Google Maps vs Waze vs Apple Maps vs physical paper maps?

Google Maps vs Waze vs Apple Maps vs physical paper maps?

  • Google Maps

    Votes: 75 55.1%

  • Waze

    Votes: 47 34.6%

  • Apple Maps

    Votes: 5 3.7%

  • Physical paper maps

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 3 2.2%

  • Built-in or stand-alone portable navigation unit

    Votes: 4 2.9%
  • Total voters
    136
Cius said:
Google maps mostly, however I did use waze for a year or two and it taught me some amazing backroads that are a lot quieter. I stopped using waze after a near accident as I found Waze was more likely to take you to unsafe turns or into dodge areas. Part of the reason that road is quieter. My brother was in a friends car that was in actual accident due to waze. Took them to a right turn on a busy road near a blind corner and they got hit. So many times where in busy traffic waze wants you to turn right somehow across two busy lanes of traffic taking your life into your hands when one road over was a robot where it was safer to turn at cost of a minute or so at most. If Waze had a way to flag turns (and roads/areas) as more or less dangerous and you could set that as a preference I might go back to it but I just prefer google maps these days as they prefer you go to robots to turn. Waze comes with a danger factor. If its in areas I know I could eventually predict where it was taking me and just ignore the stupid instruction going to the easier turn but for getting into new areas it was a pain.
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Maps also spits me out at dangerous right turns at times
 
Google Maps.

But only to monitor the traffic. I know the routes better and have benchmarked how long it should take to get me home at certain points. I know when to detour.

Google Maps insists on taking me on longer routes and they occasionally ask me for feedback when I detour from their route. I tell them.....

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Waze feels like its meant for kids who want a fun engaging experience.

No thx

I just want to get home
 
Heisenborg said:
Waze feels like its meant for kids who want a fun engaging experience.

No thx

I just want to get home
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It's a bit worrying that you keep forgetting where home is and need an app to guide you.
 
I normally use Waze, but keep an old GPS (a Tom Tom I think) in the glove compartment. It has happened in the Kruger that you totally lose cellphone reception and then the old GPS still does it's thing.
 
Cius said:
So many times where in busy traffic waze wants you to turn right somehow across two busy lanes of traffic taking your life into your hands when one road over was a robot where it was safer to turn at cost of a minute or so at most.
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Waze loved doing this for my morning commute - in my specific situation it felt like these routes can only save you time if you are a bad driver or if you don't value your life. This is the only thing I dislike about Waze and still use it in certain cases, and I pull out Google Maps for longer trips.
 
It depends on which device I am using, but I mostly use Waze. The apps I use:

- Waze
- Google Maps
- Locus Map
- OsmAnd
- Here WeGo

I also have old and updated paper maps.
 
Whenever Harry Metcalfe does his roadtrip vids he uses a paper map to plan the route.

There is always a stack of comments about said maps. Many of which are anecdotes.
 
GMaps.

I used Waze for a few months, and its not bad but I find the interface to be a bit questionable in Android Auto, at least for selecting alternative routes.

Also its constant re-routing eventually got to me when I had to go to Parys and it took me on a road that barely existed and it just ignored the really decent route for some arbitrary reason. If I wasn't in a 4x4 I would have had to backtrack about 70kms to get back to the N3.
 
ToxicBunny said:
GMaps.

I used Waze for a few months, and its not bad but I find the interface to be a bit questionable in Android Auto, at least for selecting alternative routes.

Also its constant re-routing eventually got to me when I had to go to Parys and it took me on a road that barely existed and it just ignored the really decent route for some arbitrary reason. If I wasn't in a 4x4 I would have had to backtrack about 70kms to get back to the N3.
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Waze does not seem to have complete national roads. Had the same thing going to Kimberley. It did not see the N12 as a complete route and tried to take me side roads. Waze is only really for city driving. Open road use something else like GMaps or paper.
 
Cius said:
Waze does not seem to have complete national roads. Had the same thing going to Kimberley. It did not see the N12 as a complete route and tried to take me side roads. Waze is only really for city driving. Open road use something else like GMaps or paper.
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Oh it had the N3 all the way up to JHB, but to get from the N3 to Parys, it created its own magical route (and it changed it regularly on the drive up).
 
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