Waze road mapping

Ring Peace

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http://world.waze.com/

I have started to use this mapping app on my phone and wondered if anyone in motors would be interested. It is an attempt to make a community based road map of the world, with up to date traffic, roadworks police etc.

The maps of the UK have only just started, they are more mature in the US and so much more comprehensive. I have already mapped many of the roads between my home and office and it is all very simple, but a little heavy on phone batteries.
 
Lucky you weren't working for Google ten years ago - nah, internet search already exists and has been around for years, what's the point in this :p
 
Two things make me like this.

Firstly it wont be beholden to any corporation, which at a whim can withdraw mapping services if they feel like it. I had navigation software called Nav4all which was free until Nokia bought the mapping company (teleatlas?) for their free satnav, there was no payment option they just refused to supply nav4all with the maps. This could happen to any of the software on the market today, so options are always a good thing.

Secondly, how often are you at a junction where the satnav is giving wrong instructions, with this you can correct the map yourself or highlight it for others to look at and correct, you can add speed traps, traffic info, roadworks, anything to do with the road network.

I am interested but it seems no one else is.

Those showing interest in my name, I have had it as my online name for longer than I care to remember (mid nineties) since I started playing quake and TF online. Used to use the alias Butt Plug when messing around.
 
I use TomTom in the car when I need it, I use map share to update the maps, I doubt TomTom are suddenly going to say I can no longer use their maps, how would they get it off my device? :D

I doubt Google will suddenly stop theirs for no reason either. SO what is the point in this? :p
 
Been using it for ages. It's also kinda useful in that you can have it so that your position is shown to other users who can instant message you, or leave comments on road conditions. The other day someone up ahead of me on the M6 got stuck in heavy traffic, they posted up a comment to let me know that there was a bad accident ahead and that the M6 was virtually at a standstill.

It's not a program I tend to use for finding addresses, it's the program I have sat running in the background when driving roads I do know.
 
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