{"id":223,"date":"2010-01-25T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T12:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T12:24:51","slug":"real-life-simcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/real-life-simcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life SimCity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Waze<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recently I’ve been playing with a mapping app on the iPhone called Waze<\/a>. This allows you to do free turn by turn routing on a smartphone (at time of writing Android and iPhone’s supported), with the added bonus of up to date traffic reporting by fellow users of the service.<\/p>\n

Waze started in Israel, and they’ve pretty much got the whole country mapped now. The UK however is sparse – most roads are not mapped yet, but this is the bit I’m enjoying most. When you drive down a road that’s not on Waze, you actually create it. The phone uploads the GPS data to the web, and you go along later and add the street name.<\/p>\n

This bit feels like SimCity – creating your own roads! However it does feel like wasted effort<\/a>, as a project called OpenStreetMap<\/a> has already created free maps of the entire UK, which Waze or other projects like it could be using. Waze are taking a bit of a gamble on UK users wanting to create a map of the UK before the routing and traffic functions will start to take off. Smartphone Apps that use OpenStreetMap are plentiful – but I’ve yet to find a free one for the iPhone.<\/p>\n

For SimCity<\/a> fans it’s great though – you find yourself deliberately taking new routes to and from work just to add new roads to the map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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