Waze app. Do you use it?

DaveyDave · 26-12-2019 10:44PM

I actively avoid tolls, I've never had Google Maps give me any trouble with the M50. I always drive off-peak so I have the luxury of avoiding the toll.

I know Waze has speed camera and accident alerts but they're community driven and I believe it isn't as popular here so not always accurate. Anytime there's congestion or an accident Google Maps is always useful, never had any real issues. Great in the States too with lane assist so you know which of the 2 slip road lanes to be in when you need to take a left down the road.

Can't say I've ever needed anything else from Google Maps. I guess one downside is it doesn't show GPS speed like it does when using unplugged Google Maps although that's not an issue for me as I usually have the cruise set to +2 over the limit. I also think it doesn't do multi destinations on Android Auto.

_Kaiser_ · 27-12-2019 01:13AM

mankteln wrote: »

My pet hate with it is when driving in Ireland when it'll send you down a smaller side road as it may be slightly more direct but is tiny with barely room for a car. Obviously the app probably thinks your safe to fire away at 80km on it lol

Totally agree with this one. Has happened far too many times to me

They have an "avoid motorways/tolls" option - why not an "avoid crap pot holed, unlined, built from chippings dirt tracks" option? (although, that would probably exclude 50% of roads I suppose)

mankteln · 27-12-2019 01:20AM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Totally agree with this one. Has happened far too many times to me

They have an "avoid motorways/tolls" option - why not an "avoid crap pot holed, unlined, built from chippings dirt tracks" option? (although, that would probably exclude 50% of roads I suppose)

It does it everywhere too. When we were in Croatia in October we drove to Mostar in Bosnia and it sent us up a dirt track over a mountain where there was barely space for a car and a sheer drop on one side. Once we got to Mostar I checked out the map and we could've taken a slightly longer (10km) route that wouldn't have involved us dicing with death

Wizard! · 27-12-2019 02:15AM

This is it wrote: »

Have you manually added a load of waypoints for that trip. Looks like it and doing it that way tends to mess it up a bit

No waypoints. This is just a simple search "from-to".
And it is not the first time.

flazio · 27-12-2019 02:18PM

I would use it on roads I'm not familiar with but for A-B navigation my go to is my offline navigation app Sygic.

dashoonage · 27-12-2019 02:27PM

eljono wrote: »

I use it when driving via Android Auto. I like that it shows me the speed limit of the road I'm on as well as the speed of the car.

I also have it running most of the time in the hope that if there's a speed camera or incident coming up, someone will have logged it.

I installed it yesterday and already someone had flagged a guard with a gun this morning.

Does anyone know if it's possible to have it sound continuously while over the limit ?

the_syco · 28-12-2019 02:18PM

mankteln wrote: »

My pet hate with it is when driving in Ireland when it'll send you down a smaller side road as it may be slightly more direct but is tiny with barely room for a car. Obviously the app probably thinks your safe to fire away at 80km on it lol

Waze has an option in it.
Car Info > More routing options > Dirt roads; Don't allow
It won't choose any narrow roads.

An example would be; https://goo.gl/maps/gsDLniBLEGQ1qnxS7 - Google would bring me down the dark blue route, but Waze would select the light blue. There's a car in this picture to give an idea of the amount of space the Google route has; https://goo.gl/maps/7vgAePJpNPKUjzpp7

Waze avoided this road with the "avoid dirt roads" option.

Waze app. Do you use it?

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