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Google is preparing to kill Waze(www.theverge.com)

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Firing the sales team = less income = some higher up will see declining profits = it will be killed

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DevopsPalmer@lemmy.world
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Well that is unfortunate, Waze is a great community that showed what is possible with crowdsourced information and keeping people from getting as many sepeding tickets

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Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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Crowdsourcing proprietary software - it ends the same every time. People should just do OpenStreetMaps instead

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goryramsy@kbin.social
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Until cities started going “hey, why do they have more info about where our cops are than us” and threatened to sue. Last I heard, that feature was banned in several states.

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SonnyVabitch@kbin.social
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Then again, another great way to reduce speeding tickets is not speeding.

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copium@kbin.social
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Seriously ?
Cop are master at putting trap in the worst area possible, like where it goes from 110 to 90 then 110 again over 200 meters.

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GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world
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If you actually care about crowdsourced information, please consider contributing to your local area in OpenStreetMaps. There’s way more to crowdsourcing than just avoiding speeding tickets!

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MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
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Indeed. I update it regularly through OsmAnd. It even has a google traffic overlay. Waze users can slide over to Magic Earth and start reporting traffic, construction, and speedvtraps over there and automatically start using OpenStreetMaps!

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Cinner@lemmy.worldB
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To clarify, does Magic Earth let people mark cops?

If so I assume it only works well in larger cities?

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