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Itineraries


Figure 12: Creating an itinerary. Click on the graphic for a zoomed view.

Itineraries are plans for extended trips with multiple stops. A simple example would be leaving from home, picking up a friend, traveling to another city, stopping at a restaurant and going to a football game.


Figure 13: Lot of stops. Click on the graphic for a zoomed view.

Figure 13 shows a sample itinerary. I’m leaving from home, picking up one friend on Robin Lane, another friend on Thorncrest Drive, and then going to Mangia Restaurant. Each location for the trip is added in the same way that destinations are added, as described above. Addresses, POIs, Favorites, etc. can all be used.


Figure 14: Fine tuning your stops. Click on the graphic for a zoomed view.

Figure 14 shows additional commands available when creating an itinerary. You can mark a location as either a waypoint (one that you want to pass by on your trip) or a destination (one where you actually want to stop). You can also move locations up or down, delete them and view them on the map.

Itineraries can be used to plan much longer trips than the ones described above. You could plan a multi-day trip with hotel and sightseeing stops, along with a final destination. TTN6 offers seamless maps of most countries, so I could plan a trip with destinations and waypoints anywhere in the US and Canada with the map I installed. With that seamless map weighing in at just under 1 GB, you have room to spare on a 2 GB memory card.

Alternate Routes


Figure 15: Going with Plan B. Click on the graphic for a zoomed view.

TTN6 gives you the ability to modify a calculated route. Reasons for doing this might be to go around a roadblock, to pick up a friend en route or to avoid a road that was selected because you don’t like to travel on it.


Figure 16: Taking the pain out of detours. Click on the graphic for a zoomed view.

Avoiding a roadblock is done from the site of the roadblock. You specify approximately how far the road is blocked, and TTN6 will recalculate the route around it.

"Travel via" would be used for picking up a friend en route. You tap that icon and then select the location for your friend’s house using the same methods used for selecting any destination. Only one location can be specified for a route using "Travel via"… if you have more than one person to pick up, it’s recommended that you use an itinerary instead.


Figure 17: Practicing avoidance behavior. Click on the graphic for a zoomed view.

If you wish to avoid part of a route, tap on the corresponding icon. All of the roads on the route are displayed, and all you have to do is to tap on the road that you want to avoid. TTN6 will then recalculate the route, avoiding the specified road.