Waze app for navigation?

Works great here in Mexico. I haven't tried it in the U.S. yet.

Google bought Waze a couple of years back and incorporated some of the technology into Google Maps.

Google Buys Waze in Push to Expand in Mobile Mapping

Dtaylor wrote:
Co-Pilot works well also. I use it on my IPhone

I use waze sometimes but Co pilot is my app of choice over all the rest. You don't need internet for it to work.

Co pilot navigation app

I'm a big fan of Waze and use it every day for my commute. It has saved me from getting stuck in huge traffic delays many times.......

paulcardoza wrote:
I'm a big fan of Waze and use it every day for my commute. It has saved me from getting stuck in huge traffic delays many times.......

I'm trying to get the Waze app to 'talk.'

Will it give you verbal as you go alert for red light cameras, school zones, speed limit, etc. without programming in a destination?

I can't seem to get it to work.

Have not used Waze. I bought Co-Pilot last year and really like it.

I use Co-Pilot also. What has concerned me about Waze is that the maps are edited by users. Anyone with an account can sign into the website and change a map - correctly, or maliciously. The phone also must have data connected for Waze to work and as their website says, this can use a lot of data. The maps coming from CoPilot are commercially produced maps and are free downloads that are stored on the phone or tablet - no need for any data while traveling, you have all of the maps for the entire country - or the maps for the regions you want. Copilot has RV mode and will route around low overpasses and propane restrictions - based on what you have set into your RV profile. For $10 this is an RV specific GPS that functions as well as the RV standa lone units. (CoPilot includes a one year subscription for traffic coverage which does use data but from my experience it uses very, very little data over a five hour trip. After the first year traffic costs $10 a year - or just don't have traffic and all other premium features work.)

If you could install the maps on your phone and have Waze work without data I might consider it - but from what I see, you can't do any of that.

1775 wrote:
I use Co-Pilot also. What has concerned me about Waze is that the maps are edited by users. Anyone with an account can sign into the website and change a map - correctly, or maliciously. The phone also must have data connected for Waze to work and as their website says, this can use a lot of data. The maps coming from CoPilot are commercially produced maps and are free downloads that are stored on the phone or tablet - no need for any data while traveling, you have all of the maps for the entire country - or the maps for the regions you want. Copilot has RV mode and will route around low overpasses and propane restrictions - based on what you have set into your RV profile. For $10 this is an RV specific GPS that functions as well as the RV standa lone units. (CoPilot includes a one year subscription for traffic coverage which does use data but from my experience it uses very, very little data over a five hour trip. After the first year traffic costs $10 a year - or just don't have traffic and all other premium features work.)

If you could install the maps on your phone and have Waze work without data I might consider it - but from what I see, you can't do any of that.

while waze can be used as a GPS but it's really more of a real-time traffic app. I ran it continuously in my jeep on a trip between Chicago and Port Charlotte, FL. it didn't use a whole lot of data.