If you know the area, know where you are going, know when the nav is giving you a bad route, Waze is much better. It optimizes your commute time so that you can avoid traffic hot-spots. Save a couple minutes here, a couple there, it adds up. You just have to know that "yeah, that road seems quicker, but you always get stuck at the light".
If you don't know where you are going or are traveling long distances, Google Maps is better. Waze simply can't handle long distance routes very well and Google Maps is far less likely to send you down some weird road to avoid a hot-spot. You definitely want to try and avoid weird roads or odd routes in strange areas.
If you don't know where you are going or are traveling long distances, Google Maps is better. Waze simply can't handle long distance routes very well and Google Maps is far less likely to send you down some weird road to avoid a hot-spot. You definitely want to try and avoid weird roads or odd routes in strange areas.