Have they fixed the database or search capability of the 3.5 Navi to easily find common places like Starbucks? Whenever I look for Starbucks using the Name, there are many choices: Starbucks, Starbuck's, Starbucks Cofe, Starbucks Coffee, Starbucks Coffee CO., etc. Usually all of these or hundreds or thousands of miles any from me and I can never find something in the neighborhood.

It would be nice if I could ask, "Find nearest Starbucks", but it would be satisfactory if the database were fixed.

Any thoughts?

 

IIRC, you can sort them by "distance to travel". I can't remember the exact procedure, but I found my local dry cleaner today that way.

 

the way they make u do it is still a very big inconvenience because you can't always find the closest one.

 

That doesn't work when they are each in their own categories: Starbucks, Starbuck's, Starbucks Cofe, Starbucks Coffee, Starbucks Coffee CO., etc.

 

This is a major pain in the ass, btw. They should automatically combine any establishments that have the keyword in the name and sort by distance to travel. I can't believe they made this kind of glaring usability mistake.

 

Same problem. Software Needs serious update where there is a "similar to" feature so all come out instead of ten minutes of searching each of the 20 variations of starbucks.

 

Am I the only one finding the humor in someone trying to find the nearest Starbucks?

Isn't the long running joke that they're on every street corner. :-)

Anyway, I know the problem you're talking about. It is very annoying. I just give up looking usually.

-Brian

 

Select "Place name or Keyword", then select "sort by distance to travel". Then enter starbuck, and you'll get a usable list. You don't get the "sorty by distance to travel" if you select "Place name".

 

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

 

This is precisely the method I use to find most things, as I was also frustrated in a Starbucks search. I thought a cool addition would be to have some searches stored as presets or, even better, choose a search that's always live so that it peppers the map with user-defined icons of the results. You could load a Starbucks logo into the system and it would always show them on the map, just like gas stations, etc.

 

I thought of that when I read the original question and started a smart-ass response like "go straight 50 feet it will be on the corner).

I remember watching Shrek2 the other day when the giant gingerbread man crushed the starbucks so everyone ran across the street to the other starbucks.

 

wow. i thought i was the only one. i had that same problem when i tried to show off the nav to a friend who was looking for a local kinko's. needless to say, it didn't make that big of an impression.

 

Did you put in "Kinko's" or "Kinkos"? Same with Starbuck's -- you need the apostrophe. Or just skip the 's altogether if you are searching by keyword, it will do a partial match.

 

This thread reminds me of this funny story from The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29030