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		kailuowang on June 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Maps and Waze At least from this announcement, it's not merely a defensive acquisition. Google is looking forward to integrate the user-based realtime traffic system from Waze into Google Map. I am a little surprised that whatever Waze provides now wasn't a complete overlap with what Google Map is also offering in its trafic related functionalities.

dabeeeenster on June 11, 2013 [–]

I was under the impression that Google Maps already used crowdsourced data for its traffic?

I use it in the UK and it's incredibly accurate - scarily so!

aroch on June 11, 2013 | [–]

For its traffic updates (Green/Yellow/Red) is does use some user collected data

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