Google Maps Gets Waze Features

Google porting Waze’s best feature to Google Maps for a while now, but only in a limited fashion and only on Android. That’s the crowd-sourced incident reports feature that tuned Waze into a popular choice for people who drive a lot. Google has been adding support for some of the incident types available in Waze to the Android version of Maps, and users are about to get even more options. Better yet, all those reports are going to be available over on the iOS version of Maps.

Google announced that report crashes, speed traps, and traffic slowdowns will also be available on the iPhone, after having been introduced on Android a while ago.

Google Maps for iPhone and Android will support all these incident reports later this week, as Google is making the feature available to all markets. If you can’t see them yet, it just means they haven’t been rolled out to your country yet.

Over the past year Google has been grabbing features from Waze and putting them into Google Maps on Android, including collected traffic reports, on-screen speed limits and potential speed traps.

In June it added a speedometer next to the existing speed-limit indicator that launched earlier in the year. As CNET reported in May, Google began rolling out speed limits, speed cameras and mobile speed cameras in over 40 countries. A month earlier it began testing reports for slowdowns to help drivers seek other routes to avoid traffic jams.