Blaupunkt TravelPilot RGS 08 User manual

TravelPilot
RGS 08
Navigation system
Operating instructions

Operatingthesystemwhiledriving
Allowing yourself to be distracted by the Travel-
Pilot RGS 08 can lead to a situation where you are
“driving blind”.
If you are not paying attention to the current traffic
situation around you, you could cause a serious acci-
dent.
Pleaseconsider thefact thatat aspeed of50 km/hyou
are travelling 14 m every second.
• Before starting off on your journey, make sure you
have familiarised yourself with the system.
• While you are driving, only use the voice output
and directional symbols on the monitor.
• Stop your vehicle at a suitable location if you wish
to re-program the TravelPilot RGS 08 or look up
more detailed information.
Routeguidance
The current traffic routing situation can differ from
the data stored on the CD-ROM.
Due to system limitations, the TravelPilot RGS 08
cannotwarnofalteredtrafficroutingconditionse.g.due
to road construction measures. If you do not pay
attentiontotheactualtrafficroutingconditions,thereis
a danger that you will cause a serious accident. Fur-
thermore, you will be violating road traffic regulations.
• Please ensure that you take notice of signs relating
to the current traffic routing situation. As the driver,
you are solely responsible for traffic safety.
• Use the latest CD-ROM for the TravelPilot
RGS 08. Ask your dealer for the latest update.
General information

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ControlanddisplayelementsfortheT ravelPilotRGS08
1Select characters,
switch on/off status bar in map,
exclude routes in traffic congestion menu.
2Select characters,
page through lists,
change zoom range in map displays,
increase voice output volume for navigation.
3SET Set selected characters,
change the monitor operation mode.
4Select characters,
repeat voice output,
exclude routes in traffic congestion menu.
5Select characters,
page through lists,
change zoom range in map displays,
decrease voice output volume for navigation.
6Move cursor up,
switch between navigation and map display
7ENT Enter key (confirmation)
8Move cursor down,
call up traffic congestion menu during naviga-
tion
9Header line
:Input field
;Cursor is controlled using 6and 8.
The arrows displayed with the cursor indicate the
direction(s) in which the cursor can be moved.
<Selection field
=Automatic brightness control
>Basic brightness, can be adjusted by pressing
+ and –.
?Contrast, can be adjusted by pressing + and –.

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Productinformation
The TravelPilot RGS 08 is an active, autonomous route
guidance system.
Using this system, you can let yourself be guided to your
required destination if a navigation CD has been inserted
that is valid for your present location and destination in
question.
Other CDs, such as the Merian Scout travel guide and
country-specific CDs, are also available.
The guidance system provides audio-visual information.
You will be given precise information over the car stereo
loudspeakers with regard to such things as when and
where to take the next road turning.
The volume and tone of the voice output can be adjusted.
The monitor displays the same information visually. Fur-
thermore,thenameofthestreetthatthevehicleispresent-
ly driving down is displayed as well as the current distance
tothedestination. Priortotaking aturning,the name ofthe
road that is to be turned into is also displayed.
If you did not follow a suggested direction, a new route to
thedestinationwill becalculated withinafew seconds.So,
for instance, this means that you can by all means take a
“secret route around the houses” that you are familiar with
eventhoughtheTravelPilothasatthe timegivenyouother
directions.
Thesystemknowswhereone-waystreets,areasrestricted
to traffic (e.g. pedestrian precincts, etc.) and no-left or no-
rightturnsare situated,and takestheseinto accountwhen
calculating routes for passenger cars.
Delivery
TravelPilot RGS 08
The navigation system comprises a powerful computer
withintegratedCD-ROMdrive,GPSreceiver,gyro,remote
control, a 5" colour monitor, a GPS antenna and the latest
CD-ROM version.
Area of use
The TravelPilot RGS 08 has been designed for use
in passenger cars.
TheCD-ROMcurrentlydoesnotincludeanylimitations
relatingtolorries andbuses suchasheight restrictions
ormaximumpermitted loads. Iftheseare disregarded,
there is a danger that you will cause an accident.
Furthermore, you will be violating road traffic regula-
tions.
• The TravelPilot RGS 08 can only be used, without
any limitations applying, in passenger cars.

