7. Finding A Restaurant

Figure 100: Main Menu

Most automotive GPS devices come pre-loaded with a Points of Interest database, allowing you to find nearby businesses, such as restaurants, gas stations, hotels, parking garages, and more. In GPS speak, a "Point of Interest", or POI, is a business address saved on the GPS. You can think of the POIs as a pre-loaded yellow pages on the GPS.

The GO 740 ships with a pre-loaded POI database of 5 million entries. That's about average: Magellan's Maestro units have around 4.5 million POIs, and Garmin's nuvi units generally have around 6 million POIs. It's important to also note that the GO 740 also has access to a virtually unlimited number of POIs via Google search.

To search for a restaurant using the pre-loaded POI database (i.e. not using Google), tap the screen to bring up the main menu, then tap Navigate to... > Point of Interest.

Figure 101: Navigate to...

Tap Point of Interest.

Figure 102: Navigate to a POI

The GO 740 ask where you want to search for a POI:

• POI near you - searches the POI database for business close to your current position
• POI in city - allows you to input a city name and search for POIs near that city
• POI near Home - search for businesses near the saved Home address
• POI along route - When navigating to a destination, this option allows you to search for businesses along the way. For example, you might want to search for a restaurant along the way to your destination
• POI near destination - Search for businesses near the destination address

Figure 103: POI Search While Navigating

Notice that the POI along route and POI near destination icons are only selectable while en route to a destination.

Figure 104: Specifying the POI Category

After telling the GPS where to search for a POI, the GO 740 asks us to choose a POI category. 60 POI categories are available to choose from (tap the "Play" icon on the lower right to view the entire list of POI categories), but the most commonly used categories have dedicated icons, as shown above.

In this example we'll be searching for a restaurant, so I'll tap on "Restaurant".

Figure 105: POI Search Results List

The GO 740 displays up to 30 results (displayed in groups of 6), ordered by closeness. Tapping the Find button lets you search the results by entering part of the restaurant name you're looking for.

Depending on your location, the GO 740's limit of 30 results can be annoying. For example, when searching for nearby restaurants in New York City, a limit of 30 results per search is less than optimal.

Of course, if you know the exact name of the restaurant, you could just search by name. But there are times when you either can't remember the name, or just want to continue browsing.

Figure 106: POI Map Screen

Tapping on a POI from the results list brings up the POI map screen, shown above.

This screen displays the POI on the map, along with the phone number of the business, and the ability to pan/zoom the map. If a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone has been paired with the GO 740, the "Dial" button can be used to call the phone number of the restaurant. Tapping "Select" starts navigating to the restaurant.

Figure 107: POI Details Screen

Tapping on "Details" in the previous screen displays the POI Details screen. Some POIs have more details than others. In this case, the restaurant's complete street address, phone number, and food cuisine type is displayed.

8. Itinerary Planning (Multi-Stop Trips)

Figure 108: Main Menu 3 of 3

An itinerary is TomTom-speak for a trip that includes more than one stop. An itinerary consists of a destination and waypoints (stops). Itineraries are useful when you want to make multiple stops along the way to your final destination.

Begin creating an itinerary by tapping the Itinerary planning icon from the Main Menu.

Figure 109: Adding Stops to the Itinerary

Touch "Add" to add the first stop to the itinerary.

Any of the regular destination types can be added to an itinerary, including POIs, street addresses, and recent destinations.

Figure 110: Building the Itinerary

You can add as many stops to an Itinerary as you like.

Once all the desired stops have been added to the itinerary, tapping "Done" starts navigating to the first stop.

Figure 111: Itinerary Options

Tapping "Options" from the itinerary planning screen allows you to save the itinerary for future use, or load a previously saved itinerary.

Figure 112: Begin Navigating The Itinerary

Once the itinerary been created, the GO 740 asks if we want to start navigating to the first destination in the list.