Setting Your Routing Preferences; To Set Your Routing Preferences - Apache Street Atlas USA 2005 User Manual

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Select the Start or Finish point on the map and drag it to the desired location on the map.
Note: If you try to add a start or finish point to an existing route, you are prompted "Would you like to
move your Start/Finish location or create a new route" Click New if you want to begin creating a new
route. Click Move to move the Start/Finish point to the last location clicked.
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To add/insert a stop or via to your route, click the corresponding tool, the Stop tool
and then click the spot on the map where you want to add/insert your stop/via.
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To rearrange stops and vias, click the desired waypoint to select it and then click the Move Up
Move Down
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To delete a stop or via, select the desired stop or via and then click the delete button.
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To change a stop to a via, select the desired stop and click Make Via. To change a via to a stop, select the
desired via and then click Make Stop.
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Click Reverse Rte to reverse the order of all of the waypoints in the route.
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Click Calculate, if you do not have the Auto Calc check box selected in the New/Edit subtab.
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Click Comments to add an alternate name to your start, finish, stop, or via.
Note: Press CTRL+ENTER to type additional lines of text.
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Click Stop Prefs to make a stop in your route a fuel or end of day stop. For more information, see Setting
Your End of Day and Fuel Break Preferences on page 111.

Setting Your Routing Preferences

Once you have mastered basic routing, you can customize your routing preferences and create a more complex
route.
The routing preferences allow you to tell Street Atlas USA 2005 whether you would like to favor or avoid various
road types when calculating your route. You can also set your speed preferences to reflect your particular driving
style.

To Set Your Routing Preferences

Use the following steps to set your routing preferences.
1. Click the Route tab and then click Advanced to open the Advanced Routing dialog area.
2. Click Route Prefs to display the Route Preferences dialog area.
3. From the Road Type drop-down list, select the road type for which you want to set preferences.
4. From the Routing Preference drop-down list, select Preferred, Standard, or Avoid. Preferred tells it to
favor this type of road whenever possible, Standard is the default level, and Avoid tells Street Atlas USA
2005 to avoid this type of road whenever possible.
Note: An avoided road may be used if there is no other road type available.
5. In the Speed text box, type your average driving speed for this road type.
Note: Street Atlas USA 2005 uses these speeds to compute the travel time for a route.
6. In the Urban Speed text box, type your average driving speed for this road type within urban area.
Note: Street Atlas USA 2005 uses these speeds to compute the travel time for a route. The Urban Speed
text box is only available for road routes.
7. Repeat steps 3–6 for each road type.
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When you are finished setting your road preferences, click Review to display all your settings.
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Click Use Defaults to restore all road types to the Standard preference level.
8. Under Route Features, select one or all of the following check boxes:
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Automatic Calculation—Automatically recalculates your route each time you make a change to it.
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Show Location MapNotes—Displays Location MapNotes with their coordinate information for each
point in your route.
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Show Comments MapNotes—Displays comments about your route.
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Show Summary MapNotes—Displays time and distance information for each waypoint and the finish
point of your route.
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GPS Voice Navigation—Provides spoken route directions when you are tracking with a GPS receiver.
After initializing, the computer speaks the directions for the next turn in your route. It repeats the
instructions approximately 60 seconds prior to arriving at the turn.
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