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Program features:
Interface
- Selectable colour palettes for program and map.
- User interface with simplified operation logic, semitransparent hiding screen buttons in versions with navigation panels at the top or on the left side of the screen.
- User-customizable menu layout (basic and advanced).
- Configurable parameters (over a thousand) to control the way of presentation, navigation and other functions for advanced users.
- Up to 12 user-selected functions can be placed in the User menu and launched by clicking the map or from the context menu.
- Sound off visualisation highlighted in red.
- Adjustable size of texts on the map.
- Adjustable scale at which local roads are hidden on the map.
- Switchable language of menu and messages without program reinstallation.
- Possibility to reset to default settings.
- Selectable keyboard layouts: ABC, QWERTY, AZERTY or PHONE.
- Large icons facilitating finger operation in pop-up menu.
- Context menu.
- Selectable screen orientation (portrait and landscape mode).
- Battery charge status indication.
GPS- Automatic receiver detection.
- Automatic GPS restart if GPS signal reception problems are detected.
- Device time synchronization with GPS satellite time.
- Position reading delay correction in voice messages, and optionally in position displaying.
- GPS position reading more than once per second.
- Signal reception status indication.
- Possibility to replace the GPS indicator graphics with a bitmap from Images subdirectory: 2D = car2D.bmp; 3D = car3D.bmp.
- Preview of data received from the satellites (NMEA).
- Saving and playing back travel tracks.
- Displaying multiple GPS tracks simultaneously.
- Saving the planned route as a GPS track.
- Possibility to convert the GPS track to KMZ format and transfer it to Google Earth.
- Displaying GPS coordinates in formats: [dd][mm][ss.ss];
[dd][mm][mmmm]; [dd][dddddddd].
POIs (Points of Interest)- Several million POIs, of which over 500,000 on the map of Poland alone, including ATMs, pharmacies, clubs, petrol stations, retail parks, shops, currency exchange points, banks, fitness-clubs, etc.
- Practical information about broken road surface, speed bumps, car parks, public hot-spots.
- Searching POIs along the planned route.
- Searching POIs within a given radius from a selected place or locality.
- Mileage information (distance markers), particularly important for CB Radio users.
- Searching information using mileage data.
- Creating own POI categories and making them available to other users.
- Disabling empty POI categories (option "Containing points" in MENU | POI | Display).
- Hundreds of thousands of additional POIs, available in AutoMapa users' service http://www.miplo.pl/.
- POI categories hierarchical tree synchronized with http://www.miplo.pl/.
- Direct phone calls with telephone numbers included in POIs' descriptions.
- Graphical progress indication in searching POIs.
- Displaying photos with selected POIs.
- Warning about selected POI categories.
- Option of warning only about POIs next to the route.
- Showing name when deleting a POI or a favourite point.
- Dialogue for edition of favourite points with the option to delete points selected on the list just as in POI edition.
Route selection- Selectable route type: fast, optimal, short, off-road, walking, cross-country.
- Dialogue with the possibility to change the route type, displayed in a situation when the route is too long for the type currently selected.
- Taking into account vehicle speed when planning routes; the user can set his/her own speed limit for individual road categories (e.g. if the user drives slower on unpaved roads) or a general limit independent of the road category (e.g. for a lorry); if the speed set in the profile is, on a given road, slower than in the map data or AM'Traffic, the program will use the speed from the profile.
- Setting START and END points on one road segment, so that it is possible to return the route to the start point.
- Setting any amount of intermediate points (THROUGH points).
- Asking for deletion of THROUGH points from the previous route unaccounted for before planning a route to a new destination.
- Graphical progress indication of route planning.
- Moving route points using copy/paste commands.
- Selecting a destination from the PocketPC address book (contact list).
- Selection if the THROUGH point is to lead exactly through the selected place, or if driving through just the vicinity of a THROUGH point is enough (Smart THROUGH).
- Planning routes especially for lorries (and other large vehicles, such as a car towing a caravan).
- Selecting the moment when the planned journey starts, thus the planned road takes into account the AutoMapa Traffic system data (different expected speed in various places depending on the time of the day, day of the week, holiday and season).
- AutoMapa Traffic system considering road blocks and jams when planning the route, using traffic density data.
- Planning a route with the nearest THROUGH points (so-called traveller).
- Avoiding toll road sections, motorways, ferries.
- Additional information screens about the planned route: route points, statistics, list of manoeuvres, route parameters (option to print it or save to a file).
- Dialogue "Unwanted sections" in MENU->Route->Information with a list of sections which should have been avoided (e.g. ferry, toll road, motorway) but had to be used for the lack of another choice.
- Planning routes that avoid unsurfaced roads at the cost of route longer by a selected number of kilometres.
- Planning a route that avoids the U-turn manoeuvre, at the cost of route longer by a selected number of kilometres.
- Planning a route that considers "No turn"/"No U-turn" signs.
- Planning a route with visualisation and considering traffic direction (one-way, two-way).
