>>Google owns waze, the data is realtime shared between the two apps, the only difference is the graphical interpretation and the choices of what info you see.
Google does own Waze, but the experience is quite different.
In Chile the differences include;
Waze will find a road but it is rubbish at house numbers. And since a street here can easily run to 15,000 numbers, and flip through various one-way directions, that matters.
Google is far better, in pretty much every way, for map-based navigation but suffers on teh real time information.
Waze allows user input. Consequently one always knows where Carabinero road blocks and military check points are, for example. Also one knows very quickly where incidents and closures are. Thought there are sometimes false alarms - rare, but not unknown - but rare enough to be a price worth paying.
About a year ago Google announced they were releasing the same functionality on Google Maps, but as far as I can work out they have not actually done so.
p.s. Waze also sucks on battery consumption - which may well be related to the real-time information.
Last edited by: No FM2R on Sat 4 Jul 20 at 23:39
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