“This one on the right. Oh no, the next one!” It is sometimes quite difficult to find your way across the border. These four navigation apps ensure that you also get from A to B abroad.
Navigation app abroad: 4 great options
1. Google Maps
There is a good chance that you already use Google Maps to navigate in the Netherlands. Google’s map service also works well across the border and should not be missed on holiday in our opinion. Google Maps is generally very accurate in its instructions, is continuously updated and has an extensive offline mode.
This allows you to put the road maps of your holiday area on your phone in advance. These remain on your smartphone and are automatically updated as soon as you have WiFi again. Google Maps works almost everywhere in the world and helps you not only by car, but also when traveling on foot, by bicycle or public transport.
2. Here WeGo
Here WeGo is above all a very user-friendly navigation app for abroad. The application, which used to be from Nokia, just like Google Maps, always helps you from A to B, whatever means of transport you use. In addition, Here WeGo has an extensive offline mode, so you can find your way almost anywhere in the world without an internet connection.
The navigation app is of course fully equipped. Think, for example, of clear step-by-step voice navigation, warnings to keep you to the speed limits and real-time traffic information (which you do need internet for). Those who prefer to use as few Google products as possible, have a neat navigation alternative with Here WeGo.
3. Sygic
Are you looking for a very complete navigation app? Then you should be at Sygic. This app has an enthusiastic community behind it and rightly so. Sygic has a lot of features that we don’t see in competitors. In the dark, for example, you can project the route via your iPhone onto the windshield of your car.
In addition, Sygic gives warnings at speed cameras, the app ensures that you comply with the speed limits and you can ‘just’ store the extensive 3d maps offline. The navigation app also works well with CarPlay, Apple’s system for on the go. Sygic is free, but does charge for expansions such as the previously discussed projection feature.
4. Magic Earth
Magic Earth is in many ways a fairly standard navigation app, with one major asset up its sleeve: privacy. The app does not use – like many competitors – the maps from Google, but from OpenStreetMap. This project is open source and maintained worldwide by a group of enthusiastic volunteers. Some (road) maps are also more accurate and up-to-date than with other apps, because they locals be maintained.
Furthermore, Magic Earth does not store any personal data and so your information is not used for trading. Furthermore, the navigation app has everything you need to find your way abroad, including a neatly working offline mode. Also nice is the collaboration with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. This allows you to directly look up facts about sights on holiday from Magic Earth.
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