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/
-- Owen
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