that's a HUGE waste of waze servers

instead find a ready made camera

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/?k=car+dash+video+

using YOUR bandwidth upload to amazon S3

I am the developer of DailyRoads Voyager, thanks for mentioning it here. I'd be interested in such an integration, as the apps can complement each other. Voyager already exposes intent actions, so it is possible for another app to start/stop video/photo, and even retain previous videos, or exit completely.

I am the developer of DailyRoads Voyager, thanks for mentioning it here. I'd be interested in such an integration, as the apps can complement each other. Voyager already exposes intent actions, so it is possible for another app to start/stop video/photo, and even retain previous videos, or exit completely.

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Daily Roads Voyager is the best route recorder app what I ever tried on Android (more then 10).
It is flexible and versatile. Implement functions of it is a big challenge and out of scope for Waze maybe.
But some cooperation or integration between this two great apps would be highly appreciated.
E.g. a button in Waze to flag current or last record as Retainable in DRV to save it for later use.
Or possibility in Waze to display GPS coordinates of a route for assign a road segment with the appropirate recording in DRV (for assisting map editing doing something like this: http://www.waze.com/blog/first-ever-waze-telemetry-car-revealed-at-budapest-meetup/ )

There are 2 more important functions not to be left out:
1) button for manual retention of 2 last recorded segments
2) automatic retention of last segments on significant (configurable) G-force

About the potential battery drain: I am constantly running the mentioned DailyRoads Voyager in background and Waze in foreground on SGS3 (large screen, automatic brightness), and charger is able to charge phone (just ~ +200mA, but still it gives ~+1% each 5 minutes). So this should not be a problem.

I have a video recorder running in the background called "DailyRoads Voyager". If you have android, you can use this (iOS can't do background mode). If you mount it to a mount you get online, it will record. But, yeah, I would love if a feature was integrated like this. Maybe Waze and DRV can get together to integrate their features.

+1

Lexxus, not sure. This can be tested, though, I believe that iPhone alone with proper charger (think - enough amps) could not be drained that easy.

I guess this feature is going to drain the battery quicker than your car charger is able to charge....

Agree on that! Awesome idea.

TL;DR It would be extremely helpful, if Waze could continuously record and store video from front facing camera.

Me and many of my friends would install a car video recorder. Main functionality is to continuously record anything that happens in front of your car, storing last few hours of recorded material.

There could be many uses for this. Mainly - helping in crashes, where you are not guilty, but you cannot prove that.

Functionality could be minimum. An option to enable or disable continuous recording through road facing camera. Setting, which indicates - how many minutes or hours of recording to keep. Easy way to extract data via iTunes. Video can be split in smaller chunks (10min max), and work like FIFO queue - when recording next 10 minutes, oldest 10 minutes chunk is removed from device.

Solution may not be trivial, but result would be greatly appreciated by many of fellow wazers.

And, yes, I know that this is not a 'quick fix' type of suggestion.

waze may function as a blackbox camera during driving.