5. How does it work?
The map
The main Ulugh screen is the map screen. You can navigate through the map as follows:
Move the map: You can scroll the map using the trackball of the device, moving the finger over the touchscreen or using the phone keypad:
- Full QWERTY keyboard:
- Zoom in: Press P
- Zoom out: Press Q
- Compact Keyboard:
- Zoom in: press button OP
- Zoom out: press button QW
The visible or activated routes will be shown on the map with their points of interest whenever we have the screen centred in the right area.
We can distinguish the visible routes from the active routes by its colour; the visible routes are displayed in blue, while the active routes are red.
Menu Buttons
Routes: takes you to the list of available routes on your smartphone.
Layers: Choose the mapping you want to use. Depending on the version of the application the mapping you may find are BlackBerry Maps, OpenStreetMap, CloudMade or GoogleMaps.
Tools: maptools.
Zoom In: Increases the zoom level on the map.
Zoom Out: decreases the zoom level on the map.
Follow-me: Enables or disables the follow-me option. This option follows your location and centers it in the middle of the screen, whenever you have GPS coverage off-course.
Search: Opens the search screen where you can search routes in the routeyou.com database.
Settings: Brings you to the settings screen where you can change different paramenters such as language, storage unit or mearuring unit.
Help: Opens this very help text.
