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User Guide: © 2010 Sygic, A.S. All Rights Reserverd
User Guide: © 2010 Sygic, A.S. All Rights Reserverd
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2010 Sygic, a.s. All rights reserverd.
I. Getting Started ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Entering an Address ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Turn by Turn Navigation .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Acquiring GPS Position .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
II. Planning the Route ............................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Action menu ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Navigating to a Point of Interest ................................................................................................................................................................................ 9
Navigating to Contacts ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 10
Navigating Home ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Navigating to Favourite Destinations .................................................................................................................................................................. 13
III. Altering the Route ............................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Route Menu ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14
Modifying the Route ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Map Browsing Mode .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Avoid toll roads, motorways of ferries ................................................................................................................................................................ 16
IV. Online features ................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Connection ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Traffic alerts ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Reporting speed cameras and incidents ............................................................................................................................................................. 19
Weather Information ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
V. Community ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Friends................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Share your location and status ................................................................................................................................................................................ 22
Send messages ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
Share position via SMS ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23
VI. City guides and Travel Book .......................................................................................................................................................... 24
City Guides ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 24
Travel book ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
VII. Settings ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25
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I. Getting Started
In Navigation Mode (A), the software tracks your
Please note, that symbols and
position for visual reference of route and map
specify functionality available for
around you. If you want to explore other locations,
following devices:
drag the map with your fingers to switch to Map
Browsing Mode (B). To select destinations, review Devices with phone functionality.
information about your route and alter settings, go
Smart phones or devices with
to Menu (C).
internet connection.
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Street-first address search
Entering an Address
To set your destination by entering its address
City changes
select
2 automatically
Menu > Find > Destination
After you Select Country you can enter Select City 1 Select street
or Postal Code or enter Select Street directly. Enter
the first few letters of the City/Street name to see a
list of similar names.
Sygic Aura supports City-first and Street-first
address entry.
The list also features explanatory icons left to the
City-first address search city/street name:
City
1 Select city
Capital city
City center
2 Select street
Street
Street crossing
Middle of street
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To accept the route and start turn by turn In addition to turn by turn directions, the
navigation, tap Done. If you wish to return to Navigation Screen also provides a range of further
planned route go to Menu > Info > Route. useful information:
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II. Planning the Route
Action menu
Action menu is the last step in the process of Drive to
selecting any location in Sygic Aura. A variation of Set selected location as destination and
action menu is available after: calculate route for car navigation.
- Pushing a red Target Square in Map
Walk there
Browsing Mode
Set selected location as destination work
- Making a selection from any part of Find Walk mode and calculate pedestrian route.
menu
- Selecting a contact or Aura Friend from Travel via
Community > Friends menu Insert a waypoint to an existing route.
More actions
Show on map
Not available from Map Browsing Mode.
Nearby POI
Display the list of POIs near the selected
location.
Add POI
Add selected location to the database of
points of interest.
Call friend
Dial contacts number.
Send SMS
Compose SMS message to a selected
contact.
Send Message
Send message via Aura Friend network.
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Navigating to a Point of Interest
In addition to the road network, the map also
stores the details of thousands of Points of Interest
(POIs) such as gas stations, restaurants, hotels,
tourist attractions and other facilities.
To set a POI as your destination, you have multiple
options:
- Menu > Find > Destination
Find POI in the city or near the selected
address.
- Menu > Find > Nearby POI
Shows a list of POIs near your current (or
last valid) position.
- Select a position in Map Browsing Mode
and choose Nearby POI from Action Menu
1 Select city
2 Find POI in
Vienna
Search by POI
name anytime
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Navigating to Contacts Navigating Home
If you want to drive to your friend or business To start using this feature, you need to set your
partner, you can select their name directly from home location first, select:
your contact list. Select
Menu > Find > Home
Menu > Community > Friends
In the list, scroll to the desired contact, or tap on
the magnifying glass and enter their name. You
can also enter partial names. Tap on the name of
the Contact and action menu will appear. To set
the address assigned to a contact as your
destination, tap the Drive to, Walk there or Travel
via button. For more actions, see the chapter
Action menu.
NOTE: To set your destination from the contact list, the selected
contact must be stored with a full address.
Once your home address is stored, you can
navigate home from the same dialogue.
If you wish to change your Home address, tap the
Set button.
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Navigating to Favourite Select the desired Favourite destination by tapping
it and then select your next option from the Action
Destinations Menu.
To view a list of your favourite destinations, select Defining a new Favourite destination
Menu > Find> Favourites To add new item to the list of your Favourite
You can start navigation by selecting a Favourite destinations tap on Add then set address by
destination from the list shown. choosing from following options:
- My current position,
- Select from map, or
- Enter address.
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Modifying the Route
If you wish to travel through a certain place on
your trip, use option Travel via in Action Menu. For
more information, see the chapter Action menu.
Note: The action menu appears only if you zoom into a part of map
that is included in your product license.
1 This option is only present when you have already planned a route.
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Avoid toll roads, motorways of If you have added some waypoints to your route,
you can set Avoid motorways, Avoid toll roads or
ferries Avoid ferries for each via point separately.
To Avoid motorways, Avoid toll roads or Avoid If you wish to cancel the calculated route entirely,
ferries tap on the icons shown in the header of the and use the navigation system only as an indicator
route. of your current position, select
Menu > Info > Route > Cancel route
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IV. Online features
The entire chapter Online features applies only to smart phones or devices with internet
connectivity.
Connection
In order to use online services (e.g. real time traffic
and safety camera alerts) you will need to connect
Traffic alerts
your device to the internet. Select Availability of the traffic service depends on your product
configuration.
Menu > Settings > Connection Visit www.sygic.com/shop for more information about
availability and pricing of traffic service in your region.
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Reporting speed cameras and To change the way you receive reported camera
and incident information, select
incidents
Menu > Settings > Speed cameras
If you observe a speed camera or traffic incident on-
route, tap the bottom bar of the Navigation Screen.
Select your option from the menu. Join the growing Policetraps.com community,
where other users meet to make further
improvements to the database.
For more information, visit www.policetraps.com
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V. Community
The entire chapter Community applies only to smart phones or devices with internet
connectivity.
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Send messages Share position via SMS
To send, view and delete messages go to This feature is not available on iPhone, Android and Maemo
devices.
Menu > Community > Messages
The screen will show the most recent messages
Sygic Aura enables you to share your current
grouped by sender. To view all messages from
position or any other location with others via SMS
certain person tap on the name of the sender.
text message.
You can choose to Reply to a message or Remove
To send your current position to your contacts or to
message by taping on it. To delete all messages
receive their position, chose location the same way,
from this sender tap on Remove All.
as setting the destination in chapter II. Planning the
Route or select a point on map using the target
square.
From action menu options choose Share location.
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VII. Settings
IMPORTANT: Menu items marked with * are not available in map view
all devices.
Map details - see POIs, town blocks and
landmarks displayed on map.
To change factory settings, go to Menu > Settings.
Set Day /Night colours, or choose
automatic switching between them.
Sound
Signpost info
Enable sounds or Disable sounds
Lane assistant
Voice guidance
Autozoom
Volume settings* - set the sound
intensity separately for low driving Photos see photos of places on map.
speed and for high speeds.
Connection
Set sounds for notifications
Trap/Radar sounds Connect or Disconnect your device from
Speed limit internet
Friend notifications
Change password
Message notification
Create New Account
Display Clear login data
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after specified time.
About
Information about version, device code
and available application memory.
Please provide this information in
communication with Sygic support.
Reset to defaults
Restore default settings.