Posts Tagged ‘waze’
UK wazers in building momentum
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Waze featured in Android Market This Week.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009Hey Android wazers, remember the days you were the first waze users and there were only a few tens of you Androidians on waze? Well, many many more androidians are joining the waze community right now as waze is being featured on the Market.
Treasure hunt is on, the map packed with wazers
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Here’s a winner, notifying all through the chit chat 
Italy diggs waze. Here’s the map, a few days post-launch – WOW!
Sunday, November 15th, 2009Waze reached nearly 10,000 downloads on its first day in the Italian Appstore.
- Road recording and community activity is in full speed. This is very exciting to us, and to think that there’s not even a base map yet! Oh…. and there seems to be lots of chit chat . This is also an opportunity to apologize for the tech difficulties we’ve been having over the past week. We’re working tirelessly to fix them.
- Some great reviews by bloggers. (Here’s the translation for those of us not lucky enough to live in Italy or speak Italian). And very positive reviews on the appstore.
- Here’s a great video demonstrating waze in Italian, created by macneo, one of the lead community members in Italy.
- The community prepared videos on how to edit the map and is very active in the forum.
International users FYI – we are working on a platform that will allow you to translate waze into any language, except the UI and the Voice prompts. We’ll get it out there as quickly as possible. Upcoming version will have Spanish in it, the following will be open
to any language that the community has translated. If all goes well
Waze now available internationally – put your country on the map!
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
In our humble attempt to take over the world one traffic lane at a time, waze is proud to announce today that we’ve gone global! Wazers from all around the world are now able to use our platform to build crowdsourced maps, 100% from scratch. In fact, in certain countries with no base map, users will literally be building maps from scratch – paving the roads entirely themselves, as they drive…
Already, driving communities have organically formed in over 20 countries around the globe, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, and Trinidad Tobago – and people have even begun map editing their regions online at world.waze.com.
The funny part is that even before we opened up the platform for international use, we’d see wazers in clusters on the map in areas with no waze support, self-organizing to check out what we have to offer. In fact, in Singapore, the highway grid was mapped in just a few days by a handful of active users! We thought it was a pretty amazing thing to see, so we decided to formally open waze to users, worldwide, so everyone can enjoy crowdsourced maps and, eventually, free navigation, turn-by-turn directions + an improved daily commute.
Help us spread the word to your friends in far away places – the more wazers on the road, the more everyone benefits!
Waze SF Bay Area Sunday Drive
Friday, October 9th, 2009Join us this Sunday October 11th 2009 at the Windy Hill Preserve. Help provide feedback on Waze and in exchange we’ll bring snacks (aiming for vegan tamales) and kid friendly drinks. Our plan is to meet at 2:00 PM, enjoy the park for a while and then try do a collaborative drive – to see how many Wazer’s we can get in one area.
Here’s information on the location:
http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/windysausal.html
Here’s a bit more detail about the spot:
The east entrance is a parking lot (built in 1999) off Portola Road in Portola Valley. From I 280 in San Mateo County, exit Alpine Road (exit 22). Head west about 3 miles and turn right onto Portola Road. Drive about 1 mile and turn left into the parking lot. This is a good size parking lot (may get crowded on weekends). No entrance or parking fees. Wheelchair-accessible pit toilet, and two designated handicapped parking spots. Trails are wheelchair accessible, but you’ll probably need assistance, and won’t be able to go beyond the junction with Spring Ridge Trail. Maps available at information signboard.
Please feel free to contact us for more details! See you there!
Another satisfied contest winner
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Since our last update, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have also entered the winner’s circle, getting to more than 100 unique road reports each. Want to give your state a little boost to increase your chances of winning? Spread the word about waze to your friends and ask them to send a report from the road, too. It’ll bring both of you that much closer to your choice of a MyTouch 3G Android phone or an iPhone 3GS – just like NY winner, asy4life, pictured below, sporting his new MyTouch phone in style…
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