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Moving Right Along


Figure 13: The map view while cruising on a highway.

A 2D map is shown in Figure 13. Your vehicle is the green arrow in the circle and the route is dark blue. The green line at the top of the screen shows your next instruction. Just below and to the left, a graphic displaying the nature of the instruction is shown, with the distance to the maneuver just to the right.

The map screen is set to show the direction you're heading as up (as opposed to always showing north up). Because of this setting, the red arrow to the top right points toward north. Plus and Minus buttons for zooming the display are toward the middle of the screen.

Just above the purple bar toward the bottom, you'll see the Menu button, the map scale and the Mute button. The purple bar itself displays the road on which you're currently travelling. The boxes at the bottom of the screen show, from left to right, time of arrival, remaining travel time, distance to destination and current speed.


Figure 14: Instructions to take an exit ramp.

Figure 14 shows the display when a turn is reached. The blue box just under the green bar shows the actual turn, along with the distance to the turn. In this case, there's another turn immediately after this one, since I was exiting from an interstate-type highway onto a two way highway. That second turn is shown in the smaller purple box connected down to the right from the first turn graphic. Again, the distance to that turn is shown.


Figure 15: Taking a right turn after the exit.

The detail for the second turn is shown in Figure 15.


Figure 16: Taking the exit ramp in 3D.


Figure 17: The right turn in 3D.

The same turn as shown in Figure 14 is shown in Figure 16, but this time with a 3D map. Figure 17 shows the 3D version of Figure 15.


Figure 18: The night display.

The night display with a 2D map is shown in Figure 18.