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Add "virtual friends" with his nickname
Sometimes we meet cool people on the waze forum but we prefer not to exchange Facebook account, phone numbers.
It would be cool to add them to share bip bip, message, classification and to compete with.
With the last upgraded there was phone numbers, Facebook account but I think there is a lack of that!4 votes -
It would be great if Waze had an ODB2 link
It would be great if Waze had an ODB2 link so that you could track fuel economy, see if you have enough fuel for your journey, warn you when fuel was getting low, and suggest navigation to the nearest cheapest fuel station. Bluetooth ODB2 interfaces are cheap and it is an internationally standard protocol which is easy to read the data from. You could do so much with this.
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Distance by blocks or exits
Instead of by feet, notify turn distance by number of blocks or exits. This makes more sense to a human driver.
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To show a picture of junctions or which lanes to select at exits or motorway changes
To show a picture of junctions or which lanes to select at exits or motorway changes
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Slow, buggy speech when using Bluetooth/Hands Free
Waze's speech while using bluetooth is filled with long awkward pauses. Often, the speech is unable to complete saying the direction before the next speech event needs to occur. The pauses between speech events are excessively long. This problem only manifests itself when connected to bluetooth audio.
Additionally, the speech is routed through "media player audio" instead of a voice command specific audio event. This means that the vehicle itself must be set to bluetooth audio music streaming rather than listening to the radio. Since the events turn on/off, the bluetooth media option is often unavailable and cannot be activated.
4 votesThanks for reaching out. Please note this platform is dedicated to ideas and suggestions for the Waze app. If your idea is for a Community platform like the Waze Map Editor, please submit it through the Community forum. If you need help using Waze, please click here to reach the "Waze support" page.
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Taxi meter
I would be happy if you can integrate in your application one ficher of a taxi meter. You have the date time and distance only thing you need to add is the beginning of the meter by the country and Day & Night. I use taxis a lot, and I would love to know what the price of the trip before I go in a taxi, especially abroad.
Thanks
yshay mazliah Israel4 votes -
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Register your intended event at the location in which you first pressed the button, not the location you are at when you finally hit submit.
When I begin to register a comment such as a pothole in the road, or a problem with an intersection, the location is stored when I hit submit, rather than the location where I was at the time where I began to register the comment. My suggestion is to freeze the location until you hit submit.
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Waze shouldn't remove the old route while it is recalculating a new one
Sometimes, when I'm driving and using Waze, it identifies me in another street (crossroads, frequently). With that, it starts a new route, show me the RECALCULATING animation and remove the old route.
The problem is: if the place that it happens, it doesn't have internet connection, I run out the last route and the new one.
The perfect way, in this case, would be if Waze removes the old route ONLY AFTER get the new one.
Thanks.4 votes -
add option to disable traffic based routing
When routing, waze often attempts to route around traffic. Waze is used occasionally for just the first part of a journey (navigating a downtown area, for example) and I find it selecting a completely different route every time I use it because it attempts to route around the traffic at work.
Another example is that during extremely heavy traffic in a snowstorm, waze had me exiting at every freeway exit and then entering the freeway again, simply because the freeway exits had little traffic on them compared to the freeway itself.
Because of this, there should be a simpler routing option in waze that completely disregards traffic and only routes based on a simple, repeatable path to a destination.
Furthermore, this path should only include posted speed limits, and should route a path regardless of if it is the opposite direction from the destination.
Often, there are simpler/better ways to get to a central location if you "overshoot" and then backtrack (given the US road system).
When routing, waze often attempts to route around traffic. Waze is used occasionally for just the first part of a journey (navigating a downtown area, for example) and I find it selecting a completely different route every time I use it because it attempts to route around the traffic at work.
Another example is that during extremely heavy traffic in a snowstorm, waze had me exiting at every freeway exit and then entering the freeway again, simply because the freeway exits had little traffic on them compared to the freeway itself.
Because of this, there should be a simpler routing…
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אפשרות חיוג למספר שנקבע מראש בנקודת ציון שקבענו
אם נוכל להגדיר נקודת ציון שבנקודה זו המכשיר יעלה אוטומטית אפשרות חיוג למס' שקבענו ביחס לאותה נקודה וכך ינתן פתרון לאלו שמבקשים לפתוח שער חניה, שער ישוב או להודיע לחבר שכבר הגענו מבלי לצאת מוויז .
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confecção de novos humores diários, e novos carros.
Gostaria de sugerir a equipe Waze confecção de novos humores diários, e novos carros. Uma atualização frequente desses dois itens com certeza deixaria o aplicativo ainda mais atraente.Tenham uma ótima semana.
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Externalize performance parameters as configuration.
Living in a tropical country, driving with my phone under the windshield of my car, for an hour or so, at 35°C, my phone gets so hot it could burn a hole through my pocket. (My phone is a Motorola RAZR i)
I think Waze has a high demand for memory and processing power, to be as responsive as it is.I am guessing that Waze has a lot of automatic tasks that run "every x seconds" to update the road reports, ETA, friends list, reports for you to thumbs up and so on.
