Article 6SN57 Google Maps is now displaying Waze incident reports

Google Maps is now displaying Waze incident reports

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Umar Shakir
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Google Maps is now starting to show Waze incident reports while you navigate and includes the ability to contribute by confirming road conditions in the app via prompts. Google announced in July that both apps would cross-pollinate more data, delivering more Waze-sourced road closures, construction, speed cameras, and police presence information into Google Maps.

As reported by 9to5Google and Android Authority, over the holiday weekend, a Reddit user shared a screenshot of a prompt showing Police reported ahead" based on reports from Waze drivers. As with other incident notifications in Maps, the users can then update the report to note if they still see the same thing.

Image: Reddit user Truckin_18 Very Waze-y of...

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