Quo Vadis helps you navigate your maps by providing a tracking
mechanism which can be optionally linked to a GPS
receiver.The tracking mechanism is controlled and activated or
deactivated from the Map View
Navigate menu, shown here.To activate tracking, you first need to select a destination you wish to track. You can do this either by using the Tap-And-Hold popup menu to pick a destination location, or by using the Select Destination menu command.
If you decide to use the Select Destination command, you will be presented with the Select Window, which is almost identical to the Find Window. The Select Destination menu command performs exactly the same as the Find command, except that it affects the tracker only. If multiple destinations are found (for example, three disjoint occurrences of the same named road), you can use the Select Again menu command to cycle through all the destinations.
Use the Tracking On/Off
menu command to activate or deactivate the tracking system.When
tracking is active, your current selected destination is marked
by a “x” symbol when it falls in view. Also, the
Direction Tracker will be shown in the center of the screen.
The small line protruding
from it indicates the line-of-sight direction to the current destination.
Note that the destination “x” is visible at any zoom level when
tracking is active.To use tracking effectively, our recommended approach is to first perform a Find for your present location. Then perform a Select Destination for where you wish to go. You will then have a bulls-eye target on your starting point, and the “x” on you destination. You then have to visually guide yourself from one symbol to the other.
To use a GPS with Quo Vadis, you first need to verify that your GPS settings match your GPS receiver. Use the GPS Setup menu command to display the GPS Setup Window as shown here. Select your GPS receiver type from the list. If you don’t see your type, try using the NMEA Compatible option. For complete details on setting up a GPS connection, see the Operating Requirements section. Select Automatic Pan if you wish the map to scroll automatically to keep your position in the center on the screen.
Once you’ve completed the setup, you may activate the input of
data from your GPS receiver by using the GPS Input On/Off
menu command from the Navigate menu. You will see the
Communicating Icon like this in the bottom-right corner of the screen:
This implies that Quo Vadis is trying to talk to your GPS receiver.
If the connection doesn’t seem to work after a few minutes, you
will see an error dialog requesting whether you wish to keep trying
or cancel. If all goes well, your GPS receiver will have a position
fix on your location within a few minutes (it really depends on
your receiver) and when that happens, you will see the
Position Fix Icon indicating your position:
However, if
you have tracking turned on AND you have the Automatic Pan
preference checked, you won’t see this icon. Instead you will
see the Direction Tracker as it will take precedence and
automatically be scrolled for you. That’s essentially what
you would want if tracking by GPS.