I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
Just coming back from a trip and adding to this, I wish Organic Maps / CoMaps had a function to automatically add rest stops and fuel stops.
For example, for a 7 hour road trip it would prompt:
Frequency of rest stops: 120 minutes
Time spent at rest stop: 20 minutes
Approx remaining range: 150km
Approx car range overall: 500km
Obviously I’ve just been pulling into service stations and rest stops on my own accord, but I like having small goals and not having the navigation lose it’s shit at me because I decided to pull into a small town halfway through. Would just make planning a day of driving much easier.
I did search for “weather on the way” in google play store. While they don’t have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: “drive weather” and “highway weather.” Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.
I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.
I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
Just coming back from a trip and adding to this, I wish Organic Maps / CoMaps had a function to automatically add rest stops and fuel stops.
For example, for a 7 hour road trip it would prompt:
120 minutes20 minutes150km500kmObviously I’ve just been pulling into service stations and rest stops on my own accord, but I like having small goals and not having the navigation lose it’s shit at me because I decided to pull into a small town halfway through. Would just make planning a day of driving much easier.
This would be great
That exists. Weather on the way.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-on-the-way/id1471394318
iOS only.
For the rest of us, best you can do with them is pick your interstate: https://weatherontheway.app/us-interstate-weather/
I did search for “weather on the way” in google play store. While they don’t have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: “drive weather” and “highway weather.” Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.
I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.