Traffic App - INRIX vs CoPilot vs Waze...

[motco]

weeboot said:

A recent waze update has added speed limits, with the option to warn above them (configurable)

Yes, I have noticed that the speed indication symbol changes to red if I dare to exceed the posted limit. I'm not sure, but I suspect that it speaks the warning of a camera only where it's a variable limit or where you're exceeding it on approach. Otherwise it's pop-up warning on screen only. Can anyone confirm?

I drove a >100 mile round trip into SW London and back this morning using Waze and it was stable the whole time.

[rxe]

Been using Waze for a about 2 years. Traffic reporting is very good indeed, when it says "get off this motorway right now" I just do it - it seems to be right 99% of the time. I think TomTom has been losing subscriptions fast - I ran the two in parallel for a while, and TomTom got steadily worse.

Crowdsourced mobile speed trap warnings have saved my backside on several occasions, and I have great delight in reporting the ones that I see....

[motco]

I thought about running Waze with it's slightly estuary accented female voice and Jaguar Navigation with the lady with the Roedean accent at the same time. Then it occurred to me that I didn't want it to degenerate into a cat-fight between the pair!

[Jodyone]

I used Waze for a couple of years- the speed camera warnings are very useful and the traffic awareness seems good. I ditched it when it introduced adverts, which I can't tolerate (I'd happily have bought it instead). I was getting fed up with it anyway because no persistent north-up mode is possible (at least wasn't last year), which makes it unhelpful for new routes for me.

I go between Google maps and Apple maps now. I'd stay with Apple maps but the search is atrocious and no persistent north-up either. If I have no interbob signal then I'll retreat to either TomTom or CoPilot (both iPhone apps).

[Dave Hedgehog]

i use waze in london (wont use inrix as you have to login to use it, admissible as evidence?)

its pretty good, but does get it wrong occasionally, however i have found doing a rescan for routes at the 5 - 6 nodes points where alternate routes are available increases its viability drastically

its knocked 35 mins each way of my avg time !! and saved me from a 4 hour accident hold up a few weeks ago that a friend got caught in

[havoc]

Jody - INRIX's default is north-upwards.

[Jodyone]

havoc said:

Jody - INRIX's default is north-upwards.

Thanks! I'll try it.

[defblade]

Another +1 for Waze here.
I realised it shows you on the first route screen if there's a problem along the way a while ago when then the blue bar suddenly had a red bit on - let me completely re-route from the off, which is pretty much vital for that trip (once you've gone the normal way, you're more-or-less stuck with it).

Far Cough said:

I`d be interested in how WAZE users have avoided speed traps etc.

Mostly by not speeding much

[gmaz]

rxe said:

Been using Waze for a about 2 years. Traffic reporting is very good indeed, when it says "get off this motorway right now" I just do it - it seems to be right 99% of the time. I think TomTom has been losing subscriptions fast - I ran the two in parallel for a while, and TomTom got steadily worse.

Crowdsourced mobile speed trap warnings have saved my backside on several occasions, and I have great delight in reporting the ones that I see....

I started using it last week and was impressed when it re-routed me off the motorway about 5 minutes before the gantry signs lit up saying the motorway ahead was closed.

[weeboot]

Jody, I noticed in the settings in Waze this morning that there is an option to "Lock North-up mode"

[Jodyone]

weeboot said:

Jody, I noticed in the settings in Waze this morning that there is an option to "Lock North-up mode"

Thanks. Maybe I'll give it another go

[Far Cough]

I used it yesterday and it was brilliant . WAZE I`m talking about. The mileage I did was twice the norm but I kept moving and it kept beeping at me and then telling me of speed cameras ahead. I`m yet to check the data usage ( I`m on a limited data contract ) but I imagine it will be low. The Police alerts were spot on as there was a broken down car with police in attendance and I was alerted in plenty of time both on my journey in and out when it was still there.

I do feel confident it could save you from a nasty speeding letter provided someone else has seen the plod first and let everyone else know. If your the first through the area then you will have no warning...........

[havoc]

I'm now running waze on the company iPhone and have back-to-backed it with INRIX for both journeys today:-

- Don't like auto-zoom on Waze - it's speed-sensitive so you lose the ability to look-ahead when you're approaching junctions / stationary (which typically is when you've the most time to look). Which means you need to pinch-zoom to change it...not as easy on the move as just pressing a +/- button.
- 3D feels like a good nav function but not for traffic.
- Waze was better for in-town traffic reporting but notably worse for open-road traffic reporting. On the way home it completely failed to tell me about the traffic around the Evesham bypass (always there) until after I'd driven through it.
- Waze looks to have more functionality and a more 'fun' interface, but also seems more difficult to interpret at-a-glance - it feels like a typical Millenials-app, while INRIX feels more tailored-to-purpose.

Anyway, that's just 1 day data - will keep comparing them.

[defblade]

havoc said:

- Don't like auto-zoom on Waze - it's speed-sensitive so you lose the ability to look-ahead when you're approaching junctions / stationary (which typically is when you've the most time to look). Which means you need to pinch-zoom to change it...not as easy on the move as just pressing a +/- button..

If you tap the screen, 2 circles appear on the right. The top is (I think) "lock north", the other is a +-. Tap that, it turns into an oval with + at the top and - at the bottom, which then zoom the map. Still a bit fiddly, but not half as bad as trying to pinch zoom.

[Mark300zx]

+1 for waze, use it daily in my London commute for anything over 3 miles, saved me many times and have often challenged it and lost out by being stuck in traffic!!!!

[LaneDiesel]

I'm just after a decent map view, current road name and heading and I will be happy. Any suggestions? Waze does not appear to do this.

[weeboot]

havoc said:

- Don't like auto-zoom on Waze - it's speed-sensitive so you lose the ability to look-ahead when you're approaching junctions / stationary (which typically is when you've the most time to look). Which means you need to pinch-zoom to change it...not as easy on the move as just pressing a +/- button.

Pretty certain you can turn that off, I'll have a nose in the settings shortly

havoc said:

- 3D feels like a good nav function but not for traffic.

Again, I think that can be disabled too.

havoc said:

- Waze was better for in-town traffic reporting but notably worse for open-road traffic reporting. On the way home it completely failed to tell me about the traffic around the Evesham bypass (always there) until after I'd driven through it.

It's Evesham, what do you expect?! (ex. Evesham resident)

[havoc]

I know to expect it now...just found it interesting that Waze doesn't tell you about it. Didn't this morning either...

[motco]

havoc said:

I know to expect it now...just found it interesting that Waze doesn't tell you about it. Didn't this morning either...

Did you report it? If not, and nobody else did, how would it know? That's how it works.

[havoc]

motco said:

havoc said:

I know to expect it now...just found it interesting that Waze doesn't tell you about it. Didn't this morning either...

Did you report it? If not, and nobody else did, how would it know? That's how it works.

Interesting - didn't realise. INRIX is linked to a lot of the OEM navs and automatically pulls traffic speed data from them. So I sort-of expected Waze to be an automatic 2-way communication, rather than a manual 'flag'...