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Old 02-07-2024, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by R20-Matt View Post
Waze is faster because its data is crowd sourced vs Google relying on satellite and robotic cars. They rely on users actual movement for traffic speed etc and their data is much faster / more real time because of this. Same for the road info. As someone mentioned, both Waze and Google maps are owned by Google, but different divisions. We recently moved into Lake Denham and only had one initial issue with UPS due to their systems, and it was quickly fixed as folks manually entered addresses into the systems.
Google Maps is crowd sourced as well. Community contributors is how most of the maps in the newer Villages get updated. I think because the demographic is trending to younger people, you're seeing more Villagers going in and updating Google Maps themselves with missing streets so most of the newer Villages are getting updated quickly.

I can see that the streets in the village of Lake Denham are mostly there but some are unlabelled, someone should compare to the map on the Villages app and update Google with the proper streets names.

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