Is Waze faster than Google Maps?

Real-Time Data: Waze Gets You There Faster This lets Waze almost instantly create new routes to take you around slowdowns. This tends to mean arriving a few minutes sooner than with Google Maps, but it also involves many more turns and side streets. Google Maps, on the other hand, is a bit more direct.



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Avoid traffic, road hazards, and even police speed traps by switching to Waze.

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Waze. On Google's scale, Waze was never a huge service. According to the latest figures, in 2019 one billion people used Google Maps every month. Waze, at that time, settled for 130 million users (today the company has 151 million users).

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Waze has a built-in GPS that tracks your exact location as you drive. And along with the maps constantly updated in real-time by the community, drivers are able to reconfigure their routes to avoid unnecessary traffic jams en-route to their destination.

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Both Google Maps and Waze have good parts, as well as their share of issues. Google Maps seems to be more reliable, accurate and has better real-time traffic, whereas Waze has a larger army of fans who think the app is amazing who love its voice prompts feature.

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