Waze Maps App is Updated With Numerous Improvements

The Waze maps app has been updated with numerous improvements including support for Facebook events.

Waze is a fun, community based mapping, traffic & navigation app, 50 million strong. Join forces with other drivers nearby to outsmart traffic, save time & gas money, and improve everyone's daily commute. By simply driving around with Waze open, you're already contributing tons of real-time traffic & road info to your local driving community. You can also actively report accidents, hazards, police and other events you see on the road, and get road alerts on your route too. Find the cheapest gas station along your route with community-shared fuel prices. Waze also makes it fun and simple to meet up and coordinate with friends on the road.

Features:
- Live routing based on community generated, real-time traffic and road info
- Community contributed road alerts including accidents, hazards, police traps, road closures and more
- Complete voice guided navigation
- Automatic re-routing as conditions on the road change
- Learns your frequent destinations, commuting hours and preferred routes
- Finds the cheapest gas station along your route
- One tap navigation to Facebook events.
- See Facebook friends driving to the same place
- Notify someone you're on your way by sending a live ETA and a link showing you as you drive
- Earn points and move up the ranks in your community as you contribute road info
- Live maps, constantly edited and updated by Waze community map editors


What's New In This Version:
- Facebook events - your events appear on the navigation list for easy, one tap navigation
- Friends bar on the map - see friends headed to the same place and the order they'll arrive
- Real time and offline beeping at friends
- Exclusive moods for map editors only - 8 bit, robot and T-Rex
- Redesigned pop up alerts
- Inbox in main menu
- 3 state mute button in main menu
- Foursquare check in from the report menu
- Lock up north added to settings
- Support for JVC App Link Mode for compatible in-dash car audio receivers
- Multiple fixes, optimization and more!

You can download Waze Social GPS, Maps & Traffic from the App Store for free.

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