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What is the best GPS navigation application for your car or truck?
Depending on your age, you might remember a time when you used directions that were printed, watching the odometer to count down the miles until your next exit, and an emergency road atlas to guide you on road trips. These days, electronic navigation is optional on almost every single new car and cell phone. While all NAV services give the same basic information, how and what information they present can be quite different. With so many different choices available to select from, how can anyone decide which one is the best? We have narrowed it down to our top 3 picks, Google Maps vs. Waze vs. Apple Maps. CarPlay® is available in so many new cars that it may feel like the leader, but Waze and Google Maps have their own unique benefits as well.
Google Maps is the most robust map application in this review since all of the data comes from Google itself.
Apple Maps might be the easiest NAV app to use, since CarPlay® is available in many new vehicles. Apple Maps has one minor flaw, it is only available on iOS devices.
Even though other NAV applications now use some sort of crowd-sourced traffic data, Waze was the first to use the technology as well.
It should be no surprise, but the best NAV App really depends on what drivers need. If you happen to get lost easily, the Look Around feature on Apple Maps will be helpful. If you use Navigation for your next big cycling road trip, then Google Maps is for you. However, if you just need to get from Point A to Point B in the shortest time, Waze is your choice. Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze all have their own features and you really can’t go wrong with any of them.
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