Waze app alerts and Google maps finally together
It was only a matter of time before Google used the features of the purchased application to enhance its maps Even more after having confirmed some of its intentions after the acquisition of Waze, the application that acts asGPS navigator for the car Thus, several months later, the purchase begins to pay off, and not only on Google maps, but in the driving application itself, taking features from one to the other, and vice versa, to make them even more useful and complete .
Thus, after the rumored and finally purchase of Waze by Google last June, the crossover of characteristics of both map tools begin to be effective Thus, one of the fundamental functions of Wazeas is the alert of problems on the road it is already being used in Google Maps Although España is not yet one of the countries included, those users who navigate with Google Maps in the United States, Great Britain, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Germany, Mexico, Panama, or Peru, you will see a notice at the top of the screen indicating if there are withholdings, accidents on the road, closed routes, works or any other problem. All this taking into account that these alerts occur in real time, indicated by users of Wazewho report problems when encountering them to alert other users, not only of this application, but of Google Maps
For its part, another of the characteristic points of Google Maps becomes available to users of Waze Specifically for map creators and editors A community of volunteers who love cartography and are in charge of drawing new routes or retouch possible errors in the route, and who already have Google Street View in the web map editor. In other words, they now have the real vision of a street thanks to the 360-degree photographs of the Google service to make sure of the streets and roads that pass through a specific point, being able to look around realistically, almost as if they were at that specific point. Something that will greatly help your editing work, as long as Google has already been through that place and has recent images.In addition, satellite images have been included to further reduce plotting errors.
In addition, users of the Waze app now have Google Search integration (Google Search in English). With it, it is possible to benefit from a powerful tool to find stores and businesses through the community GPS navigator application.
In short, small functions that show the benefits of the purchase of this tool, which was rumored to have involved a disbursement of more than 1,000 million dollars However, these are small, interesting and practical functions, but they can be exploited to achieve a updated map tool to the maximum and a co-pilot capable of finding anything Questions that are expected to arrive in the not too distant future.
