TomTom Citymaps
For Windows Powered Pocket PCs

1. Installing TomTom Citymaps
2. Moving around on map
3. Finding places
4. Favourite locations
5. Planning a route
6. Driving (or walking) instructions
7. The route and the map
8. Using GPS
9. Technical Support

TomTom Citymaps is a sophisticated Street Map and Route Planning application. It is available with maps of most major cities and towns for most of the Western European countries. It can display the road networks on many different scales and show you the best way to get from A to B. It is fast, easy to use, and makes full use of the features on your Pocket PC. You can even attach a GPS device, turning your Pocket PC into a navigation system.

This manual provides a brief but complete overview of the capabilities of TomTom Citymaps.

1. Installing TomTom Citymaps

Automatic installation

Insert the CD-ROM into your PC's CD ROM drive and the Installation Wizard will take you through the installation. If the installation does not start automatically, you can run setup.exe from the CD-ROM drive.

Switching to TomTom Citymaps

To switch to TomTom Citymaps on your Pocket PC, simply open "Programs" from the "Start" menu and tap the TomTom Citymaps icon.

2. Moving around on map

When you switch to TomTom Citymaps, your screen will show the latest map you have used or loaded. If you installed more than one map and you want to view a different map, select "Switch map..." from the "File" menu to choose a different map.

The map will display features such as roads, streets and city names. At the top of the screen the current map-scale is displayed in either miles or kilometers (Select "Properties..." from the "File" menu to switch between miles and kilometers).

Figure 1. The map of Paris

To move around the map, drag the pen over the screen in the direction that you wish the map to scroll. This way you can scroll short distances easily and, by repeating the strokes, large distances can be scrolled quickly.

The vertical zoom bar allows you to zoom in or out. By dragging the bar in an upward direction the map will zoom out. In the picture above, the zoom bar is displayed on the right, but it can be set for left-handed use with the "Properties..." option on the "File..." menu.

Figure 2. Detail level is selectable

By briefly tapping the screen, the cursor will be repositioned and the name of the nearest street will be displayed.

By tapping and holding the pen on the screen, a menu with options for the location under the pen will be displayed. These options allow you to set departure, destination and stopover locations, or to add the location to your personal collection of favourite locations.

Figure 3. Tap-and-hold to select options

To customize the map, change the settings in the "General" and "Graphics" tabs of the "Properties..." option on the "File..." menu. The "Legend..." option on the "Tools" menu displays a map colour legend.

On the "General" tab you may change map display style and road colours, indicate whether to use miles or kilometers and position the zoom bar. The "Graphics" tab allows you to customise the display of planned routes and borders.

Figure 4. General properties

3. Finding places

To find the location of towns, cities, roads, streets, underground stations and other locations in TomTom Citymaps, tap on the "Find" button at the bottom of the screen. The "Find" button has a magnifying glass.

Enter the name (or part of it) of the desired location. This will drop down a list that shows all the locations within the current map with names identical or closely similar to the name entered.

Figure 5. Finding a place

After selecting a location from the list, tap on it. The "Crossing" drop down list allows you to select a street crossing the selected street to finetune the location. Choose "Anywhere" if the complete street is precise enough.

Figure 6. Select crossing

Crossings marked with (*) (asterisk) are crossings that cannot be reached by car, e.g. two pedestrian roads. Crossings marked with (-) (dash) can be reached by car, but the crossing road itself cannot be reached by car, e.g. a normal road crossing a pedestrian road.

Tap on the desired crossing (or "Anywhere"), then tap on "OK". A list of options including the name of the selected location, appears as follows:

Figure 7. Selected location

These options all relate to the location you have selected.

- Set as departure -; Indicates that you wish to plan a route and that you will depart from the chosen location.
- Set as destination -; Indicates that you wish to plan a route and that your chosen location will be the destination.
- Set as first stopover -; Indicates that you wish to plan a route and that you will make a stopover at the chosen location.
- Set as second stopover -; Indicates that you wish to plan a route and that you will make a stopover at the chosen location.
- Add to favourites -; Indicates that you wish to add the chosen location to the list of "Favourites" (as described above).
- Show on map -; Redraws your map with your chosen location in the center

4. Favourite locations

TomTom Citymaps can keep track of a list of twenty easily accessible favourite locations. Favourite locations can be added from the map display by tapping and holding the pen at a location on the map view and choosing the "Add to favourites..." option (see figure 3) .

You may change the name of the favourite location and optionally add a description or note to it. You must also choose at which position in the list of twenty favourites it will be kept.

Figure 8. Adding a favourite location

Favourite locations will always be displayed on the map if the "Show favourites" option in the "Graphics" tab of the "Properties..." item in the "File" menu is checked.

To find or edit a favourite location, switch to the "Favourites" view by tapping the top bar on the left and selecting "Favourites".

Figure 9. Favourites view

To change a favourite location, tap the favourite location briefly in the Favourites view. This will open the "Edit favourite" dialog.

To delete a favourite location, tap the favourite location in the Favourites view and hold the pen on the screen. This will pop up an options menu for the selected favourite location. Choose the "Delete..." option to delete the favourite location from the list.

To view a favourite location on the map, tap-and-hold the favourite location in the Favourites view and select "Show on map" from the options menu.

