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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by zanny on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:56PM (#14529160)
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.

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by johnchristopher on Saturday June 10, 2017 @05:51PM (#14529384)
I 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.
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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by enraged_camel on Saturday June 10, 2017 @07:33PM (#14529815)
It warns about police checkpoints as well.
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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by seanp2k2 on Saturday June 10, 2017 @07:53PM (#14529873)
It 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).
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