Driving / Map App with speed limit notifications

[GasEngineer]

Is there a driving / satnav app that can give notification of upcoming changes to speed limits?

eg "40mph speed limit in 300m".

[Phunk]

Waze

[BlueJazz]

Another vote for Waze.

[x5tuu]

While I do always use Waze - It doesnt do what the OP is after - forewarn of changes in limits "in X distance"

It does show the current limit and accurately shows limit changes and fixed camera locations and mobile camera/police locations as reported by crowd-sourced info (very effective)

[omniflow]

x5tuu said:

While I do always use Waze - It doesnt do what the OP is after - forewarn of changes in limits "in X distance"

It does show the current limit and accurately shows limit changes and fixed camera locations and mobile camera/police locations as reported by crowd-sourced info (very effective)

It has very recently started doing this for me. I haven't worked out the specifics yet, but it looks lile a new feature

[x5tuu]

omniflow said:

x5tuu said:

While I do always use Waze - It doesnt do what the OP is after - forewarn of changes in limits "in X distance"

It does show the current limit and accurately shows limit changes and fixed camera locations and mobile camera/police locations as reported by crowd-sourced info (very effective)

It has very recently started doing this for me. I haven't worked out the specifics yet, but it looks lile a new feature

Curiously it did it on mine for the first time today - I was leaving a 70mph m'way and the slip road drops to 40mph and it did say "speed limit reduced ahead" - its the only time I have ever heard it.

[Steve Campbell]

Have used Waze for a few years and was on a boys weekend away to track day at Cadwell last weekend and noticed it did this "Speed reduction in X metres" notifications for the first time so must be relatively new.

Waze is my "go to" sat nav app. It's not great if you like to plan a route as it's really set up to choose the fastest route to your destination. Google maps is better if you want to plan a specific route but not sure it does what the OP wants.

[Riley Blue]

Have a look at TomTom Amigo. I tried it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and thought it a good alternative to Waze. I've a 300 mile round trip over this weekend so will use it one way, Waze the other and let you know more afterwards.

[catatemyhomework]

Waze or Google Maps show speed limits and current speeds, but no (as far as I know) prior warning.

I detest the really immature cartoon like maps in Waze - and their insistence on gamifying everything - which means Google Maps gets my vote.

[the-norseman]

Waze and Google Maps have had massive upgrades in the last week or so loads of new features.

I use Waze because I could never get Google Maps to show the actual speed limit like Waze does, even though the option was turned on.

[SpidersWeb]

x5tuu said:

omniflow said:

x5tuu said:

While I do always use Waze - It doesnt do what the OP is after - forewarn of changes in limits "in X distance"

It does show the current limit and accurately shows limit changes and fixed camera locations and mobile camera/police locations as reported by crowd-sourced info (very effective)

It has very recently started doing this for me. I haven't worked out the specifics yet, but it looks lile a new feature

Curiously it did it on mine for the first time today - I was leaving a 70mph m'way and the slip road drops to 40mph and it did say "speed limit reduced ahead" - its the only time I have ever heard it.

Waze have recently introduced it, but it only seems to alert you when there is a significant change in speed limit (or perhaps based on the speed you are doing as you approach the new limit).

So if you are doing 60mph on a derestricted country road and approach a 30mph village it will alert you, but if it is from a 40mph road to a 30mph then it doesn't.

the-norseman said:

Waze and Google Maps have had massive upgrades in the last week or so loads of new features.

I use Waze because I could never get Google Maps to show the actual speed limit like Waze does, even though the option was turned on.

A recent update to Google Maps now automatically shows the actual speed, and it is following Waze and allows you to press a button to report traffic, accidents, roadworks, speed cameras, etc.

[the-photographer]

Free, TomTom Amigo
Paid, TomTom https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/navigation/mobile-app...

[indigochim]

I used to be a big fan of TomTom Amigo but recently it's reported the wrong speed limits a lot of the time. 30 on a motorway for eg or 60 in a 30. I'm surprised it hasn't had more complaints about it on the reviews.

[ecsrobin]

SpidersWeb said:

A recent update to Google Maps now automatically shows the actual speed, and it is following Waze and allows you to press a button to report traffic, accidents, roadworks, speed cameras, etc.

Waze has been a part of Google since 2013 so I suspect they try different things on each then if successful merge into both.

[Stanley Rous]

Waze does this.

On iOS go to Settings - Alerts & Reports - Reports - Reduced Speed Ahead and you can toggle on an off.

I find it annoying so have turned it off.

[Riley Blue]

the-photographer said:

Free, TomTom Amigo
Paid, TomTom https://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/navigation/mobile-app...

Neither is 100% accurate indicating speed limit changes and neither advises changes in advance.

They also have issues differentiating between motorways and dual carriageways; select 'avoid motorways' and they avoid both. Also, they tell you to 'turn left' when entering a roundabout.

There's a week's free trial on the paid for version but as I couldn't get it to speak I can't recommend it, Amigo is worth trying though.

[Whataguy]

Riley Blue said:

There's a week's free trial on the paid for version but as I couldn't get it to speak I can't recommend it, Amigo is worth trying though.

TomTom has an annoying 'feature' that the voice is the volume level of the phone - Waze is much better as it has it's own volume control in the app that you can set and it keeps no matter what the phone is set to.

I have to turn the phone volume up near full every time I use TomTom on the phone (mostly it's used through Apple CarPlay which doesn't have the issue.)