7. Finding A Restaurant

In GPS speak, a "Point of Interest", or POI, is a business address saved on the GPS. You can think of the POI database as a pre-loaded yellow pages on the GPS. Most modern GPS devices come pre-loaded with a Points of Interest database, allowing you to find nearby businesses, such as restaurants, gas stations, hotels, and more.

The nüvi 205 ships with good size POI database of around 6 million entries.

Figure 42: Main Menu

Searching the pre-loaded POI database is a simple affair, requiring a few screen taps to choose a category (i.e. Restaurant), sub-category if appropriate (i.e. Restaurant -> Chinese), and how far away you want to search.

To begin searching for a restaurant, touch Where To? from the Main Menu.

Figure 43: Where To? Page

Choose Points of Interest from the Where To? page.

Figure 44: Telling the nüvi Where to Search

Unless otherwise specified, the nüvi 205 searches for Points of Interest (POIs) close to your current location. If you want to search for a business near a specific address, or along your planned route or destination address, tap Near... on the Where To? page. The following four options are available:

• Where I Am Now - Searches for businesses close to your current location
• A Different City - Searches for businesses in a city (you will be prompted to enter the city name)
• My Current Route - Searches for businesses along your current planned route (you must be navigating to a destination for this option to be selectable)
• My Destination - Searches for businesses near your destination address (you must be navigating to a destination for this option to be selectable)

Figure 45: Selecting the Search Category

In this example I'll be searching for a restaurant, so I'll tap on Food from the Points of Interest page. I could have also chosen any of the following other available Points of Interest (POI) categories:

• Fuel
• Transit
• Lodging
• Shopping
• Bank/ATM
• Parking
• Entertainment
• Recreation
• Attractions
• Hospitals
• Community
• Auto Services

If you're not sure what category a given business would be found under, but know the name of the place you're searching for, tapping on Spell Name allows you to search the entire POI database for a specific name.

Figure 46: Setting the POI Sub-Category

Some POI categories have sub-categories. For example, if you choose "Food" as the main category, the nüvi then asks if you also want to enter a sub-category (in this case, a cuisine type). If we wanted to find the closest Mexican restaurant, for example, we could choose Mexican as the sub-category, and the nüvi would limit the results to just Mexican restaurants.

If you don't want to narrow the results by cuisine, choose All Food to list all restaurants in the search area you specified.

Figure 47: Viewing POI Search Results

The POI search results list displays each restaurant in order of closeness to our current location, along with the exact street address, distance, and direction relative to your current position.

Figure 48: POI Details Page

Tapping on a POI in the search results list displays the details page for that particular POI. This screen displays the street address and phone number of the business.

This screen also lets you view the POI on the map before navigating to the address (Show Map), save the POI to the address book (Save), or begin routing to the business by tapping on the large green Go! button.

8. Adding A Stop To The Planned Route

Figure 49: Map Screen

The nüvi 205 lets you add up to 1 additional stop to an existing route. For example, you might want to search for a McDonald's along the planned route, and add it as a stop along the way.

More expensive nüvis allow you to create and save trips with multiple stops, and even sort the stops by distance. The less expensive nüvi 205 only allows you to insert a single stop.

To add a stop to a current trip, touch Menu from the Map Screen.

Figure 50: Main Menu

Search for an a destination just as you would normally by tapping Where to?

Figure 51: Add Via Point

Once you've entered the address or POI of the additional stop, you can insert it as a via along the current route, or cancel the current destination and set the new address as the destination.