{"id":49519,"date":"2009-11-26T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=10721"},"modified":"2009-11-26T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T22:30:08","slug":"waze-builds-maps-while-turning-driving-into-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/49519","title":{"rendered":"Waze builds maps while turning driving into a game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D10721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D10721\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ri8UHa6oEo8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ri8UHa6oEo8&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Waze is a company that is building free street maps by using user-submitted data, collected from their application running on smartphones. To encourage drivers to fill in the spaces on the map waze has added a gaming element, with drivers being able to collect points by collecting \u2018road goodies\u2019 \u2013 cherries, hammers and small gift packages worth extra bonus points.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018road goodies\u2019 are found in locations where the waze has identified map problems, and as you drive around munching them, the system&#160; automatically solve these issues. <\/p>\n<p>Present are the most rare of the new \u2018road goodies\u2019, worth 500 extra points, Hammer \u2013 more common on the road and worth 250 bonus points &amp; last but not least, Cherries \u2013 arguably the cutest \u2018goodie\u2019, pretty common and worth 100 extra points\u2026<\/p>\n<p><p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> In parallel to the launch of this new \u2018road goodie\u2019 version, waze announced a \u2018Holiday High Points Challenge\u2019 between November 25-30.<\/p>\n<p>The top three users in the US and Canada who rack up the most points from \u2018road goodies\u2019 during this timeframe will receive Amazon gift cards in the amounts of $500, $300 and $200, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waze.com\/blog\/munch-new-%e2%80%98road-goodies%e2%80%99-in-our-holiday-high-points-challenge\/\" >waze\u2019s blog here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D10721&amp;linkname=Waze%20builds%20maps%20while%20turning%20driving%20into%20a%20game\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\/Bookmark\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waze is a company that is building free street maps by using user-submitted data, collected from their application running on smartphones. To encourage drivers to fill in the spaces on the map waze has added a gaming element, with drivers being able to collect points by collecting \u2018road goodies\u2019 \u2013 cherries, hammers and small gift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}