A few times a week, I need to travel about a 40 minute drive and then home and both trips are in rush hour. There are maybe 8-10 ways to get where I’m going and I always use Waze or Google maps to plan the trip. Each usually gives me 3 options and most of the time, 1 or 2 are duplicative so I get 4 choices.
Is there any to tell Waze or Google Maps that the 3 choices are not good and to give me others. For example, some of the choices involve driving on roads with lots of large trucks or roads that are too dark for my old eyes. I can’t figure,out how to reject all 3 choices and get other options. Is that a possibility? I tried Apple Maps but had difficulty with it.
Once you have a route you like on your computer, you can send the trip to your phone and you'll have those specific instructions.
What I usually do is start driving the way I want to go and eventually after telling me every 2 minutes it's "recalculating" to send me their way eventually I get to a point where it's best to go my way and the app then suggests my preferred route.
this happens when I go from Boston to many places in jersey and I want to take 84 to 684 and that's not the shortest distance or time (per se), but it's my preferred route so the whole way from Hartford to somewhere between Waterbury and Danbury Waze keeps telling me to exit until the way I'm going becomes the best way.
then I can click the "routes" button and see other ways to go based on my current location.
but using the app I don't think you can do it yet. Oghwa is right about the desktop version, but I don't think that is adaptable (meaning you can't have it adjust to provide other routes)
Google maps sucks.
I like Waze but don't use it much anymore. Waze says it learns your favorite routes. I've never seen any evidence of that.
Maybe it’s using the info to tell other people not to go that way. :-)
I like Waze but don't use it much anymore. Waze says it learns your favorite routes. I've never seen any evidence of that.
I mean, if it’s your favorite route, why do you need GPS? Also, if you just get started on your favorite route, Waze will adjust the route as you go that way. Assuming you don’t need GPS from the minute you leave your house on your way to your favorite route, of course. ;). Just kidding
Google maps sucks.
It's all the same. Google bought Waze in 2013 and assimilated many of the same features into Maps. Constuction zones, accidents, speed traps, etc. are all in Maps now.
But to the OP, either one will defer you back to one of their defined alternate routes until you force it to do otherwise. For example, sometimes to avoid a particular toll bridge that I know backs up, I check the avoid tolls option to plan me an alternate route around said bridge.
Best way to do it is to plan out the route ahead of time like someone above mentioned and set intermediate waypoints for a particular route. Then, save that route as a widget on your homescreen so it's one touch easy navigation for that particular route(call it Primary or option A). Then, set up another route with other waypoints going a different way. Save that as Secondary or option B. Continue until you have all the necessary options saved. Then when you ready to embark, all you need to do is touch an option with your finger and it'll bring up the navigation along with the times associated. Swipe that one away, try option B and see the times with that. And so on. Choose whichever one works best for you that day.
I like Waze but don't use it much anymore. Waze says it learns your favorite routes. I've never seen any evidence of that.
Yeah, drives me nuts how I will drive same way to work 90% of the time and still have times when it is not even shown as an option. I wonder is it a bad traffic day? Then I check Google Maps and no, it's same travel time as ever just the algorithm deciding that I should go one of these other route to save 60 seconds.
Really do not understand how they've never let you just save your preferred route so that you can always check that route first for traffic and then get other routes if need be.
We live in a pretty amazing time all things considered.
If you're familiar with multiple routes, its only utility is the real time traffic data. Definitely beats waiting for the next traffic update on the radio!
I usually have both running, mostly staying on Waze for its "tactical info", but checking overall routing on Google Maps.
In driving around the greater Los Angeles area (i.e. lots of traffic), I find Waze more often wants me to get off the freeway and take the streets (in neighborhoods I wouldn't enter without Seal Team 6) to save a minute or two.
If there is a certain way you want to go, just drive that way and the map will adjust. If not, it's probably better to just use the recommneded routes instead of thinking that maps is 'hiding' a better alternative.
If there is a certain way you want to go, just drive that way and the map will adjust. If not, it's probably better to just use the recommneded routes instead of thinking that maps is 'hiding' a better alternative.
You didn’t read the OP all the way through. The quickest way is not his concern.