ViaMichelin map App - Great update!!

[MattWithMoho]

For those of you planning a journey into Europe or the UK, you may want to install ViaMichelin. Its a good SatNav to be honest, used it in Europe a few times.
They've now updated the app to include Places of Interest (Parks & Gardens, Castles, Beau Villages etc), and of course Restaurants contained within the Michelin Guide.
** Remember, the Michelin guide also lists up and coming/aspiring "star" restaurants tagged "Bib Gourmand", which always have great food at normal prices.**

Apple IOS:

‎ViaMichelin GPS, Route Planner

‎Find all our features: Route calculation (electric or classic, car, motorcycle, bicycle, on foot), points of interest with selections from the MICHELIN Guides for restaurants, hotels, and tourist sites as well as our maps enriched with Michelin selections and various services like gas stations...

apps.apple.com

Android:

ViaMichelin GPS, Maps, Traffic – Apps on Google Play

GPS Navigation, Routes, Traffic Information, Danger Zones, Enhanced Map

play.google.com

 

[Lenny HB]

Tried the app for navigation once, never again. On a perfectly straight road it decided a much better option was to do a detour of 3 times the length on farm tracks.

 

[Kups]

Tried the app for navigation once, never again. On a perfectly straight road it decided a much better option was to do a detour of 3 times the length on farm tracks.

The software obviously knew you liked to wild camp

 

[Pausim]

Tried the app for navigation once, never again. On a perfectly straight road it decided a much better option was to do a detour of 3 times the length on farm tracks.

You were probably supposed to walk that bit to work up a decent appetite.

 

[Two on Tour]

It's got a lot of one-star reviews of late on the Android app, I think I'll give it a miss.

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[dunnah01]

Used the updated PC version today - it's not an improvement

 

[makems]

I have used Via Michelin for several years for route planning because it is good at showing aLternative routes, travel times, costs inc diesel and tolls etc. I don’t think I would trust it as a sat nav for real time driving directions

 

[WESTY66]

Tried the app for navigation once, never again. On a perfectly straight road it decided a much better option was to do a detour of 3 times the length on farm tracks.

Did you have it on whilst going through Spanish villages?

 

[tony_g]

Tried the app for navigation once, never again. On a perfectly straight road it decided a much better option was to do a detour of 3 times the length on farm tracks.

They all do that, Lenny HB! Copilot seems to like overgrown farm tracks and steep cobbled ascents to cramped villages before taking you back down to the main road about 1.5km along. I've even had it try to direct me off a dual carriageway slip road and back down the other side to rejoin!

 

[tony_g]

They all do that, Lenny HB! Copilot seems to like overgrown farm tracks and steep cobbled ascents to cramped villages before taking you back down to the main road about 1.5km along. I've even had it try to direct me off a dual carriageway slip road and back down the other side to rejoin!

Mind you, generally fine.

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