Summary: The preferences setup for a GPS will allow you to change your directional view and other features. Learn how to set up GPS preferences with expert tips in this free video on car electronics.
"O.k. continuing on with the set up, there's audio, and by the way, I'm using the remote control at the moment. This is what the remote control looks like, you can use that or you can touch screen, either way you want to do it. So, if we touch screen, we can just go down through these and that works nicely too. But, if we go down through here, there's times, units, so it's universal for other countries as well. So, you just go through there, take your time, don't be in any hurry, the main thing is when you get your GPS don't get it and think you're going to leave in ten minutes for a trip. It's not the way to do it, leave yourself a couple of hours or a day to play with it in your driveway, and experiment with it. You have preferences for your screen to calibrate the touch screen, or the brightness, and just kind of go through those. Same with the mapping, the map details, I've got mine set for most, 3-D track up, you can also set it so it's 2-D track, 2-D track North up. I prefer mine to be in real, not North up, I want it to go the direction I'm going, that way whether I'm going North, East, South, or West it doesn't matter. If I, if it shows I need to make a right hand turn, I know I'm making a right hand turn, it shows me the actual way that I'm traveling, not necessarily North up. But, that's all personal preference. Auto zoom is nice and I leave it on auto zoom. If I start out on a wide scale, maybe I'm a hundred miles to where I'm going, as I get closer to my destination, it will automatically zoom in. I'm going to show you that in a little bit. But, it'll keep zooming in until it gets right down to it's, the screen is the whole street and it's telling you to turn left or to turn right."
eHow Article: GPS Preferences Setup