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You can set up your preferred fuel type, particular gas stations you like, and how the information is sorted (by price, distance, or brand) when you search. Head into Settings > Gas Stations & Prices and you can customize how Waze shows you nearby gas stations when you search for them. One of Waze’s best little features is the gas station and pricing information. This clears up the visuals to make it a lot easier to tell what’s going on. Head to Settings > Display Settings > Show on Map, then uncheck anything you don’t care about.
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So, you might want to pop into the settings to customize what’s shown on the map. This can be great, but it’s also pretty overwhelming to have all those little icons popping up on the map while you drive. Waze is a social app, and part of that means that people can report all kinds of accidents, police locations, and other similar types of incidents. While you’re in the Navigation options, go ahead and make sure you like how Waze decides to route you on toll roads, freeways, and dirt roads as well. You can also always check out other route options by tapping the Routes button after you enter the address (which incidentally, you should always do anyways to avoid some dumb left turn that gets you stuck). In my experience, Waze will still route you around bad traffic or other congestion, it just doesn’t work quite so hard to do so. This will force Waze to find the shortest distance between two points instead of the fastest. Head into Settings > Navigation > Routing Styles and select the “Shortest” option. People often complain that Waze will send you on crazy back street routes just to shave off 30 seconds from your drive. You have to dig into the settings to let it truly shine.
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But out of the box, Waze is still a bit baffling to use. The social features and crazy rerouting make sense in big cities with congestion problems.
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Personally, I never found Waze useful until I lived in Seattle and Los Angeles. It’s all about the little features, like Waze’s traffic jam estimations and road closure information. Still, for driving (Waze is not in any way useful for any other type of transportation), Waze tends to be better at rerouting on the fly, alerting you to police and various incidents, and concentrates more on the experience of getting you to your destination faster. Google Maps is great, but with the right tweaks, Waze can be awesome-especially in cities with lots of traffic.Īs Google adds more Waze-like features to Maps, differentiating between the two gets more and more difficult. Waze has long been one of our favorite navigation apps, and even though Google purchased Waze way back in 2013, both still exist side-by-side.
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