To plan for travel, I often want to search for x (a particular store/hotel/restaurant/gas station/any rest area etc) nearest to a location or attraction I will be visiting--a location that is distant from my current location. Not every place worth visiting has accessible cellular or wifi service,so you need to prepare in advance.
Maps automatically searches what it thinks is my present location.
When I search for location from a company site, they often do not include an actual map, and just say 'no sites found' when one is not within some specified distance of the location I'm asking about. Or they give a list of names of locations in a particular state that mean nothing to me because I do not know which ones are 5 suburbs of city center x that will all be too far away.
So I'd like to be able to define a map area and say, what is the closest X to *this spot*, just to get an idea of the lay of the land there.
How can I do this?
And this question is not specific to iOS or MacOS app versions.
