Sooo frustrating. Internet searches indicate someone needs to address this. I'm surprised this has been overlooked for so long and continues to be.

Sometimes you want to know the route and timing for a drive from point B to point C, even though you are still at point A.

As an example, you and your partner want to go to a new restaurant for dinner, so you need the route from your home to this new place. But you are still at work, and want to plan the trip so you know when to leave home. So you put in your home address as the start point and the new restaurant address as the destination.

Although you can put this information into Waze, if you go to change anything about the drive, Waze automatically and instantly changes the start point to your current location.

To return to the example, say you want to change the arrival time at the restaurant because your reservation has changed. The minute you open up the planned drive, it changes the start point to your current, work location. This is annoying.

Waze claims that the app is supposed to do this. But what if Waze allowed you to choose whether to change the start location to your current location or keep the original one?

Waze already does something like this: if you have already started drive, and you search for a new address, Waze will ask you if you want to add it as a stop, start a new drive, or cancel.

Similarly, in our example, the app can give you the option of keeping the original start point, changing to your current location, or canceling the change.

This would make Waze a more useful (and friendlier!) app.

Google Maps has this feature, I don't want to switch between Waze and Google Maps.
Love to see this in our Waze, to plan the different trip with different from and to locations

I'll stick with Google maps...

I am used to Google maps and want to try waze, I will send you suggestions when I need a feature waze doesn't have

Today :make plan with starting point from somewhere else .

Now, waze only has itinerary from my actual position to go somewhere else. But can't calculate itinerary from somewhere else back to where I am actually.

ADD AN OPTION TO CHANGE YOUR START POINT

WAZE needs quick update to solve prob. of starting from another location or users will find another help source.

My attempts to set a different “start point” than my present location only works if I enter an address that I haven’t previously used WAZE to navigate to. If I try to use a Favorite, it won’t display the 3 dots that are needed to be able to select that location as a “start point”. This needs to be fixed.

After route is planned, I can search for new location and add it as a stop to current route.
I suggest to add another option "Set starting point", so I can change my route.

After route is planned, I can search for new location and add it as a stop to current route.
I suggest to add another option "Set starting point", so I can change my route.

Waze does not allow the entry of a different starting point. In order to do that, you must go to Google Maps or another provider.

Waze does not allow the entry of a different starting point. In order to do that, you must go to Google Maps or another provider.

You need to add a via point and rest stops to your pop up menu on google maps.

Not seeing the 3 dots on my waze screen, so I cannot even begin to set another starting location. I agree with other users, waze is not worth all the extra wasted time.

So difficult to use other point

Since its impossible to set a different starting point, Please suggest a different app, This is absurd, I am a pretty good techie and have fixed thousands of things, but setting a different starting point is impossible, I cant even try to figure out what the route is like from work to home, if i am at home,, So please just recommend a better app when I need a different starting point since its obvious waze doesnt have that as an option

Does anyone know how to do this for iPhone? Posts infuriatingly preference the menu button and there isn't one.

Setting a start point other than current location is unnecessarily difficult. So difficult many people don't realize it is a feature in the app... Make it more available. It's that easy.

Earlier versions of Waze were better at this, as well as every other map service in the game. Please..

Tenho 28 anos, sou um usuário de tecnologia desde criança, já cursei engenharia de computação e concluí engenharia elétrica.. Ou seja, não sou leigo quando o assunto é tecnologia. Sabendo disso quero lhes informar que tive dificuldade quando eu quis simular um percurso de viagem, pois só há um campo de pesquisa que determina o destino e, no meu caso, aleatoriamente o app escolheu um ponto de partida.

Não facilitaria a vida do usuário ter na tela inicial do app dois botões de origem e destino?

input manually starting point because sometimes GPS location is not accurate when indoors or during startup