How do navigation systems know when new roads are added?

2.13K views

When there are new roads being built, how do navigation systems like Waze or Google Maps know about them? How do they add the roads? Do they add them manually or is there some smart way?

In: Other

5 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

When governments make new roads they also produce an official record of them, and this data can either be made publicly available or sold to such mapping services as Google for a fee. Then Google just updates their map information from those records.

You are viewing 1 out of 5 answers, click here to view all answers.