You choose a route, it sends you on a different path. What is the point of offering you options if it’s just going to direct you where IT wants??!! Today it took me somewhere completely different than the address I input.

So what map program do you all like and use? I need to find something different before I have a hemorrhage.

I’ve been using Waze since it first came out.

I mostly use Google maps for phone or vehicle nav. I do have Waze, use it at times.

To me, the search with Google maps is more intuitive, simple & accurate.

I'm always surprised when I learn someone uses Apple Maps. I'm about 3/4 Waze and 1/4 Google Maps.

Every now and then I give it a 2nd chance and quickly realize what a mistake it was. It's absolutely awful in a big city with multilane freeways (e.g. 4, 5, 6, 7 lanes each direction). MF'ers will be recommending the left lane and then 50 feet later will tell you to right lane exit which is impossible.

I said 2nd chance because it was really off when it first came out years ago:

I was in Fairbanks heading towards the airport from a portion of town I had never been. Once I got close I knew where I was and the damn thing is trying to get me to turn into the private aviation area instead of heading to commercial aviation. No big deal for me as I knew where I was going by then and didn't think much of it. However, a week or two later one of Alaska's state reps/senators followed Apple Maps into private aviation, there was a gate open (should have been closed), he goes through the gate, and is driving on the tarmac of an international airport which prompted full LEO response and national media attention. Sure glad I didn't do the same a week or two earlier.

I had a layover in Hawaii coming back from Japan, and I was going to crash at my friend's place for a couple days. She gave me the address, told me her place was blue, and told me where the key was hidden (she was at work). I put it in Apple Maps and I pull up in front of a blue house, but it was a run down piece of shit that I couldn't picture my friend living at. Turns out it had me in the wrong spot by 2 miles and it was pure coincidence it was blue. No telling what would've happened if I went to the door and tried to let myself in.

As much as it irks me, Google seems more reliable and more effective. Apple seems to be introducing increasing levels of annoying features while not making the primary duty (navigation) better.

Waze 99% here.
I pretty much only use Google maps for lookup & occasionally directions on the computer.
Phone navigation is almost always Waze.

Came in handy on the motorcycle with a bar mount, as the bulb in the speedometer doesn't work.

When my wife first moved here from CA, she took her parents to the Blue Bell creamery, which is only about 45min-1hr away.
Her Garmin took her down into Houston, & around, all freeways, which took closer to 2 hours each way. I was out of town in Vegas at the time.
GPS is great, if you mostly know where you're going.

I have Waze and it works great, but when I go on vacation I use Apple Maps for some reason.

They've never let me down or screwed up in the slightest, even when on obscure roads out in the middle of nowhere.

I have no idea about in the cities as I haven't used it in one very much.

I’ve used Apple Maps since their first rollout. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to it, but for the most part I have no complaints.

This thread got me thinking so i did a quick search…though this was interesting.

TLDR: Apple is prettier but Google will get you there more effectively…

Apple Navigation vs. Google Navigation

Android Auto and Google maps, no regerts

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I’ve used Apple Maps since their first rollout. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to it, but for the most part I have no complaints.

I don't know about ever since its roll-out. We only started using Apple mobile devices in 2017. But we've been using Apple Maps since then.

I can recall only one time Apple Maps tried to lead me seriously astray--and ISTR I later figured out that had actually been my fault, after all.

That being said: Now I mostly use the navigation in my Jeep Uconnect system.

I generally have Waze running on my Highlander's 12" big screen and a new Garmin DriveSmart on the dash. I use the Garmin to navigate and Waze for detail and warnings. I like both.

Google is my go-to.

Never used Waze but it's highly regarded.

I put Apple Maps into a folder with a bunch of other Apple crapware, and hide the folder in the back of the UI.

I gave up on it. Downloaded Google Maps to my iPhone.

I try to avoid Google, but their Maps app blows Apple Maps away.

I often map out trips with multiple stops. Adding one or more stops in Google Maps is easy, and you can rearrange the stops to create the most efficient route. Apple Maps technically allows you to add stops, but I have never been able to make it work.

I also trusts the review ratings of businesses within Google Maps. Apple Maps ties to Yelp reviews which I think are complete bulls**t. I bailed on Yelp a couple of years ago when a disgruntled owner got Yelp to delete my negative review of his business.

Waze’s warnings about police have greatly saved my bacon from speeding tickets and I prefer how it’s proactive about re-routing due to delays as compared to Google. Though I wonder how long Google will keep Waze around since they own it.

google owns waze

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I’ve used Apple Maps since their first rollout. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to it, but for the most part I have no complaints.

Same. I haven’t had any issues. It routes excellently. I use it and a V1. I still need to find something where I can input the specific routes I want to ride, and have it stick to that 100%.

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Originally posted by Chowser:
I’ve been using Waze since it first came out.

I switched to Waze from Google Maps.

Waze is pretty good in rerouting you to avoid traffic jams.

But you still have to not follow it blindly and exercise executive decision sometimes.

Google Maps purchased WAZE not too long ago and it's now built into Google Maps.