Google Maps is now beginning to present Waze incident stories whilst you navigate and contains the flexibility to contribute by confirming highway circumstances within the app by way of prompts. Google introduced in July that each apps would cross-pollinate extra information, delivering extra Waze-sourced highway closures, building, pace cameras, and police presence info into Google Maps.
As reported by 9to5Google and Android Authority, over the vacation weekend, a Reddit user shared a screenshot of a immediate displaying “Police reported forward” based mostly on stories from Waze drivers. As with different incident notifications in Maps, the customers can then replace the report to notice in the event that they nonetheless see the identical factor.
That is the primary report we’ve seen of somebody recognizing the characteristic within the wild, but it surely in all probability gained’t be the final. When Google introduced the characteristic, group challenge supervisor Can Comertoglu indicated to The Verge that regardless of merging the groups behind Maps and Waze, the apps would proceed working individually, as Waze’s 500,000-plus contributors “choose a few of the issues that Waze does over Google Maps, and we all know the reverse is true as properly.”