It is NOT easily available. It should be a first screen click. Now I have to move the screen then click overview. This is bad user experience and off outing. Re center and overview should be top level options I can toggle between.

I just added a "never take this road" suggestion to the forum. There has been times that I was going somewhere for the first time and Waze sends me down a terrible road that has potholes all over it. I think it would be good to be able to select an option on the fly to avoid that particular road, just in case I forget the next time I'm going that way.

Dear wonderful waze developers
Your app is great & wonderful. I'm sure that you have heard many great accomplishments & badly needed assistance waze has done for its users. Astounding creative useful and more.

1. Preview trip as in Google map desktop.
2. Prepare trip according to the user's wish. (Pass on certain bridge, street, etc.)
3. Memorable or favorite locations to be reminded every time the user passes. i.e. Grandma's home, observation point, worship house, favorite highway stop, favorite food facility, duty free, change of speed zone, etc.
4. Find Local detours.
I'd be happy to hear from you.

A step by step of the entire route would be invaluable

There has always been a way to do that.
Tap the next turn bar at the top and you get the full turns list.

I just wanted to take a look at the step by step directions and quickly memorize them so I could use my phone for something else without waze coming up and I couldn’t so I used apple’s maps instead. Would be great if there was a way to see step by step directions on waze

This is a great point. I also have this problem and would love to be able to see an overview when I am traveling a route of say 360 miles.

Agreed. In my situation when travelling relatively locally when the freeway has heavy traffic I prefer to take back streets so I can keep moving even if it is a little longer, and avoid the freeway.Currently I go through the settings and find this option to turn it off (then often forget before I next plot my route). Having the option when setting the route to decide on the fly to avoid toll roads, free ways, very busy roads (even if they moving) would be great

Being able to quickly see a zoomed out view when selecting a route (top 3 shown) or deviating from the rout would be helpful.

It was available in one of the previous versions, somehow unfortunatelly the feature disappeared. And even the double-tip in 2D-view: in previous versions It was possible to focus on one part of the route, and my "car" was not always moved to the center of the display. Sorry I miss these features...

Agreed, an overview map, as well as a list of turns and roads to be traveled would be helpful. Additionally, I want the ability to be able to select a road that should be avoided, in the event of an issue on that road, or just the fact that I hate driving on that road (i.e. 285 in Atlanta!!).

Yes please add a route overview. And I would like to be able to see the route and a list of directions before it makes me start driving the route.

Agree it's annoying to not see step by step turn directions ahead of the actual navigation. Bewildered that this isn't a feature. Need to use google maps then :(

Yes please, much desired!
Note that this suggestion has been posted several times with slightly different titles.
I propose the preview to cycle between 15 minutes route ahead, 1 hour ahead and entire route ahead, or something similar.
The user could tap on the instructions area (top of the screen), with a preference setting to chose between list of instructions or map preview of the route ahead.
It must be a simple tap while driving.
Thanks!

Please add the route overview feature. Many times I know where something is, so I don't need turn-by-turn navigation running. I just need to know the best route. Sometimes I simply need to know one critical turn. Most frequently though when I get into the car and start Waze, the first turn is east but my destination is west. I'm left wondering if my GPS isn't "synced" up yet, or if Waze has a good reason for going out of the way.

Would also like to have this, options to choose multiple routes without knowing what the route path is not really a choice.

Amen. I'm not using the app until I can see the proposed plan in advance and in its entirety. I realize it changes on the fly but I am right now looking at 3 routes - all with tons of traffic. I want the shortest one but are you taking me over the bridge, through the tunnel? Which one? No way... Need to know the general plan before embarking..

Perhaps show an overview when selecting optional route or just before you start the journey.

Please, please, please add the bird's eye view feature for use while driving. The turn-by-turn navigation where the user can only see the next turn or two coming up is not effective enough. The lack of this feature is pushing me back to other map apps. Please add it!

I'd especially like to see the overview (similar to Apple maps). Sometimes I preferred to see my route as an overview to plot my progress. Thanks.