Comment on Google maps adding sponsored detours
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 5 months agoThe one big draw of Google maps for me is the real-time traffic info. I don’t think that anything else had the ability to gather the same amount of info (except maybe Apple?)
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Waze. Google Maps literally gathers a large part of it’s traffic real time data from Waze (which they also own).
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe, but I suspect that Waze has a small fraction of the gmaps user base, so if it has compatible traffic info, it’s because it draws on Google’s data.
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Google pulls from Waze, but Waze isn’t allowed to pull data from Google.