It would be great if School Zones were added.
I gave votes to the others. I do understand there are time management issues. This would be a huge plus.
We plan to work on putting School Zone alerts in the near future. In the meantime, make sure you’ve got the latest version of Waze for all the latest features.
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Alli commented
Let users add an active school zone as they can an object in the road or a vehicle on the side of the road. It would be to labor intensive for waze to upload all school zones. Not to mention they change based on holidays. Just create a way for users to add it as a warning or hazard please. I am tirednof seeing people speeding through school zones.
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Ky Fisher commented
This would be great to see in australia too
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Dan Brennan commented
School zone speed alert should be added to all maps even if its just as a hazard to make our school zones safer.
It’s a no brainer. I don’t understand why this hasn’t happened yet.
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Karine Lesage commented
Could the school zones be identified with color for a 5 km radius around the school or at least just indicate School Zone.
I am from Quebec, Canada
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Patrick Kelly commented
Add school zones. Allow the user to turn the function on and off as school holiday periods have zero school zones. If turned on the user sets the times when the zone is active (in my local area that is from 8.00am to 9.30am and 2.30pm to 4.00pm). They could also enter the reduced speed (40kph in my local area) or you could embed that information in your map. The standard excess speed warning could sound if the speed is in excess of the school zone limit. And a voice warning could indicate when you are about to enter or leave an active school zone.
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TLP commented
Would love for the map to add school zones/crossings, would help with safety for kids too. This awesome Waze community would be happy to add them & add the times that they’re active (can easily look up school hours, or if you go thru one regularly and know the hours/days it’s up).
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Kirk Nicholson commented
Avoiding school zones would be a great feature. Schools can be identified by address and times can be estimated or presumed. A smart approach may be to identify schools, measure slowdowns on roads adjacent to the schools, and solicit community feedback from wazers on those roads
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shane kelly commented
School zone alerts needed. Australia.
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Chris Doyle commented
I see this suggestion was originally submitted back in 2012.
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Tony Enright commented
Do you have an approximate timeline for this please ?
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Harry commented
Its been 1 week i m using waze over Google map and I m quite impressed but I think waze should also add alert notifications about school zones and put the speed limit down to 40 to alert the driver. That will be really helpful. Thats the only thing I feel is missing.
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David S commented
I've had 2 fines in as many weeks, lost half of my demerit points. We need this NOW!
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Nathan commented
Already exists (partly)
From the app report a map problem, let the editor know its a school zone and the posted speed limit. When you approach the area you will get a speed warning alert.
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Jonathon Hanline commented
There are a dozen or so schools in my area, and school zones can make a huge difference in traffic and ETAs, so this feature that would allow the routes to plan accordingly to a set schedule of temporary reduced speed limits and areas that will likely have traffic build up (the automatic traffic detection is not as good as you’d think it’d be).
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Shahan commented
Please add school zone alert in the alert setting.
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Rafi islam commented
Very important in Australia. Specially NSW.
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Rafi islam commented
Can use school zone sound alter
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Liam Gawthorpe commented
This would be a good addition in the editor like junction boxes, you mark the schools drop off zone out with the box and set the hours of operation and when a waze user goes near or past it displays a warning school near by stay alert and the message only displays during the set hours it operates also turn the road colour to orange and show the school crossing sign on the roads near by or just the sign for school crossing during the operation hours.
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Karen commented
A warning should be enough to alert the drive and the driver can make a decision (based on time) whether it's an enforcement time for the school zone (most in my area are 7-9am and 2-4pm. This would be helpful because POLICE often use school zones as SPEED TRAP. I know there is is a police icon, but this would help establish on on-going alert in case other Wazers have not posted the police car.
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LostInMyMaps - Volunteer Editor commented
Time-based speed limits have been planned for a while now, but it's been bumped for other priorities. We'll be mapping it in Australia as soon as we can. :)