Waze just got an incredibly useful Google Maps feature

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Waze vs. Google Maps
  • Google owns two of the most popular navigation apps on Android and iPhone, Waze and Google Maps, and the company has been working on bridging the feature gap between them in recent years.
  • Waze and Google Maps will not merge anytime soon, nor should they, but each app is borrowing useful features from its sibling.
  • Waze now supports an incredibly useful Google Maps feature, the ability to plan a drive on the desktop, save it, and then beam it over to an Android or iOS device.

Waze, the other popular Google navigation app, keeps getting better just like its Google Maps sibling. Both apps offer great experiences and have plenty of fans. Waze is more focused on getting you to your destination as fast as possible by incorporating crowdsourced information about the traffic ahead in real-time. Google Maps packs additional features that allow you to discover places of interest around you, on top of handling your commute and navigation needs. While Waze has a clear advantage over Google when it comes to incident reports, Google Maps has its own extra perks that are not available on Waze. One of them concerns the desktop experience, which is a lot richer on Google Maps. But Waze is quickly catching on.

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