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You'll be familiar with the types of location that can be found. Note that the 'Point Of

Interest' option finds and sorts items by distance from your current GPS position, not by

distance from the center of the map or from the cursor position. To find Points Of Interest

sorted by distance from the cursor position, see 'Find nearby POI' in

Map options

Use the 'Options' button to customize the level of detail shown on the map. (If using TomTom

MOBILE or the optional GO remote control, 'Options' is also your way into cursor and find functions,

with 'Change preferences' giving you the options below.)

The choices made here will apply to all future displays of the map view.

Clearing the 'Names' check-box (it's ticked by default) will stop the display of relevant town and

district names. Ticking 'Favorites' will pop up a yellow star for each favorite location (only on the

map view). If TomTom Traffic is enabled, note you can tick 'Traffic' to show current traffic

information on the map (whose appearance will be altered to highlight traffic delays).

You can turn on (or off) the display of 'Points Of Interest' on the map view by ticking its check

box. Which Points Of Interest are displayed depends on the categories you have chosen to show.

You can make this choice now, by selecting the 'POI' button, or later, using

Preferences.

Switching maps

Depending on which application package you purchased, there may be more than one map database

available. If so, you can use

one.

Preferences

You can change much of the look and feel of your TomTom system to your own liking by

using 'Preferences'

'Manage

maps' in Preferences to switch maps or even download a new

. To see all the options described in this chapter, use

Cursor

functions, above.

'Manage

POI' in

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