Frequent traveler
This app is not user friendly
Can’t turn it off
This app is not great. Once you open it, it sits in the background constantly on. You can’t log out of it or turn it off. If I want to church the roads before my trip I can, but then I have to power my phone off in order to stop the app from running. I’ve stopped using the app because I don’t want to have to power off my phone every time.
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Don’t get
Always 5 hours off Atleast
511 app
You ruined a perfectly good road conditions map to use during winter months. I don’t like this one never have & just now getting around to writing a review. If it’s not broken why change it. Someone just made $$ off the change. Thanks for listening.
Surprisingly useful
Never expected a government developed app to be so well done. I’ve got to give it to the department of transportation on this one.
Can’t trust it!
Essential for commercial driving in winter, this app and the information it contains is embarrassingly bad compared to other states that provide clear, detailed and up to date information on roads and conditions. Maybe call the app developers of MN, CO, WY or ND etc see if they can give you some pointers!
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Not user friendly
The old app was so much better. You can’t look at the map and legend at the same time so you have to go back and forth over and over. Really disappointing, and navigating on the map while reading the legend is impossible. I can’t believe it hasn’t been changed as the reviews from two years ago state the same problem. Give us the old app back! This is trash.
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Free app version of website
Better than expected from a free state app. It’s better than the website and will live on my phone forever now. That’s it. Rating 5 to balance the hate.
drains battery
This app runs in the background and I couldn't turn off that option, so it ran my battery down
What a piece of crap.
Go take some ideas from Wyoming North Dakota South Dakota. Seriously this is a lame app to use. Whatever it cost to build this was a total waist of money.
Absolutely terrible to navigate
Wyoming 511 is simple and easy to use. I wish the Montana 511 was easier to navigate and use. There’s like 12 different “road conditions options” and Wyoming has 5. Montanas cameras don’t even freaking work???? I was trying to travel through and the cameras were no help and pitch black. The Wyoming cameras keep updated and have night vision so you can see them in the dark. I’m extremely disappointed in this app.
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Destination point or start point?
Setting the destination point is too confusing. It should be easy. But it acts like it’s my start point.
Not very useful
This app is not user friendly. It is difficult to navigate and is not intuitive. Worthless.
Not trustworthy
At best they update road conditions twice a day in the winter. The old version was way better. In Montana this MUST be updated more often if you want this to be an app that can be used.
Great App
This app is well laid out and has great, helpful information!
Better than the apps for the 2 states below MT
Better than the apps for the 2 states below MT
Detailed and Informative
Appreciate the details provided especially with how interesting MT weather can get. There are lots of layers for conditions and I take that over vague any day. Want to see a worthless reporting tool? Take a look at Idaho’s version of this, that will give you perspective.
Simple, informative, and easy to use
Not sure about why so many complaints about the new version, other than it is just different than the old and people want to resist change (I get that).
I think the new version is easier to use and provides better information faster than the old, which was really dated. Kudos for stepping up.
I think the new version is easier to use and provides better information faster than the old, which was really dated. Kudos for stepping up.
A little clunky, but works.
Title says it all.
Move the button that plays the robot voice of someone reading the weather report. That’s where the “close”button typically is, not a “play sound” button. I always end up having to close the app to get that robot voice to stop telling me how icy it is.
Move the button that plays the robot voice of someone reading the weather report. That’s where the “close”button typically is, not a “play sound” button. I always end up having to close the app to get that robot voice to stop telling me how icy it is.
Bad UX/UI
There are some additional features and enhanced visuals from the previous version. But at the core, people used this map for the basic function of judging how good or bad the roads are, especially during the winter months. While this map offers more color classifications for road status, there seems to be some unnecessary “enhancements” that are more “bells and whistles” than functional necessity. The fact that the developer responds to the majority of these comments explaining how to find the road legend is telling that they reinvented a wheel that didn’t need to be reimagined. Why not just make the legend static? On your phone, when you’re traveling, you can’t view the map and the legend “key” at the same time. At the very least, use standard icons people are already familiar with in interactive map apps.
One of my biggest issues with this map is the appearance that it doesn’t get updated as often as the previous version. I’m sure MDT will say that it gets updated as employees drive the roads and push those updates, but is there a lag in that updated data? Are the updates not happening as often? Is it cumbersome for the employees to enter those updates? More importantly, maybe this map gets updated just as often as the previous version, but because of the other negative enhancements, I no longer trust the integrity of this map. Perception is everything, and over the last year, I don’t see any good faith changes in this map that addresses some pretty clear, universal issues stakeholders have with this app. Disappointed.
One of my biggest issues with this map is the appearance that it doesn’t get updated as often as the previous version. I’m sure MDT will say that it gets updated as employees drive the roads and push those updates, but is there a lag in that updated data? Are the updates not happening as often? Is it cumbersome for the employees to enter those updates? More importantly, maybe this map gets updated just as often as the previous version, but because of the other negative enhancements, I no longer trust the integrity of this map. Perception is everything, and over the last year, I don’t see any good faith changes in this map that addresses some pretty clear, universal issues stakeholders have with this app. Disappointed.
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Bad just bad
This app is just bad, completely missed the bar on what a road conditions map should be it’s not easy to use not user-friendly and it’s just. Added useless features and made the legend so difficult to see and use that it almost makes it unusable. Unless it’s fixed to something way better which I’m told is in the works skip it and use something else. Shame on you montana this is bad
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