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Summary of Contents for ALK CoPilot A780
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Contents Contents ..........1 CoPilot Overview . -
Page 3: Copilot Overview
The driver must remain alert at all times to actual road conditions and obey all posted signs and traffic regulations. ALK Technologies assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury resulting from the use of this product. -
Page 4: Address Entry
5. The Select Stop screen provides you with several different ways to enter a destination. You can: • Enter a new Address • Program or enter your Home address • Program or enter your Work address • Select from your Favourite list •... -
Page 5: Start Driving
Start Driving! After entering one or more destinations, start driving and enjoy CoPilot’s spoken instructions, continuously updated maps and ETA’s, and automatic route recalculation capabilities. The Driver Safety Screen displays a text-only screen and is the recommended view for safe driving. -
Page 6: Favourites
Favourites In the Select Stop screen, tap the Favourite button. A scrollable list will appear, providing quick access to the last 50 destinations that were entered. Tap a Favourite on the list to enter it as a destination. To change which Favourite is assigned to the Home or Work buttons, choose Menu >... -
Page 7: Map Preview Of A Poi
3. When the search process is complete, a scrollable list of matches will appear. In this screen you have several choices, you can: • Highlight a POI and tap Map to preview it on the map (see below) • Tap Expand to expand the area of the search (this can be done twice) •... -
Page 8: Contact Integration
Contact Integration CoPilot allows you to link directly to your Contacts to retrieve address information. With just a few of quick taps of the stylus, you can enter a contact’s home and/or work address as your destination. 1. Tap the Contact button in the Select Stop screen. -
Page 9: Saved Trip
2. Enter a latitude and longitude in the appropriate format, using the drop-down pick lists for N or S, and E or W. 3. Once the lat/long has been matched, you have the option of assigning a name to the point. Tap Next to add the lat/ long you entered as a stop on your trip itinerary. -
Page 10: Itinerary Screen
Tap at the top of the Map Screen to invoke a toolbar and menu bar. The Going To button takes you back to the Going To screen where you can edit your trip (see p. 18). Itinerary Screen To see your trip Itinerary, tap the View button (second from left on the toolbar) then tap the Itinerary button in the nested toolbar. -
Page 11: Night Mode
Map Modes CoPilot gives you a choice of several different display modes for the Map Screen: 3D Perspective CoPilot’s two-dimensional default display mode can be changed to a three- dimensional perspective based off an isometric camera angle. To change to 3D, tap the screen to invoke the menu bar, then tap the View button and select 3D View. -
Page 12: Picking Stops From The Map
Picking Stops From the Map CoPilot enables you to pick a stop off the map when you don’t know the exact address of your destination. In any mode, tap and hold on your target location on the map, then add it as a stop. -
Page 13: Detour Feature
Detour Feature CoPilot’s Detour Feature allows you to preview an alternate route before deciding whether or not to take it. Perfect for situations in which traffic has suddenly slowed ahead of you, the Detour Feature will generate an alternate route. You can then make an informed decision about whether you’re better off driving through the delay or taking the new route. -
Page 14: Menu Options
Menu Options Tap the top of either the Map Screen or the Driver Safety Screen to access the menu bar. Then tap Menu and select Options. Routing In the Routing tab, the vehicle type options are Automobile or RV. RV routes favor major roads and avoid sharp turns and U-turns wherever possible. -
Page 15: Gps Status
Tap the Favorites tab to open your List of Favourite Addresses. To change the assignment of your work or home address, highlight your choice on the list, then tap Menu and choose Set as work or Set as home. NOTE: POI’s cannot be edited, you will get a “No matches found”... -
Page 16: Welcome Screen
Modes Menu CoPilot has four modes of operation on the mobile device. Tap the pop-up Mode menu at the bottom of the screen to select Guidance, Navigating, Walking, or Planning Mode. Guidance Mode In Guidance Mode, you enter one or more destinations, then tap the Start Driving button to start driving and receive guidance. -
Page 17: Determining Current Position
Select Stop Screen In this screen you add stops to your trip. There are nine different types of stop entry to choose from: • Enter a new Address • Program or enter a Home address • Program or enter a Work address •... -
Page 18: Toolbar Buttons
Map Screen The Map Screen displays when you are traveling at less than 16 k.p.h. or are at a standstill. It combines a large map display and concise text instructions. When you’re within 1 kilometer of a turn, CoPilot automatically switches to the map. To invoke the toolbar and menu bar, tap the top of the screen. -
