Easier way to view an area or place?

[Ben_S]

I think I must be stupid, but they must have made an easier way to search for towns/ places than I can work out.

Picture the scene. I'm at home, indoors (no gps on), looking at the tomtom map and out of interest I want to see where in Scotland Oban is or if Fareham has a railway station. I don't want to navigate there, just see where they are. I'm a bit thick and havn't a clue where these places are so I can't zoom out, move the cursor to the rough area and zoom back in.

At the moment I have to change to a blank navigator mode, tap for the menu, 2nd screen for find, choose address, type in the name of the town, choose a random street and number, add it to the itinery, select it, go to the second screen of the pop up options and choose "show on map"!

Thats a lot of flipping clicks for a simple task - is there an easy way?

[alix776]

in the top left hand corner theres a little black tab tap this select map from the drop down menu then at the bottom in the tool bar select find the one with the magnefing glass icon iput town street hey presto
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currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .

Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl

[Zeena]

Choose "Map" -modus. (down-arrow in the top left of the screen)

When you are in the mapmodus, you siply selects the magnyfier-icon on the bottomline.

Nr: 9 in this picture:


Select "adress" or something you prefer.

When finished yoy select "Show on map" in the pop-up meny

-voila-
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Gunnar Nystul, Forum Admin, TomTom Forum Norway and Nystul Navigasjon

[alix776]

thanks zeena thats what i getting at
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currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .

Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl

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