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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

their traffic data has no rivals

do you mean the waze traffic data, or does google actually have some of its own?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

or does google actually have some of its own

every phone running Google's version of Android with location enabled.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

And just like their ridiculous chat apps, they have no beneficial feature integration or consolidation between the two.

Google Maps has the ability to report speed traps and hazards, but none of that data comes from Waze or vice-versa.