Page 19: Trip Planning On Your Mobile Device
Trip Planning on Your Mobile Device You can use CoPilot on your mobile device for trip planning. Planning Mode allows you to run a trip on your mobile device even when you're not in your car. You'll get driving directions and maps that you can use for reference before your trip begins. -
Page 20: Installing Copilot To Your Desktop
Installing CoPilot to Your Desktop CoPilot Live comes fully installed and ready to use for route guidance on your mobile device. However, you will want to install CoPilot to your desktop if 1) you’d like to use the extensive trip planning features available with a desktop installation, or 2) you’re adding a data region. To learn more about CoPilot’s desktop trip planning features, see p. -
Page 21: Licence Update
Licence Update The CoPilot desktop software contains street-level maps for all of Europe, and CoPilot is offered with different licences that allow you to use some or all of these maps on your mobile device. Licences are available for the following: (1) Single region - Detailed street-level maps for any of the following regions: Alps Ski Region, Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), France, Germany, Italy, Pyrenees, Scandinavia, and the United Kingdom. -
Page 22: Data Selection Options
Trip to select a corridor along a route between two places; Region to select a whole country or region. (3) Download the Data: (3a) To a Storage Card in your Mobile Device: 1. Ensure that your mobile device is connected to the desktop/laptop. 2. - Page 23 City Radius Data Selection This method allows you to quickly select data in the shape of a circle surrounding any city on the map. In the Data Download Wizard you type a city name and country abbreviation or postal code and enter the distance you would like the radius to extend around the city, then click Next.
- Page 24 2. Enter a City, State or ZIP code (address optional) within the area that you would like to download. Click Next. 3. Click and hold the left mouse button and drag the cursor to draw a box around a desired area. The size of the area will be displayed in the toolbar.
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Page 25: Contents
3. To search for a POI, click the Points of Interest tab, enter a City, State or a ZIP Code and click the Find button. You can speed up your search by selecting a POI Category and/or Type. Highlight a selection, click Select, then Add Stop. -
Page 26: Poi Download Options
Check Include EU Highway Network to download CoPilot’s complete European Highway Network along with your data. This additional download requires approximately 59 MB of space on your mobile device. When this network is loaded, major roads, cities, and some points of interest outside your selected data region will be shown on the map and you’ll be able to receive guidance as you drive anywhere in the European Union. -
Page 27: Trip Transfer
Trip Transfer When you use the Trip download option, CoPilot transfers whole trips to your mobile device. The trip you create, including its Itinerary, is transferred along with the surrounding data corridor, and it becomes the current trip. The Trip download option creates a .TRP file that is placed in the Save directory in the CoPilot installation folder on your mobile device. - Page 28 4. In the next screen you'll see the data from your file sorted into columns. If the columns you see in the screen have not sorted the address data correctly, you need to indicate which delimiter CoPilot should recognize when it separates the fields in your file into columns.
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Page 29: Trip Planning On Your Desktop
Editing Custom Places in the Database After custom places have been added to the database, they can be edited at any time. Select Manage Custom Places from the Tools menu, then highlight the custom place you wish to edit, click Edit, and make your changes. Click Apply when finished. NOTE: By default, addresses entered as Custom Places are assigned to the Custom POI category. - Page 30 Generates the route for the trip you entered. Displays a detailed Trip Summary, Map and Driving Directions. Edit Trip Edit Trip button or Edit Trip in the Trip menu. Takes you back to the Trip Planner window where you can edit stops on your existing trip or click Clear to delete all stops and begin a new trip.
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Page 31: Zoom Out
Print button or Print... in the File menu. Takes you to the standard Windows Print options for printing the active window that contains your map or driving directions. Activate the map or directions by clicking on it or selecting it in the Window menu. Select Print TravPak... from the File menu to print driving directions, an overview map, and a zoomed map of each stop. - Page 32 More Detail button or Detail > Show More in the Map menu. Click once to increase the level of detail you see on the map by one increment without changing the zoom level. Less Detail Less Detail button or Detail > Show Less in the Map menu.
