Waze Adds Road Goodies and Prizes

Waze, 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 three drivers that rack up the most points will receive Amazon gift cards worth $500, $300, and $200 respectively.  The game is for the United States and Canada and runs from Wednesday, November 25th through Monday, November 30th.

Rules from the Waze blog post:

How to participate

• Find ‘road goodies ’in areas where the map needs improvement. (Make sure you’ve downloaded the newest waze version from the iPhone Appstore/Android Market or waze.com/download)
• Munch (drive over) as many goodies as you can between November 25-30.
• 3 users who rack up the most goodie-related points during this time win!

(~ Via All Points Blog)