Google Maps
Waze
Google Maps is a web-mapping service. Which gives you 360° imagery views of the earth. It also tells us real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, or bicycle.
Type:
Web-based mapping
Waze former name FreeMap Israel is a web-mapping service.
It provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted travel times and route details.
Google subsidiary:
Google bought Waze for $966 million in 2013 to add social data to its mapping business. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high-tech.
Language:
Multi-Language
Original author:
Waze Mobile
Developer:
Google LLC
Developer:
Google LLC
Launched:
Website: February 8, 2005
App Store and Play Store: September 23, 2008
Initial release::
2006
Written in:
C++ (for back-end), JavaScript, XML, Ajax (UI)
Written in:
Leaflet – JavaScript Library
Website:
Available Languages:
Multi-Language (40 different languages)
Integration:
Google maps provide the best mapping service for everyone. It integrates the best possible features we need.
Type:
GPS navigation software
Flexibility:
Google maps API provides a tool for easily visualizing maps. By using this tool, a graphical user interface (GUI) can be constructed that displays different types of data on Google Maps and let users use it easily.
Website:
Users Reviews:
Google maps have got excellent reviews from their users as it is very common in use by every kind of user.
Play Store
Ratings: 4.1
Total Reviews: 16,731,416 votes
App Store
Ratings: 4.7
Total Reviews: 5,040,352 reviews
Integration:
Waze provides the best mapping service for drivers. It integrates the best possible features drivers need.
Security:
Google maps have a highly secured network. Don’t let any fake information comes in.
Flexibility:
Waze provides the best mapping service for drivers. It integrates the best possible features drivers need.
Advantages:
- Let you access any map from any place for free.
- Helps drivers and travelers reach their destinations.
- Easy to use.
Users Reviews:
Waze has got some fantastic reviews from its users as it is very excellent in use for any kind of driver. Waze is accurate and flexible most of the time. It gives directions way ahead and repeats them frequently, so drivers can be prepared to take a big turn easily or get to the correct exit at a perfect time.
Play Store
Ratings: 4.6
Total Reviews: 7,273,626
App Store
Ratings: 4.9
Total Reviews: 1.4 Million
Disadvantages:
- Read the data of your mobile contacts.
- Google maps read the frequency of your communication.
Security:
Waze has a strong and secured back end, which doesn’t let any flaws come in.
Advantages:
- Especially designed for drivers
- Helps drivers and travelers reach their destinations
- Very easy to use
- Contains all those tools which a driver need
Advantages:
- Access all the phone features of the device e.g. “determine the phone number and device ids, also check whether a call is active or not and the remote number connected by call”.
- Takes pictures and videos with the camera, uses camera without user’s confirmation.
- Records audio with microphone at any time without user’s confirmation.
- Checks your approximate location by using local sources such as the “Cell towers and WI-FI” app used to determine where you are.
- Modify the data about your contacts stored on your device. e.g. “frequency with which you called, emailed, or communicated with anyone in any other ways”, also allows the app to delete contact data.
- Reads all the calendar events stored on your phone, including those of co-workers and friends, and also shares your calendar data, regardless of confidentiality or sensitivity.
- Access your SD card.
- Access the list of accounts known by the phone, also accounts created by applications you have installed.
- Access full networks receive data from the internet, and also view network connections.
- Access Bluetooth settings on the phone, and also make and accept connections with paired devices.
- Get started itself when the device is turned on, this can make it longer to start a phone, it also slows down the overall phone by always running.
- It affects the battery, and avert the phone from sleeping.
- Access the audio features of the phone e.g. settings of volume and also which speaker is used for output.
- Reads the sync stats for an account, including the history of the sync affair and how much data is synced.
- Modify the system’s settings data, also corrupt your system’s configuration.
Google Maps Vs Waze: Conclusion:
Google Map and Waze both are really helpful mapping services, But google is strongly secured and Waze snatches your personal information from your device. Now the decision is yours.
