu) to clear groups (or even all) of them in one go.

Changing the map appearance

Map aids

First and foremost, there are a number of ‘floating’ aids which can be dragged around and turned on or off as required. Quite apart from their appearance on top of the map view, the appropriate menu commands on the "View" menu are ticked when the aid is on. Use each of the commands to clear the tick and turn the aid off.

- Scale
. A graduated bar, marked in miles and yards (or kilometres and metres, if selected in "Preferences…"). Turned on by default.
- Locator
. A very low resolution overview of the map area currently loaded. Drag the central rectangle around the locator to recentre the main street view on a different part of the map area. Turned on by default.

Preferences

Use the "Preferences…" command (on the "Map" menu). Two of the six tabbed pages ("Speeds" and "Preferred") are to do with route planning and have already been covered in detail in chapter 2. Of the rest, there’s a lot you can do to customise the appearance of Citymaps’s maps:

- General - Map orientation
. By default, set to "North-up", i.e. with North always upmost. The other ‘heads-up’ options let you simulate the effect of navigating through a planned route by rotating a paper map to always match the direction being travelled. Some people find this method of navigating helpful, although it can be confusing as the map has to be redrawn often.
- General - Route indicator follows table
and Always zoom to planned route. Self explanatory and turned on by default.
- General - Use 16 grey levels
. This option appears on EPOC devices with a black and white display. In practice the improvement in appearance is minimal and it uses more memory and battery power. Turned off by default.
- Font
. Use the font selector and sliders to customise the relative font sizes used for each type of labelling. Note that the zoom command icons give you control of the absolute font sizes used.
- Graphics
. Self explanatory, use the dialog choices to tell Citymaps how you’d like the map text and lines to appear.

Creating and using overlays

A Citymaps overlay is a set of locations which can each be represented by an icon and a name, in a known position on a map. There may already be overlays available for the currently-loaded city, but you might also want to make your own.

To create a new overlay:

1. Use the "Create overlay file…" command (on the "Overlay" menu).
2. Type in a suitable file name on the Name line, e.g. "ABC offices" and tap on "OK" or press Enter. The overlay is now created and opened.

Note that Citymaps remembers which overlays you have open for each map area and makes sure that they’re available whenever you switch back to that area.

To add a new location to an open overlay:

1. Switch to "Cursor" mode and move the cursor to where you would like to add the location.
2. Use the "New location…" command (on the "Overlay" menu). Select the correct open overlay (there may be more than one) from the choice given and tap on "OK" or press Enter.
3. In the "Add new location at cursor position" dialog, type in a name to be displayed beneath the location on the map, e.g. "Main office" or "Peter’s house", etc. Note that if you tick the "Assign to key" box, Citymaps will jump straight to the "Memorize location" dialog and let you assign this overlay location to one of its ten memories.

Other features and functions

The size of this manual has necessarily limited the scope of what could be described and discussed. There are many other minor features, preferences and options which you’ll discover as you explore Citymaps further. They are all self-explanatory.

It’s also well worth checking our web site regularly, as free updates, tips and overlays are often posted for download:

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