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Route guidance

� Route guidance screen

� Typical voice guidance prompts

� Distance and time to destination

� Setting and deleting destination Adding destinations Reorderingdestinations Deleting destinations

� Setting route Search condition Detour setting Route preference Startingroute from adjacent road

� Map view Display POI icons Route overview Route preview Route trace

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During route guidance, various types ofguidance screens can be displayed de-pending on conditions.

� Screen layout

1 Distance to the next turn and thearrow indicating turning direction

2 Current street name3 Distance and travel/arrival time to

the destination4 Current position5 Guidance route

INFORMATION� If the vehicle goes off the guidance

route, the route is searched again.

� For some areas, the roads have notbeen completely digitized in ourdatabase. For this reason, theroute guidance may select road

that should not be traveled on.

� When you arrive at your destina-tion, the destination name will bedisplayed on the top of the screen.Touching “OFF” clears the display.

� During freeway drivingDuring freeway driving, the freeway exit in-formation screen will be displayed.

This screen displays the distance to thenext junction and exit, or POIs in the vicin-ity of the freeway exit.

1 Current position2 Points of Interest that are close to

a freeway exit3 Exit number and junction name4 Distance from the current position

to the exit or junction5 Current street name

: To display the selected map of theexit vicinity.

: To scroll for farther junctions or exits.

: To scroll for closer junctions or exits.

: To scroll for the closest three junc-tions or exits.

Route guidance screen

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� When approaching a freeway exit orjunction

When the vehicle approaches an exit orjunction, the guidance screen for the free-way will be displayed.

1 Road/area name2 Distance from the current position

to the exit or junction3 Current position

“OFF”: The guidance screen on freewaydisappears and the map screen appears.

When touching or pushing the“MAP/VOICE” button, the guidancescreen on freeway reappears.

� When approaching an intersectionWhen the vehicle approaches an intersec-tion, the intersection guidance screen willbe displayed.

1 Next street name2 Distance to the intersection3 Current position

“OFF”: The intersection guidance screendisappears and the map screen appears.

When touching or pushing the“MAP/VOICE” button, the intersectionguidance screen reappears.

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� Other screensTURN LIST SCREENOn this screen, the list of turns on the guid-ance route can be viewed.

Touching during guidance displaysthe turn list.

1 Next street name or destinationname

2 Turn direction3 Distance between turns4 Current street name

ARROW SCREENOn this screen, information about nextturns on the guidance route can be viewed.

Touching during guidance displaysthe arrow screen.

1 Exit number, street name contain-ing number or next street name

2 Turn direction3 Distance to the next turn4 Current street name

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The voice guidance provides various mes-sages as you approach an intersection, orother point where you need to maneuverthe vehicle.

4.7 miles

0.25 miles+α

1 “Proceed about 5 miles.”

2 “In a quarter of a mile, rightturn.”

3 “Right turn.”

4 (Beep sound only)

INFORMATIONOn freeways, interstates or otherhighways with higher speed limits,the voice guidance will be made atearlier points than on city streets inorder to allow time to maneuver.

4.2 miles

0.25 miles

1 “Proceed about 4 miles to thetraffic circle.”

2 “In a quarter of a mile, trafficcircle ahead, and then 3rd exitahead.”

3 “The 3rd exit ahead.”

4 “The exit ahead.”

5 (Beep sound only)

Typical voice guidanceprompts

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One- way road

One- way road

∗: The system indicates a U-turn if the dis-tance between two one-way roads (of op-posite directions) is less than 50 feet (15m) in residential areas or 164 feet (50 m)in non-residential areas.

1 “In half of a mile, make a legalU-turn.”

2 “Make a legal U-turn ahead.”

3 (Beep sound only)

The system announces the approach tothe final destination.

1 “Your destination is ahead.”

2 “You have arrived at your des-tination. The route guidance isnow finished.”

INFORMATION� If the system cannot determine the

current vehicle position correctly(in cases of poor GPS signal recep-tion), the voice guidance may be

made early or delayed.

� If you did not hear the voice guid-ance command, push the “MAP/

VOICE” button to hear it again.

� To adjust the voice guidance vol-ume, see “Volume” on page 67.

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When the vehicle is on the guidance route,the distance and the estimated travel/arriv-al time to the destination are displayed.When the vehicle is not on the guidanceroute, the distance and the direction of thedestination are displayed.

