Allow the ability to specify the location of a report.
When reporting an issue, crash, traffic jam, fire, Police activity, the system only gives you the option to report on the road you are on. So for example, if you are at an interchange where you can see the activity on a highway or interstate, but you are not on that road, you can't actually report it properly. Maybe it can be set up that you make a report, and like in google maps, you have a pin dropped on the map that you can move to the correct location, if where you are is not the location of the activity. Example: look at Cromwell Park Drive, Glen Burnie, MD on google maps. You will see that there is an interchange where I-97 passes by. You can see the activity on the highway, even if you are not on it.
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Anonymous
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To allow point choice from previous travel to input closures, hazards etc. when poor service hindered ability to add incidents earlier.
Example: mountain road closure - unable to add road closure because of poor service until at the base of the mountain.
Solution - for similar situations, manual point input, choose location in order to provide more accurate reporting where long back roads and mountains roads particularly after and during storms are more accurately updated.
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ste
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Im unable to accurately place a report unless i report it at the precise moment i pass it. Which isnt always possible or safe to do so.
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Withhold Seth
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I love all the suggestions and comments by:
Juvescent Joys
allow each wazer to specify a
REPORTING LAG
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Martial Law NO NO NO
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Needed to INCREASE road safety for others by accurately reporting highway patrol or police, or other dangerous objects
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Anonymous
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Uninstalled waze just now terrible functions
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Anonymous
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Why the fuck is this not a built in feature as default seems common sense to me.
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Russell
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EVERY time I have seen a cop I haven't used the feature because I'm a mile away by the time I report. Then the report is inaccurate and useless for everyone else. If your worried about people abusing it then only allow someone to report and pin drop something within 1/5mile
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Anonymous
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I agree. Allowing users to "pin drop" a certain distance along their route would be better than inaccuracy or, in some cases, missing the chance to report it entirely. I don't want to be messing around with my phone as I pass a cop, or other hazard. I haven't been able to actually use the app to report much because by the time I have Waze up, I'm already too far down the road to report things accurately. This is a vital feature!!
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SunJ
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search: specify location
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Peter R.
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I really think Waze is limited intuitively by not offering this feature.
Think about it: There are many times that accidents will close roads, or that you as as driver are able to spontaneously take an alternate route once you see the accident up ahead. In other words, your car may not be traveling through the accident point but you still want to report it.
Not having the ability to report an incident "from afar" results in less reports, which makes the app less accurate.
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Anonymous
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Its difficult to send report on the exact location while moving. I would suggest we can send report of the route that we have just passed by clicking the previous route like adding new drive
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andrew
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Hell yes if theirs one thing that aggravates me about this app it's this. It's not only a safety issue as I'm not a fan of using my phone while driving. But also I listen to my police scanner app quite often as well and have heard on numerous occasions fire and rescue in route to the scene of an injury accident somewhere in my city of Omaha Ne and have no way of reporting this please fix
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Crafty42
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I've often had this problem of wanting to report something I passed, but didn't have time to grab my device and report it. For example, passed a hidden cop today on a busy road, but I was making a right turn 1/4 mile later and by the time I could report the cop, I couldn't report it for the road I turned off of.
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Dan
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For example, I just drove past a hidden police bike and then 2 miles further turned off the dual carriageway. I wanted to be able to report that fact but couldn't put an accurate location on the map. To my mind, this is an essential feature.
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Dan
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I can't type when I'm driving but I want to pull over up the road and make a report.
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John Black
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Agree! This is a SAFETY issue! Often IT'S NOT SAFE to try to report the condition/closure at that exact moment. It's better to pull over to the shoulder/etc. a few hundred feet ahead and then use the screen to report it. But since your app forces the location to be your current location, you're encouraging us to try to do it immediately.
If you are concerned about abuse, then allow the pin to drop within X feet/miles/whatever of current location.
Very similar to this - For ROAD CLOSURES, please don't assume about which direction we want to report. So often, I encounter a closure and have already turned around, or turned in the direction of the detour, before I'm able to find a safe place to stop and report the closure. But when I do that, the Waze client ONLY offers me the direction that I'm facing *now*, which is useless.
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the surgein
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search thanks
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+ specify location
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Heather Johnson
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Can't agree more. For example - reporting an accident or closed road within visual range. Often I don't report these because I detour and never pass close enough.
This is especially valuable for flooded streets as I'm not going to drive through said flooding to report a road closure :) -
Andrei
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Hello, it would be great if I can post an incident (cops road works, etc.) while on route even if I passed the place. My app places the notification on my current GPS coridinates and if it happens to be on the move the location of the incident is inaccurate...it would be great if you can only touch the place where you saw the perril and it would post it.
Thank you
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Jerry
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This. Waze is sometimes running in the background, Nd of I drive past an accident, I'm often a quarter mile down the road before it loads up with a network connection. I'd like the ability to drop that pin in a more accurate location of the hazard/accident.