I think Waze could make that more configurable:
- Turn ON/OFF friends list.
- Set ETA calculation interval [1] second.
- Set reports refresh interval [1] second.
- ...This way, people could have a "minimal" Waze version to get by on hot environments, and a full feature version when they turn on their car's AC. =)
Living in a tropical country, driving with my phone under the windshield of my car, for an hour or so, at 35°C, my phone gets so hot it could burn a hole through my pocket. (My phone is a Motorola RAZR i)
I think Waze has a high demand for memory and processing power, to be as responsive as it is.I am guessing that Waze has a lot of automatic tasks that run "every x seconds" to update the road reports, ETA, friends list, reports for you to thumbs up and so on.
I think Waze could make that…
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Remove the 9/10th for gas prices
You can't change it and it just makes reading the actual price harder.
For example, this is a lot harder to compare and update:
3.199 3.299 3.399than this:
3.19 3.29 3.39At the very least, de-emphasize the fractional "9" by pulling it out of the edit box and/or making the text color light gray.
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Gas station ID. Cumberland Farms vs Gulf
Please recognize Cumberland Farms gas stations as different than Gulf. CF gas stations take a special check card that gets me 10 cents off a gallon. Take some cues from Gas Buddy! Thanks.
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reopen waze automatically after x seconds when switched to other apps during driving
The idea is to have the system recognize that the user is driving and waze is on but not displayed. It will automatically return to waze after x seconds. The timing will be configured by the user. Thanks Aner
anerdood@gmail.com4 votes -
Crashing issues on Android
I think waze is great, unfortunately it doesn't work on my new Samsung Galaxy Y Pro B5510. Every time I try to enter a destination or touch just about anything on the screen it crashes.
4 votesThanks for reaching out. Please note this platform is dedicated to ideas and suggestions for the Waze app. If your idea is for a Community platform like the Waze Map Editor, please submit it through the Community forum. If you need help using Waze, please click here to reach the "Waze support" page.
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Track my car's vitals; build database for community benefits
This is a big idea, no small undertaking I know. I'd like to combine my GPS app with the functionality of an app like Gas Cubby, which tracks my MPG at every fill-up and alerts me when my car is due for maintenance.
Here's how I envision it:
-I tell Waze what car I drive: ex: 2003 Saturn Vue, 6 cyl, automatic
-Every time I stop to fill up, I tell Was
a) What my current odometer reads (waze should know how many miles I've driven in theory, but this is a checksum validation in case I forgot to open the app while driving a few miles)
b) How many gallons I pumped
c) What price I paid
d) Waze automatically detects what gas station I'm at
-This allows Waze to track my MPG and cost of driving
-This also incentivizes wazers to use the gas price feature more oftenWaze can then go several directions:
-Keep a database of real world avg MPG ratings for all sorts vehicles, a valuable database to have for people purchasing new and used cars.
-Waze gets more accurate gas price database because people use the feature at every fill-up
-Alert me of the best price of gas on my commute when it knows I'm low on gas (IE: it can tell I fill up on average every 300 mi, it starts suggesting places when I've gone 250 mi.)
-I can request routes based on new factors: quickest, shortest, or most economical route (since it can learn my MPG in city vs highway driving... it's tracking all of it after all). In many case I find, the route that's going to take me an extra 3-5 minutes to drive is also the route that will save me money on gas, which is worth it to me; but not always. It's hard to tell and waze could compute this for me.
-It can give an estimated cost of trip as well as ETA (EX: 20 mi to work, 26 minute ETA, $3.42 estimate cost of commute given current local gas prices and your driving habits and mpg)
-It can also alert me of other maintenance items: oil changes, timing belts, fuel filters, even to check tire pressure every couple thousand miles.All of this would incentivize Wazers to leave the app open at all times when driving, whether they need directions or not, which in turn gives waze more accurate map and traffic date. This also gives a new aspect to the 'game' that is waze: I get to track and beat my own 'score' (mpg), and even 'beat' the avg MPG of other Wazers with my vehicle type.
I've been looking for a GPS that does all this for a long time, and there isn't a good one. Waze has the best chance of becoming that. I know it's a big request, but I think it would be amazing.
This is a big idea, no small undertaking I know. I'd like to combine my GPS app with the functionality of an app like Gas Cubby, which tracks my MPG at every fill-up and alerts me when my car is due for maintenance.
Here's how I envision it:
-I tell Waze what car I drive: ex: 2003 Saturn Vue, 6 cyl, automatic
-Every time I stop to fill up, I tell Was
a) What my current odometer reads (waze should know how many miles I've driven in theory, but this is a checksum validation in case I forgot to open…4 votes -
Option to share waze via text message
There is no option to inform about waze via text message and to provide the link to download
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Longitude and latitude is the most accurate way to find a location and leading you to. It is particular useful if you are out of city.
Hope Waze could search by longitude and latitude point and show a point by longitude and latitude. This is useful when you are not in city area, for example, hiking in a forest area.
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