Johns Creek Becomes First Municipality in the World to Share Business Data with Waze Finding a business and driving to it in Johns Creek is now easier when using Waze due to a groundbreaking expansion of the Citys Waze partnership. As the first municipal partner in Georgia, Johns Creek has been sharing real-time road closure and construction information with Waze since Aug. 2015 to help drivers improve their commute and outsmart traffic. This partnership expansion involves sharing business locations derived from Johns Creek license applications and renewals in a map-friendly format that Waze can easily consume. If you search for a place to eat or shop in an app on your phone, youre most likely searching by the name of the business and not a specific address, says Nick ODay, Johns Creeks senior GIS manager and architect of the Citys Open Data Portal. By sharing business information to Waze with the business name tied to a latitude and longitude, it makes the experience faster and easier. Waze pulls information from the Citys Open Data Portal automatically, and as a result, the process doesnt cost the City anything. Waze, the worlds largest, crowd-sourced, traffic navigation app, likes getting data from partner cities because it can immediately use it. Prior to the initial import of data from the City, the app recorded around 500 unique businesses in Johns Creek that were manually added over time by Waze users. The first import brought in the remaining 1,000+ Johns Creek businesses in one massive update. As new businesses move into Johns Creek, these locations will be added to the Citys Open Data Portal and then will be pulled into Waze according to their update schedule.
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