Mercedes-Benz S-Class 2008 COMAND Manual - Manual (Page 199)

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Control systems
COMAND navigation (introduction)
Basic settings
Map perspective
COMAND can display the map from a
bird's eye view or in the normal map view.
̈ Select map perspective:
Select “Navi”
Ǟ “Navi” Ǟ “Map Dis-
play”.
The map display list appears. A dot R
indicates the current setting.
̈ Select “Bird’s-eye view”.
The bird's eye view is switched on or
off, depending on the previous status.
Map orientation
1 Current map orientation
The following may be displayed:
ț 8 = “Heading Up” (the map is dis-
played so that the direction of travel is
always up; the orange point of the icon
points north)
ț 9 = “North Up” (the map view is dis-
played so that north is always up)
̈ Setting map orientation:
Select “Navi”
Ǟ “Navi” Ǟ “Map Dis-
play”.
The map display list appears. A dot R
indicates the current setting.
̈ Select “North Up” or “Heading Up”.
̈ Exiting menu: Slide o m p .
The map orientation changes accord-
ingly.
Setting POI symbols
You can set which points of interest (POIs)
should be displayed as symbols in the
map. POIs are garages, hotels, movie the-
aters or restaurants, for example.
The following settings are possible:
ț “Standard symbols” (symbol deter-
mined by the factory settings)
ț “Personal symbols” (you can determine
the symbols yourself)
ț “No symbols”
i You can make the following settings regard-
less of whether route guidance is active or inac-
tive.
i If you scroll the map in the bird's eye view,
COMAND switches back to the normal map view.
i Depending on the map scale on the map,
POI symbols may not be visible on the map al-
though their display is activated. In addition, POI
symbols may be covered by the map’s labels.