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Contents
Switching on the TravelPilot ....................................... 7
Entering a destination ................................................. 8
Destination from memory ............................................... 9
City ................................................................................. 9
Centre ..........................................................................10
Street............................................................................10
Junction........................................................................11
Other local.................................................................... 11
Surrounding destinations .............................................12
Store destination ..........................................................12
Destination on map ......................................................12
Start guidance .............................................................. 14
Fast route .....................................................................14
Short route ...................................................................14
Individual ......................................................................14
Traffic congestion......................................................... 18
Information on the display ........................................ 20
Navigation symbols ......................................................20
Map display .................................................................. 21
Map symbols................................................................23
Info menu .................................................................... 24
Location map................................................................24
Destination info ............................................................25
Route list ......................................................................25
Autozoom ..................................................................... 26
Destination area ........................................................... 27
DSC menu (Direct Software Control) ....................... 28
Destination memory ..................................................... 28
Delete current destination ............................................ 30
Enter location ............................................................... 30
Route options ............................................................... 32
Audio ............................................................................ 33
GPS status ................................................................... 34
Standby time ................................................................35
Version .........................................................................35
Demo............................................................................ 35
Example for entering a destination .......................... 36
Day/night mode .......................................................... 39
Demo mode................................................................. 40
Appendix..................................................................... 42
CD-ROM ...................................................................... 42
Changing the CD-ROM ................................................42
Wrong CD-ROM........................................................... 43
Tyre change and calibration......................................... 43
Error messages............................................................ 44
CD read errors ............................................................. 44
Cleaning the display..................................................... 44

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SwitchingontheTravelPilot
The TravelPilot switches on when you turn on the ignition.
The navigation page that was displayed last before the unit was switched
off will be displayed. If the monitor displays the map (only during standby
time) then,
• switch to the Nav menu by pressing ENT.
Nav menu
Youwill eitherbe promptedto entera destinationor thesystem willdisplay
the destination that was selected last.
You can select the following functions from the Nav menu:
Info menu
Start guidance (when a destination has been entered)
Enter destination
MERIAN scout (if a travel guide CD has been inserted)
DSC menu
Operatingthesystemwhiledriving
AllowingyourselftobedistractedbytheTravelPilotRGS08canleadtoasituationwhereyouare“drivingblind”.
If you are not paying attention to the current traffic situation around you, you could cause a serious accident.
Please consider the fact that at a speed of 50 km/h you are travelling 14 m every second.
• Before starting off on your journey, make sure you have familiarised yourself with the system.
• While you are driving, only use the voice output and directional symbols on the monitor.
• Stop your vehicle at a suitable location if you wish to re-program the TravelPilot RGS 08 or look up more detailed
information.

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Enteringadestination
• Press / to position the cursor next to Enter destination and
• confirm your selection by pressing ENT.
The monitor will then display a list of possible destination entry options:
Dest. from memory
Condition for usage: at least one destination must already be stored.
City
If the destination is located in a different city/town to that of the last
destination.
Street/Junction
If the destination is in the same city/town.
Condition for usage: the last destination to be entered contains a
city/town name.
Other local
If you want to select as your destination the city/town centre or other
special destinations nearby.
Surrounding dest.
If your destination is a motorway exit, motorway service area, motor-
way intersection or an airport.
Destination on map
If you want to select a destination directly off the map.

