Marlow
15. April 2013, 03:34 PM
Waze is a navigation app for Android and iPhone. It needs data (2G or 3G), but it doesn't use a whole lot. Best of all Waze is free.
Here's the promo video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7yoEUrVhw
Now, Waze has a few things, that are really neat:
You can report things, while you're on the road, like garda checkpoints, roadworks, speedcams, traffic jams, road closures etc. Other Waze users then see these and can change their route accordingly.
You can also see other Waze users on the map and send them a message. Waze allows to add "friends" and has a groups feature. So if somebody is in the same group as you, it gets highlighted. A bit more on that further down.
You can reflect your mood and your icon shown to other users changes accordingly.
Another kick with Waze is, that you collect points. For every km that you drive, for every report that you make and there's a bunch of bonus points, that you can collect. There is a statistic, that you can look up, where you are compared to friends, all other users in your country or other users worldwide.
In regards to the groups, I've already created a group called "Vandalism.ie" in Waze, so if you use Waze and see that group, feel free to join it. There's a bit of a problem with groups though. It will only ever show the top 20 groups from people online in your nearby area and nothing more. So even if you can't see the Vandalism.ie group, find one of the other groups, that I'm in. (Ireland, Waze Ireland, Ireland west, Midland Mappers, Club 80-90, backroads.ie). Click into one of these groups (no need to join them), select "Members", find "marlow925" (that's me) and you can list which groups I'm member of and join the Vandalism.ie group. It sounds a bit complicated, but is the only way around things, I'm afraid.
The maps are pretty good and improve all of the time.
The app can be found in the Google Play store and naturally in iTunes.
/M
Here's the promo video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_7yoEUrVhw
Now, Waze has a few things, that are really neat:
You can report things, while you're on the road, like garda checkpoints, roadworks, speedcams, traffic jams, road closures etc. Other Waze users then see these and can change their route accordingly.
You can also see other Waze users on the map and send them a message. Waze allows to add "friends" and has a groups feature. So if somebody is in the same group as you, it gets highlighted. A bit more on that further down.
You can reflect your mood and your icon shown to other users changes accordingly.
Another kick with Waze is, that you collect points. For every km that you drive, for every report that you make and there's a bunch of bonus points, that you can collect. There is a statistic, that you can look up, where you are compared to friends, all other users in your country or other users worldwide.
In regards to the groups, I've already created a group called "Vandalism.ie" in Waze, so if you use Waze and see that group, feel free to join it. There's a bit of a problem with groups though. It will only ever show the top 20 groups from people online in your nearby area and nothing more. So even if you can't see the Vandalism.ie group, find one of the other groups, that I'm in. (Ireland, Waze Ireland, Ireland west, Midland Mappers, Club 80-90, backroads.ie). Click into one of these groups (no need to join them), select "Members", find "marlow925" (that's me) and you can list which groups I'm member of and join the Vandalism.ie group. It sounds a bit complicated, but is the only way around things, I'm afraid.
The maps are pretty good and improve all of the time.
The app can be found in the Google Play store and naturally in iTunes.
/M