Finding my way back

[oldned]

Hi,

Just joined so will put my first question to the forum.

If I start from a new location say, Location A, go to Location B and then want to find my way back to Location A, how can I save Location A so that I can find my way back. I know I can go into Where am I and take down the co-ordinates, but is there another way of saving Location B without having to do that ?

Glad of any ideas !

 

[doctormstein1]

One way is just to add location A as a favorite.. When saved you can just navigate to this favorite

 

[Andy_P]

Also, if you used the TomTom to get you to location A in the first place, then it will appear in the list of "Recent destinations" on the "Navigate to..." screen.

"Recent destinations" can be a very useful history of your travels.

 

[oldned]

Thanks for your suggestion. However let me outline a situation that I recently found myself in. I arriived at Seville airport in the evening and in the dark. A mini bus took me to the car hire location off airport. I collected my car and left for the hotel some 30 miles away. What I wanted is to be able to do is say, I am here, ( at the car hire location ) save this location. I could then call up this location when I wanted to find my way back to the car hire location. ( in daylight ! ) I have XL by the way. I don't know if later TOM TOM's have this facility.

 

[dhn]

At the car park, once you have a gps fix, set the Home location as 'current location' and then you can navigate to Home (ie, the car rental) when needed in the future

 

[Andy_P]

You can save your Current location as "Home", as a Favourite, or as a user-POI. They are all in the menus.
The actual menu sequences to do each one vary from model to model, but to add as a Favourite or POI are both found in Change Preferences / Manage Favourites or Manage POIs.
Change Home Location is also in my Change Preferences menu.

(If yours is an XL "2" it may have the dumbed-down easy-menu so some options may be hidden, but you should still be able to save as "Home" or a Favourite easily. An ordinary XL should have all the menus .

 

[oldned]

Hi.

Thanks to all those you answered my query regarding getting back to an original location either via home or favorites. I will now be able to find my way back to where ever I am ( if you know what I mean !!

Ned