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Waze's traffic navigation app already shows ads prodding drivers to swing by fast-food joints like Dunkin' Donuts and Taco Bell. Now it's adding a new item to its menu—the ability to place orders at some shops.
On Tuesday, the Google-owned app will start letting drivers purchase coffee and other items from Dunkin' Donuts for pickup along their way. It's the first time that Waze has offered this kind of "order ahead" option, but unlikely to be the last.
If all goes well with the Dunkin' Donuts test, Waze plans to team up with other merchants so its millions of users can order pizza, reserve parking spaces, fill prescriptions and even buy groceries without having to open another app on their phones.
"It could be almost anything that a driver could order ahead and have ready for pick up," said Jordan Grossman, head of Waze's business partnerships in North America.
They should dispatch drones to bring the donuts to your car while you're stuck in morning traffic.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday March 30 2017, @06:15PM (1 child)
I just zoomed in on 6 different random built-up places in near the east coast. And they were completely random - I asked my g/f, without telling her what I was looking for, to simply point towards built up areas as I zoomed into the map, and I focused the zoom around where she was pointing.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/140156450#map=16/34.2342/-77.9348 - grid
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/140156450#map=15/39.3653/-74.4267 - grid
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/140156450#map=16/37.2128/-77.4086 - mostly grid
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/140156450#map=16/43.4882/-70.4581 - grid
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/140156450#map=16/29.1832/-82.1508 - total fucking grid
fuck it, I didn't do a 6th, I was too overloaded by grids at that stage.
You are perhaps thinking of old centres of old towns?
For comparison, this is what I think of as a mess of roads: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/59.43826/24.74707 (not randomly chosen, my home and my office are both in that view).
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:14PM
You obviously have never been to New Jersey.
I didn't look at all your links, just 2, but are any of them in New England or NJ/NY? Even the NoVA/DC area I live near now is a complete mess, and certainly does not resemble a grid, except in certain spots (namely old centers of old towns as you mentioned).
Sure, if you're in Manhattan, it's pretty easy to navigate because of the grid layout. But if you're going between different suburban places on various highways or other large roads that are constrained by geography (like water), things are totally different.