Nextar S3 S3 Software Manual - v2 - Page 18

Avoid Roads, Manage, Route, The GPS, Ferries, Gated Communities, Motorways, My Roads to Avoid

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Avoid Roads You can specify that certain roads be permanently excluded from your route calculations. Use this feature when you want to avoid congested roads, toll roads, or unsafe streets. From the Manage Route menu, tap the Avoid Roads button. The Avoid Roads screen appears, displaying predefined road groups. Figure 17 - Predefined Road Groups The GPS provides the following predefined road groups: • Ferries - The default value is to avoid • Gated Communities - The default value is to allow • Motorways - Roads that allow for high volume, maximum speed traffic movement between and through major metropolitan areas. The default value is to allow • My Roads to Avoid - This is a default folder that lets you store roads to avoid. You can display the items in this folder and allow or avoid specific roads. • Toll Roads -The default value is to avoid To allow or avoid a predefined road group: • Select a predefined group and tap the Allow/Avoid toggle button. The next time you calculate a route, it calculates a route based on your avoid or allow selections. Note: Predefined road groups are allowed or avoided as an entire group. You cannot allow or avoid individual toll roads, highways, or ferries. 17

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You can specify that certain roads be permanently excluded from your route calculations.
Use this feature when you want to avoid congested roads, toll roads, or unsafe streets.
From the
Manage
Route
menu, tap the
Avoid Roads
button. The
Avoid Roads
screen
appears, displaying predefined road groups.
Figure 17 – Predefined Road Groups
The GPS
provides the following predefined road groups:
Ferries
– The default value is to avoid
Gated Communities
– The default value is to allow
Motorways
– Roads that allow for high volume,
maximum speed traffic movement between and through
major metropolitan areas. The default value is to allow
My Roads to Avoid
– This is a default folder that lets
you store roads to avoid. You can display the items in
this folder and allow or avoid specific roads.
Toll Roads
-The default value is to avoid
To allow or avoid a predefined road group
:
Select a predefined group and tap the
Allow/Avoid
toggle button. The next time you calculate a route, it
calculates a route based on your avoid or allow
selections.
Note
: Predefined road groups are allowed or avoided as an
entire group. You cannot allow or avoid individual toll
roads, highways, or ferries.
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