Having Fun While Building Navigation Map with waze Goodies Game.
waze is the first free provider of driver-generated maps and real-time road information. It uses a community-based approach to maps and traffic, and harnesses driver-generated data to build navigable road maps and provide real-time information to commuters on the latest road conditions, traffic, street closures, speed traps and more. By building a community of drivers on the road, waze is able to provide the real-time road conditions that help commuters answer the every-day question, “Which was should I go today?”
Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian users can download and turn it on while driving to contribute to the network. As more users download and use the application, the maps and traffic information becomes more robust and accurate. Now that most major smartphone users have access to waze, the service will be able to accelerate user adoption and provide rapid improvements to service coverage.
To further enhance the network, today Waze has made available a fun game called “Road Goodies”. waze would place small little icons on the map that you can munch to rack-up on points while improving the waze map. ‘Road goodies’ are placed in areas where waze system has identified map problems and as you drive around munching them, your GPS data actually serves to automatically solve these issues while providing you with extra bonus points. Pretty cool, huh?
For instance, if there’s an area where we detect a disconnect in two streets on the map, waze will place a goodie over there in what we believe is the point of intersection. Then, when someone heads over to munch the ‘goodie’, it will solve the disconnect, telling the waze system that these two streets do indeed intersect.
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