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Guidance

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Guidance to a Point

Off-road, beeline guiding to a selected place, independent on road network. Used especially for orientation in free terrain.

Typically useful for finding geocaches or directing towards user's points of interest and LoPoints (remote viewpoint, waterfall etc.):

How to guide? Select the target and start guiding to it from its action menu:

Target selection

Directly on the map

  1. tap a LoPoint, a user point or any other point on the map, or hold your finger on the place on the map where you want to be guided to
  2. tap the navigation button in the bottom bar and select Guide on

Other location options

When you need to define your target location another way, use location selector:

  1. tap Menu > All features > Navigation > Guide to
  2. select method of defining target of your route:

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Points from the Library

Use e.g., in case you want to be guided to some geocache from your database:

  1. select the point from the Library
  2. tap it to display the point detail screen
  3. tap navigation menu button from the bottom panel and select Guide on

Controlling

Point guidance panel

It displays information about the point, its distance, and direction. In case of guidance to a geocache, there are also other facts like the cache type, difficulty, and terrain. Tapping the panel displays the point detail screen.

Panel menu

  • Details - opens screen with the point details
  • Hint - in case of guidance to a geocache
  • Load all waypoints - in case of guidance to a geocache with more waypoints
  • Navigate to - switches to turn-by-turn navigation and calculates a route to the target
  • Guide Off - stops guidance
  • Compass - switches into compass view
  • Hide - makes the point invisible on map

Target notifications

Locus can notify you of a coming target in several ways:

  • once in defined distance from the point of guidance
  • repeatedly after you reach a defined distance
  • changes frequency of alerts in dependence on your distance from the target (the faster the closer you are)

Settings

  • go to Menu > Settings > Guidance > Notification
  • Switch Notification ON
  • Select notification mode - single alert, repeated, or increased frequency alert
  • Set the distance you want to be alerted at (or distance interval between repeated notifications).

The first two options have further settings:

  • Settings of sound
    • Disable - all sounds are disabled, notification is made by the device screen and vibrator only
    • Beep - it is possible to set the number of beeps (1-10)
    • Select sound - select from sounds stored in your device memory
    • Text-To-Speech - voice notification informing about the distance and direction of the point. Tap Play to check your sound settings.
  • Settings of vibration - visible only when the device is equipped with a vibrator (mainly mobile phones)
    • Disable - the device does not vibrate on notifications
    • Pattern - sets notification vibrating pattern, using three symbols: '.' for 200 milliseconds vibration, '-' for 500 milliseconds vibration, and ' ' (space) for 500 milliseconds of silence. Tap Play to check your vibration settings.
manual/ios/guidance.txt · Last modified: by mstupka