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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by jsight on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:52AM (#21419436)
> I agree Google Maps has improved, but I’m not convinced it was directly because of acquiring Waze.

They often include Waze reported events in Google Maps now. That was the part that I was referring to. I'm not sure if Google Maps reported issues feed back into Waze as well, but I would expect them to.

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by jsjohnst on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:59AM (#21419514)
> They often include Waze reported events in Google Maps now.

I hadn’t seen that, so then yeah I agree it is improved.

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