google maps
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Waze Now Alerts Drivers if They’re Heading Down a Crash-Prone Road
Waze users will start hearing directly from the app which are the most accident-prone roads on their route. Perhaps now the Google-owned app will help settle the age-old argument about which state has the worst roads and the worst drivers. The new crash history alerts use past crash data as well as details about the…
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Google Rolls Out New Accessibility Features to Make Daily Tasks Easier
Google announced a slew of new ways to help those with a wide range of disabilities use its products. The company added a new business attribute icon to its Maps and Search products allowing businesses to self-identify as disabled-owned. The icon adds to Google’s growing list of business attributes, including Black-owned, Asian-owned and LGBTQ+ friendly. Google…
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Strava’s New Community Photo Feature Lets You Preview Conditions Before You Go Out
Strava, a popular fitness tracking app with a tinge of social network built into it, announced Thursday it would make its vast library of user-uploaded photos available to paid subscribers in its Route Builder. All those photos you’ve uploaded for public viewing will help hikers and bikers who subscribe to Strava preview their upcoming journeys…
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Linux Group Shares Its First Open Dataset for Creating Real Google Maps Alternatives
If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, Apple), map apps are damned hard to make. Last year, several major heavy hitters in tech, including the likes of Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon, decided to lay down their arms and meet under a flag of parlay held aloft by the Linux Foundation to make…