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Tom Pritchard

Google Maps just got a huge upgrade — this will help millions of drivers

Google Maps on iPhone.

The list of differences between Google Maps and Waze has been getting smaller all the time, and it’s about to get even smaller. Google previously announced both apps would start sharing more data, and now it seems that promise has been kept — by adding Waze users’ incident reports to Google Maps.

As spotted on Reddit, Google Maps has started flashing up pop-ups reporting incidents with a note that they’re from Waze users. In this case it was the police, and Google Maps was asking whether they were still there — a feature Google Maps has been offering for a while.

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