J. D. Powers survey on Navigation Systems

Today, I received a survey from J. D. Powers asking about what I thought about NAV on my 2007 Prius.
But from the questions, I gather they are rating and comparing all factory installed NAV systems.

I was dissapointed in Toyota's compared to my Garmin NUVI360 portable Car GPS, so I let them know.

Here is the survey and my responses, if anyone is interrested.
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Today, I received a survey from J. D. Powers asking about what I thought about NAV on my 2007 Prius.
But from the questions, I gather they are rating and comparing all factory installed NAV systems.

I was dissapointed in Toyota's compared to my Garmin NUVI360 portable Car GPS, so I let them know.

Here is the survey and my responses, if anyone is interrested.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Geek My Ride @ Sep 13 2007, 05:36 PM) [snapback]512234[/snapback]</div>

We are both in the same situation. I bought the Garmin NuVi about 6 months before I bought the Prius with NAV, and I have never seen any advantage that the Toyota NAV has over it.

I am not aware that Toyota has one of my favorate NuVi features, find POI near my current route. With this, if you are already planning on driving from point A to point B, and like today, I wanted to drop by a Post office along the way, I entered POI, Near Current Route, and then Post Office, and it gives the full list of Post Offices arranged by distance from any point along the route.

I started trying to enter this into the Toyota GPS, but don't know of it having this feature, so I reached down to the drawer on the front of the center console where I keep my Garmin NuVi 360, and up on the windshield it goes.

I keep thinking that if I read the 250 or whatever page Toyota GPS manual, I will find it does more, but the Garmin's 20 or so page manual seems like a good feature for all the features it has.

Can you say Intuitive?