As a part of the redesigned incident reporting throughout all platforms, Google mentioned Maps would present Waze stories for customers to substantiate whereas navigating. This 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 mentioned “these stories come from the Maps and Waze communities, and you’ll even see which app a report got here from.”
Waze additional detailed how “Google Maps will floor stories from our drivers with attribution to Waze instantly within the app,” beginning with police alerts. In the long run, “extra information sorts will probably be shared and attributed to Waze.”
We’re excited for extra drivers to see stories coming from Waze. This wouldn’t be doable with out our partnership with Geo, the place we purpose to deliver probably the most complete map information to all drivers by bi-directional information alternate (like KoiFish)…
We noticed the primary case of this being reside over the previous day. In the Google Maps cellular app, one person was prompted with a backside sheet that famous “Police reported forward.” There is “From Waze drivers” attribution, and a “Are they nonetheless there?” query with giant “Yes” or “No” buttons. This panel disappears routinely after a countdown.
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Sharing incident reporting between the 2 providers in the end makes each apps richer. Google Maps is bigger, with the app surpassing 2 billion month-to-month lively customers as of late October. For comparability, a report in late 2022 mentioned Waze has 151 million. Internally, each apps are managed by the identical Google “Geo” group.
Waze is way more targeted on crowdsourced mapping circumstances, whereas Google Maps is extra common function. In October, Waze began testing a “Conversational Reporting” functionality.
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