Apple Maps More Than 14 Stops: The Limit and a Free Workaround
Apple Maps allows up to 14 stops and won't reorder them. See how to plan a longer route free, then open each stop in Apple Maps on your iPhone.
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How to cover a list of addresses without driving extra miles. We take apart the map apps, count the miles and show where stop order decides everything.
How to add multiple stops in Google Maps
Add stops on your phone and on a computer, why the route caps out at nine stops plus your start, and why Google Maps never puts those stops in a smarter order.
How to add multiple stops in Apple Maps
Adding stops on iPhone, Mac and CarPlay, the fourteen stop ceiling in Apple's own help, and why Apple Maps drives your list in the order you typed it.
How to add multiple stops in Waze
Waze allows exactly one stop per route, and that is by design. What the limit means for a delivery day, the workarounds that exist, and how to drive a long list in Waze anyway.
MapQuest route planner and multiple stops
MapQuest caps routes at 26 stops. Paste up to 200 addresses, get the best order, and send a read-only link to a driver's phone. Free, no sign-up.
How many stops can you add in each map app
The stop limits in Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze and MapQuest side by side, how to check your own limit in a minute, and what splitting a day actually costs in miles.
Google Maps vs Apple Maps vs Waze for multi stop days
Which map app to use when the day is a list of addresses rather than one trip: stop limits, sequencing, traffic quality and the thing none of the three will do for you.
Turn a spreadsheet of addresses into a route
Three ways to get a column of addresses out of Excel or Google Sheets and into a driving route, how to clean the column first, and which method survives a list of thirty.
Why navigation apps never reorder your stops
Every map app finds the best road between two points and none of them choose which point to visit first. Two different problems, the second one genuinely hard, and what it costs your day.
How to plan a 20 stop delivery route
What a bad stop order costs on twenty addresses, why grouping by neighborhood only gets you halfway, and how to build the whole day in about five minutes.
How to Plot Multiple Addresses on a Map: 3 Free Ways
Step-by-step: plot many addresses on one map free (paste, sheet, My Maps). Then turn the list into a driving order and share it. No sign-up.