Google's Waze Crowdsourced Traffic and Navigation App is a Hit, But How Does It Impact Privacy, the Law and Google Maps?

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The ability to quickly assimilate and analyze Big Data is providing new ways for humans to take more control over their on-road experience. One of those ways is Waze, which is now the world's largest crowdsourced traffic and navigation app, with more than million users in countries. Waze users share real-time roadway and traffic information with the Waze network and each other. By connecting drivers to one another, Waze is creating local driving communities that work together to improve road experiences by helping users avoid accidents, sidestep traffic jams, find the best prices on gasoline, avoid traffic tickets, and find deals at local stores.

Waze, which was launched in Israel, as a competitor to Google Maps and Apple Maps, has so much to offer that Google - whose Google Maps application is the leading traffic and navigation app, and the sixth most widely used smartphone app.

However, some of the very capabilities that make Waze the most feature-rich, interactive traffic and navigation app also raise questions about its impacts on privacy, law enforcement, and its coexistence with Google Maps. This report discusses key capabilities and benefits of the Waze app, and analyzes those impacts.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Introduction

2. Crowdsourcing Helped Build Waze's First Maps, and Continues Daily

3. Heavy User Engagement Benefits Waze and its Advertisers

4. How Waze Benefits Google

5. Waze is a Hot Propertybut Faces Serious Challenges and Detractors

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Direct Relief Receives Esri's Special Achievement Award for Exceptional Application of Geospatial Technology

(PRNewswire) — Direct Relief was honored by Esri today with a Special Achievement in GIS Award for its role in developing map applications for the One-Million Community Health Workers campaign (1mCHW), a joint initiative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

"The SAG Awards identify the organizations and people who are using the power of geography to make our world a better place," says Esri presidentJack Dangermond, who presented the awards at the 2015 Esri International User Conference in San Diego. "At Esri, we are always deeply inspired by the passion and innovation of our users. They deserve recognition for their invaluable contributions to their communities and the continued evolution of geographic science."

In addition to Direct Relief, Esri honored more than 170 organizations from around the world and across a variety of industries including agriculture, cartography, climate change, defense and intelligence, economic development, education, government, health and human services, telecommunications, and utilities.

"Esri ArcGIS technology has revolutionized Direct Relief's ability to advance its mission and communicate the causes, consequence, and scope of its global operations," said Andrew Schroeder, Director of Research and Analytics at Direct Relief. "By providing Direct Relief and other nonprofits with such powerful spatial analysis tools, Esri is making a profound impact on a broad range of global challenges."

For more information about the 2015 Special Achievement in GIS Award winners, including project information and photos, please visit esri.com/sag.

About Esri
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com.

About Direct Relief
Direct Relief is a medical relief organization, active in all 50 states and in 70 countries, and is the only U.S. nonprofit to obtain Verified Accredited Wholesale Distributor (VAWD) © accreditation by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. The organization has been among the world's largest medical suppliers to West Africa in response to the Ebola epidemic, to the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan, and to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Named among the world's 10 most innovative nonprofits by Fast Company, Direct Relief has top charity ratings, including four-stars from Charity Navigator and a 100% fundraising efficiency rating from Forbes magazine. Among other distinctions, Direct Relief received the 2014 CECP Directors' Award, the President's Award from Esri for excellence in GIS mapping, and thePeter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. For more information visithttp://www.DirectRelief.org.

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AccuWeather Founder Dr. Joel Myers to Deliver Big Data Weather Track Keynote at 2015 Esri User Conference

Dr. Joel N. Myers shares his vision for integrating multiple streams of Big Data to create powerful, proprietary business intelligence that drives actionable results worldwide.

(PRNewswire) — AccuWeather Global Weather Center – AccuWeather, Inc., the global leader in weather information and digital media, today announced that AccuWeather Founder, President, and Chairman Dr. Joel N. Myers will serve as the keynote speaker for the second annual Weather Track at the 2015 Esri International User Conference. The presentation entitled "Transformational Change Driven by Big Data" will take place on July 21st from 1:30 to 2:00 PM in Ballroom 20D.

In his thought-provoking keynote, Dr. Myers will discuss the challenges and opportunities of big data in the age of transformative innovation and examples of how enterprises are integrating multiple sources of weather data with Superior Accuracy™ to create valuable customized data outputs for their global locations and detailed business concerns. Myers will also give insight into how AccuWeather is helping enterprises handle big data effectively with the ground-breaking AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions portal.

