Sharing your trip on Waze or Google Maps is a more complete alternative than just sharing your location. While sharing your location on WhatsApp shows where the person is and their movements during a chosen period, useful for telling someone where you are or making it easier to meet up, navigation apps allow you to share the trip you are taking in real time.
With this feature, whoever receives the information can follow your entire journey and know approximately when you will arrive at your destination. The recipient does not need to wait for updates or wonder where you are along the way.
On Google Maps, trip sharing ends automatically when navigation ends. This eliminates the need to keep sending messages like "I've left", "I'm arriving" or "how much longer?", because the map does this work automatically.
