Google is laying off employees at Waze
www.theverge.com
It’s unclear how many jobs will be cut.

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

  • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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!

    • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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!

      • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        To clarify, does Magic Earth let people mark cops?

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

        • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yes. The priblem with crowdsourced data, is it requires a crowd. This is why I encourage everyone to hype Magic Earth to people who love waze. I attached a screenshot of the available alerts.

        • MasterBlaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yes. The priblem with crowdsourced data, is it requires a crowd. This is why I encourage everyone to hype Magic Earth to people who love waze.