Best sat nav app has to be waze
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I'm not 100% convinced by Waze. On more than one occasion it has taken me off the A road I'm on, round some back roads and back on to the A road 400 yards further down when the road is clear and there's nothing reported (difficult to ignore if you don't know the area but know you've got to turn off the A road at some point). It's also tried to direct me along a route I know will be very congested (as someone sitting in the congestion let me know) presumably because it doesn't have enough data to know otherwise. That said, it has on one occasion taken me a route I would have never considered which avoided sitting on a slip road for 30 minutes.
Love Waze. I know it's owned by Google Maps, but Google always struggles to find the simplist of places on my phone where Waze does? Also, I live in a new build area and Waze was the first maps to get our street and all subsequent streets built! I think there's some sort of competition laws that keep Google and Waze maps slightly separate, or so I've been told anyway.
Another waze user here. Does everyone else using it mark hazards and traffic jams? The more people do that the better it will work. Otherwise it's just like other sat navs I guess. It's saved me from waiting in some traffic jams but have also had the re-route off an a road only to be brought back on further up the road when there was no obstruction, only once though.
eybic said:
I've pretty much stopped using it as it either has to have access to my location all the time or not at all, surely whilst using the app is sufficient? It is for all of the others and iPhone batteries are bad enough without it constantly using GPS.
Turn off location change reporting and it should solve it.
Birdster said:
eybic said:
I've pretty much stopped using it as it either has to have access to my location all the time or not at all, surely whilst using the app is sufficient? It is for all of the others and iPhone batteries are bad enough without it constantly using GPS.
Turn off location change reporting and it should solve it.
eybic said:
Birdster said:
eybic said:
I've pretty much stopped using it as it either has to have access to my location all the time or not at all, surely whilst using the app is sufficient? It is for all of the others and iPhone batteries are bad enough without it constantly using GPS.
Turn off location change reporting and it should solve it.A friend was using it the other day and he asked me several times to check the tomtom on my phone as his waxed app was suggesting he left the motorway for a detour and the app had sent him on a couple of wild goose chases recently. The advice didn't match what the tomtom servercie was saying that the road ahead was clear.
The fact that this thread has educated me that it is now owned by Google doesn't inspire me to try it out again.
littleredrooster said:
So you've just contradicted your original statement that it doesn't use live data once the route is loaded...?
No, that is not what my statement said. I said 'yes - to load your route' (for data). I did not say, 'it doesnt use live data once the route is loaded'johnwilliams77 said:
littleredrooster said:
So you've just contradicted your original statement that it doesn't use live data once the route is loaded...?
No, that is not what my statement said. I said 'yes - to load your route' (for data). I did not say, 'it doesnt use live data once the route is loaded'The thing with Waze is, if it thinks it can save you 2 minutes, it'll route you through the arse end of nowhere.
The rerouting is a bit too sensitive and there are some queues that I'm OK with sitting in, because I know when I get past that I'm moving quickly again. Waze would rather route me at an overall slower speed (theoretical quicker time) through some shortcuts that often take longer in the end because it doesnt account for trying to turn right at junctions and waiting for gaps in the traffic
If you learn to ignore some of it, it's really good. But having a fight with the sat nav while you're trying to do other things means I tend to not use it as much anymore and just stick with Google Maps.
HERE was horrible for routing and general traffic when I tried it (when it first launched on Android). I dont have a need to go back to it really.
The rerouting is a bit too sensitive and there are some queues that I'm OK with sitting in, because I know when I get past that I'm moving quickly again. Waze would rather route me at an overall slower speed (theoretical quicker time) through some shortcuts that often take longer in the end because it doesnt account for trying to turn right at junctions and waiting for gaps in the traffic
If you learn to ignore some of it, it's really good. But having a fight with the sat nav while you're trying to do other things means I tend to not use it as much anymore and just stick with Google Maps.
HERE was horrible for routing and general traffic when I tried it (when it first launched on Android). I dont have a need to go back to it really.
I use Waze, but I really don't like its childish/goofy design direction. Standard Google Maps has a much cleaner interface, which i find not only clearer but easier to use. It is also much clearer on traffic ahead.
It also tries far too hard to link into Social Network, esp when I just want to send an update to the Wife about when ill be home, but I have to scroll through all the other names of Waze users to find hers. Why can't I just make her my favourite/default recipient.
Waze also seems to struggle with picking up a data connection after it has dropped - a regular occurrence with Vodafone regularly confirming itself as the UK's worst network.
It also tries far too hard to link into Social Network, esp when I just want to send an update to the Wife about when ill be home, but I have to scroll through all the other names of Waze users to find hers. Why can't I just make her my favourite/default recipient.
Waze also seems to struggle with picking up a data connection after it has dropped - a regular occurrence with Vodafone regularly confirming itself as the UK's worst network.
I've been a Waze user almost since it launched over here, and can honestly say that it is without peer. The navigation in MrsC's 2015 C-Class is useless by comparison - the UI of my Dad's brand new TomTom is Fisher Price by contrast. Google Maps doesn't have anywhere near the information ("beware, car stopped on hard shoulder ahead") or ability to intelligently reroute, and HERE Maps (the old Nokia Maps) is a pale pastiche of Google.
I simply can't see a reason, other than "I like what I know", for not using Waze instead of the alternatives.
I simply can't see a reason, other than "I like what I know", for not using Waze instead of the alternatives.
You all keep saying it takes you on random small roads, you can tell it to stick to main roads/fastest route/shorted distance etc.
When you enter a average speed camera zone now there's a little bar which tells you how long they are for, how far through you are and it has a accurate speedo so you can run right on the limit and not what your cars speedo is saying.
When you enter a average speed camera zone now there's a little bar which tells you how long they are for, how far through you are and it has a accurate speedo so you can run right on the limit and not what your cars speedo is saying.
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