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Old 09-20-17 | 07:54 PM
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njkayaker
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From: Far beyond the pale horizon.
Originally Posted by taz777
Interesting idea.

You could probably use an Internet data connection through your mobile phone to transmit your GPS coordinates. The main issue would be that you are moving, and this would require constant updating of your GPS location. People report incidents via the Waze app where these incidents are in fixed locations so the processing burden for Waze's servers is not too great I imagine.
This.

Waze isn't designed to be a tracking app.

It provides notifications of things that are stationary.

It also uses positions (and speed) of its users to determine traffic flow. Waze certainly is reporting the GPS coordinates of its users back to its servers.

It reports approximate location of "wazers" but there is no contract that says the location is accurate. It seems unlikely that Waze would have any interest in making that contract.
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