Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams?
by mardifoufs on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:45PM
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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 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.
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Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams?
by theturtletalks on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:15PM
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They 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.
Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams?
by uoaei on Saturday January 28, 2023 @08:13PM
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Which is still insane to me.
Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams?
by science4sail on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:09PM
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Waze 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 [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/
Re:What is Google doing with its open source teams?
by canucker2016 on Saturday January 28, 2023 @10:22PM
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The Maps/Waze teams merge has been underway since 2022 Dec 9.
see https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/tech/google-waze-maps-merge/i...