Google announced in late July that Google Maps and Waze will finally share incident reports, a feature many people dreamed of. After all, Google owns both Google Maps and Waze, so implementing this sort of interoperability should be a no-brainer. Incident reports are the reason why Waze became so popular with drivers, as they can improve navigation immensely.
Google added incident reporting to Google Maps a few years ago, but the feature wasn’t close to the real thing, Waze’s richer incident reports feature. It took years for Google to make the two apps talk to each other, but the shared incident reports feature wasn’t available to drivers immediately after Google announced it.
A few months later, Google Maps users started spotting Waze incident reports. This suggests the feature is rolling out more widely, and you can finally take advantage of Waze reports inside Google Maps.
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