Blue Light Maps

Really want to give this a higher rating, and I hope I can do so in future. I'll start with the positives, this app is great for city centre driving. It'll route you through bus gates, and get you straight to your destination. A recent trip was 20 minutes on Waze, and 6 minutes on Blue Light Maps. The route was perfect, and hassle free. Now, the downside I've found is in regards to motorway driving. I love that it will take you off via authorised vehicles off slips. This can be extremely useful, unless there's a barrier there. Whilst I know that's something that is entirely slip road dependant, it can add significant delays to the journey. I'd opted to use BL Maps for a journey as it was 20 minutes faster than Waze, unfortunately however it took me off at an exit that was barrier controlled and I was unable to get past it. This added a 40 minute delay in response time. Another great feature is being able to use it with Apple CarPlay, it just needs a couple of touches up on control regarding zooming in and out and locking/unlocking orientation as I've had issues with this. I've found it easier at times to unplug my phone, change or set the settings, then reconnect. This obviously takes much longer than just being able to do it via the screen in the car. Otherwise, great app with regular development. It's great to all see the developers replying to ratings and feedback.

App kept crashing and closing itself

Definitely a good app but just not worth it for a subscription service definitely some stuff can be that but not just to use the entire map

Charging users for CarPlay functionality seems counterproductive, especially when other mapping services offer this feature for free. Placing such a basic and essential function behind a paywall feels like a cash grab, and it may encourage unsafe behavior as drivers might resort to using their phones while on the road. Offering CarPlay support for free would enhance the overall user experience instead of making it feel like the app is just trying to monetize every feature. Additionally, what3words is a free-to-use app, so requiring payment to integrate it for something as simple as displaying a tapped location seems unnecessary. Opening what3words separately is quick and easy, making this integration feel more like an extra charge for convenience that isn’t needed. While the maps themselves are good, the approach of integrating free services and then charging users feels like the app is taking advantage of both users and small apps.

It’s disappointing to see people giving this app a low or one star review on the grounds that it costs money. If your guest / company / whoever isn’t providing you with appropriate navigations systems then that is something you need to bring up with your employer, and not take out on a company who is quite frankly developing an outstanding application. I’ve been looking for a navigation app which mixes in Google / Waze and width restrictions features to aid me on the transfer teams in and around London, and this app dose exactly that, with the added benefit of showing exemptions where only the locals would know what they can and can’t get away with. It has its flaws, don’t get me wrong, but as a start up, this is amazing. I’d love to see live traffic data implemented to aid transit, but I understand that this will be a challenge. It’s a shame I missed you as ESS24 (where I found out about you). Keep up the good work.

It’s a good app, could it incorporate a mapping circle so like for me I work in one town and there are boarders so if I could create a circle I know I am driving but the mapping circle and not crossing boarders especially as I’m trying to learn my area.

Works well however when using CarPlay says ‘unknown place’ unless app has already been opened before connecting to CarPlay. More road detail would be ideal on CarPlay such as up coming road names. There’s so much detail such as building names and house numbers which isn’t really required as I can look out the window for that. Keeping the faith for the time being as I know the dev team are working to get updates out.

Love the idea however found a bit clunky to use… When entering destination it would be nice if it auto populated a list like Google/most other maps when partial text is entered as makes inputting destination less efficient. Also found suggestions of locations when partial text searched for were nowhere near my location whereas other map services will suggest those closer geographically. When trialing found routes would take me peculiar ways for instance, through single track country lanes and almost unmade roads when motorway would be much quicker and more efficient especially when driving on blue lights. Although an ‘as the crow flies’ route may be quicker for non-emergency driving when in response mode these become more dangerous and slower as roads are not suitable for high speed driving. Really like the way properties are numbered on the map and the image at the end of the journey from street view however these sometimes can be wrong. All in all I love the idea of this however needs further development before I can justify the price when Google maps is much more user friendly, safer and free

Really great concept for this type of application and it is nice to have a personal capability. The developers listen to feedback and build on it with all recommendations and issues being responded to. Ultimately it has great potential and will be nice to see when Apple car play compatibility releases and future updates

Downloaded free trial for two weeks. Found it frustrating having to download maps for new areas on mobile data 'on the go' as it uses tiles - okay if you always work the same area or know where you're working advance. Found no discernible difference in routes and driving times to normal map apps.