{"id":266573,"date":"2018-06-29T17:33:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=266573"},"modified":"2018-06-29T17:35:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T15:35:15","slug":"google-maps-absorbing-more-features-from-waze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/266573-google-maps-absorbing-more-features-from-waze.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps absorbing more features from Waze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps users on Android have started reporting seeing features similar to what Waze offers, stated\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2018\/06\/29\/google-maps-now-showing-waze-like-incident-reporting\/\">Android Police<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/80017-google-buys-mobile-mapping-app-waze.html\">Google acquired Waze<\/a><\/strong> five years ago for $966 million to use its technology to enhance its Maps app.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Google introduced a feature into Maps to remember where you parked your car, for example, a feature which existed in Waze.<\/p>\n<p>Waze&#8217;s social features which allow its users to report hazards, police checkpoints, and traffic problems, remained exclusive to its app, however.<\/p>\n<p>Google has used incident data from Waze in Google Maps since November 2013, but has not allowed its users to interact with the reports.<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be changing, with Maps users reporting they are prompted to confirm whether an incident reported in Waze is still accurate.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on the screenshots of the feature, Maps will still not allow its users to report incidents.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Google-Maps-user-reports.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-266579 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Google-Maps-user-reports-640x326.png\" alt=\"Google Maps user reports\" width=\"640\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Google-Maps-user-reports-640x326.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Google-Maps-user-reports-600x306.png 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Google-Maps-user-reports.png 728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/266169-google-maps-recommendations-now-live.html\">Google Maps recommendations now live<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps users on Android have started reporting new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":198684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,167,2272,9954],"class_list":["post-266573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-waze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266581,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266573\/revisions\/266581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}