[Lincs] Waze

[Chris Adams]

Nice, getting a new phone and car soon - will definetley have a look at
that. Although sat navs do tend to wind me up, people should just learn to
read maps.

On 15 February 2010 18:11, Iain Baker <iain.dbaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone tried Waze? ( http://world.waze.com/ )
> It is a Map/Sat Nav system for mobile devices (iPhone, Android, Windows
> Mobile and Symbian) that is open source and community built.
>
> It provides live traffic information, police speed trap locations, and road
> work information based on user input - but the users also build the maps...
> drive around with Waze switched on and it uploads your route, allowing you
> to add or edit roads to create an accurate and free to access GPS map.
>
> There doesn't seem to be masses of users in Lincolnshire so as a sat nav
> system it isn't fully usable at the moment, but it is a way to contribute to
> an opensource project, if you have never managed to find an easy way in.  I
> have been playing for a couple of days, and the only problem I have found is
> that me and my Girlfriend are mildly addicted to it, so will take detours to
> make sure we are the first footprints in the snow...  i know it's sad, but i
> recently got a hybrid car and we've also got addicted to trying to keep it
> on battery power... maybe we need to find better games, oh well...
>
> Just wondered if anyone from the LUG uses it, and what you think of it if
> you have.
>
> Iain
>
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