Posts Tagged ‘daily driving’

3 Useful Apps For Your Daily Driving

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

Did you know that third party apps can integrate Waze into their mobile experience? We’ve scoped out 3 apps that could be a helpful addition to your daily routine, from finding restaurants to locating local businesses to ride-sharing.

Ness
Ness Dining Guide, an app that offers users personalized recommendations on restaurants and other spots, recently incorporated Waze into their latest release.

The app recommends to users a host of options – from bars to nightlife scenes, to where they should vacation next. Now any of Ness’s users can get directions to their preffered restuarents with a simple “tap” — using Waze!

Localscope
Localscope is a “location browser” for your iPhone that helps you find great local businesses. The app aims to be “a window to your world,” that allows you to discover places, people and information around you using geo-tagged data from multiple local search engines, social networks, and other apps. Once you choose your location on Localscope, you can navigate there using Waze.

SideCar
Other cool apps featuring Waze functionality include SideCar, a new ride-sharing service that turns private cars into taxis. A whole new approach to carpooling, SideCar is an app people can use to find nearby drivers who have signed up to provide rides through the service. Drivers can then navigate to their desired location using Waze.

Have a creative idea on how to use Waze in your app? Any and all developers are invited to access the Waze map with these instructions on our website.

Have you seen Waze integrated anywhere cool recently? Let us know!

Waze ridealong with Palo Alto Police

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

In this interview Waze goes on the road with Michael from the Palo Alto Police Department. Michael used to be a software developer – specializing in maps in fact – and we had a great time driving around Palo Alto and talking about the kinds of data he needed and used every day.

Augmented Reality Developer, Anselm Hook, takes Waze on rides with some of our favorite road geeks and fellow drivers around the Bay Area bringing back their stories. Here at Waze, we love drivers, we want to know how they drive and why, where they’re going and what awaits them. Every driver has their own adventure. Anselm will be posting several driver reports and we are extending an invitation to any and all Wazers to send us reports from the road!

Anselm says “We wanted to get a sense of what it means to be a driver. What does it mean to need to navigate the road and to understand the road? What tricks and techniques do road warriors use? All of this input helps Waze shape our products in turn. I interviewed a bunch of people who drove every day – ranging from Fedex, to flower truck drivers, to Police. These are their stories.”

What’s it like on your own daily drive, road trip, side street? Send us traffic reports, driving videos, interviews! How do you use Waze? What do you see around you? What are the road conditions like? Post your 3 to 5 minute report from the road and send us the link! diann-at-waze.com

We’ll feature our favorite road reports on our blog, so send us your best drive!

Happy Wazing

Waze Hits The Road with FedEx

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

In this interview Waze goes on the road with Ruben from Fedex to explore his daily drive in and around San Francisco. Augmented Reality Developer, Anselm Hook, takes Waze on rides with some of our favorite road geeks and fellow drivers around the Bay Area bringing back their stories. Here at Waze, we love drivers, we want to know how they drive and why, where they’re going and what awaits them. Every driver has their own adventure. Anselm will be posting several driver reports and we are extending an invitation to any and all Wazers to send us reports from the road!

Anselm says “We wanted to get a sense of what it means to be a driver. What does it mean to need to navigate the road and to understand the road? What tricks and techniques do road warriors use? All of this input helps Waze shape our products in turn. I interviewed a bunch of people who drove every day – ranging from Fedex, to flower truck drivers, to Police. These are their stories.”

What’s it like on your own daily drive, road trip, side street? Send us traffic reports, driving videos, interviews! How do you use Waze? What do you see around you? What are the road conditions like? Post your 3 to 5 minute report from the road and send us the link! diann-at-waze.com

We’ll feature our favorite road reports on our blog, so send us your best drive!

Happy Wazing