Gone are the days of carrying around a printed map in your glove compartment. The new technology is here and it’s not going away anytime soon. The mapping applications available to you on your smartphone are great for leading you where you want to go. Some of them even tell you if a police car, congestion or construction sites are coming up in front of you. Here are just a few of them!
RV GPS by Rand McNally
This one is by far the best one for RVs. It allows you to input the type of RV you are driving and will cater your directions to that vehicle. It’ll warn you of sharp turns, changes in speed limit, dirt roads and other potential hazards. It also provides real time weather updates and notifications of wind speed and forecasted and current precipitation levels. As an added bonus it also has an RV Checklist feature built into the app so you don’t forget something vital.
Google Maps
One of the most popular apps out there! You can always depend on Google Maps to get you where you need to go. This app is tried and true. It features turn by turn navigation along with traffic avoidance navigation to help keep you out of a jam and on time!
Waze
A newcomer into the traffic app marketplace. They were recently acquired by Google, so you know they are doing something right! Waze is different because it crowd-sources traffic in real time. If you are driving down interstate 35 and there’s a slow-down approaching, it relies on members of the Waze community to report it and it will notify you and ask if you would like to re-route. It will also report police cars, construction sites and general traffic backups so you can know what you’re getting into before you get there!
There are a ton of other apps out there to help you get where you’re going. Which ones do you use?