Exchanging Routes

zulu1001 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 01, 2005 Posts: 6

So, I'm off to france in a couple of weeks with some friends to see the french country side. Once we have found the hotel we intend to go out for a nice country drive. A friend has found what looks like a nice route. He has a TomTom and so do I! So heres the question :

How does he/I put the route into Tomtom when it's not going from A->B but round in a circuit on country roads.

Then, is it possible to pass the route onto me and other tomtom owners in the group so that we can import it to our units?

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

You can plan any route using the Itinerary Planner. Second screen in on most GOs.

Set up the places in the order of visiting. Then you can tap on the intermediate ones and change them to waypoints. The GO will take you to each in turn. Only problem I found is that if you use the address function to locate a point DON'T use the village/town name as the "street" in an attempt to go to the centre of the village/town. The GO will only take you within a mile or so of the place!!

Not sure about copying while on the road though. Easy if you have a laptop with you. The Itineraries are saved/stored in the "itn" folder. You can copy the individual route or the whole folder to the laptop and then on to another GO.

If you only have the two GOs side by side you will have to copy it the hard way!
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Andy_P · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:23 pm Post subject:

Sounds like an Itinerary to me!
Here's the manual section....

Itinerary planning

Although 'Navigate to...'

is fine for casual travel, it may be that you're planning a journey that's more ambitious. You may even want to save the details of this journey for future use or to pass them on to other users. Choose 'Itinerary planning'

to create a new itinerary or amend an existing one.

An itinerary is essentially just a list of 'waypoints' and 'destinations'. Your best route is calculated, visiting each in turn (in the exact order you specify). In general, you'd add a 'destination' when you wanted countdown information to arrival on the main navigation view, otherwise you'd add a location as a 'waypoint' that simply has to be travelled through (i.e. it's the 'way you want to go').

A typical itinerary, showing both waypoints to be travelled through and destinations you want to arrive at.

When first started, the itinerary planner will be empty, of course. Use 'Add' to select locations in the normal way, choosing from 'Home', 'Favourite', 'Address', 'Recent destination', and so on. Each location will be added as a waypoint if the previous one was also a waypoint, otherwise it will be added as a destination.

Note that the exact menu options shown here will change depending on whether the current itinerary entry is a waypoint or destination, and on whether it has been visited already.

You can manage an individual entry in an itinerary by selecting it, after which you'll see the waypoint menu (above). Use 'Mark as waypoint'

to change the entry from a destination to a waypoint, or 'Mark as destination'

to change it from a waypoint to a destination.

Use 'Mark as 'visited''

to mark this itinerary entry and all preceding ones as completed, so that navigation will continue from the next (unvisited) entry. You can even go back and travel part of an itinerary again by selecting somewhere you've already been and using 'Mark as 'to visit''

, in which case this and all following itinerary entries will be included in navigation again.

'Delete item', 'Move item up' and 'Move item down' are self-explanatory.

If you want to save your itinerary for re-use in the future, or if you want to load a previous itinerary, choose 'Options', using 'Save itinerary'

or 'Load itinerary'

respectively. When saving, you can enter a name for the itinerary using the standard on-screen keyboard (by default it takes its name from your last destination).

By saving your itineraries, you can re-use them at a later date without having to re-enter any of the locations. Use this screen to save, load or delete an itinerary, or to start a new one.

Select 'Start navigation'

on the 'Options' menu to start navigating.

If you connect up your Go to a PC, you'll find the saved itineraries (called "nnnn.itn")in a folder, also called "itn". You can share these with your friend by simple copy and pasting between your SD cards

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:

Aaargh, you beat me to it again sgould! Evil or Very Mad

Had to do all those images and bold texts manually too Crying or Very sad

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Sorry!!

On the other forums where you can edit a post, I sometimes get a short reply in first - and then expand it later Wink

But your post is a bit easier to follow!
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zulu1001 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 01, 2005 Posts: 6

Cool, thanks for that. I didn't quite expect such a full answer!

The problem I seem to be having now is that some of the turnings are on little coutry roads in the middle of nowhere. So it's difficult to say go from village a->b. Will just have to get smart with the waypoints!

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Go to "Browse Map" put the cursor on the road junction. Then hit the blue cursor symbol at the bottom of the screen and that point will be added as a waypoint.
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sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Forgot!!

If you use browse map, zoom right in to check that the point is on the correct side of the road - especially if there's a motorway, dual carriageway or roundabout etc. The GO can be too precise at times and will make sure that you go through the exact point you choose!
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