{"id":283786,"date":"2018-11-07T16:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=283786"},"modified":"2018-11-07T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:28:38","slug":"google-maps-testing-collision-and-speed-trap-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/283786-google-maps-testing-collision-and-speed-trap-reports.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps testing collision and speed trap reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps could be introducing incident reports, such as alerting drivers to collisions and speed traps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/11\/07\/google-maps-collision-speed-trap-reports-test-Waze\/\"><strong>Engadget reports<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>APK analysis from a few months ago hinted towards such a move, and the recent appearance of this feature on some users&#8217; devices makes its future implementation likely.<\/p>\n<p>Users would be able to submit data regarding collisions and speed traps that they encounter while commuting, alerting fellow Maps users to their presence.<\/p>\n<p>Google bought popular traffic app Waze in 2013, which led many to predict that Google Maps would implement Waze features such as this one.<\/p>\n<p>However, until recently, Google has shied away from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>If incident reports were to be implemented in the near future, it would continue Google Maps&#8217; recent move towards introducing more features onto its platform &#8211; including the recent rollout of a group planning feature that allows you to organise your events with your friends.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/280655-you-can-now-share-you-eta-on-google-maps-on-ios.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can now share you ETA on Google Maps on iOS<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engadget says\u00a0that Google Maps could be introducing incident reports, such as alerting drivers to collisions and speed traps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":198684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,14119,16142,55312,9954],"class_list":["post-283786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-maps","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-reports","tag-waze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283786"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283790,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283786\/revisions\/283790"}],"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=283786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}