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How This Google Maps Rival Keeps Drivers Up-to-Date About Traffic Incidents
The sat-nav software space may be dominated by Google Maps and Waze, but navigation experts like TomTom and Sygic are now investing big in their mobile apps too.
TomTom GO Navigation is an application that promises to do it all, in some ways serving as a mix of Google Maps and Waze with upgraded capabilities.
As such, TomTom’s software also provides information about traffic on your route, eventually trying to make every journey more predictable. In an approach similar to Waze, GO Navigation shows the road sectors where slowdowns occur, eventually using this information to look for faster routes and generate more accurate ETAs.
TomTom GO Navigation uses TomTom’s own data, whereas Google Maps and Waze rely on aggregate data collected by Google, traffic reports sent by users, and sometimes the information they share with each other.
The route bar and its role in TomTom GO Navigation
To make the journey more predictable, TomTom has invented a so-called route bar that stays on the screen during navigation. The feature’s purpose is as simple as it could be: showing a quick preview of the route ahead, along with the most notable events you are likely to come across.
The route bar displays essential information such as the ETA to the destination but also the reported incidents. Like Waze, TomTom GO Navigation uses dedicated icons to warn of traffic jams, construction zones, and speed cameras. They are displayed in the route bar whenever they are reported on the road ahead.
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