Apple iPad and Memory Maps

or you could try slowing down .....lol
cheers

Yep Baz, If I was touring in Tassie my problem would be finding somewhere to turn !!
Catch you in January.

Thanks John When you are talking about the middle icon you mean the centre one of five. The one with the ring with four short spokes. If I hold that one down for a few seconds it locks the screen and it shows an unlock icon on the bottom. Perhaps I should just lightly touch it.

You touch it to simply set the track mode where the current position stays in the centre of the screen, the manual (which has no screen shots and describes icons that don't exist on either iPod or iPad) says you can drag the screen position and as long as the current position is still on it the map will move retaining that locn for the current position.

You hold it down to lock it, this is useful to stop inadvertant selection of other options if you are just following the map.

Thanks Guys, In spite of my extremely limited knowledge of computers etc I have finally sorted out the Memory Maps on my iPad no thanks to Memory Maps.
You are right Blue2 Memory Maps instruction screed is not worth a bumper and for that matter neither are their tech guys at their office in the UK when it comes to iPads.
I expect one of the reasons is that MM market their own 7inch navigation unit and therefore are not interested in helping with any problems or providing information on iPads or IPods. I expect it was an afterthought that MM added the word iPad at the top of their on line instructions covering iPhones.
Thanks again for your help

Whilst we are on this subject can you alternate your heading on the map to face the way you are travelling.? On my marine plotters you can have course up or north up etc. At the moment it has me travelling sideways, would be great to change the orientation.>?

The map only rotates 180 deg, ie Portrait or Landscape. There are however two pointers on the screen.

If the iPad is handheld then you can rotate it such that the velocity vector (thin red arrow) is pointing straight ahead (from help: If you are moving, you may also see a Velocity Vector. This is an arrow that shows your direction and speed of travel. The length of the vector is scaled to show where you will be if you maintain the same speed and heading for 5 minutes. You can change the scale by touching the green Settings button on the Flip side page, and selecting GPS settings.).

If your iPhone is equipped with a compass, the position indicator has a red triangle that points in the direction the iPhone is pointing. There are two ways you can use the compass feature. Firstly, point the iPhone in an intended direction of travel, or in the direction of a feature you want to identify on the map. The indicator triangle then shows that direction on the map. Secondly rotate the iPhone so that the indicator triangle points to the top of the screen. When it is pointing straight up, the map is now oriented geographically, so that directions on the map are the same as directions on the ground.

Hi Blue2 Sounds like you are well clued up on this subject so will leave it to you.
My only problem that I can envisage is that my wife may well want to turn the map upside down and screw it off the windscreen mount (as women do ) !!