Car sat navs as good as google

[saaby93]

As the title says
Which in car sat navs are as good as using Google maps on your phone?

What should you look for to play google maps through the car LCD?

[NewUsername]

I've not found anything as good as my Wife's Fabia Monte Carlo with ApplePlay/Andriod, we just hook up the phone ans use WAZE or Google Maps and its excellent.

I think solutions that utilise output from the phone are the way forward for the industry

[jamoor]

NewUsername said:

I've not found anything as good as my Wife's Fabia Monte Carlo with ApplePlay/Andriod, we just hook up the phone ans use WAZE or Google Maps and its excellent.

I think solutions that utilise output from the phone are the way forward for the industry

Yep in car systems are out of date the day the car is released.

[geeks]

Mine has TomTom built in from the factory, I have used it a few times and it's generally been fine. However Apple Carplay or Android Auto do pretty much make built in Nav pointless.

[robbieduncan]

Nothing built-in (unless it's built-in live connection to Google) will approach the ability of Google to find businesses and attractions by name. As above CarPlay/Android Auto and use Google (or Apple Maps if you like) from your phone is the best solution.

[saaby93]

robbieduncan said:

Nothing built-in (unless it's built-in live connection to Google) will approach the ability of Google to find businesses and attractions by name. As above CarPlay/Android Auto and use Google (or Apple Maps if you like) from your phone is the best solution.

some cars disable use of the phone satnav while moving?

[smn159]

Waze apparently uses much less mobile data than Google Maps, if that's important to you.

Waze / Google Maps via Apple CarPlay is miles better than any manufacturers sat nav that I've seen

[robbieduncan]

saaby93 said:

some cars disable use of the phone satnav while moving?

Not if you have CarPlay/Android Auto. This is a specific hardware feature in the car. Your phone presents a special car-specific UI on the main car screen and integrates with the streaming wheel controls/voice control button/microphones. It's a fantastic system

[sxmwht]

smn159 said:

Waze apparently uses much less mobile data than Google Maps, if that's important to you.

Waze / Google Maps via Apple CarPlay is miles better than any manufacturers sat nav that I've seen

I find that hard to believe. Waze basically is google maps, but with a social overhead as well. If Google maps is using more data, I would imagine it is more reliable in some way, as the only thing it would be downloading is traffic data.

[NewUsername]

sxmwht said:

smn159 said:

Waze apparently uses much less mobile data than Google Maps, if that's important to you.

Waze / Google Maps via Apple CarPlay is miles better than any manufacturers sat nav that I've seen

I find that hard to believe. Waze basically is google maps, but with a social overhead as well. If Google maps is using more data, I would imagine it is more reliable in some way, as the only thing it would be downloading is traffic data.

Google offers far richer data than Waze though, in terms of other things available from the map and info about surroundings etc, plus the ability to switch to photo or 3-d maps........so i can believe that

[saaby93]

robbieduncan said:

saaby93 said:

some cars disable use of the phone satnav while moving?

Not if you have CarPlay/Android Auto. This is a specific hardware feature in the car. Your phone presents a special car-specific UI on the main car screen and integrates with the streaming wheel controls/voice control button/microphones. It's a fantastic system

I think it's Honda connect where they didnt want to pay the extortionate licence to google or apple, they allow the phone to 'connect' but dont let you use google maps as its a distraction. Not quite as distracting as trying to make the in car system work.

[shtu]

The VW Discover\Discover Pro systems with the Car-net option is pretty decent.

The navigation using Android Auto is possibly better, but the nav\radio integration isn't great, whereas using all-inbuilt is very nicely integrated across the whole audio-nav-phone setup.

[richs2891]

shtu said:

The VW Discover\Discover Pro systems with the Car-net option is pretty decent.

The navigation using Android Auto is possibly better, but the nav\radio integration isn't great, whereas using all-inbuilt is very nicely integrated across the whole audio-nav-phone setup.

Got to agree with the above, dead easy to use, updates available online from VW, and a large online community that can add to the systems, provide quicker updates and add features such as camera alerts etc.

[jondude]

If you enter GPS coordinates as the destination then Tom-tom and all are fault free.

Google is indeed better at searching business addresses, as I found out some days ago trying to find a hotel by postcode. TomTom told me I was there and had no alternative searches. Google had the hotel itself and took me the next mile.

So now I get the coordinates from Google and enter them on the TomTom.....

[Dog Star]

I've found the Garmin system in my E class to be pretty faultless, it's got live traffic, shows fuel prices, closed roads blah blah and it's all shown on a lovely mahoosive screen.

However it's not touch screen etc. The Sony carplay double DIN system in Mrs DSs SLK is, in reality a lot better - touch screen, choose your apps, waze, never need an update, proper Spotify app etc etc. It's the future.

[saaby93]

Dog Star said:

I've found the Garmin system in my E class to be pretty faultless, it's got live traffic, shows fuel prices, closed roads blah blah and it's all shown on a lovely mahoosive screen.

However it's not touch screen etc. The Sony carplay double DIN system in Mrs DSs SLK is, in reality a lot better - touch screen, choose your apps, waze, never need an update, proper Spotify app etc etc. It's the future.

Does the garmin give estimated time of arrival and offer a few alternative routes you can choose?
Maybe there are different versions of Garmin.

[Far Cough]

Has Google Maps integrated the alerts for police and pot holes etc etc yet ? I only ever use Waze currently but read some time ago that it was being migrated across to Google ???

[meduk1]

Agree with the general theme here. I've always found Apple Maps nice to use than Google, just an interface preference.

[Dog Star]

saaby93 said:

Does the garmin give estimated time of arrival and offer a few alternative routes you can choose?
Maybe there are different versions of Garmin.

Does dynamic routing too if there are jams etc, yes. It's very good.