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X950BH POI along route?


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I have an X710BT in another car and I like it welI enough, so I bought a new X950BH for another car.

During my first road trip (Michigan to Colorado and back), I came to realize that there doesn't seem to be an option to search for a POI along the active route. Maybe I'm just missing something. I can't imagine that someone would build a nav system without that capability.

It sucks when you're trying to find a gas station along the interstate and you have to figure out whether they're ahead, behind, or buried somewhere in a town off the highway.

Any ideas?

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I have an X950BH and I agree. You can search near me (up to 50 POI's within a 100 mile radius), around a city or around another destination but not on the route.  You can add waypoints to a route but that's not the same thing.  It's retarded that I can do this with my Garmin NUVI but not with this head unit.  They added a couple of neat features but leave out the some of the most basic ones including not having posted speed limit data which the smaller PND's have.  I can't imagine how they could come up with a concept model excluding this stuff when it was being developed.

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Sorry I can't come up with a hack, but I do have an excellent phone app that does exactly what you need, AND gives you the location of the lowest price gasoline.  Take a look  at GasBuddy http://www.gasbuddy.com/GasBuddyMobileApps.aspx.  Available for all phones I believe.  

Thanks Oldergeek. That's exactly what I did!

I have never seen a nav system, even a $59 refurbed TomTom that didn't have this feature. Even my crappy 2012 Toyota factory nav does it, which, until this Pioneer unit, I considered to be the worst nav ever IMO.

Pioneer needs to get a clue and fix this. It can't be that hard.

As it stands now, I've bought my last Pioneer product.

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