If Waze does not provide the capability to navigate from point A to point B regardless of the mileage, then the usability of this app is highly questionable. Additionally, if I do not have all the necessary maps for the trip, I am doomed from the start. I do not need an app that requires a data connection for navigating the route. I have found two apps that only need a GPS capability because they allow you to download all respective maps for the trip.
It appears that Waze is only usable for a local trip not to exceed 250 miles. If that is indeed the case, then Waze is not all that I was hoping it would be. If I am wrong in my perspective about Waze, please enlighten me as it pertains to Waze’s true capabilities. I hope I just missed something In reading the documentation. Help me out here!
Waze is, at its core, an app for the commute. It is designed to use local traffic information along with map data to provide the best route to or from work on any given day.
The side effect is that it can be used for general navigation as well, if the maps are good enough for it. As the maps are provided by the users, however, as it stands today this depends heavily on the region in which you’re trying to use it.
At first, the maps were in such a state that the 200-mile limit on setting routes was not even necessary because I couldn’t route 2 miles in my own city. A lot has changed in the two and a half years it’s been around, though, and I now trust it about as well as I trust Google (excepting a few stubborn restricted left turns that Waze is currently insisting I take).
The limit is now set at 1000 miles for setting a route. This is not what Waze is designed for, but as the maps are right now, I can set a route from New Orleans to Walt Disney World, and it will give me the correct route. In other parts of the country it is not so, not yet, but we’ll get there.
I hope you find Waze useful around town, and, if not, maybe try back later and we’ll be even further along.
First of all, I think driving hundreds of miles with only the help of a cell phone nav app is foolish! Always plan your trip just like in the days before nav apps. It just makes sense in the even of technology failure.
Waze is hands-down the best commute app out there. For those folks like me that drive 50+ miles a day in an over-crowded city it is a blessing. Waze has saved me from standstill traffic so many times it’d be worth like $5.00 for every mile I DIDN’T sit in traffic.