No social site integration. Must be two way confirmation. Should be able to turn off and on, etc. - but yes - do it.

Yes! If the location data is already public, why isn't it possible to search for (and/or track) a Wazer if you know their waze username - no need to reveal any personal data, the waze userid is independent.

should be possible to navigate in group without needing to set up an initial destination, in practice if one of the friends in the group select a destination this is notified to other friends who may choose it, or if one of the participants is stuck in a traffic jam, the friends receive an alert, or if one of the friends find a beautiful place to visit and stops. click on "P" and its position is set as the destination for friends.
This would be very useful for those traveling in groups, for example, campers, bikers, groups of friends who move in search for a place, but coming from different areas, etc...

Allow for a group to share their realtime locations with the entire group and a give them a single drive share link for others to follow. We are looking for something that will allow us to locate and send people to where they are needed, in real time.

Create a "Follow Me" feature that sets your location as the destination for another waze user. If you want a fellow waze user to follow you, send them a "Follow Me" request. If they accept, their destination is set as your location and their route updates dynamically as your location changes. Way cool! - AP

I have friends with non waze or other gps application. They can easily share any specific location by email or sms. Google maps can pick up the reading easily too. I wish the same for waze that can send sms to non waze user and pick up location that sent by non waze by referring to lat and log coodination 

This is available in Waze version 3 as share my drive. Unfortunately this version is not expected for all clients so I would like to propose to allow it initiated via the web.

Can you create an URL where I can login to waze, type an e-mail address where to send the URL the other party can follow?

yeah PubSub model for buddy tracking: mutual confirmation and authentication

xmpp xep Privacy List

will provide the best individualized privacy and security

waze 3.5 almost replaces glympse, Truck R! :)

track buddy, like friends without "social" network also benefits from. waze XMPP server

pubsub track buddy

do, however, allow waze Jabber ID to differ from waze username. to mix it up like nicknames implement alias XEP

please do NOT request Account Tokens permission on android. Trolling my contacts to compare with waze online database is very not acceptable.

(glympse works perfectly well •without• account registration)

combine: waze & API or plug-ins & http://glympse.com

or integrate glympse as waze has done with yelp.

http://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59223-client-how-can-we-improve-waze-on-your-phone-/suggestions/784391-waze-api

Please ensure permission is required before becoming 'buddies'

WITHOUT "social" site requirements please!

Useless eh?

A more mature version of this is now planned

http://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59223-client-how-can-we-improve-waze-on-your-phone-/suggestions/997261-track-buddy

Remain silent, feckless

It OUGHT NEITHER require social datamining or gmail on android

Social location is the new hot widget.

Glympse does this well.. once excessive permissions are cracked ;)

"Where's everyone" for android has a brilliant no registration approach: tagging

Useless

Yes, like Glympse... Right now I'm torn between Glympse and Waze, when traveling home in the evening. Its nice for my wife to know my ETA. Since both are fairly large battery hogs, I can't imagine trying to keep both going at the same time.

MUST NOT require the folly of social networking.

OpenID

or

Waze username

This feature is available with Google Latitude, and is the only reason I still use that application for travelling, so my family can see my current location. It would be awesome to incorporate this into Waze, it would remove the only reason I don't use Waze more.

If possible, track all waze friends in your waze group.

Location Sharing
Allow real-time location sharing using the WAZE application. Something that would allow you to send an email with a map link to a “non-WAZE” user and allow them to track your location.