Changing Your Active Route
Adding a location to your route
Before you can add a location to your route, you must be navigating a route (
).
You can add locations to the middle or end of your route. For example, you can add a petrol station as the next
destination in your route.
TIP: to create complex routes with multiple destinations or scheduled stops, you can use the route planner to
plan, schedule and save a route (
).
1 From the map, select > Where To?.
2 Search for a location (
Finding and saving locations, page 20
).
3 Select a location.
4 Select Go!.
5 Select an option:
• To add the location as the next destination in your route, select Add As Next Stop.
• To add the location to the end of your route, select Add As Last Stop.
• To add the location and edit the order of destinations in your route, select Add to Active Route.
The device re-calculates the route to include the added location and guides you to the destinations in order.
Shaping Your Route
Before you can shape your route, you must start a route (
).
You can manually shape your route to change its course. This allows you to direct the route to use a certain
road or go through a certain area without adding a destination to the route.
1 From the map, select > Edit Route > Shape Route.
TIP: you can select
to zoom in on the map and select a more precise location.
The device enters route-shaping mode and recalculates the route to travel through the selected location.
2 Select
> .
3 If necessary, select an option:
• To add more shaping points to the route, select additional locations on the map.
• To remove a shaping point, select the shaping point and select .
Taking a detour
You can take a detour for a specified distance along your route or detour around specific roads. This is useful if
you encounter construction zones, closed roads or poor road conditions.
1 From the map, select > Edit Route.
2 Select an option:
• To re-route for a specific distance, select Detour by Distance.
• To detour around a specific road on the route, select Detour by Road.
Stopping the route
From the map, select > Stop.
Using Suggested Routes
Before you can use this feature, you must save at least one location and enable the travel history feature (
).
Using the myTrends
™
feature, your device predicts your destination based on your travel history, the day of the
week and the time of day. After you have driven to a favourite location several times, the location may appear in
the navigation bar on the map, along with the estimated time of travel and traffic information.
Select the navigation bar to view a suggested route to the location.
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Following a route
