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Waze is basically Google maps with a Skinner Box on top to make you contribute data to it for points and gold stars. Since Google bought them, they canibalized
by zanny 9y ago
Waze is basically Google maps with a Skinner Box on top to make you contribute data to it for points and gold stars.
Since Google bought them, they canibalized the crowdsourced data for Maps anyway, and have never updated the Waze UI so it looks like a Fisher Price toy today. There is really no reason to use it over Google Maps.
- johnchristopher 9y agoI don't know about Google maps in the US but in Europe it doesn't warn of dangers on the road (cars on the side of the road, blocked roads, etc.). Waze do.
- enraged_camel 9y agoIt warns about police checkpoints as well.
- seanp2k2 9y agoIt also has better community mapping as of a few years ago. Everyone in Costa Rica uses it because some of the roads just aren't on GMaps. Also works better with e.g. Road closures due to trees falling in the jungle (and because everyone uses it).