"In this time of transformative change, AccuWeather has continued its revolutionary innovations to enable clients to aggregate and synthesize multiple streams of Big Data with unmatched localization and weather, creating powerful tools for enterprises," Dr. Myers said. "AccuWeather aggregates and analyzes big weather data with custom business data, providing actionable insights that meet business needs worldwide. Enterprises that use the strength of this proprietary business intelligence can gain a competitive advantage globally."

AccuWeather and Esri have partnered for over 14 years to provide superior Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and weather solutions for enterprise clients. World-leading weather and GIS are a natural fit to provide enterprises with unprecedented, real-time situational awareness. AccuWeather's weather intelligence integrated with Esri mapping technology creates an enterprise-wide solution that moves beyond traditional mapping in order to protect people, property, and profits.

As an Esri gold partner, AccuWeather is fully integrated into the Esri User Conference again this year with a presence at various events throughout the week, including:

• Saturday (7/18) – Esri Business Summit2:30-5:30pm | Kiosk Table B109 | San Diego Hilton Bayfront HotelVisit the AccuWeather table 
• Sunday (7/19) – Esri Business Summit11:00-11:20am | San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel Rosemary Radich presenting a Q&A session on the impact of weather on events
• 2:00pm | Room 30C | Agricultural Form | San Diego Convention CenterLou Seidel presenting "Weather Intelligence in a Geo-Spatial World"
• 2:30-8:30pm | Kiosk Table B109 | San Diego Hilton Bayfront HotelVisit the AccuWeather table
• Tuesday (7/21) – Esri User Conference 
• 9:00am-6:00pm | Booth #411 | San Diego Convention Center
• Visit the AccuWeather booth
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• 10:00-11:00am | Indigo 204A/B | Hilton San Diego Bayfront 
• Don Coash presenting Leverage Weather Technology to Protect People, Properties, and Profits at Manufacturing Round Table
• 1:30pm | Ballroom 20D | San Diego Convention Center
• Dr. Joel N. Myers presenting the keynote at the weather track, AccuWeather: Weather, GIS, and Big Data
• - Wednesday (7/22) – Esri User Conference 
• 8:30am | Room 24B | San Diego Convention Center
• Rosemary Radich presenting "Weather Impacts on Health-Related Behaviors"
• 9:00am-6:00pm | Booth #411 | San Diego Convention Center
• Visit the AccuWeather booth
• - Thursday (7/23) – Esri User Conference
• 9:00am-1:30pm | Booth 411 | San Diego Convention Center
• Visit the AccuWeather booth

Visit AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions booth #411 for a preview of the AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions Portal. For more information, contact Email Contact or call 814-235-8756.

About AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, Inc
Serving over 240 of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands more, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions - the commercial weather services division of AccuWeather, Inc. - delivers mission-critical weather-driven enterprise solutions to assist businesses, government, media, and institutions, protecting people, property, and profits worldwide. AccuWeather enterprise products and services include the most accurate, site-specific and customized severe weather warnings, short- and long-range forecasts, legal forensics, and weather-triggered analytics, providing actionable insights from the world's largest weather media company.

Visit AccuWeather.com/EnterpriseSolutions for more information.

About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.com
Every day over a billion people worldwide rely on AccuWeather to help them plan their lives, protect their businesses, and get more from their day. AccuWeather provides hourly and Minute by Minute™ forecasts with Superior Accuracy™ with customized content and engaging video presentations available on smart phones, tablets, free wired and mobile Internet sites via AccuWeather.com, connected TVs, and Internet appliances, as well as via radio, television, newspapers and the new AccuWeather Network cable channel. Established in 1962 by Founder, President, and Chairman Dr. Joel N. Myers – a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society who was recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur Magazine's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs – AccuWeather also delivers a wide range of highly-customized enterprise solutions to media, business, government, and institutions, as well as news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. AccuWeather's CEO, Barry Lee Myers, is an award winning leader in global weather information issues and one of the world's most recognized advocates for cooperative relationships between government weather agencies and the weather industry. He is a leader in the digital weather information space.

Visit www.AccuWeather.com for additional information.



For more information contact:
Justin Roberti / 814.235.8756 / Email Contact
AccuWeather, Inc. / 385 Science Park Road / State College, PA 16803



Katie Seifert / 973.588.2235 / Email Contact
Coyne Public Relations

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