WAZE app and Google Maps

I never downloaded WAZE. but I think I have received WAZE warning when I am navigating with Google Maps about congestion ahead.

 

Waze is still a standalone app. It's really more for commuting than an overall map service like Google Maps. Since it expands the driving experience by having "Wazers" who update current conditions, it offers more than what Google could do with Maps without them bogging it down. Waze is really good in urban areas like Los Angeles because of our notorious traffic. Waze lets drivers know of alternate routes which GMaps doesn't. The only integration of Waze in to GMaps is icons that appear mentioning a current highway issue from Waze.

 

That must be what I think I have seen.

 

I prefer Waze. It always routes me the quickest way despite traffic. Plus, it always reads correct road names. Google Maps has a habit of saying "Turn Right on State Route 856", instead of "Turn Right on Sterling Boulevard".

 

Google wanting to keep other major competitors from acquiring Waze, along with augmenting their existing map service. Kind of like covering two different ends of the mapping spectrum.

 

I like Waze. It once told me there was road kill in the road up ahead.

Very useful in the rural areas of upstate New York.


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Simple. It's works alone without signing into google or even using google maps ( which I don't).

Makes sense?


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Waze is a driving app. It is road/traffic conditions, notifications of accidents and police presence, along with alternate routing to avoid traffic delays. User reporting ability GMaps does not have.

GMaps is exactly that. Maps to view, search businesses, integration with PC web-browser GMaps. It has a satellite view option Waze doesn't. There's transit info and options for travel (by bicycle or foot), plus regular GPS driving directions like Waze.

Waze existed long before Google bought it. Wazers, as users are called, are a huge part of what makes the app work so well. Google would anger a highly loyal bunch of users if they got rid of the app or fully merged it with GMaps. Merging the two would make GMaps to heavy. So it makes sense for Google to keep them separate and benefit from the best of both worlds.

 

I tried Waze a few weeks ago, but it drove me crazy; I think because I used it for the wrong purpose. I used it to find a place I never went before in an area I was not familiar with. It kept telling me to turn onto side streets and not knowing the streets myself, I just got more confused. Seems like Waze is best for places that you travel to regularly and need help tweaking the route to avoid slowdowns, obstacles and speed traps.

 

For work I have been regularly driving into downtown DC. Waze is great. Calculates the route based on real time traffic information. Often times it will take me a few miles "out of the way", but when I'm avoiding a huge traffic jam on I-66, I actually get there faster.

When I let it do its own thing, I rarely get stuck in traffic.