Finding Alternative Routes; Why Change The Route - TomTom Ease Reference Manual

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Finding alternative routes

Once you have planned a route, you may want to change something about the
Finding alternative routes
route, without changing your destination.

Why change the route?

Maybe for one of these reasons:
• You can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead.
• You want to travel via a particular location, to pick someone up, stop for
lunch or fill up with gas.
• You want to avoid a difficult intersection or a road you don't like.
Tap this button in the Main Menu to change the currently planned route.
Change route
Tap this button if you can see a roadblock or a line of traffic ahead. You then
have to choose how much of the route ahead you want to avoid.
Choose from the different options. Your EASE recalculates your route
Avoid
avoiding the section of the route for the distance you selected.
roadblock
Don't forget that once a new route is calculated, you may have to turn off
the road you are on very soon.
If the roadblock disappears while you are traveling, you can tap Recalculate
original to recalculate your original route. After you tap Calculate alterna-
tive, the button name changes to Recalculate original.
Tap this button to calculate an alternative to the route already planned. Your
EASE calculates another route, starting from your current location.
After you tap Calculate alternative, the button name changes to Recalcu-
Calculate
late original. If you later decide you want to travel along the original route,
alternative
tap Recalculate original.
Apart from the roads near your position and near your destination, the new
route uses totally different roads to reach your destination. This is an easy
way of calculating a totally different route.
Tap this button to replan your original route.
This button is shown when you have changed your route by calculating an
alternative.
Recalculate
original
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