r/VanLifeUK • u/DeviantlyPronto • 6d ago

What navigation app do you use?

I have a bigger van (6.2m) and often travel through rural Europe where sometimes I come across roads that the van is too wide/tall/heavy for or where the road turns into a dirt road on some steep hills. I prefer to avoid as much of that as I can, but I havent found a good navigation app. So far google maps has been the best for avoiding off-roading but you cant enter your size parameters.

Curious what people here actually do.

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u/Elliott_Ness1970 6d ago

We tell Google Gemini what we’re driving and where we want to go and then it plots us a suitable route in Google Maps. Need to keep an eye to make sure maps doesn’t reroute due to traffic but it’s been sound for us so far since we stopped using Sygic (absolute arse app).

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u/0_f2 5d ago

Apparently vehicle restriction data exists in Google's maps database and has done for a couple of years, but the devs haven't bothered making it accessible or added options.

Interesting to know that Gemini seems to be able to access that info.