[Lincs] Waze

[Thomas Morton]

Awesome! I'll give this a shot in the week when driving and see how it
compares to my current sat nav (also an iPhone app).

Cheers!

On 15 February 2010 18:36, Chris Adams <chrisa100 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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