Navigation System

I have experience using a Garmin GPS and I am new to the Prius GPS (2006 pkg7). The Garmin has a very useful function which I can't figure out how to do in the Prius. I really hope there's a way and someone can help me with this.

In the Prius, if searching for a destination using POI Category I can perform the search relative to a location other than my present position. So, for example, I can look for restaurants relative to a map location or city that I specify (although NOT apparently a specific address).

But what I want to be able to do is perform a POI name search relative to someplace other than my present position. For example, show me the nearest Home Depots relative to some other location. I don't know what city to look in because I have no idea where they are. But I'd like to display them in relative distance from some location that is meaningful to me and is NOT where I am now.

I have found this to be a very handy search function with the Garmin and I can't find any way to do it in the Prius. Does anyone know if this is possible and, if so, how. I just can't believe they missed this.

Richard

 

Thank you. I hope that works. I'll definitely give it a try.

Garmin allows you to do any kind of search using the result of any kind of search as a reference. It's very handy.

 

I just spent a couple of hours in the garage trying this and every other trick I could think of. It sounded like it had a chance of working - but it didn't. Neither did anything else I could think of to try.

Unless there's some special undocumented trick I'm beginning to think that there is no way to do this. Too bad. It's a very useful feature and would be very easy for them to implement. All they would need to do at the end of a destination search is to have as an additional option the ability to begin another search using the location just selected as a starting point instead of the car's current position. That's what Garmin does and it works very well.