Any way to sort the POIs by distance?

[LoudAccord]

I'm in Mass and lets say I do a search, it will bring up things from NY, Maine and such. I don't care about that, I have to scroll way down to find the things in mass near me. Any way around that?

[whtcrxghst]

You can put in the city name first if you know what particular city its in. Other than that, no

[gvaughan]

This is terribly idiotic on Pioneer's part. I can't imagine they did it that way by choice, and suspect it is a legal/patent issue.

[ls400_fan]

You can only do a vicinity search, that whole feature alone was why i am getting a Kenwood.

[VietNinjaJ30A1]

i'm pretty annoyed by the fact that i can't sort by distance...sometimes i like to know which one is closer to me without having to load it on the map and look @ the dist. to destination.

[Kricket]

resurrecting a relatively older thread - but my unit appears to do just this

 

when i do a "vicinity search" - it gives me a list of everything by distance away from me

 

i just tested it out to make sure i wasnt mistaken - i clicked "vicinity search", then selected the poi's i wanted (in my test, i chose fast food chains and restaurants) - and clicked "ok" - it then listed all of the poi's in its database according to distance

 

starting with 0.1 miles, then a few with 0.3 miles, 0.6 miles, etc...

 

basically - it takes your current location, then lists the poi's nearest to you (in order of their distance - closest to furthest)

 

is that not how your models work?

[avicer]

resurrecting a relatively older thread - but my unit appears to do just this

 

when i do a "vicinity search" - it gives me a list of everything by distance away from me

 

i just tested it out to make sure i wasnt mistaken - i clicked "vicinity search", then selected the poi's i wanted (in my test, i chose fast food chains and restaurants) - and clicked "ok" - it then listed all of the poi's in its database according to distance

 

starting with 0.1 miles, then a few with 0.3 miles, 0.6 miles, etc...

 

basically - it takes your current location, then lists the poi's nearest to you (in order of their distance - closest to furthest)

 

is that not how your models work?

 

you are talking about "vicinity search". the thread is talking about "search POI". (the button next to "vicinity search").

[Kricket]

you are talking about "vicinity search". the thread is talking about "search POI". (the button next to "vicinity search").

 

but within the vicinity search - you select the poi's you want (the EXACT same ones you find in the "search poi" menu) - and it sorts them by distance

 

to do what the op wants - instead of pushing "search poi", he/she should push "vicinity search" (the button next to "search poi") - and it will do the exact same thing

 

its silly to say the d3 doesnt sort poi's by distance when, in fact, it does - you just have to press a different button...

 

EDIT - in fact, i think the vicinity search is better because you can select multiple poi's to search (restaurants + fast food + restaurant chains = ALL eatery poi's sorted by distance from where you are at)

[NY99Q45t]

If I'm not mistaken, isn't vicinity search limited to 5 miles, however?

[Kricket]

If I'm not mistaken, isn't vicinity search limited to 5 miles, however?

 

i believe that is correct - if youre looking for a poi more than 5 miles away, this particular method will not work

 

but if youre looking for poi's in the usual fashion, this method works just fine

[Swancoat]

Jeez, even the GM factory Nav in my Corvette was better than this. Sometimes I want to punch in 'Home Depot' and see where the closest one is. If it's not within 5 miles, I don't think the D3 can do it. Booo.

[Kricket]

its definitely not as good as a lot of nav units - but its definitely not amongst the worst

 

one of my main gripes with this unit deals with the address book - i have 2 cousins in milwaukee that just moved and another buddy that just moved to peoria illinois - these are two areas that im not very familiar with

 

i punched their addresses into the d3 and saved them using their names (ie - "steve's place", "marks house", etc)

 

it was after this that i noticed either you can store by the actual address (which is pointless in a nav unit - why would i want to store it as "123 main street milwaukee wi"?) OR by their names

 

so now, i have three places ive NEVER been to in my nav unit and the thing will take me all the way in front of the house - but why cant you store which address it is?

 

in my garmin unit, i could store: "steve's place" - and then in the next section itll store the entire address - THAT's helpful

 

oh well, i suppose its better than nothing - especially when youre lost in an unknown area - tons better than having to pull out an actual map, but definitely not the most advanced nav unit

 

garmin FTW!

[whtcrxghst]

To get around that, I do a POI search, type in the city I am in, then Home Depot and it will bring up the home depots in only that city

 

Jeez, even the GM factory Nav in my Corvette was better than this. Sometimes I want to punch in 'Home Depot' and see where the closest one is. If it's not within 5 miles, I don't think the D3 can do it. Booo.

[whtcrxghst]

It will list the address, not the name in destination history if you really want it that bad

 

its definitely not as good as a lot of nav units - but its definitely not amongst the worst

 

one of my main gripes with this unit deals with the address book - i have 2 cousins in milwaukee that just moved and another buddy that just moved to peoria illinois - these are two areas that im not very familiar with

 

i punched their addresses into the d3 and saved them using their names (ie - "steve's place", "marks house", etc)

 

it was after this that i noticed either you can store by the actual address (which is pointless in a nav unit - why would i want to store it as "123 main street milwaukee wi"?) OR by their names

 

so now, i have three places ive NEVER been to in my nav unit and the thing will take me all the way in front of the house - but why cant you store which address it is?

 

in my garmin unit, i could store: "steve's place" - and then in the next section itll store the entire address - THAT's helpful

 

oh well, i suppose its better than nothing - especially when youre lost in an unknown area - tons better than having to pull out an actual map, but definitely not the most advanced nav unit

 

garmin FTW!

[Aconite]

Vicinity search will search 'categories' while POI search will search specific points of interest. When I want a coffee, I want it from Tim Hortons, not any old coffee place. I want to use POI to search for Tim Hortons, not Vicinity because Tim Hortons is not one of the options in Vicinity search.

 

I tried using POI search to try and find the 'nearest' Canadian Tire in a unfamiliar city we were in and it was useless. My wife pulled out her portable Garmin GPS V and we used that to find what we were looking for.

 

I emailed Pioneer with sorting POI's by distance suggestion when I first got my AvicD1. I was hoping it is a feature they could build in with a future firmware upgrade/map release. They seem totally disinterested.