* Copyright Palmtop BV 1995

For the Palm Computing® connected organizers

Route is a sophisticated Road Map and Route Planning application. It includes maps for most of the Western European countries or USA states – depending on the version you have. It can display the major 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 PalmTM organizer. You can even attach a GPS device, turning your PalmTM organizer into a navigation system.

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

1. Installing and Running Route

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 Route

To switch to Route on your PalmTM organizer, simply press the "applications" button and tap the Route icon:

Removing Route from your PalmTM organizer

If you wish to remove Route completely (including the installed maps), press the application button on your PalmTM organizer and use the menu option "Delete" to delete Route.

You can delete a single map using the "Maps" menu option in ROUTE. A dialog will appear. Tap on the line showing the map name, and then press the "Delete" button to delete the map. This will free up some memory on your PalmTM organizer

2. Moving around on map

The first time you switch to Route, your screen will show the map you have loaded (as described in section 1). If you installed more than one map, ROUTE will ask you which map you want to view. Tap on the line showing the name of the map you want to open, and then press the "Done" button.

The map will display features such as roads, streets, borders and place names. At the top of the screen the current map-scale is displayed in either miles or kilometers (Use the "view" button at the bottom of the screen to choose between these options.).

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 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 "view" button at the bottom of the screen.

You can change the level of map detail by using the ears at the bottom of the screen.

You can request the name of a location or road near it. An options box will pop up asking you what you wish to do. The options "show place name" or "show road name" can be used to display the name of the place or road. The name will stay on the screen until you move or zoom the map.

Opening another map

To open another map, use the "Maps" menu option. A Dialog will show on screen. Tap on the line showing the map name of the map you want to view next, and press the "Done" button.

3. Finding places

To find the location of towns, cities and places in Route, use the "find" button at the bottom of the screen. Pressing this will bring up a list that shows all of the locations within the current Map. This list can be either searched by entering the name (or part of the name) of the location you wish to find or it can be browsed using the scroll arrows or the up/down buttons on the PalmTM organizer.

The list is sorted alphabetically with the exception of the first 9 items. These are reserved for "favourites"; recently used locations, destinations, departure points, as well as locations that you have added to the list yourself.

Figure 2. Finding a place: the favourites list | Figure 3. Finding a place: write the first letters of the name

After selecting a location, by searching or browsing, a list of options appears as follows:

These options all relate to the location you have selected.

- "Show on map" – Redraws your map with your chosen location in the centre
- "Set as destination" – Indicates that you wish to plan a route and that your chosen location will be the destination.
- "Set as departure" – Indicates that you wish to plan a route and that you will depart from the chosen location.
- "Add to favourites" – Indicates that you wish to add the chosen location to the list of "favourites" (as described above).

4. Planning a route

Before you can plan a route, you must specify first a departure point and a destination. You can do this in one of three ways:

- Tap anywhere on the map and select "set as destination" or "set as departure" from the options list that pops up.
- Tap the "find" button at the bottom of the screen and select one of the 9 favorite locations. After that, select "set as destination" or "set as departure" from the options list that pops up.
- Tap the "find" button at the bottom of the screen, and enter (part of) the name of a location. Tap the location that you want in the list, and select "set as destination" or "set as departure" from the choice list that pops up.

Once you have specified a departure point and a destination, tap on the "Plan" button at the bottom of the screen. A choice list pops up asking you what kind of route you wish to plan.

You can select from the following 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.

5. Driving instructions

Once Route has planned a route, it will display driving instructions in a table. 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 an estimated elapsed travel time is shown.

Note that Route can display driving instructions in two ways. The options list in the top right-hand corner allows you to choose between the two types of driving instructions:

Figure 4. The driving instructions.
In the top right-hand corner, the options list for the
different types of driving instructions.

- Normal
– this shows the roads that lead to your destination as well as detailing important places that you will encounter on your journey.
- Complete
– this shows every place and every section of road that you will encounter on your way – even unnamed intersections.

You can tap on any line in the table to get additional details about that part of the route. Once in this details view, you can browse through all of the instructions using the "next" and "previous" buttons.

Figure 5. Details of one of the driving instructions.

6. The route and the map

Planned routes are also clearly displayed on the map. A small indicator points out roads and locations on the route, while the status bar displays information about that location.

You can move the indicator around using the up/down button of the PalmTM organizer, or by tapping on the ears on the status bar. The indicator shows exactly the same locations and roads that appear in the table of driving instructions.

Figure 6. The planned route with the indicator
on the next maneuver point.

You can switch back to the driving instructions by tapping in the middle of the status bar.

7. Using a Global Positioning System

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

Select the "GPS" option from the menu of Route to enable or disable positioning.

As long as valid positions are being read, your position will be indicated on the map with the symbol .
Furthermore, the indicator will appear at the top of the screen.
Figure 7. The map, with the symbol indicating your current position

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" to the symbol on the last known position, and the indicator at the top of the screen will change to .

Route will try to keep your position on-screen, redrawing the screen if necessary, but if you move the map manually ,then you may lose the position. However, you can always click on the indicator to center the map on the current position.

8. 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

Copyright Palmtop BV 1996-2001

All rights reserved. This manual and the programs referred to herein are copyrighted works of Palmtop BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Reproduction in whole or in part, including utilisation in machines capable of reproduction or retrieval, without the express written permission of the copyright holders is prohibited. Reverse engineering is also prohibited.

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