Many smart phone users today still remember going on holiday doing cross-country trips with their parents guided only by red markers and a massive, unwieldy paper map that was normally torn of the after the first five uses, and blocked off all view the driver might have of the road through the windscreen when the passenger/navigator unfurled it. An improved alternative were map books where the navigator got lost by simply turning the page and find himself totally off the map and the following page indicated his route was 10 pages further along in the book. Considering all scenario, above drivers nowadays are spoilt by an abundance of GPS navigation apps where the quality, features and usefulness swings wildly between brilliant to barely there, which ever one you use it still a vast improvement on the paper maps of the days of yore.
Waze Social GPS Maps & Traffic offers users a free Navigation app, which is partially reliant on its subscriber/user community for to relay its continually updated traffic information. The fact that it enjoys tremendous popularity is a boon that makes the information offered by the app for more relevant to enjoy much speedier updates through broadcasts posted by users already in or past the traffic problem for the benefit of other subscribers still on their way into the traffic fray. With fairly detailed information regarding the hold-up weathered be police traps, accidents or road closures. Members of the ways community can upload reports of the above traffic problems and hold-ups to relay the information to other Waze subscribers.
Maps.Me is an off-line routing and mapping app initially offered at $ 4.99, it was well worth the expense, recently became a free offering that presented users with a simple and clear UI with the added benefit that the maps are available off-line as well, with the resultant savings in data as well as still being near fully functional even with no data signal available. It certainly represents one of the best of its kind GPS navigation apps available within the Google Play Store, with the capacity to display points of interest that include petrol filling stations, bank ATMs, and public transport stations along with numerous other landmarks commuters might find useful.