When driving on the guidance route andmore than one destination is set, the dis-tance and the estimated travel/arrival timefrom the current position to each destina-tion are displayed.

1. Touch this button to display the fol-lowing screen.

2. Touch the number button to displaythe desired destination.

The distance, the estimated travel timeand the estimated arrival time from the cur-rent position to the selected destinationare displayed.

Estimated travel time is dis-played.

Estimated arrival time is dis-played.

To switch to estimated arrivaltime.

To switch to estimated traveltime.

Displayed while driving off theguidance route. The destina-tion direction is indicated byan arrow.

INFORMATIONWhen the vehicle is on the guidanceroute, the distance measured alongthe route is displayed. Travel timeand arrival time is calculated basedon the set vehicle speed information.(See page 84.) However, when the ve-hicle is not on the guidance route, thedistance is the linear distance be-tween the current position and thedestination.

Distance and time todestination

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Adding destinations and searching againfor the routes can be done.

1. Touch “Route”.

2. Touch “Add”.3. Input an additional destination inthe same way as the destinationsearch. (See “Destination search” onpage 19.)

4. Touch the desired “Add” to deter-mine the arrival order of the additionaldestination.

When more than one destination is set,you can change the arrival order of thedestinations.

1. Touch “Route”.

2. Touch “Reorder”.

3. Select the destination in the order ofarrival by touching the destination but-ton.Reordered number of arrival is displayedon the right side of the screen.

Touching “Undo” will cancel each se-lected order number from the previouslyinput number.

Setting and deletingdestination —— Addin g destinations — Reordering destinations

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4. After selecting the destinations,touch “OK”.The system searches for the guidanceroute again, and displays the entire route.Even if “OK” is not touched, the entireroute is displayed automatically within afew seconds when the order is fixed.

A set destination can be deleted.

1. Touch “Route”.

2. Touch “Delete”.When more than one destination is set, alist will be displayed on the screen.

3. Touch the destination for deletion.“Delete All”: To delete all destinations onthe list.

A message appears to confirm the requestto delete.

— Deleting destinations

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4. To delete the destination(s), touch“Yes”.If “Yes” is touched, the data cannot be re-covered.

If “No” is touched, the previous screen willreturn.

5. If more than one destination is set,touch “OK” after deleting the destina-tions.The system searches for the guidanceroute again, and displays the entire route.

You can designate the route conditions ofthe route to the destination.

1. Touch “Route”.

2. Touch “Search Condition”.

3. Touch “Quick”, “Quick1”, “Quick2”or “Short” and touch “OK”.

Setting route —— Search condition

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The entire route from the starting point tothe destination is displayed.

“Guide”: To start guidance.

“Route”: To change a route. (See pages50 and 52.)

While the route guidance is operating, youcan change the route to detour around asection of the route where a delay iscaused by road repairs, or an accident,etc.

1. Touch “Route”.

2. Touch “Detour”.

— Detour setting

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3. Select the button below to select thedesired detour distance.“1 mile (km)”, “3 miles (km)” or “5 miles(km)”: Touch one of these buttons to startthe detour process. After detouring, thesystem returns to the original guidanceroute.

“Whole Route”: By touching this button,the system will calculate an entire newroute to the destination.

This picture shows an example of how thesystem would guide around a delaycaused by a traffic jam.1 This position indicates the location of

a traffic jam caused by road repairs oran accident.

2 This route indicates the detour sug-gested by the system.

INFORMATION� When your vehicle is on a freeway,

the detour distance selections are5, 15, and 25 miles (km).

� The system may not be able to cal-culate a detour route depending onthe selected distance and sur-

rounding road conditions.

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A number of choices are provided on theconditions which the system uses to deter-mine the route to the destination.

1. Touch “Route”.

2. Touch “Route Preference” tochange the conditions that determinethe route to the destination.

3. Select the desired route preferenceby touching the button.When searching for a route, the system willavoid routes when the indicator is off.

4. After choosing the desired routepreference, touch “OK”.

You can start the route guidance from theadjacent road.

(ex. When route guidance is set on thefreeway, but the vehicle is driven parallelalong the freeway.)

