My mind is still reeling from all the really bad design flaws of the new Garmins compared to my older Garmin. Shiny screens which make it harder, not easier to read. Annoying and near-useless 5-star rating pop-ups for every POI. A net increase in the number of user-interactions with the device...that is just downright dangerous.
And now this.
Every time I pull up a default category POI listing directly or through a word search, my personal database of saved items (formerly known as "favorites), - items which were originally copied as editable shortcuts and separated from the generic database through the "SAVE" command, are now obtrusively reunited with the nearby generic POIs. But worse, they are placed before of any nearby POIs, even if the saved entries are thousands of miles away. Anyone with hundreds or thousands of saved POIs then must scroll through hundreds of pages of POIs to get to the nearby POIs.
I consider this a major design error. If it were a plane, it would be a model of plane that would unexpectedly crash killing everyone aboard. Frequently. Leading to an immediate recall. The design engineer who introduced this "feature" should be fired with extreme prejudice unless he/she had the foresight to add a switch to disable this horrible blending of saved and generic POIs.
The whole reason a user is separating a POI from the generic database is because they want to have it separate in a separate lookup area! Why would anyone want saved entries then remerged with the generic database in a useless way? Why would anyone want to know of a Starbucks hundreds or thousands of miles away when one does a search for nearby POIs? The stupidity of this "feature" boggles the mind. Besides being unwieldy, this "feature" is extremely dangerous too, ...because if a driver can't conveniently pull to the side of the road, it can impose an absurdly dangerous level of distracted driving when it pops up.
There must be a way to disable this dangerous and damning feature of the 3590. I am hoping someone here knows how. I will hack the code if necessary, but if that is the only way to do it, please let me know where to find out how to do it.
