proxim2020 wrote:
spoon059 wrote:
Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:
Better have a large data plan if you are going to use your cell phone. You will be streaming basically a video that is going to use huge amounts of data. Then you don't get traffic updates a work around.
Don
Not really. Using Google Maps requires very little data. We use our smartphone GPS for most camping trips and we don't notice any extra data usage. Don't get me wrong, it uses SOME data... but not enough that we see a difference in day to day usage.
X2. Yeah a lot of apps require very little. For me, Waze uses about 94MB a month and I use it pretty much daily. If I'm going from point A to B or short trips then I'll stick with the phone. It's king when it comes to instant alerts and map updates. On longer trips I prefer the Garmin since it's features are geared more towards highway travel than Waze.
I use Waze all the time. The constantly updating of the maps by the users ensures that the maps are as close to accurate as possible. Not to mention the updated traffic has saved me a ton of time when driving to work and pulling the camper.
Recently, we were going camping with another family. They left about 30 minutes before we did. I got in the truck and pulled up the route in Waze. Noticed that it was sending me an odd route so I looked and it was routing me around some pretty nasty traffic. About 10 minutes after we left I get a call - "Don't go I-10 traffic is horrible!" In the end it took them about 1.5 hours to just just over 4 miles because of the wreck. We beat them to the campsite by just over 1.5 hours :)
I have submitted a request to them to add the "RV" mode for bridge height etc but doubt that will ever be available.
