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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

OnCourse? Of Course! OnCourse Navigator 6 Reviewed

Posted by Doug Raeburn in "SOFTWARE" @ 08:00 AM


Hit the Road, Jack!

Figure 23: The Cockpit.

Figure 23 shows the Cockpit screen with a 2D map. On the top, the arrow on the left shows the next instruction (in this case, going straight through a major intersection), with the distance until that maneuver and the road that you’ll be on afterwards. Your position is the blue arrow and your route is the green line. In the set of green boxes on the bottom, the long top box is the road that you’re currently on. The 3 boxes below are, from left to right, remaining distance to destination, estimated time of arrival and current speed. Display settings provide the means for changing the contents of the bottom 3 boxes as desired.


Figure 24: The Map view in 3D.

Figure 24 shows an example of a 3D map.


Figure 25: "North-up" orientation.

The icons/buttons on the right of the map are both indicators and buttons. The top button controls the map’s north orientation. When the icon displays a red N at the tip of the arrow (as in Figure 25), the orientation is north-up, which means that north is always displayed at the top of the screen and the maps don’t rotate. When the icon displays just the arrow with no red N, the orientation is track-up, meaning that the top of the screen always shows your direction of travel. With track-up, the arrow rotates within the icon to point to north. Tapping on this icon allows you to switch between the 2 orientations.


Figure 26: The GPS status screen.

The next icon displays GPS status. The status values include no GPS connected, weak signal, 2D position, 3D position and TMC (traffic message channel, real time traffic information) available. Tapping on this icon displays the GPS status screen, as shown in Figure 26.

The next 2 icons show battery power and sound on/muted, respectively.


Figure 27: Auto-zoom.

As with most nav software, OCN6 will auto-zoom to highlight instructions on the map.

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