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Dest. from memory At least one destination must be stored in the
memory.
Press / to page through the list.
Press the /cursor keys to select a desti-
nation. Press /to move the selection to
the left/right.
Press ENT to confirm.
Return: position the cursor on Enter destina-
tion using /and confirm your selection
with ENT.
City For entering the city/town destination.
The name of the last town to be selected as a
destination will be displayed. Accept the dis-
played town by pressing ENT or enter a new
town as follows.
Press / and /to move the cursor to
the first letter. Press SET.
The input field is cleared and the first letter is
then entered.
In order to find your required city name as
quickly as possible in the city list, you will need
to enter between one and six letters (depend-
ing on how unique the name is).
For example:
Xanten – 1 letter (X)
Münchweier – 6 letters (MÜNCHW)
You can access the place name list by press-
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Press / to page through the list. Position
the cursor using /next to the city/town
name and confirm by pressing ENT.
Change city
Use this to change a city/town that you have
already selected.
Nav menu
To cancel your selection and return to the Nav
menu.
Centre If you select “Centre”, the monitor will display
a list, if available, of all the different areas of
town that comprise your selected town and
that are stored on the CD.
Street/Junction This menu item is only displayed if streets in
the destination town have been digitised.
Entering letters is carried out in the same way
as described previously for “city”. As soon as
you have confirmed the selected street by
pressing ENT, it will be displayed below the
selected city/town as your destination. In the
case of town areas, the list of streets always
relates to the city/town name that is first
shown in the display.
Change street
Use this to change a street that you have al-
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Nav menu
To cancel your selection and return to the Nav
menu.
Junction You can define your destination more precise-
ly by entering a particular street junction.
By selecting “Junction”, all the streets will be
displayed which either intersect or are directly
joined on to the street you previously selected.
Select the junction or turn-off point that is
nearest to your destination and confirm your
choice by pressing ENT.
Change 2nd street
Use this to change a junction that you have
already selected.
Nav menu
To cancel your selection and return to the Nav
menu.
Other local Local destinations such as the town centre,
railway station, car park, hospital, etc. are
displayed (if stored on the CD) to enable you
to select a destination more quickly. It is possi-
ble that the “other local destinations” will be
situated within a larger area around the select-
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Surrounding dest. With this you can enter destinations that are
out of town such as motorway exit, motor-
way service and motorway junction as well
as airport and border crossing. The airport
and border crossing items allow you to enter
both regional and international airports and
border crossings.
Store destination Before navigation is started, you can store the
destination that you entered. To do so, place
the cursor in front of Store destination and
press ENT.
To find the destination quickly in future, you
are given the opportunity to enter an abbrevi-
ated name for it.
If you do not want to enter an abbreviated
name, just press ENT.
The destination will be stored.
Destination on map After selecting this menu item, the monitor will
display a map that is orientated to true north
showing the area around the destination that
was selected last. If no destination was previ-
ously entered, the map displaying your
present position will be shown instead. Using
the menu items positioned in the left-hand
screen border, you can easily change the way
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from top to bottom, the menu items have the
following functions:
1. Move the destination marker to the left,
right, up, down
2. Zoom function.
Position the cursor in front of the function re-
quired using the /keys.
Depending on the function selected, you can
then either use the , , and keys to
move the destination marker to the next
map position that you want to drive to or, by
pressing the /keys, you can change the
map scale (cursor must be positioned in front
of +/
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the edge of the map, the new map section will
then automatically be displayed. After moving
the marker to the required map position, press
the ENT key. The destination can then be giv-
en an abbreviated name, however, if you do
not want to do this, just press the ENT key.
The destination will then automatically be giv-
en the name, Destination on map. You can
now either start route guidance or position the
cursor in front of Enter destination to repeat
the procedure for entering a destination. Press
Nav menu to cancel the destination input pro-
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Start guidance If the destination has been entered, the cursor
will automatically be positioned in front of the
Start guidance menu item.
By pressing the ENT key, the Route options
menu will appear. The following options for
calculating a route are available:
Fast route A route is calculated that requires as short a
journey time as possible to your destination.
Short route An optimised route is calculated to your desti-
nation. The route is kept as short as possible.
Individual This menu item allows you to include or ex-
clude the Motorway, Ferry and Toll options
for the route calculation. To do so, move the
cursor in front of the required option and con-
firm your selection by pressing the ENT key.
By repeatedly pressing the ENT key, the se-
lected option can be activated (with) or deacti-
vated (w/o i.e. without). Furthermore, using
this same method of selection with the Route
menu item, you can set whether a quick or
short route should be calculated on the basis
of the selected options. Any combination of
options can be selected (e.g. with motorway -
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After you have selected the options you re-
quire, position the cursor in front of Start guid-
ance and begin the route calculation process
by pressing the ENT key.
Note:
A situation my arise where a route is calculat-
ed which includes an option that you actually
wanted excluded when making your selec-
tions. If, for example, you selected the “without
ferry” option but your destination is only reach-
able by ferry because it is located on an is-
