Wayfind: GPS Sat Nav

Wayfind is turn-by-turn GPS navigation: a sat nav that shows its working. Install it, sign in and drive. Routing works out of the box, with nothing to set up. WHERE IT WORKS Routes cover Ireland, the United Kingdom and India today, with more countries being added; place search works worldwide (OpenStreetMap data). Live traffic and measured road speeds are Ireland only for now. The app follows local rules: driving side, miles or kilometres, and speed-camera warnings switched off where the law forbids them. TWO ETAs, ALWAYS TOGETHER • Usually — the time the drive normally takes • Arrive by — the later time you can actually promise somebody One number hides the difference between a good day and a bad one. Two do not. THE SANITY SLIDER Fastest at one end, sanest at the other. Move it and the route changes and both ETAs change with it. It is your handle on the trade-off: the shortcut down the back road that a speed-limit router believes is quicker, and usually is not. WHY THIS WAY The router's own reasoning is put on the route card instead of buried in a menu. A router that disagrees with the one in your pocket has to explain itself. DRIVING • Turn-by-turn with spoken guidance, a volume you set, the screen kept awake • Car, van and truck profiles • A live traffic overlay and incident reports, where data is available • Report an incident by voice, so you never take a hand off the wheel. It uses Android's own speech recognition, and the buttons always work without it. • Standard, terrain and satellite basemaps, from free and open tile sources, each credited on the map • Street-level imagery from Mapillary, built in, where Mapillary has coverage • Download offline map regions for use with no signal. That caches map tiles only; planning a route still needs a connection. LOCATION, EXACTLY • While you are using the app, Wayfind asks for precise location. That is what turn-by-turn is. Grant coarse only and you still get a usable map. • Your position and your searches go to Wayfind's routing service, to get a route and to find places. Outside Ireland, or if place search is unreachable, our server passes the words you typed and roughly where you are to the public OpenStreetMap search service (Photon) — never your route, never a trip, never your IP address. • Ads come from Google AdMob: a banner under the map, search and Settings, only while parked. The ad SDK never gets your GPS position, routes or places. Nothing about where you go is sold or profiled. • Guidance runs in a foreground service with a notification, so a long drive is not killed mid-route and you can always see when location is in use. BACKGROUND LOCATION IS OPT-IN AND SEPARATE Sharing traffic data is the only reason Wayfind ever asks for background location, and it asks only after a screen that spells out what is sent. Nothing is collected until you accept — not even into a buffer on the phone — and everything else in the app works if you never do. • Sent: timestamped positions while driving, with speed, heading and GPS accuracy, a trip identifier thrown away and regenerated each trip, and which vehicle profile you picked • Not sent: no name, no email address, no phone number, no advertising identifier • The first and last 500 metres of every trip are withheld on the handset, so a trace never leaves your front door or arrives at your workplace • Uploads wait for Wi-Fi by default; on mobile data the trace just waits • A notification runs the whole time sharing is active. Pause or switch it off from there or from Settings — switching it off deletes whatever is still queued. HOW IT IS PAID FOR Wayfind is free, paid for by that banner; a one-off "Remove ads" purchase turns it off. You sign in with Google, used for sign-in only. Feature-usage counting stays on the phone, and you can switch it off. Made in Ireland by Perlicom Systems Limited. Support: [email protected]

Wayfind now goes beyond Ireland: routes in the United Kingdom and India, place search worldwide, and more countries on the way. Local rules follow you — driving side, miles or kilometres, and speed-camera and police-check warnings switched off where the law forbids them. Offline maps for the area you are looking at, anywhere. Every route carries two ETAs: the time the drive usually takes, and the later time you can promise somebody. [email protected]