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Interest you want, tap on the keyboard icon

in the bottom left corner and then tap in a few

letters of the name. Tap on a Point Of Interest to

select it as your destination.

Note that some of the more specialist Point Of

Interest categories (e.g. 'Place of worship',

'Theatre') may contain information only for major

cities.

Once planned, TomTom GO shows its route

summary on a suitably-scaled map.

Tap on 'Map' if you want to zoom in and explore

the route in the context of a street map; see

chapter 4 for more on this.

Tap the 'Route' button to see a detailed list of turn

instructions, e.g.

. Again, use

the and buttons to scroll up and down,

a page at a time.

When you first use TomTom GO, the cumulative

journey time (i.e. how long you've been travelling)

for each instruction is shown, but you can change

this by tapping on the 'Options' button.

Tapping on any individual route instruction switches

to TomTom GO's map view (again, see chapter 4),

zoomed in on the right junction. As in the 3D view,

the coloured road represents the calculated route,

the white arrowheads show the direction of travel

and the green, specially-shaped arrow shows

what sort of turn to make at the junction.

From any of these information screens, tapping

'Done' will take you back to the previous one and,

eventually, back to the main 3D view.

3.2 Find alternative...

One scenario you may come across is that

TomTom GO has planned a route that you're not

happy with. Perhaps it has routed you via a busy

junction or known roadworks, perhaps you really

wanted to go 'via' a particular location, or perhaps

you simply wanted a route with less motorway

driving. This is where the 'Find alternative...'

option comes in. Tap on its icon now, to show a

new options menu, shown below:

Tap on 'Travel via...' if you want to make

sure the planned route goes past a particular

location, perhaps to collect (or drop off) a letter or

parcel. The new location is picked in exactly the

same way as you would pick a departure point or

destination, with the usual options of 'Home',

'Favourite', 'Address', 'Point Of Interest', and so

on. Once selected, TomTom GO calculates a new

fastest route, making sure to include your 'via'

location.

Tap on 'Avoid roadblock' while driving, if you

spot signs of trouble (such as backed-up traffic or

'Delays ahead' warning signs). To save you time,

there are four presets:

Estimate whether the blockage extends '100m',

'500m', '2000m' or '5000m' ahead and then tap

the appropriate icon. TomTom GO then quickly

calculates a new route that avoids all roads for

the chosen distance along the planned route,

hopefully routing you right round the troubled

area.

If you want to avoid a particular road junction,

perhaps because it's a known traffic black spot,

tap on 'Avoid part of route' . TomTom GO

will then show you a list of all the current route

instructions. Use the and buttons to scroll

through, tapping on the one you want to avoid.

TomTom GO will then calculate a new fastest

route, avoiding the problem junction.

Note that any junctions that have already been

passed are greyed out and can't be selected.

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