Recording a route

akber · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 23, 2007 Posts: 3

let us suppose that I reached to place e.g. The house of my friend and now I want to mark it in my TOMTOM 510, i.e. now I will go back to my home.

Can I record the route so that TOMTOM can help me back.

mikealder · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

You cannot save a route and back track it later the unit will not do this, its much easier to store your friends house as a favourite that way you can easily navigate back to the same location.
Defining a route home is easy just hit Nav To/ Home assuming its set up it will take you home, possibly not using the same route in reverse as the routing engine considers left and right turn differently in terms of time taken so it might go a different way - Mike

philpugh · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:32 pm Post subject:

You should be able to set a HOME location in your unit. I'm not familiar with the 510 but I do have TomTom 6 Navigator on my PDA and I believe the interface is similar. You simply select Navigate To / Home. On TomTom Navigator you set/change your Home location in Change Preferences.

Also it is a good idea to use the Favourites area to save locations you go to. Use the Add Favourite to do this. I use it to plan journeys ahead of time - I find the locations and save them into the Favourites folder. When I am about to make the journey I simply call up the destination from there. I can delete it if it's only a one-off journey. I find it saves time and hassle than trying to find the exact location just before you set off, which can be tricky if you are not too sure about what 'town' the address is in. (The mappers seem to have their own ideas about what constitutes a town here in the UK). Thank goodness for PostCodes
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philpugh · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

Notes clash I think!
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akber · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 23, 2007 Posts: 3

the problem is that suppose address is not available in gps.

RQ · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:33 am Post subject:

If the address is not available then the longitude and latitude co-ordinates are available. You can obtain these via autoroute, google earth, multimap to name but a few.

Alternatively a postcode should get you within 25 - 50m or so.

You could browse your tomtom map and mark the location you want and have it as a favourite.

And if it still isn't there - well it hasn't been mapped yet or its another planet or its just one of those good maps that TT issue.
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Mullet · Frequent Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2005 Posts: 1051

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