Waze Traffic Map App for Android & iPhone Gets Game-Like

ReadWriteWeb has an interesting article about how Waze’s updated app for the iPhone and Android phones provides a game-like aspect to its user contributed mapping information…

Navigation App Waze Makes Crowdsourced Map-Building a Game

I didn’t install the Android version since I noticed a comment in the Android Market that it has a problem with the Droid’s keyboard. However, I downloaded and installed the iPhone version and may test it out later today.

Waze 1.3.0 for iPhone

However, it requires creating a login user name and password which is a bit of a hassle. And, will I have to login just before dashing off to somewhere in a rush? Ugh. If so, it will get uninstalled very quickly. But, that’s the nature of these social type apps, I guess.

Waze for mobile (product page)

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