Hi all,

I was wondering if you guys know about this problem or help me figure out this problem. When I go to Point of Interest (POI) with my navigation system and type in my destination, let's say "Bank of America", it shows places that are 100-300 miles away instead of close by banks. I live in San Francisco, California but it shows places ranging from Los Angeles to Sacramento. Even if I select nearby places or that option that says by nearby location. To find one near me, I would have to scroll down a list of over 800 destinations to find the one closest to where I am at. For example, when I did this search in San Francisco, I had to scroll down to search 600 to be able to find the closest one near me in San Francisco. Does anyone know what is wrong or has this happen to anyone else? Does anyone know how to fix this problem? It gets a little frustrating when I am in a hurry. I have also tried to set my location to San Francisco and its doing the same thing. Is there another option to set my location?

Thanks in advance.

 

Hmmm...this has never happened to me. That sounds really odd! I'll get in the car first thing tomorrow and try and see if I can recreate the problem you're talking about and find a fix or at least an explanation for you. Answer coming asap

 

im having the same problem!! its getting really annoying, hopefully someone can find an answer

 

well there is a button on top when it lists the locations to sort by distance

 

Yes, sort by distance does not work. Gets me places that are in LA or Sacramento.

 

I had a trip to S.F with my G just a month ago.

My navigation worked perfect...
I did like 'Search' -> 'Motel 6' and sort by distance and even made a call.
I didn't have any problem.

Mine is 2009 as well..

 

I'm gonna have to agree...I dont have any problems with mine and cant reproduce the problems you're talking about. Mine does closest POI's just fine. But I'll keep trying to go through the menu's and see if I can find anything

 

that shouldn't happen b/c it should sort it by distance from where you are.

is your GPS position in the car exact to where you are?

 

Sort by distance works just fine for me.

 

Is Cali split into two regions in the nav system? If you don't have itset to the correct region before you search, the results are gonna be wacky. But if Cali is all one region, it sounds like a glitch in the matrix.

 

This happens to me too. I look for something that I know was within 5 miles I just can't find it (ie Best Buy) and then when I press search it gives me crazy locations. I sort by distance and the closest one was something like 70 miles away, and when I scroll down the list they just get further away.

I eventually had to do it the old fashion way. Get out and ask someone.

 

I had the same experience Monday night - did a search on Walmart. The system returned 8 Walmarts with the closest one 180 km away. I know for sure there are at least 5 Walmarts within 20 km from where I was.

There is something wrong.

 

--UPDATE--
Shortly after posting this question, my navigation worked fine. I guess before I did anything, I relocated myself again and it works. But then again, before that, I did the same thing and it didn't work. I guess if you keep pin pointing your location then it should work.

 

I'm in the bay area and have the same sorting issue too. When I hit sort by location the nav does show the closest but it's really annoying to keep having to do this.