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I used to love Waze, because of the clever rerouting and the UI was pretty slick for a free GPS app. I'm thinking of switching to Google Maps though because th

by drbawb 14y ago

I used to love Waze, because of the clever rerouting and the UI was pretty slick for a free GPS app. I'm thinking of switching to Google Maps though because their search is quite frankly _better._ Which doesn't make sense to me, because my understanding is that Waze just aggregates search results from several major sources. {Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc.} Around the holidays: Waze routed me to a store [first result] that had closed and relocated [a few miles down the road]. Google Maps showed the same results, but they were ranked differently: the closed or relocated store was annotated as such, and was ranked at the bottom of the list. I've also had Waze fail to take some addresses as input, for e.g: when the house number has a WEST and SOUTH portion, that other apps can understand with no problems. I almost got lost because of that glitch. I've just had too many problems with the Waze search to continue using it. Which is a real shame, because I love the app itself.

cstejerean 14y ago
One of the nice things about Waze is being able to switch the search engine it uses for locating things. I've used that several times when it's default search couldn't quite find what I was looking for.
- drbawb 14y ago
  Even using that feature [e.g: to select Google] it doesn't seem to return the same result set that Google's own application does. I'm not sure if this is an issue with Waze itself, or possibly some limitations built in to Google's 3rd-party API. --- Unrelated to that: I've also noticed that Waze is starting to display some advertisements, which really bugs me in a GPS app. If this is how they intend to monetize it, I really don't want to support it. I would gladly pay quite handsomely for the service to get rid of adverts. (I don't even like the idea of billboards to be honest: IMO any distraction from the road that doesn't directly pertain to navigation is borderline unethical.)

by drbawb 14y ago

cstejerean 14y ago

One of the nice things about Waze is being able to switch the search engine it uses for locating things. I've used that several times when it's default search couldn't quite find what I was looking for.

drbawb 14y ago
Even using that feature [e.g: to select Google] it doesn't seem to return the same result set that Google's own application does. I'm not sure if this is an issue with Waze itself, or possibly some limitations built in to Google's 3rd-party API. --- Unrelated to that: I've also noticed that Waze is starting to display some advertisements, which really bugs me in a GPS app. If this is how they intend to monetize it, I really don't want to support it. I would gladly pay quite handsomely for the service to get rid of adverts. (I don't even like the idea of billboards to be honest: IMO any distraction from the road that doesn't directly pertain to navigation is borderline unethical.)