Which navigation app do you use?

Which navigation app do you use?

  • Google Maps

    Votes: 183 63.1%

  • Apple Maps

    Votes: 10 3.4%

  • Waze

    Votes: 74 25.5%

  • Here

    Votes: 5 1.7%

  • Built-in car navigation system

    Votes: 4 1.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 14 4.8%
  • Total voters
    290
JabiRider said:
Just a few questions to all the guys still using Map Books...most streets don't have legible street names anymore...do you guys count the streets from the last one you could read, or how do you do it? Why the resistance to technology that makes getting somewhere so much easier?

I used to be a sales rep many years ago, and using a map book was part of my daily life. When GPS's came out I was first in line to buy a Garmin. Bought it on a Sunday, and that Monday, navigating the streets of Joburg became an instant breeze. The only time I ever had issues with my Garmin was in Durban, where my Garmin had all the one-way streets the wrong way around, and when they recently changed many street names, I used to have to call each company and ask them what the street name used to be. And a map book would have given the same problem.

Another problem I had with a map book was going on holiday and having the wife navigate. The map book lead to so many arguments. And the argument usually started when my wife would say "You were supposed to take the offramp we just passed!", or "You were supposed to turn left at the street we just passed."...At least the person on navigation apps tells you where to turn before you get there...
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What’s a “map book”?
 
backstreetboy said:
Travelling now and Google maps just has more restaurants and other local info compared to Apple Maps.
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So it pains me to say it but when I’m a pedestrian in Europe, US, Canada - Google maps wins. It’s just better unfortunately. Not nice to admit but I’ll give credit where it’s due :)
 
neoprema said:
What’s a “map book”?
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The best thing with a map book is when you have to travel 5km and have to jump three pages in separate parts of the book. Then when a road is closed and you have to pull over and redraw your route on the side of the N2 with 5 guys pressing their tattooed prison dicks up against your window. Oh yes and then for when you do a trip to somewhere you have never been before you basically have to draw your route on a seperate piece of paper so that you don't have to change pages mid drive.

I have been lost with a map book, TomTom and google maps... as long as the network is up there is always a way out. I suppose having a map book as a backup is a good thing but technology has just made navigation so much better.
 
Nerfherder said:
The best thing with a map book is when you have to travel 5km and have to jump three pages in separate parts of the book. Then when a road is closed and you have to pull over and redraw your route on the side of the N2 with 5 guys pressing their tattooed prison dicks up against your window. Oh yes and then for when you do a trip to somewhere you have never been before you basically have to draw your route on a seperate piece of paper so that you don't have to change pages mid drive.

I have been lost with a map book, TomTom and google maps... as long as the network is up there is always a way out. I suppose having a map book as a backup is a good thing but technology has just made navigation so much better.
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I can tell you, that coming from the platteland and having to navigate your way through Joburg CBD for the first time, with only a map book, was an experience. You drove in a boy, but drove out a man. Young people of today will never understand the struggle. And way back, you didn't have a cellphone to call anyone if you got into a squeeze. Eish. Of all the things I miss of the less-connected age, navigation is not one of them.
 
FiestaST said:
Check it:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1756764706000261430

https://twitter.com/x/status/1756779072187998640

https://twitter.com/x/status/1756774951850279370

https://twitter.com/x/status/1756777055755083938
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I use Apple Maps primarily because I prefer the interface, but people calling it better must be either very limited in using mapping apps or living in a part of the world where apple has up to date maps and are focusing a lot more.

I have waze as a back up, but google maps imo is still the best to find new places.
 
phoneJunky said:
I use Apple Maps primarily because I prefer the interface, but people calling it better must be either very limited in using mapping apps or living in a part of the world where apple has up to date maps and are focusing a lot more.

I have waze as a back up, but google maps imo is still the best to find new places.
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Apple Maps is far more reliable in certain places. In others it’s behind Google. I think Google (and thus Waze) has put so much effort into mapping around the world that its very hard to match them now.
In Europe and North America I’ll use Apple Maps.. everywhere else is Google Maps and in South Africa Waze to include the speed traps.
 
I have a 2017 Garmin nuvi 55 GPS, and I regularly do the map updates for it, to keep them current. There's also a locally compiled monthly road hazards database on a GPS forum that I install for all speed warnings & driver alerts as well.

If I am driving to a destination I've never been to before, I use Google Maps on my PC or laptop to check what routes are available, as well as Street View to look at the actual location, and get the co-ordinates if the Garmin doesn't list it correctly, so I can enter them manually.

This method has worked successfully for me so far for the last 6 years of my commuting & travels around SA.
 
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