Scout Maps & Safer Navigation

Technology has made our lives extremely easy. Finding new places was extremely difficult before mobile phones and the internet hadn't arrived in our lives. However, as Android phones became popular and map apps started being integrated into phones, it became easier to find your way to new places if you had got the address right. With the phone's GPS used as the indicator of your location, Google Maps can now do a great job in guiding you to your desired location. However, maps don't just help with finding new places. The navigation apps can also help with understanding the traffic situation on your route. While Google Maps does a great job in this regard, it is hardly a social app. This is where Scout GPS Navigation & Meet Up can help. This GPS app offers a social interaction option with your friends as well and can bring up exciting opportunities as a result.

Scout GPS Navigation & Meet Up app is a product of Telenav and its main motto is to help you connect you with your friends and ensure that you can make meet up plans on the go. The app works with Open Street Map and it's extremely reliable in almost all areas of the United States. You basically need an internet connection to stay connected with the map. The GPS app can offer navigation help if you download the offline maps as well. However, this does come at the cost of a nominal fee.

The GPS app's main purpose is to guide you to your desired location. Scout GPS Navigation & Meet Up does a nice job in this regard. It offers vocal instructions to ensure that you keep looking at the road while driving. It also offers real-time traffic updates in order to ensure that you can navigate your way through the quickest route. You also get the chance of setting up custom routes and even navigate your way to finding cheap gas stations and eating spots on the route. You can also ensure that the navigation app sets up the quickest route for you for your regular travels. The app can even be set to send you notifications regarding when to leave for your destination from your current location if you want to reach on time.

The GPS app offers a great social angle to its navigation as well. You are only told about the locations your friends recommend and you can see the reviews your friends leave for every spot they visit. You would normally trust what your friend has to say about a place and therefore, even a couple of reviews should be enough to tell you whether a spot is worth visiting or not.
The coolest feature of Scout GPS Navigation & Meet Up app has to be its 'Meet Up' feature. The app allows you to create an event with the location and time sent to everyone you invite. They can chat within the group through quick texts as well as voice messages. They can also relay live information about where they are and their ETA as well. You can see their locations on the map while the app sends a notification when one of the invited individuals reach the site of the meetup. This is a novel feature which isn't offered by many navigation or GPS apps and it is extremely cool, to say the least.

Features:

• A nice and simple user interface
• Easy to set up your regular routes and know about pit stops in between
• Cool Meet up feature where you can create an event with the app
• A great feature of sharing and receiving ETAs of your loved ones
• Accurate navigation offered by Open Street Map

Conclusion:

Scout GPS Navigation & Meet Up is a social app which offers great navigation tools. From accurate maps and voice instructions during routes and from real-time updating of traffic to find quicker routes to the creation of meetup events with your friends through the app, there are a lot of cool features offered. If you live in the US and need a GPS app, you can't go wrong with Scout GPS Navigation & Meet Up app.