Waze app alerts officially arrive on Google Maps

After the media uproar that a few months ago sparked rumors of purchase of the driving application Waze by the giant Google, many Users could be somewhat disappointed by not seeing, or at least trying, some of the new features that were expected after the agreement. And it must not be forgotten that the figure for the Israeli application rose to 1.300 million dollars, with which something more than a simple transaction was expected.Now a new update to Google Maps brings one of the first steps taken by the company after the purchase.

This is an update of the well-known maps tool with an old novelty And it is that this summer the purchase of the application was beginning to bear fruit, although in a limited list of countries that did not include SpainNow, four months later, an update finally arrives that brings together the capabilities of the maps app and the community driving app. All this to have the largest and most accurate amount of information about the road on which you are traveling or that you plan to travel.

In this way, Google Maps reaches 46 new countriesalerts and incidents on the road of Waze, one of its most outstanding features.With this, users of this second batch of included countries, which Google did not want to specify, can consult the information of a route or a route through the application, or the web version, and be alerted, in real time, of any danger or incident that has occurred This means receiving notifications of accidents that have paralyzed traffic, knowing the specific point where it occurred or any other issue that may be of interest.

To do this, a big message appears at the top of the window A space that reads the word Incident, and recording road, kilometer and type of incident that has occurred. All this while the rest of the screen remains active navigation or information on the route sought.In addition, it indicates whether this notice comes directly from the application Waze as a source, where a user has bothered to publicize such an incident for the benefit of the entire community , which now also redounds to Google Maps

At the moment it is a small, although notable improvement for regular users of Google Maps Of course, it raises the idea of ​​whether or not it is more effective to use the application Waze directly, although the profile of each tool is different. The good thing is that, just by looking for information about a trip in Google Maps, or by using Wazeto get somewhere, road incident notifications always arrive. This new version of Google Maps has already begun to be distributed for both Android andiPhone via Google Play and App Store , although progressively.Of course, it is totally free