{"id":396,"date":"2015-01-16T19:40:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T11:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/?p=396"},"modified":"2017-01-27T07:36:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:36:33","slug":"waze-an-end-user-geospatial-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/2015\/01\/16\/waze-an-end-user-geospatial-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Waze &#8211; an End-User Geospatial App"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_247\" style=\"width: 315px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"wp-image-247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uznirujang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/image-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"305\" height=\"512\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Waze App<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During 2014 Hari Raya holiday in Malaysia, the numbers of vehicle escalates up to 1.6 millions per day. A normal 3 hours trip turned to 8 hours due to heavy traffic happened nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>As a geospatialist, I&#8217;m not surprised about this phenomenon. It can be predicted. However, an app called Waze (available in App Store) that is widely used by Malaysian during that holiday that shocked me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_309\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-309\" class=\"wp-image-309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uznirujang.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"330\" height=\"512\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Waze App<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Waze is basically a geospatial application developed based on the concept of Public Participatory Geographical Information System (P-GIS). I can see that almost 95% data contributed by the public are accurate.<\/p>\n<p>These information provided in Waze can assists drivers to navigate using the most optimum route (avoiding heavy traffic and etc). My hat&#8217;s off to you, the Waze team in developing a thumbs up apps!<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, a P-GIS will only work if &#8220;P&#8221; (the public) contribute for the apps. Hopefully, Waze development team can sustain in the market. I will definitely promote\u00a0Waze<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2014 Hari Raya holiday in Malaysia, the numbers of vehicle escalates up to 1.6 millions per day. A normal 3 hours trip turned to 8 hours due to heavy traffic happened nationwide. As a geospatialist, I&#8217;m not surprised about this phenomenon. It can be predicted. However, an app called Waze (available in App Store) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}