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Waze

Waze is a Google-owned, community-driven navigation and real-time traffic application. Its developer surface is not a self-service JSON REST API but a set of public URL-invocation and embed contracts plus partner-gated data and SDK programs. Waze Deep Links open the Waze app from a URL to locate an address, drop a pin, or start turn-by-turn navigation; the Waze iFrame embeds the interactive Live Map in any web page; Waze for Cities Data Feeds let agencies exchange road-closure, incident, and working-vehicle data (CIFS, WZDx, DATEX II, ESRI) and receive a partner-specific JSON alerts feed; the Waze Transport SDK gives transportation apps ETA/routing and trip-data collection; and the Waze Audio Kit surfaces audio content in-drive. Developer documentation is hosted on Google for Developers at developers.google.com/waze and partner programs are provisioned through the Waze Partner Hub.

Waze publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Mobility, Navigation, Maps, and Traffic.

Waze’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 13 more developer resources.

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24.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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4 APIs
CompanyMobilityNavigationMapsTrafficLocationTransportationSmart Cities

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 24.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 7.7 / 17
Access Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 6.7 / 9
Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Waze Deep Links

URL-invocation API to open the Waze app from an external link to locate an address, drop a pin, or start navigation. Query params include ll (lat,lon), q (search), navigate, z (...

Waze iFrame (Live Map)

Embeddable client-side component that renders the interactive Waze Live Map inside a web page via an