1. Touch “Route”.

2. Touch “Start from Adjacent Road”.When there is no adjacent road, this buttonwill not be displayed.

— Route preference— Starting route fromadjacent road

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Points of Interest such as gas stations andrestaurants can be displayed on the mapscreen. You can also set their location asa destination and use them for route guid-ance.

1. Touch “Map View”.

2. Touch “Display POI Icon” to displaya particular type of Point of Interest onthe screen.

A screen with a limited choice of Points ofInterest will be displayed. (To change thedisplayed POI, see page 87.)

� Selecting POIs to be displayedUp to 5 categories of icons can be dis-played on the screen.

Touch the desired Point of Interestcategory to display POI location sym-bols on the map screen.By selecting the desired POI category andthen touching “OK” , the selected POIicons are displayed on the map screen.

To turn off the Points of Interest icon on themap screen, touch “Delete” .

“Other POIs”: If the desired Point of Inter-est can not be found on the limited choicescreen, touch this button.

“Local POI Lis t”: When searching for thenearest Point of Interest, touch this button.Then choose one of the categories. Thesystem will list the points within 20 miles(32 km). (See page 58.)

Map view —— Display POI icons

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Touch “Other POI’s” on the “DisplayPOI icons” screen.When a Point of Interest category is se-lected from either the limited list or thecomplete list, the screen will display sym-bols of those locations on the map screen.

Select the desired POI categories.

The selected category icon appears on thetop left of the screen.

By selecting the desired POI category andthen touching “OK” , the selected POIicons are displayed on the map screen.

If the desired POI category is not on thescreen, touch “List All Categories” to listall POI categories.

Select the desired POI categories fromthe list.

The selected category icon appears on thetop left of the screen.

By selecting the desired POI category andthen touching “OK” , the selected POIicons are displayed on the map screen.

To return to the POI category selectionscreen, touch “More” .

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� To display the local POI listPoints of Interest that are within 20 miles(32 km) of the current position will be listedfrom among the selected categories.

1. Touch “Local POI List” on the “Dis-play POI icons” screen.

2. Touch the button of the desiredPoint of Interest.The selected Points of Interest are dis-played on the map screen.

“On Route”: When the indicator is illumi-nated by touching this button, the list of theitems searched along the route is dis-played.

� To set a POI as a destinationYou can select one of the Points of Interesticons on the map screen as a destinationand use it for route guidance.

1. Directly touch the Point of Interesticon that you want to set as a destina-tion.The map will shift so that the icon is cen-tered on the screen and overlaps with thecursor . At this time, the distance fromthe current position is displayed on thescreen. The distance shown is measuredas a straight line from the current vehicleposition to the POI.

2. When the desired Point of Interestoverlaps with the cursor, touch “Enter

”.

The screen changes and displays the maplocation of the selected destination androute preference. (See “Starting routeguidance” on page 38.)

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1. Touch “Map View”.

2. Touch “Route Overview”.

The entire route from the current positionto the destination is displayed.

“Guide”: To start guidance.

“Route”: To change the route. (Seepages 50 and 52.)

“Turn List”: The following screen displaysthe list of the roads up to the destination.

You can scroll through the list of roads by

touching or . However, not all roadnames in the route may appear on the list.If a road changes its name without requir-ing a turn (such as on a street that runsthrough two or more cities), the namechange will not appear on the list. Thestreet names will be displayed in orderfrom the starting point, along with the dis-tance to the next turn.

These marks indicate thedirection in which you shouldturn at an intersection.

Touch “Map” on the “T urn List” screen.The point which you choose is displayedon the map screen.

— Route overview

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1. Touch “Map View”.

2. Touch “Route Preview”.

: To indicate the next destination.

: To preview the route to the nextdestination.

: To preview the route to the nextdestination in fast-forward mode.

: To stop the preview.

: To review the route to the previousdestination or starting point.

: To review the route to the previousdestination or starting point infast-forward mode.

: To indicate the previous destina-tion or starting point.

— Route preview

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It is possible to store the traveled route upto 124 miles (200 km) and retrace the routeon the display.

INFORMATIONThis feature is available on the mapwith more detailed map scale than 30mile (50 km).

Touch “Map View”.

“Record”: To start recording the routetrace.

“Stop”: To stop recording the route trace.

If you touch “Stop” to display the followingscreen.

Touching “Yes” stops recording and theroute trace remains displayed on thescreen.

Touching “No” stops recording and theroute trace is erased.

— Route trace

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