Hey everyone, I’m gonna be visiting seattle and will be driving extensively between tacoma, bellevue, and snoqualmie pass including during rush hour traffic. Do you have any recs for the best privacy respecting navigation apps with the best real time traffic updates? Normally i use organic maps around my home state because there’s basically never any traffic so it works well, but i know seattle traffic can be absolutely insane and for my trip plans i’ll need precise updated etas for certain events. i also noticed organic maps is pretty slow to reroute after missed turns especially in big cities with lots of overlapping streets in tunnels or bridges or with parallel streets that run extremely close together.
my threat model is lax enough that if there’s no better options than google maps or apple maps it won’t compromise my safety or security, i’d just prefer to find a better option if it exists.
Regarding traffic updates there’s nothing that comes close to gmaps/waze and perhaps Apple maps in the US simply because these services can only be as good as the number of ppl using them concurrently, the more the better.
MagicEarth and Here maps have traffic updates, but I would say not that reliable. And I think ME is better one. Though from my experience, gmaps are not so precise as well.
I’m sure there are many ways to monitor traffic in a privacy-friendly way, someone smarter than me is going to have to come up with such a solution though.
For now, I manage without traffic data (Organic Maps); in general, traffic patterns are extremely predictable and pretty easily to learn, save for accidents and acts of nature.
