As a part of the redesigned incident reporting throughout all platforms, Google stated Maps would present Waze experiences for customers to verify whereas navigating. That is starting to roll out.
When Google Maps introduced — in late July, with the precise rollout happening mid-September — the improved reporting UI for Android, iOS, Android Auto, CarPlay, and Android Automotive, the corporate additionally stated “these experiences come from the Maps and Waze communities, and you may even see which app a report got here from.”
Waze additional detailed how “Google Maps will floor experiences from our drivers with attribution to Waze immediately within the app,” beginning with police alerts. Sooner or later, “extra knowledge varieties will probably be shared and attributed to Waze.”
We’re excited for extra drivers to see experiences coming from Waze. This wouldn’t be potential with out our partnership with Geo, the place we goal to deliver probably the most complete map knowledge to all drivers via bi-directional knowledge alternate (like KoiFish)…
We noticed the primary case of this being dwell over the previous day. Within the Google Maps cellular app, one person was prompted with a backside sheet that famous “Police reported forward.” There’s “From Waze drivers” attribution, and a “Are they nonetheless there?” query with massive “Sure” or “No” buttons. This panel disappears robotically after a countdown.
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Sharing incident reporting between the 2 companies finally makes each apps richer. Google Maps is bigger, with the app surpassing 2 billion month-to-month energetic customers as of late October. For comparability, a report in late 2022 stated Waze has 151 million. Internally, each apps are managed by the identical Google “Geo” group.
Waze is far more targeted on crowdsourced mapping situations, whereas Google Maps is extra normal goal. In October, Waze began testing a “Conversational Reporting” functionality.
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