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Disappointed from waze policy...(i heard also that the real goal of the project is to use voluntary work of the users, taking user's gps tracks, edits, and reports on street names etc., to create a proprietary map like navteq and teleatlas)

So i have a question for software programmers ('cause im not): would be possible to use the original gpl code of waze to make a different version of the program that help openstreetmap project (www.openstreetmap.org) instead of Waze Inc. ?

At least OSM is cc-by-sa project and the coverage of map is also good...we can still have traffic reports on osm maps...and possibily users can improve osm reporting wrong street name etc, or uploading gps tracks on osm server. (ps: waze editor on their site is very similar to osm's Potlatch)

It will be possible or too much hard work?

a good name can be Maze...
 

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