Subject: ‘Waze’
| July 15, 2011Traffic Mapping for CarmageddonCommunityThe upcoming closure of the 405 freeway in Los Angeles as part of a freeway expansion project has put this car-centric city on high alert. Crowd-sourcing traffic app Waze is joining in on the effort to help keep LA traffic moving. In a partnership with local TV station abc7, Waze has launched several mapping efforts to ... read more April 9, 2011Of Interest: Future of Navigation, Beauty of Maps on YouTube, Time Zones, Geographers in DemandGIS NewsDi-Ann Eisnor of Waze and Craig Chapman of Inrix are part of a roundtable podcast entitled “Where is navigation going?” over on Cnet. The podcast discusses how traffic data is collected, comparison of the benefits of car navigation devices and inter-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. (via @DiAnnEisnor) BBC has posted the entire twelve episodes of the Beauty ... read more September 29, 2010 Social Driving Via WazeGIS NewsWaze is the social mobile application that uses real-time input from local drivers to update traffic conditions for other users and they recently announced the ability to create social driving groups. After thirty days, 4,199 social driving groups have formed on Waze worldwide. Of those 691 have been formed in the United States. The largest ... read more August 10, 2010 Major Update for WazeGIS NewsWaze, the crowd-sourcing traffic application, has announced the release of version 2.0. This release launches new driving “groups”, a feature that allows users to discover and connect to other drivers who share common interests on the road. Groups allows drivers that share common interests, geography, or commutes to share information among themselves. Examples of the types ... read more May 28, 2010 GeoBriefs: James Fee Celebrates Five Years of Blogging, Waze Goes Local with Los AngelesGIS NewsJames Fee’s blog passed the five year mark on May 25th with “1,688 posts and 13,450 comments.” James Fee has one of the most popular GIS related blogs at http://spatiallyadjusted.com. James Fee was recently profiled on GIS Lounge. Waze, the crowdsourcing traffic application, has announced their first local site for Los Angeles. The local site distills ... read more November 25, 2009 Waze Adds Road Goodies and PrizesGPS, Location Based ServicesWaze, which relies on crowdsourcing to build its traffic and road navigation data, has started a ‘Holiday High Points Challenge’ to encourage users to drive in areas where map problems have been identified. Like the game PacMan, drivers can “eat up” presents, hammers and cherries for points as they drive around certain areas. The top ... read more August 15, 2009 Crowdsourcing traffic and roadsFree GIS, GPS, Location Based ServicesWaze has a free social mobile application that uses real-time input from local drivers to update traffic conditions for other users. Currently, those with iPhone and Android phones can download the free application. When the application is left open on their phones, real-time GPS information about the speed of the vehicle is relayed to other ... read more |
