I’m in Italy since beginning of May. If only these vie fittizies would be the only problem with maps in Italy, it would be fine. Apple Maps’s navigation is unusable. It directed me several times to streets which barely existed, while there were perfectly fine paved roads 100 meters from there. I stopped using it on day one. Waze barely knows anything about constructions. This was quite painful in the mountains, where I had to go back a lot and find a different road. This is especially problematic in the south where traffic signs lie all the time. Google Maps always tries to take me to main roads asap, while there are way better small roads, and it also had problems with completely normal addresses. OpenStreetMap lacks a lot of paths in San Marino, and Sicily. None of them knows speed limits, random guess is as good as their “knowledge”, and this is without construction works, and there are many of them. Of course, below Naples, speed limits mean different things than for example in Austria, and the random traffic signs show it :) Also ZTL is universally ignored, and they tried to take me through them several times, when there was no good reason.
You complain about one app using small roads and in the same breath complain about another app using large roads.
Traveling to other countries and expecting to be digitally informed about the world around you is a recipe for disaster.
Complaining about not being informed exactly about speed limits is a level of entitlement not easily attainable.
I’m glad you’re getting out and exploring the world. The real world lessons you are learning now are survival tools that you didn’t realize you needed.
I'm from Tuscany and I kinda enjoy discovering new street with maps when it tells you the shortest roads and not the most used ones. However, in Sicily it's hell on hearth, getting out of Comiso, a small town, was very, very hard
I don't know, whenever I go with my road bike somewhere I've never been to I just use Google maps to plan for the path, and if I get lost somewhere but I roughly know where I have to go I'll just go on and not check maps for a few minutes. By car I just follow the suggested path that maps calculates, aside from the highways you're almost guaranteed to get a scenic view in the countryside in Tuscany. Just select the option to avoid toll roads
