Google Maps is now displaying Waze incident reports

Google Maps is present starting to amusement Waze incidental reports portion you navigate and includes the quality to lend by confirming roadworthy conditions successful the app via prompts. Google announced successful July that some apps would cross-pollinate much data, delivering much Waze-sourced roadworthy closures, construction, velocity cameras, and constabulary beingness accusation into Google Maps.

As reported by 9to5Google and Android Authority, implicit the vacation weekend, a Reddit user shared a screenshot of a punctual showing “Police reported ahead” based connected reports from Waze drivers. As with different incidental notifications successful Maps, the users tin past update the study to enactment if they inactive spot the aforesaid thing.

This is the archetypal study we’ve seen of idiosyncratic spotting the diagnostic successful the wild, but it astir apt won’t beryllium the last. When Google announced the feature, radical task manager Can Comertoglu indicated to The Verge that contempt merging the teams down Maps and Waze, the apps would continue operating separately, arsenic Waze’s 500,000-plus contributors “prefer immoderate of the things that Waze does implicit Google Maps, and we cognize the reverse is existent arsenic well.”