North = Up!
PLEASE, for the Love of God, give us a preference that will keep North pointing UP on the device! i practically can't use Waze (tho i REALLY want to) because it keep spinning around on me - drives me crazy - i grew up with paper maps & north was always "up" - having it spin to the direction i'm driving is driving me bonkers! :-)
aside from that, the app rocks!
Great thinking! The issue you raised has been addressed in a recent redesign. Hope you like it!
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Juliano Duarte commented
The north fixing button is no longer present in the map during route navigation. Please place back the north fixing button during navigation. It is not the option north fixing from settings, I mean the proper north button fixing itself from the map during the navigation.
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Anonymous commented
Agreed
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jtk commented
Please restore the option for a north arrow. It’s absurd that a mapping app doesn’t have the option for a north arrow.
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Roman Jeremiejew commented
Add a toggle switch to lock map in north-up orientation in Android Auto interface. The switch is there in map view in the phone interface, but not in Android Auto interface.
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Anonymous commented
Hello I like to use Waze almost daily. I like the north up aspect of the mapping program; however, I would find it more beneficial to use the route up feature but have a north pointing indicator on the right hand side under the speed limit. I am sure that there are others that would also appreciate this so that you always know what direction you’re going regardless of whether or not you are using North up.
North up is helpful however it really limits the amount of map that you can see on many occasions.Thank you very much,
Daniel
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Anonymous commented
Until car is in motion, waze is not orientated to car direction, often leading to me going in wrong direction. I know North but not the streets. Adding North would help heading out in the correct direction until waze orientates to my car's direction.
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Mike N. commented
Please add a button to keep the map locked facing north. I don't like the map moving when I change direction. Just add an option to keep it locked and have the arrow adjust to the direction, like Google Maps.
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Michael Rogers commented
people that know how to use maps use them north up. Unless you’re using a topographic map in the field that you orient to the direction of your view so that you can use a compass to view through to look at landmarks One should always hold a map north up to remain oriented to their position on said map. The most important part of a map is the orientation of the user not even the Destiination. If you don’t know where you are you won’t know how to get anywhere. I get that you have turn by turn directions but I know how to use a map so let me use it how I want to. Dont zoom in don’t rotate and tumble the map around to show me which direction I’m heading because I am heading in that direction and I would like to look at the map as if it was a map on the page. some people don’t even know left from right let alone north and south do not appeal to them they need to learn how to use a map and bring themselves up I should not have to bring myself down. Stop appealing to the lowest common denominator because this will make AI and the robots destroy us.
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Anonymous commented
Please replace the 'keep north up' function with a small red directional arrow always pointing north. When I navigate using Waze, I keep my phone in portrait mode in order to have a better view of the road ahead. 'Keep north up' foreshortens my view when traveling east or west. A compass arrow would solve that problem.
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Anonymous commented
Hey assholes. If I’m driving east don’t give me gas stations or restaurants or anything that is behind me to the west. If I’m going north don’t give me gas stations and restaurants or whatever is behind me to myself. If I’m going north give me shit that’s in front of me I’m going to East give me shit that’s in front of me. Stop fucking giving me shit is behind me I don’t wanna go backwards I wanna go forwards.
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Anonymous commented
It used to be possible to keep north pointed up. Idk who's bright idea it was to remove this feature but I will NOT use Waze anymore until it is added back.
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Massi commented
It's back
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Massi commented
The Lock North Up option isb ack, but now it also locks it in auto 2d/3d view
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Patrick DE COCK commented
it would be nice to display the north arrow in carplay as we have normally on our smartphones.
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Anonymous commented
Agreed. why would you reset to track up when you get out of the app and back in? Whoever decided this, I would like to have a chat with them about how maps work. Is this part of the master plan for world domination?
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Anonymous commented
I find it extremely disorienting that the map turns; I used to have the setting for "lock north up" enabled, but it has disappeared after the latest update. That was a critical feature for me, without it, I find using Waze extremely frustrating; I've thought about deleting the app.
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Doug Taylor commented
This is stupid. I wonder if Google deliberately made them drop this feature to drive people to Google Maps.
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Magnus Wiklund commented
+1
North up is a must or else....
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Anonymous commented
Time to uninstall Waze
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Jim Britton commented
Why did North Up disappear? This is no longer available in the Settings menu. Waze has become very frustrating to use with this option gone. You cannot navigate with the map orientation constantly flipping. I will have to find another navigation tool if this does not reappear.