I'm a big fan of crowd-sourcing in
principle... in practice I don't see it working well nor often...
but hope springs infernal.
I have tried both Signals (an app for mapping cell reception
strength) and a (now deleted from my phone) gas-price app. Both
are map-based and are *supposed* to support the uploading of data
by the "crowd" with collectively improved results.
I found neither of them to work very well... it MAY have been a
lack of participation in our sleepy little backwoods of northern
NM or it may have been ideosyncratic to the specific
tool/system... but the bottom line was that I didn't much if any
useful results from the system(s) myself.
I've not heard of Waze... if Google is trying to acquire it, that
tolls a bell for this type of service becoming more useful/popular
whether Waze itself (with or without Google's might) works well or
not.
- Steve
I've been interested in "crowd
sourcing" in apps for quite a while. Waze apparently has a
way to do that for traffic/gps/maps.
Has anyone used it? I'm curious how successful it is. Google
is trying to acquire it.
http://www.waze.com/
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