- Switching route points.
- Planning a route alternative to the original one.
- Setting one of the program behaviours after planning a route: Do nothing, Route view, Summary, First manoeuvre.
- Loading a route or a GPS track directly by clicking the file (AutoMapa will be activated and display the selected file on the screen).
- Function of Show/Hide Route with the possibility to assign it to any key or the user's menu.
- When planning routes, the condition of not crossing borders recognizes and appropriately considers Schengen group country borders.
- Delete Route function.
- Asking for confirmation when deleting a route.
Navigation- Voice navigation.
- Navigator panel with graphical and text information, all elements user-selectable.
- Displaying information on two subsequent manoeuvres simultaneously on the navigator panel.
- Speed shown on the navigator and on-board computer panels.
- Distance to destination, time remaining to destination, arrival time, current time or current mileage shown on navigator panel.
- After clicking ETA (estimated time of arrival) on the navigator panel, the whole route will be shown.
- On-board computer function.
- PAUSE function for on-board computer calculations.
- RESET function for separate tabs of the on-board computer.
- Differentiation between maximum speed, average driving speed, average speed with stops on the on-board computer.
- Total distance travelled and distance travelled since the last stop shown on the on-board computer.
- Differentiation between stop time, driving time since the last stop and driving time.
- Travelled route percentage and progress bar on the on-board computer.
- Information on the route length and planned travel time.
- Route progress bar considering THROUGH points.
- Enabling/disabling route progress bar in the Settings.
- Voice and visual operation of THROUGH points on the navigator panel (including ETA).
- Automatic map view switching when travelling.
- Selectable map display preferences (setting the map with the north up or rotating according to driving direction).
- Automatic new route planning after leaving the previously planned one.
- Warning about exceeding speed limit.
- 3D manoeuvre arrow when map is inclined at an acute angle.
- Address points shown only at slow speeds, and near START, THROUGH and END points. It reduces the number of map elements which are unnecessary when travelling, and improves the map view change smoothness.
- Adjusting sounds volume to speed.
- Manual detour determining when travelling.
- Information about real speed limits in Poland for country roads, and in multiple Polish and European cities.
- Information about maximum vehicle speeds on routes of different types.
- Possibility to enable warning message about leaving the route.
- Different colour for the route section travelled so far.
- Saving/loading a planned route.
- Blocking/unblocking a route section.
- Setting start and end date for a blocked/unblocked road section on the map.
- Sections unblocked on the map by the user marked with a different colour.
- Saving and loading files with blocked sections.
- Playing route demo.
- Possibility to start the route demo without setting route points - a default demonstration route is shown.
- Disabling information about turns without crossroads.
- Automatically created "Car" favourite point, remembering the last GPS position at the moment when external power was disconnected or the program turned off (it facilitates finding the car on a car park, etc.).
Map- 3D map view and view of building block outlines in multiple Polish and European cities.
- Seamless operation of the whole map of Europe, without reloading maps.
- Switching between map scrolling and zooming after the screen button that hides screen buttons and slider is pressed for a longer time.
- To avoid unwanted zooms when scrolling the map, the Zoom slider will only react to finger or stylus movements that touch the slider handle.
- Water reservoir names display.
Searching- Exact point addresses in Poland and several other countries, address ranges in other European countries.
- Integrated address searching screen.
- Greying out keyboard buttons depending on characters already entered and still possible to enter.
- Searching and automatic suggesting of the list of found cities and streets starts after entering the second character, with an additional delay to enable quick entering of several characters at once also on slower devices.
- Automatic on-screen keyboard hiding when the list of search results fits on one screen.
- Searching addresses by postal codes.
- Added grouping (by cities and streets) of search results by postal codes.
- Address book support.
- History of selected: addresses, favourite points, POIs, etc.
- Deleting lists of last-used addresses, favourite points and places.
- Support for Greek and Cyrillic characters in on-screen keyboards and in searching.
Other- Installing AutoMapa on a clean memory card without the necessity to use ActiveSync connection (important on PND models without this function).
- Reducing program size by selection of only a fragment/area of the map during installation.
- Map registration from the portable device (if it is connected to the Internet).
- Creating user's own favourite points with the alternative of user-selected description.
- Saving and reading files with Favourite Points taken into account.
- Setting points for "Home" and "Work" location.
- Showing GPS coordinates of a point shown on the map from the context menu on the map.
- "Info" option in the context menu leads to additional tourist information embedded into the POI.
- Scrolling long selection lists using gestures with "inertia effect".
- Graphical progress indication of loading files with POIs, road blocks.
- Managing (hiding/activation) of on-screen buttons.
- Support for telephones.
- Hardware buttons support.
- Disabling sounds in main menu.
- Assigning over a hundred of functions to device hardware buttons.
- Minimizing application window in the main menu.
- Automatic screen highlight management according to the time of the day.
- Automatic program exit (with the user's permission) when the battery is low.
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