A kindle World recently found a way to use kindle 2 as companion to get directions on a trip. Here it is:
1. Press the Menu button to get the “Experimental” option.
2. Click on “Experimental” to choose/accept the “Basic Web.”
You’ll need to use the SYM key at bottom right of keyboard to get any unusual characters such as ‘@” sign as well as the question-mark symbol. While slow and an irritation, it’s still useful in a car if you don’t have phone access to the web.
3. At the Web browser page (though it may take you to bookmarks page instead),
press Menu to choose “Go to Top”That gets you to the top line to type a link or URL
4. TYPE:
maps.google.com/?output=html5. Five-way to the right until you get “GoTo” and then press down on that.
That should fetch the Google map/directions page for you.
6. Press the Menu button to BOOKMARK this page so you don’t have to type this again.
Also, the screen should show “Advanced” or “Desktop” at top center as your browsing mode. ”Basic mode” won’t work with this. This is normally done automatically, but if not, then press Menu/Settings to choose “Advanced.”
7. Then you can use your 5-way button/cursor to get, slowly, to the input boxes to enter city, state (or zip) for a Map of the area.
If you want “Directions” – then add an address before city
8. If you check “Directions,” you’ll see the START-address input box and most of a small map.
9. TYPE the From: address that you want.
10. 5-way down slowly
11. Then the screen shifts and gives you the rest of the map and the END-address input box.
12. TYPE in the To: address there.
Again, the text directions from Google are very readable on either kindle screen, and you can increase the font size of that text with the Aa font-key.
You’ll need to play around with this to get used to it. On the DX, zooming-in on a map will make the street names clearer of course.
Let me know if you have any problems with this.
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