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its very good purchase it
its very good purchase itGoogle Navigation & Speed Camera Alerts
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CamerAlert does this, I use it everyday.
Let's you download the pocketgps database for free at the start and then if u want updates you can choose to subscribe or just keep using the original database.
Puts an overlay over google maps and gives you an audible warning, all can be adjusted to suit.
I couldn't get on with Waze but looking at that screenshot above it looks like they've ditched the cartoon look so might give it another shot.
Let's you download the pocketgps database for free at the start and then if u want updates you can choose to subscribe or just keep using the original database.
Puts an overlay over google maps and gives you an audible warning, all can be adjusted to suit.
I couldn't get on with Waze but looking at that screenshot above it looks like they've ditched the cartoon look so might give it another shot.
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I find the best defence against speed cameras is not speeding.
But seriously, Waze is a great nav app - it's superseded my paid for CoPilot app.
But seriously, Waze is a great nav app - it's superseded my paid for CoPilot app.
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The latest WAZE also supports average speed enforcement zones (in the community) so now instead of saying speed camera ahead and pinging if you are going to fast on the approach it will tell you there is a zone and display your average and ping if it is too high.
I have not heard for Waze so I will look in to that App.
TomTom is good for the £15 per year as long as the Maps are updated ( as Google Maps ) then not a bad deal.
The camera alert is for the wife as she is a nervous driver and is very worried about speed limits.
As most men seem to be more comfortable with driving I suppose it is easier for us to notice the said nasty yellow boxes. To be fair to the wife I have notice that some speed cameras have been observed by over handing tree branches / hedges.
I am surprised that there is not a Plug-In or overlay for cameras on Google maps though !
TomTom is good for the £15 per year as long as the Maps are updated ( as Google Maps ) then not a bad deal.
The camera alert is for the wife as she is a nervous driver and is very worried about speed limits.
As most men seem to be more comfortable with driving I suppose it is easier for us to notice the said nasty yellow boxes. To be fair to the wife I have notice that some speed cameras have been observed by over handing tree branches / hedges.
I am surprised that there is not a Plug-In or overlay for cameras on Google maps though !
Waze is brilliant. The fact that you can throw an address into a calendara ppointment, and Waze can see it, and recommend navigating to it if you load it up on that day is ideal.
That and the way it routes using crowd-sourced shortcuts is pretty neat. Waze now supports average speed camera zones too.
That and the way it routes using crowd-sourced shortcuts is pretty neat. Waze now supports average speed camera zones too.
I've just tried the same on Google Maps and Waze on my phone. I think Waze does what you are asking for:
Sorry been meaning to reply back to this.
Your picture shows perfectly what i mean though.
You can see the congestion on the route you're not taking - first road on your left has heavy congestion for example. But for the route you are taking... you just have a purple line, so you've no idea whether there is congestion on your route or not??
Waze does show an orange or red "active" line on your purple route if traffic builds up, or if you report traffic on that route. It just so happens in his screenshot above the purple route doesn't have traffic, but neighbouring routes do. This is by design, should you wish to manually detour.
This can be disabled and only show stuff on your active route, though.
I've done ~30k miles in Google Nav and nearly as much in Waze now. Also have Sygic. Waze has been the most consistent and impressive with regular feature updates.
Isn't Waze p2p and google uses those traffic cam reports? People have to actually report traffic etc themselves on Waze. So if there was no one to flag it, you won't see it on the map.
One thing that does bug me is you can have multiple people flag the same roadworks or cameras and it shows all the markers placed down on the map, instead of just 1 :/
One thing that does bug me is you can have multiple people flag the same roadworks or cameras and it shows all the markers placed down on the map, instead of just 1 :/
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That doesn't really matter. Just a few markers. You should be concentrating on the road anyway, not the number of markers!
Waze uses user reported events yes, and in practice it's more reliable and up to date whereas database ones need to be updated first.
Wazers get everywhere. I've seen reports in the middle of nowhere, there's no need to be concerned about this at all.
Waze uses user reported events yes, and in practice it's more reliable and up to date whereas database ones need to be updated first.
Wazers get everywhere. I've seen reports in the middle of nowhere, there's no need to be concerned about this at all.
Shows how out of the loop I am. Last time I tried Waze it tried to divert me, via a 4 mile detour, around a 100 yard section of the A47 that it didn't think existed. That got it deleted straight away but I think I'll have to give it another try.
yup +1 to tomtom go.
£15/year is not bad at all imo and it's been brilliant.
offline maps too.
The fundamental problem with Waze is that it only alerts you to speed cameras if you are driving fast as you are approaching the speed camera, meaning you could floor it just as you pass the Waze notification point and be unaware of the upcoming camera. No idea why its designed that way nor why there's not an option to have notification on all of the time.
For that reason I use Google Maps with TomTom Speed Cameras running in the background.
For that reason I use Google Maps with TomTom Speed Cameras running in the background.
I use CamSam android app. Free, very clear warnings with audio/visual, hasn't missed one yet for me but it kills battery like you wouldn't believe when used with Google maps so having it plugged into a rapid charger (1.5A+) is essential!