Some kind of API for updating gas prices automatically
Some (smaller) gas stations in Europe do publish their gas prices online. It would be nice if we can either push these prices to the Waze database or have Waze pull them like every day or so.
I would be more than happy to write some code to convert the provided data into a suitable format.
For example: Oeral Lommel (Luikersteenweg 313, 3920 Lommel, Belgium) has the current prices published on their website, see:
http://www.oeral.be/index.php?nav=stations&stationid=51
I would be more than happy to write a small application that would convert these and push them to the appropriate landmark.
Currently there's no API for this and ofcourse I would be missing out on a lot of points, but it's worth it if it saves other Waze users and myself some money.
Arno Moonen
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Sander van der Zwaan commented
An API sounds great. Waze could have gas companies pay for the possibility to update their gas prizes automatically and offer some service to them. Some gas prices shown in the App are easily EUR 0,12 cents higher than the actual prices when arriving at the gas station, so the current system (only updates by users) does not work. Users want real-time or updated information for this.
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Anonymous
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Bad idea as competitiors would spam waze database.