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Waze has been consistently better, especially for traffic rerouting. It's also way better at letting you know about road events, like accidents, than Google Map
by mardifoufs 4y ago
Waze has been consistently better, especially for traffic rerouting. It's also way better at letting you know about road events, like accidents, than Google Maps. Maps is better to search stuff on a map, but for navigation, it is so barebones (and not even in a good minimalist way).
I'm not sure how GMaps can still lag so far behind when Waze is also owned by Google.
- theturtletalks 4y agoThey run them as separate teams and don’t necessarily collaborate. Marking Police traps had been on Waze for years and Google Maps just got it last year.
- uoaei 4y agoWhich is still insane to me.
- science4sail 4y agoWaze isn't a separate team anymore - it got merged into Maps[0], which means that its probably going to join the Google Graveyard in the next cost-cutting round[1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33903016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33903016 [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- canucker2016 4y agoThe Maps/Waze teams merge has been underway since 2022 Dec 9. see https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/tech/google-waze-maps-merge/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/tech/google-waze-maps-merge/i...