The highly-interactive real-time crowd sourcing app – Waze is now available for download via the Apple App Store. It is also known that Google is planning to try its hands on a similar application based on crowd-sourcing service as well, according to the official Waze blog The application by Waze completely depends on crowd-sourcing. All the data is provided from a group of drivers in real time courtesy this service. These drivers are actually present at numerous locations to guide other Waze application users to find traffic free routes.
Google’s speed and location data is acquired passively from zombie smartphones operating on Google Maps as data points. On the other hand, Waze application provides accurate turn-by-turn directions, peer-based traffic and road-condition updates. It employs GPS and cell-tower triangulation to present traffic flow details and suggestions for best routes to be taken.
The application gives a platform to users to submit photos of traffic hotspots, speed trap reports, accident reports, available parking along with Twitter integration. Government street-map templates are used in place of attaining data from one of the usual subjects. Another attractive feature is that users are rewarded with special Waze Points if they manage to enhance the accuracy of the mapping.
So iPhone users can download the Waze iPhone GPS application for free via the iTunes App Store and commute quickly as well as efficiently with the details provided by the application through absolute crowd-sourcing system. Users awaiting Google’s new crowd-sourcing service can watch out for more details in the coming days.