Destinator PN is an accessory for your Pocket PC device that turns it into a mobile personal navigation system. It lets you plan your route, and provides turn-by-turn voice and visual guidance for destinations.
About Destinator
Destinator, through its innovative Research and Development teams, designs, develops and produces the next generation of enabling technologies and products for the emerging Location Business.
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Destinator PN is designed with the following time-saving and power-saving features:
The icons that are located along the edges of the map screen give you access to all Destinator PN functionality. To save power, these icons will dim after a period of non-use. For a description of each icon click here.
Dynamic cursor: Destinator PN's screen cursor has the capability to automatically change its appearance so that you will be informed of several important navigation conditions.
Cross-Region Navigation: The Cross Region Navigation feature lets you navigate a route that extends across more than one region on the same continent, without having to switch maps. This feature becomes available only when you have the following maps installed: the map of your origin, the map of your destination, and a map of the major roads for that continent (e.g. major roads of Europe). When the Cross Region feature is enabled, you can press Region to display a list of installed maps, and select the map pertaining to your destination. Destinator PN will automatically change maps as you travel across regions, displaying your route at the same level of detail as you drive. You will not need to switch maps during your route.
SMS Navigation: You can send the location of any highlighted item in the Address menu, POI menu, Favorites menu, History menu, Contact list to anyone listed in your Contacts list. Note: In order to use SMS navigation, both you and the recipient must be using PPCPE devices. For a description of SMS navigation click here.
SMS Inbox: Destinator PN allows you to receive a location from someone via an SMS message. This feature is available only if you have a PPCPE device. In order to send you a location, the sender must also have a PPCPE device that is running Destinator PN, or a Destinator SP (SmartPhone). The SMS message will include a location to which you can navigate.
SMS Activation: If your Destinator PN is running on a PPCPE device, you can activate your product by using SMS messaging.
Home Button: Calculates a route to a pre-set POI or address. See Using the Settings Menu.
Landscape View: Full support for either portrait or landscape view. Destinator PN supports full landscape operation that is compatible with Windows Mobile SE devices. This view is particularly useful for navigation when you want to see more of your lateral surroundings. Destinator PN adjusts the screen view to fit either portrait or landscape mode.
Navigate to a Point on the Map: You can navigate to any point on the map by tapping its location directly on the map screen.
TTS (Text to Speech) Functionality: If you enable this feature, you will hear street names when Destinator PN provides voice prompts. See Using the Settings Menu.
The following steps summarize how to plan a driving route to a destination:
On the map screen, click the
icon. The Destinate menu is displayed.
Click on one of the options to enter a destination. Your destination can be an address, a POI,a favorite, a history item, a contact, or an SMS inbox item.
Enter your destination. Clicking on Navigate will initiate route calculation to your destination. The route is displayed in blue.
Follow the visual and voice prompts.
The Options Menu provides choices for displaying your route, displaying your driving directions, canceling a route, playing and recording a route, switching maps, selecting your mode of travel, and getting help with basic navigation.
| Displays your route on the map screen in its entirety, plus details such as the address of and distance to your destination, the ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival), and the ETR (Estimated Time Remaining). | ||
| Displays a visual list of your route, distances to each maneuver, and street names. | ||
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Indicates the distance to your next turn, and the name of the next street immediately after completing the previous turn. Voice and visual prompts are displayed at varying intervals to indicate your next turn or change of direction. | ||
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Cancels and clears the route from the map screen. | ||
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Lets you record your route as you are traveling, and then to play it back on the map screen at a later time. | ||
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Lets you switch between your maps. | ||
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Lets you switch to Walker Mode or Vehicle Mode. In Walker Mode, the navigation radius is restricted to 10 kilometres (6 miles). | ||
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Launches an abbreviated help file with basic navigational definitions and instructions. | ||
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Displays software version and details about your Destinator PN application. |
| Displays your GPS configuration. | ||
| Lets you define an address or POI as your home destination. Whenever
you want to navigate to your home destination (for example, the
nearest gas station), press the  button
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| Lets you choose the unit of measurement for your route. | ||
| Lets you customize your map display. | ||
| Lets you choose the parameters for route calculation, such as Planner or Navigatoin mode, quickest or shortest route, and U-turn usage. | ||
| Lets you configure voice prompts and TTS (Text to Speech). The TTS feature inserts street names into the voice prompts at 200 meters prior to a maneuver, as well as when you reach the maneuver. In order to become active, TTS must first be installed from the Console. | ||
| Lets you choose how Destinator PN notifies you of your upcoming turns. | ||
| Lets you customize how Destinator PN looks and sounds. |
Icons located on the map screen
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Displays your current direction. |
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Toggles between turn-by-turn details and a complete list of driving directions. |
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Toggles between 2D, 2D Night, 3D and 3D Night views. The icon indicates the next view to be displayed. |
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Lets you define and plan your route via the Destinate Menu. Also
allows you to access the Options Menu and Settings Menu. Indicates
whether you are in Vehicle Mode
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Walker Mode
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In Walker Mode, the navigation radius is restricted to 10 kilometres (6 miles). |
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Displays GPS-generated information, such as UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator), geographic position, current location, altitude, and speed. The icon indicates the next item to be displayed. |
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Displays details about your route, such as ETA, ETR and the distance to your destination. |
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Displays GPS status, such as information about your satellite fix, and the latitude, longitude and altitude of your position. The icon appears green when there is a GPS fix, and red when there is no GPS fix. Also provides a link to the GPS Settings screen. |
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Displays battery status. When the battery power is low, a message box will appear. |
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Calculates a route to a pre-set POI or address. |
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Lets you exit from the Destinator PN application. |
Destinator PN allows you to send a location to someone via an SMS (Short Message Service) message. In order to receive the SMS message, the recipient must have a PPCPE device that is running Destinator PN, or a Destinator SP (SmartPhone). The SMS message will include a location to which the recipient can navigate.
To send the location of a highlighted item by SMS, select Send Location from the Tools menu found in the Address, POI, Favorites, History, and Contacts screens.
BACKFrom the Destinate menu select Address. The software displays the Address menu and soft keyboard.
You can use the keyboard to enter the first few characters in the City name. The scroll list will update accordingly.
Or use the scroll bar to select the city of your choice.
Press the Street button to display a list of street names for the selected city.
Select the street name using the scroll bar or soft keyboard.
Press the House button. The software will display the range of addresses for the selected street.
Enter the house number using the soft keyboard.
Press the Navigate button to initiate navigation, and start driving.
Global Positioning System (GPS) consists of a constellation of 24 satellites that lie in non- geosynchronous orbits approximately 20,180 km above the Earth.
The satellites orbit the Earth once every 12 hours, and broadcast their own unique navigation and identification signals.
The GPS antenna/ receiver connected to your Pocket PC acquires these navigational signals and satellite data. The antenna/ receiver uses this information and synchronizes its knowledge of current time to compute your current latitude, longitude, altitude and speed.
A minimum of 4 GPS satellite signals are needed to determine current GPS position. When the vehicle’s latitude, longitude, altitude and speed are applied to geophysical maps, the location and speed of a vehicle can be determined quite accurately. Your current position, is updated once per second.
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