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Old 9th Oct 2007, 13:49
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drambuster
 
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Finding land points

Katana DV20. I agree it is annoying that the cursor picks up roads etc when you're trying to get it to lock onto a city or town in 'Edit on Map' mode. The best thing to do is to insert a waypoint in normal list mode. When faced with the list of Aviation and User waypoints etc then press 'Menu' and it will show an option for selecting 'Land Points'. then select cities. They should be listed in order nearest to the cursor, so you should see the relevant location.

Under 'Menu' again (when looking at Cities) you can either have them listed as 'Nearest Cursor' or 'Alphabetical Order'.

An alternative is to go to the town on your normal 'Map' page and go 'Enter' and then 'Save'. This saves the city/town so that it becomes a user waypoint as well as being in the map database. I think you will find that under 'Edit on Map' it will then be more dominant than the background roads and so you should be able to pick it up !

let me know how you get on.
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