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Everything about Waze
Mobile GPS navigation app
Waze Mobile Ltd, doing business as Waze (ווייז), formerly FreeMap Israel, is a subsidiary company of Google that provides satellite navigation software on smartphones and other computers that support the Global Positioning System (GPS). In addition to turn-by-turn navigation, it incorporates user-submitted travel times and route details while downloading location-dependent information over a cellular network. Waze describes its application as a community-driven initiative that is free to download and use. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: WazeA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Predicting real-time roadway pluvial flood risk: A hybrid machine learning approach coupling a graph-based flood spreading model, historical vulnerabilities, and Waze dataInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Whose Will Be Done? (Outdated 1st Edition) - See 4th EditionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Evaluating the Reliability, Coverage, and Added Value of Crowdsourced Traffic Incident Reports from WazeCited 86 times
- Go sideways: Google Maps NavigationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Turn-by-turn navigationA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Evaluating the Reliability, Coverage, and Added Value of Crowdsourced Traffic Incident Reports from Waze
Quality of location-based crowdsourced speed data on surface streets: A case study of Waze and Bluetooth speed data in Sevierville, TN
Incentivizing Commuters to Carpool: A Large Field Experiment with Waze
In Waze We Trust: Algorithmic Governance of the Public Sphere
Rethinking Highway Safety Analysis by Leveraging Crowdsourced Waze Data
Do algorithms have a right to the city? Waze and algorithmic spatiality
Comparison of Waze crash and disabled vehicle records with video ground truth
In WAZE we trust? GPS-based navigation application users’ behavior and patterns of dependency
🆕 Influential since 2022
Predicting real-time roadway pluvial flood risk: A hybrid machine learning approach coupling a graph-based flood spreading model, historical vulnerabilities, and Waze data
Evaluating the usefulness of VGI from Waze for the reporting of flash floods
Evaluating the Coverage and Spatiotemporal Accuracy of Crowdsourced Reports Over Time: A Case Study of Waze Event Reports in Tennessee
Antecedents of Waze Mobile Application Usage as a Solution for Sustainable Traffic Management among Gen Z
Improving Law Enforcement and Emergency Response to Disabled Vehicle Crashes Using Waze Crowdsourced Data
📚 Books worth reading
Whose Will Be Done? (Outdated 1st Edition) - See 4th EditionMark Grant Davis · 2014- 📕Baby Shower Guest BookWaze Waze Sadi · 2021
- 📕WAZE of LifeSholom Fried · 2021
- 📕Exceeding good newes from the Jsle of VVight · 1642
- 📕Handwriting Practice WorkbookWaze Waze Sadi · 2021
- 📕WazeMichael Galeso · 2016
- 📕Mafundisho ya wazee wetuPaul M. Haule · 1990
WazeMaura Hyland · 1995
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