Finding POIs on route

I've noticed passing references by some posters here of searching for POIs that are on the route.

I've looked through the manual, which sucks, and found nothing. I've also browsed through all of the destination screens and found nothing.

So lets say I'm on a 10 hour road trip, and I'm looking for the next Cracker Barrel resturant that is on my route, so I can exchange my book-on-CD with another one. Is there a way to do this?

 

Hmmmm,

I was hoping for something that would tell me that there's a Cracker Barrel (or McDonalds, or gas station, or whatever) two hours or so down the highway.

What you are suggesting is all I was able to find, however if I'm trying to find out where the next Cracker Barrel I will pass is, I would have to check city after city down my route, and then if it found one, I would have to check to see if it was anywhere near the highway I'll be on, rather than 20 miles across town on some other highway.

What I was hoping for was a way to search for POIs that are within a mile or so from the route I will be traveling on.

I don't think such a facility exists, but every once and a while I see some comment from someone that makes me think they know how to do it.

Oh well, as far as Cracker Barrel goes, I guess I'll just have to use the map they hand out, which shows the location of all of the Cracker Barrel resturants.

By the way, in case people are unaware of it, Cracker Barrel resturants are great places to get books on tape or CD for listening to when traveling long distances. They have a pretty good selection of lots of current novels. You buy the book-on-tape/CD at its cover price, usually around $30, and then can return it at any Cracker Barrel resturant and they credit back to your credit card the cover price minus $3 per week that you had it. There are Cracker Barrel resturants all up and down the east coast, and they are always located within sight of a major highway. They are also beginning to pop up on the west coast and in the central US. When I drove from Oregon to Philidelphia three years ago, I passed one almost every day of travel. On the east coast, you'll past about 10 in a day of travel, especially in the south east.

 

Hmmm, I have yet to see this "On Route" button, and I thought I checked everywhere. I think I shall have to look again when I go out for lunch.

 

OK, so I found the "On Route" button. It seems moderately usefull, but it doesn't look like it would work on the highway. It appears that the POI has to literally be on a section of the road you are traveling.

It appears that if the POI was just off the highway you will travel on, you wouldn't see it in the list. Also, I would guess that on non-highway roads, if the POI was just one or two buildings past the point where you would turn onto another road, then you wouldn't see it in the list.