The list of differences between Google Maps and Waze has been getting smaller all the time, and it’s about to get even smaller. Google previously announced both apps would start sharing more data, and now it seems that promise has been kept — by adding Waze users’ incident reports to Google Maps.

Google Maps is now starting to show Waze incident reports while you navigate and includes the ability to contribute by confirming road conditions in the app via prompts. Google announced in July that both apps would cross-pollinate more data,

Google Maps now shows reports from Waze on Android Auto, a feature that also just launched in the mobile app too.

Way back in 2013, Google acquired the map startup Waze. Fast forward just 11 years and one of Waze's stand-out features is finally being rolled out to Google Maps.

This comes after Google Maps replaced speed traps with a Police option in the incident reporting menu last week. This feature was also first announced by Google in late July, along with a handful of other upgrades to both Maps and Waze, some of which we touched on above.

Google has started integrating Waze’s crowdsourced incident reports into Google Maps, starting with police alerts.

Google Maps users now can experience the Waze's popular elements: the community reports. This new feature shows the ever-improving functionality of the exceedin

The navigation app has been adding more information about traffic cameras and user-provided road-condition reports.

Over ten years after buying Waze, Google has finally been blending the platform with its own navigation app, with the latest step being the addition of live Waze incident reports