We receive news from the United States and the United Kingdom that users of Google Maps are starting to receive notifications from Waze in its Android and iOS apps. This was something that we already expected since it was learned that the startups Israeli had been bought by the Mountain View company, but perhaps we were surprised by how quickly it was done.
For those who do not know, Waze is a car navigation service that gives us real-time information on traffic conditions. The data comes from the contributions of a driver community that share their impressions on the state of the road linked to a geolocation. This means that they report traffic jams, accidents, road conditions, weather events, etc ... It has a community of more than 30 million users worldwide and has an application for both Android and iOS.
When Google announced that it was buying it back in June of this year, we warned and we communicate the opinions of both companies based on a communication that the American company gave through one of its official blogs.
The main idea was that the services continue to function independently while learning from each other in order toBoth services could benefit from the data generated by the other.
The first visible effect of this has reached Google Maps. American, British, and some European and Latin American users report that notifications appear in their browsing. At the moment we do not know that this is happening in Spain, but we recommend being vigilant in the near future.
Incidentally, with this the Mountain View secure their dominance in map services for the coming times, having more and more sources of information for navigation with information in real time.