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Free, crowd-sourced turn-by-turn app Waze might not navigate quite as well as the Navigons and Telenavs of the world, but it’s got one killer feature that they don’t: cherries, to chomp with your car.

The cherries (and various other icons) are part of Waze’s new “Road Goodies” program, which essentially turns the navigation service—which has, by most counts, gotten a lot better over the pat few months—into a simple point-gathering game. The point of these points? Well, the treasures are places wherever there are gaps in Waze’s map data:

For instance, if there’s an area Read more ...