Traffic Information; Function Descriptions - Volkswagen Golf Owner's Manual

2. Touch the desired destination.
3. Touch .
Route
Quick start
1. Touch and press and hold the de-
Favourites
sired destination for a few seconds.
Selecting on the map
The navigation map contains active areas at many
locations which are suitable for destination input. To
do this, touch the desired position or location on the
map. You can start route guidance if map data are
available at this location.
Destination input via the navigation map depends on
the data status and is not possible for all positions.
To start "offroad navigation", touch a free area with-
out positioning data → page 211.
Starting navigation
1. Touch .
2. Move the map view until the desired position
can be selected. The navigation map can be op-
erated by extended touch gestures → page 207.
3. Touch the desired destination on the map.
4. Touch .
Route
Offroad navigation
The "offroad navigation" function calculates routes
to selected destination points with unknown data. If
a destination point is not on known roads or there is
no positioning data available for this point, the navi-
gation system will calculate the route up to the
nearest point on the known roads and then com-
plete the route up to the destination point by a di-
rect connection.
Starting navigation
1. Touch .
2. Move the map view until the desired position
can be selected. The navigation map can be op-
erated by extended touch gestures → page 207.
3. Touch any point on the map without positioning
data.
4. Touch .
Route
Using contact data
Start navigation using the stored address data of a
contact. Stored contacts without address data can-
not be used for route guidance.
Starting navigation
1. Touch .
2. Touch the desired destination.
3. Touch .
Route
NOTICE
If the address data of a contact are out-of-date, nav-
igation will still be performed to the stored address.
Make sure that the address of the contact is up-to-
date.

Traffic information

Please refer to and
the start of the chapter on page 207.
The Infotainment system automatically receives de-
tailed traffic information when connected to the In-
ternet. This information is indicated by symbols and
colouring of the road network on the map.
Receipt of traffic information depends on the
privacy settings set. In the maximum privacy
settings mode, no traffic information is received
→ page 175.
Traffic reports
Traffic reports, e.g. traffic jams or slow-moving traf-
fic are shown as symbols on the navigation map
→ page 208, Navigation equipment and symbols.
When route guidance is active, traffic reports that
are on the current route are displayed in the route
plan. You can bypass these traffic reports
→ page 211, Function descriptions.
Traffic flow display
The traffic flow is shown on the navigation map for
all traffic reports by colouring of the road network.
Orange Slow-moving traffic.
Red Traffic jam.

Function descriptions

Please refer to and
the start of the chapter on page 207.
Route plan
The route plan contains information on all events,
e.g. starting points, stopovers, traffic reports, POIs
and destinations, if navigation data is available.
When you touch an event, an additional window
opens with further options. The options available
depend on the event and the current settings
→ page 207.
Opening and closing the route plan
— Touch the route plan directly to open it.
on page 190 and at
on page 190 and at
Navigation 211