Significance of route planning in apps: Features, benefits, and applications

Gone are the days of relying on strangers to ask for directions.

Thanks to smartphones and mobile applications like Google Maps, we now have locations and directions of any place right in our pockets.

In fact, more than 54% of people aged between 18 to 29 use their smartphones for navigation. This clearly proves that navigation and route planning are one of the most sought after features in mobile apps.

Now, of course, there are already many route planning and navigation apps available such as Apple Maps and Google Maps in the market.

But, in order to access its features, consumers still have to open that specific app to find the route to their destinations, which is frustrating for the end-users.

So, in order to tackle this problem, mobile app startups have started integrating the route planning feature right inside their own mobile apps.

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