land, the system will calculate a route using
the “with ferry” option contrary to your selec-
tion.
After you have entered your destination and
guidance has been started by pressing the
ENT key, you can begin your journey. The
system begins to calculate a route using the
road map that is stored on the CD. The display
shows a message informing you that the route
is being calculated. Afterwards, an arrow ap-
pears indicating the direction in which the des-
tination lies. The Calculating route message
is displayed and the voice output indicates
that: “The route is being calculated”. In addi-
tion, the distance to the destination “as the
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If you are travelling in your vehicle down a dig-
itised street, you will be guided to your desti-
nation (after the route calculation has been
completed) by spoken recommendations and
by the navigation symbols in the display.
The voice output volume can be increased/
decreased during navigation by pressing the
/keys. If you press the key, the latest
voice announcement will be repeated. By
pressing the ENT key during your journey, the
destination information will be displayed for
approx. 4 seconds. While the destination infor-
mation is being shown, you can switch to the
Nav menu by pressing the ENT key again in
order to, say, access the Info menu.
If you are driving your vehicle down a non-
digitised road (e.g. car park, garage, multi-
storey car park) the Off road message will be
displayed. If you are driving your vehicle out-
side the digitised network (e.g. abroad), Off
map will be displayed.
In such cases, you can orientate yourself by
referring to the arrow shown in the display
which indicates the direction in which your
destination lies.
After entering the digitised network again from
a non-digitised road, the system requires a few
hundred metres of travel distance before it can
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Should you leave the recommended route,
the system will automatically calculate a
new route to your destination from your
current position.
Upon reaching your destination, the display will
show a chequered flag and a voice announce-
ment will be made: “You have reached your
destination”. After the flag disappears, the mon-
itor will then only display the name of the street
you are presently driving down or, if your vehi-
cle is stationary, the Nav menu will be shown.
Note:
If the destination you entered is not included in
the digitised network of streets (e.g. special
destinations such as workshops, etc.), an ar-
row will appear in the display, as soon as you
leave the digitised area, indicating the direction
in which your destination lies. The voice output
announcement for this is: “You have reached
the area of your destination”. If you are in the
immediate vicinity of your destination, the voice
output announcement will inform you that: “You
have reached your destination”. If the destina-
tion you selected (e.g. a stored location) is not
situated within the digitised area, you will hear
the announcement: “No route guidance is
available to your destination”. The display will
then show No route and the arrow will point in
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Traffic congestion Using the “Traffic congestion” function, the
calculated route can be altered according to
the current traffic situation. This means that if
you see a problem with the traffic up ahead or
you are informed about this over the radio
(e.g. a traffic jam or road works), you can ex-
clude certain route sections starting from your
current vehicle position. The route sections
that can be excluded refer to the road network
that lies ahead of you and your vehicle. Each
section comprises the section of road located
between two road junctions. The first section
that can be excluded comprises the length of
road starting from your vehicle and ending at
the next junction but one. The navigation sys-
tem then calculates a new route starting from
the next possible turning which, if possible, will
bypass the traffic disruption. To call up the
traffic congestion function, press the key.
For example:
You have entered a small town and are driving
your vehicle between road turning A and turn-
ing B. The travel information you hear on the
radio informs you that there is a disruption to
traffic between turning C and D.
Now press the key and the traffic conges-
tion menu will appear. A slider control will ap-
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it. This is the distance from the current vehicle
position up to junction C. By pressing the
key, you can add the subsequent route section
to this selection as well.
In our example, this would be the section be-
tween C and D. By pressing the key, the
sections you selected can be removed from
the exclusion list again. Once you have select-
ed the desired length of the route section to be
excluded, press the ENT key. A new route will
then be calculated taking the traffic disruption
into account.
By pressing the Abort menu item, you can
leave the traffic congestion menu without any
changes having been made. The navigation
menu will then be displayed again.
If an alternative route was calculated and you
press the key again, the traffic congestion
menu will appear again and will offer you the
additional option of deleting the alternative
route. If you want to do this, position the cur-
sor in front of Delete and press the ENT key.
A new route will then be calculated and the
navigation menu will appear.
Note:
The traffic congestion function is cancelled
either when the destination has been reached,
when a new destination is entered or when a
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Information on the display
During route guidance, two types of display can be shown on the monitor:
• navigation symbols (driving recommendation symbols)
• map display.
Navigation symbols
If the map display has been activated, you can switch to the navigation
symbol display by pressing .
The monitor will then display:
- the driving recommendation symbol (in the centre)
- the distance remaining to the destination (top left)
- the driving time remaining to the destination (top right)
- the distance to the next turn
- off point (on the right next to the driving recommendation symbol)
- the street you are currently driving down or, if your vehicle is station-
ary, the Nav menu (at the bottom)
As you approach a turn-off point, the monitor will display:
- the name of the street that you are being recommended to turn in to
(at the top). This will be displayed until you take the turn.
- a bar graph representing the distance up to the next recommended
turning (to the right next to the driving recommendation symbol)