Best Navigation?
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Best Navigation?
I thought about the computer section, but this isn't a techy question.
The Nav in my Insignia is up to date and is has traffic updates, but honestly, it's a bit ****. It warns me about queues but never avoids them and it always takes me on the M25 even if I'm going to Scotland and starting off from Newcastle ..
So I've been looking for something I can install on my phone .. Waze seemed perfect, till I read about how the Police can identify you and pull off your driving data.
Anyone recommend an app that will actually navigate me around traffic?
The Nav in my Insignia is up to date and is has traffic updates, but honestly, it's a bit ****. It warns me about queues but never avoids them and it always takes me on the M25 even if I'm going to Scotland and starting off from Newcastle ..
So I've been looking for something I can install on my phone .. Waze seemed perfect, till I read about how the Police can identify you and pull off your driving data.
Anyone recommend an app that will actually navigate me around traffic?
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I think you may find looking at the parameters and adjusting them may help, my navman was greatly improved just by setting it to avoid toll roads, when I hit traffic or get warnings I just turn off and drive for a few miles in the general direction that I'm headed in and ignore the perform a U turn for a bit until it starts to calculate a route that doesn't involve going back to where I have just come from.
Always works.
I bought my Mrs the top of the range tom tom with the realtime subscription (or whatever it's called) thrown in and that's still like mine and doesn't re route until you force it to, so I guess they're all a bit similar in their software as it seems to depend on the time length of the delay compared to the time taken on re-route / milage, I always prefer to be moving than stuck in traffic as it's a ball ache clutch up, clutch down, just to move 10m and stop some **** que hopping.
Always works.
I bought my Mrs the top of the range tom tom with the realtime subscription (or whatever it's called) thrown in and that's still like mine and doesn't re route until you force it to, so I guess they're all a bit similar in their software as it seems to depend on the time length of the delay compared to the time taken on re-route / milage, I always prefer to be moving than stuck in traffic as it's a ball ache clutch up, clutch down, just to move 10m and stop some **** que hopping.
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In my day before all this satnav mallarkey I used to have about 15/20 maps in the car and a good large one sometimes 2 as the detail can be better on one or the other depending on which page you're on.
I still always have a map in the car for the exact reason this thread is about, satnavs can be great sometimes but they can also be a royal pain in the $rse.
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I use Google maps for navigation, never had a problem with it and it does what i need it to do. It re-routes you pretty quickly if you come off route, obviously it doesn't have a lot of the features that a dedicated sat nav has but still it's very good and it's free.
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Traffic master is slow to update the current situation. Traffic feature on Google maps is very accurate. I believe it use the phones Mobile signal to see if it's moving. Traffic master has in the past said that there is a traffic jam whilst google maps indicates that the jam has cleared, upon arriving at said traffic problem google has always been alot more accurate.
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How is any satnav that uses live traffic information to calculate your route supposed to work if it's not connected to the Internet? Anyway, to answer your question, Google maps does store most of your route locally now, so you'd have to be driving through a pretty enormous signal dead-spot for it to totally lose track of where you are and where you're supposed to be goiing mid-journey. You'd obviously be in trouble if you're already in a dead spot before you've even programmed the route though.
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In the scale of things, its still than any system that uses a disk or have a map on some sort of memory/storage device. Because Google Maps will re-direct you in the case of new traffic and give you quicker alternative routes as they become available.
If there was a double din that connected to the internet, with maybe a data chip, that would be amazing!
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How is any satnav that uses live traffic information to calculate your route supposed to work if it's not connected to the Internet? Anyway, to answer your question, Google maps does store most of your route locally now, so you'd have to be driving through a pretty enormous signal dead-spot for it to totally lose track of where you are and where you're supposed to be goiing mid-journey. You'd obviously be in trouble if you're already in a dead spot before you've even programmed the route though.
I used Waze this week and it routed me around a road block and a motorway queue without a word from me.
Very impressed and it's free.
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