To plan to, from or via a favourite location, tap-and-hold the favourite location in the Favourites view and select one of the departure, destination or stopover options from the options menu.

5. Planning a route

Before you can plan a route, you must first specify a departure point and a destination. Optionally you may specify up to two intermediate stopover locations.

You can specify these in one of four ways:

- Tap-and-hold anywhere on the map and select one of the "Set as" options from the menu that pops up.
- Tap-and-hold on a favourite location in the Favourites view and select one of the "Set as" options from the menu that pops up.
- Tap on the "Find" button at the bottom of the screen and enter (part of) the name of a location. Select a location (as described in section 3). Next select one of the "Set as" options from the menu that pops up.
- In the "Plan route" dialog change the departure, destination and/or stopovers by entering the names and optionally crossings in the "Plan" and "Stopover" pages. The "Plan route" dialog is selected by choosing the Plan button on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen.

Note: Whenever you specify a destination, departure or stopover any previously planned route is cleared.

Your specified point of departure will be displayed on the map as a green flag (grey on grey-scale displays) with the word "go" and the specified destination as a red banner (grey on grey-scale displays). Stopovers are displayed as yellow (light grey on grey-scale displays) flags.

Figure 10. Departure, stopover and destination

To plan the route, tap the Plan button on the toolbar. Enter, change or accept the destination, departure and stopover locations.

Figure 11. Plan route dialog

You can select from the following planning options:

- Quickest route - This will calculate the quickest route to your destination based on a combination of distance and road speed.
- Shortest route - This will calculate the shortest route to your destination.
- Walking - This will calculate the shortest route for walking to your destination. It may take you also through areas that are not accessible to motorized traffic, such as parks and foot paths.

Select an option, then tap on "OK" and TomTom Citymaps will calculate the desired route.

Avoiding an area

If you wish to avoid an area on a planned route, first select an area on the map that you wish to avoid (prior to planning a route). An area may be selected by choosing "Avoid area..." on the view menu. A rectangle will be displayed on the map which may be moved and resized with the pen. When the rectangle covers the correct area tap the OK indicator.

Figure 12. Area to be avoided when planning a route

You may add multiple area's to the map that need to be avoided, up to 32. To clear all simultaneously choose "Clear avoid(s)" from the "Tools" menu. To clear a single area, tap the X mark on the particular area.

6. Driving (or walking) instructions

Once TomTom Citymaps has planned a route, it will first display a "Summary" of departure and destination locations, distance and duration of trip. After tapping on "OK", the driving (or walking) instructions are available in the Instructions view. Switch to the Instructions view by tapping the top bar on the left and selecting "Instructions".

These instructions list the roads that will take you from your departure point to your destination, as well as other locations you will encounter on your journey. For each road the distance is provided, as well as the elapsed time.

Figure 13. The route instructions

You can browse the route table using the scroll bar on the right. You can tap briefly on any line in the table to view the directions in detail. In the "Instruction details" you can browse through all of the instructions by tapping on the left and right buttons at the bottom of the screen. Tap on "OK" to return to the Instruction view.

Figure 14. Detail

By tapping and holding a specific instruction in the Instruction view a menu with options appears that allows you to add the location to the list of Favourite locations or to show it on the map.

7. The route and the map

In the Map view, the planned route is clearly displayed on the map. An arrow indicator points out roads and locations on the route, while a status bar at the bottom of the map displays information about that location.

Note: In Split view mode, when both the Map and the Instruction views are on screen, the status bar is hidden. Select Split view mode from the top bar.

You can move the indicator around using the up/down button of your Pocket PC, or by tapping on the arrows on the status bar. The indicator shows exactly the same locations and roads that appear in the route table.

Figure 15. A planned route on the map

You can switch back to the driving/walking instructions by selecting the Instructions view on the top bar.
Viewing the map, you can:

- Review the summary of the planned route by choosing "Route summary..." in the "Tools" menu.
- Switch back to the driving/walking instructions by tapping in the middle of the status bar, or by selecting "Instructions" from the top bar
- Zoom to the planned route by selecting "Zoom to route" from the "Tools" menu.
- Clear the planned route by selecting "Clear route" from the "Tools" menu.

8. Using GPS

If you attach a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver to your Pocket PC, capable of providing information in NMEA 0183 v2 format, you will be able to track your own position on the map.

To prepare TomTom Citymaps for GPS, select the "Setup" button in the "GPS" tab of the "Properties..." option on the "File" menu.
Note: You must have installed the TomTom GPS software onto your Pocket PC to use GPS with TomTom Citymaps.

Adjust any other settings in the "GPS" tab in the "Properties..." option.

Figure 16. Configure GPS

If you have the GPS device switched on, the status bar (in the Map view) will show the name of the road you are on, or the nearest road. As long as valid positions are being read, your position will be indicated on the map with a special arrow. The arrow indicates your direction of movement.

Figure 17. Current position according to GPS

It may happen that the GPS device does not deliver recognizable data (e.g. because the device is switched off, or because it hasn't got enough satellite coverage to provide a position). In that case, the indicator on the map will "freeze" at the last known position, and the indicator will change colour.

9. Technical Support

For technical support, you can visit our web site

http://www.tomtom.com

send us an E-mail at

support@tomtom.com

or contact us at

Palmtop B.V.

Zandsteen 54

2132 MR Hoofddorp

The Netherlands

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