First of all, happy New Year everyone! I am glad to continue posting in 2015 as well and I have big plans for this year.
Secondly, I would like to know what you hate mostly when going on holidays. Well, if you are like me at least a bit you will answer the incredibly packed roads that destroy your holiday spirit and make every road an "Are we there yet!" experience.
The past two weeks I took a well deserved holiday and went spending time with my family and friends. In doing so I had to go between my Christmas location and my New Year's Eve party location about 700km with another 200km detour. So a long road in winter conditions.
After the first 500km, seeing numerous accidents and impracticable roads, in this day and age I said to myself there should be a better traffic management application that takes user input and can save me from taking an hour to go through Sinaia for example. Well guys I found a great app which has only one disadvantage which unfortunately is a big one. Not enough users in Romania so please do try it.
The application is named "Traffic, Radars & GPS – Glob"* and you can find it in Google Play for free.
What's great about this app:
- works as a service so it comes over other apps without interfering with their functionality
- uses google maps and navigation for GPS directions
- has less than 30s update time on map notifications
- users can put up fixed/mobile radars, road work, dangers and additional notifications on the map with 2-3 taps
- has live address identification and traffic collaboration with other users and google traffic (live and history)
- uses less battery than Google Maps app (if GPS directions not required)
What's bad about this app
- too few users, so please try it
- requires all time internet connection
Currently the app has about 5000 stable users, but most likely too few from Romania. I will let you discover more about it yourselves.
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*DISCLAIMER: I am not in any way associated with the developers and owners of "Traffic, Radars & GPS – Glob" and I am posting this as a usual user that wants more data in Romania.
Have you tried Waze? 🙂
I think Waze is a good alternative and has enough users in Romania. I have made a short review on my blog: http://www.mergebrici.ro/waze-navigator-gps-gratuit-social/ (romanian language)
I’ll try Waze as well and maybe do a comparison. The only issue I currently see is that the interface is a bit cluttered and the application looks to have gone through a gamification process. The one I described here is quite simple to use and the fact it works as a service over the other apps is nice.