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Page 33: Help Menu
To turn on Pick Stop mode, click the Pick Stops button or right- click on the map and select Pick Stops. Then click on any point on the map to enter it as a stop. The map view must be zoomed in to level 11 or 12. -
Page 34: Reference: Copilot On Your Desktop
Reference: CoPilot on Your Desktop The following is a guide to the main screens you will see as you use CoPilot on your desktop/ laptop computer for trip planning. Map Window Menus and toolbar buttons to access all of CoPilot's desktop features. Click on a tab to frame any stop on your route. -
Page 35: Routing Options
Trip Planner Window (Contacts) Enter a person’s first or last name and hit <Enter>. CoPilot will search your Contacts database for matches. Select the Contacts address type (as defined in Outlook) to get the appropriate address, then click the Add Stop button to add it to your Itinerary. -
Page 36: Fuel Cost Calculator
Fuel Cost Calculator To calculate an estimate of your fuel costs for a trip, select Fuel Cost Calculator from the Trip menu before you run your route. Fill in the average cost per gallon of fuel that you expect to pay, and the distance per gallon you can expect to get in your vehicle. -
Page 37: Live Mode - Overview
On the following pages you'll see how you can communicate with someone on the road from within CoPilot (the Live Mode sections) and what it's like to be the driver using CoPilot when someone else is communicating with you (the Driving with Live sections). To set up your mobile device for tracking/messaging from within CoPilot or on the web, see Driving with Live - Mobile Device Setup, p. -
Page 38: Live Mode - Send Trip Itinerary Updates
Click your cursor in the space just below the Standard Response Buttons, and begin typing. The Standard Response Buttons are included in every message and are described in detail in Driving with Live - Receive/Respond To Messages (p. 77). You have complete control over the Customizable Response Buttons: 1) Choose to display 1-4 buttons by clicking the corresponding number at the bottom of the screen. -
Page 39: Driving With Live - Mobile Device Setup
When the driver responds to your trip itinerary update, the response is displayed in the Message Center: Send Trip Confirmation Driving with Live - Mobile Device Setup If you would like access to CoPilot’s Live Network on the Web so that your friends, family, and co-workers can message and track you from anywhere in the world, you’ll need to set up your mobile device for web tracking. -
Page 40: Driving With Live - Receive/Respond To Messages
6. Tap the Connection button in the Live screen to select which mobile operator’s network you will be using. You can also select when CoPilot should connect to the Live network and/or press the Connect button to connect immediately. 7. Once you’ve connected to the Live network, you’ll be able to send invitations to friends, family, and colleagues —... -
Page 41: Gps Accuracy
Driving with Live - Receive Trip Itinerary Updates When you are the driver and a Trip Itinerary Update is sent to you, CoPilot Live displays it on top of all other windows. You can Accept or Decline the change to your trip itinerary. If you accept the change, CoPilot Live will automatically start giving route guidance using the new itinerary. -
Page 42: Software Registration
THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU, THE USER (either an individual or an entity), AND ALK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ("ALK"). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENCE, DO NOT OPEN THE PACKAGE. Promptly return the unopened CD-ROM package and accompanying materials (including written materials and containers) to the dealer from which you obtained them for a full refund. - Page 43 Government is subject to restrictions set forth in subparagraphs (c) (1) and (2) of the Commercial Computer Software-Restricted Rights clause at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as applicable. Manufacturer is ALK Technologies, Inc., 1000 Herrontown Road, Princeton, NJ 08540.
- Page 44 THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU, THE USER (either an individual or an entity), AND ALK Technologies, Inc. ("ALK"). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENCE, DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE. Promptly return the package and accompanying materials (including written materials and containers) to the dealer from which you obtained them for a full refund.
- Page 45 OWNERSHIP The database and the copyrights and intellectual property or neighboring rights therein are owned by Navigation Technologies or its licensors. Ownership of the media on which the Database is contained is retained by Navigation Technologies and/or your supplier until after you have paid in full any amounts due to Navigation Technologies and/or your supplier pursuant to this EULA or similar agreement(s) under which goods are provided to you.
- Page 46 THIS IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU, THE USER (either an individual or an entity), AND ALK Technologies, Inc. ("ALK"). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENCE, DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE. Promptly return the package and accompanying materials (including written materials and containers) to the dealer from which you obtained them for a full refund.
- Page 47 4. Licencee's Responsibility: You assume all responsibility for, and ALK shall not be liable for, all action taken, decisions made, and advice given as a result of your use of the Software. 5. General: The export or re-export of the Software may be restricted by the laws of the United States and other countries, and you shall not export this Software in violation of any such applicable laws.
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