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Allow longer time to report road closure.
When I come upon a road closure, I need to avoid emergency vehicles and workers, and be careful of other traffic. Once I get clear of the incident, I try to report it. But by that time, Waze won't let me select the intersection where the problem was. It seems that you must be in the immediate are of the road to report an issue. This often means that I am unable to report road closure issues when I encounter them. Waze should allow a longer time to report closures. (Why is there any limit at all? I may feel safer reporting a local closure after I get to my destination. )
When I come upon a road closure, I need to avoid emergency vehicles and workers, and be careful of other traffic. Once I get clear of the incident, I try to report it. But by that time, Waze won't let me select the intersection where the problem was. It seems that you must be in the immediate are of the road to report an issue. This often means that I am unable to report road closure issues when I encounter them. Waze should allow a longer time to report closures. (Why is there any limit at all? I may feel…
31 votesThanks for your feedback. At this time, this doesn't fit on our roadmap, but we'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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Tell Waze you are pulling a trailer
Would like to tell Waze when I am pulling a trailer. Was going thru San Francisco on my way north. Waze sent me thru some alternate routes to avoid traffic, but the routes were fine for a car but problematic when pulling a trailer. Narrow alleys and straight up hills.
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Floating map like google maps
It would be so much easier for work. I am currently working as a driver. Waze has way better routes than Google maps but the downside is that I have to close the navigation if I want to check my work app. Unfortunately because of this inconvenience I'm forced to use Google maps.
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Reporting Police
When reporting Police the choices are; Hidden, Visible, or Other Side. It might be helpful for tracking if the additional choice of Moving was available.
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Keep BOY GEORGE AS VOICE of WAZE
Keep Boy George on as Voice option always.
Thank you.31 votes -
Amanda Silvera from Psych2go for navigation
Psych2go is a mental health community that has close to 9 million followers on YouTube. Amanda Silvera is one of the most favored and popular voice on this channel. It would be awesome if Waze teamed up with Psych2go for Mental Health Month this May with Amanda’s comforting voice helping navigate. Mental Health is very important especially now in the wake of many current crisis’ of the world. It may also even help with road rage scenarios with an optimistic voice help you during your commute. Below is Psych2go’s contact information.
CONTACT
CEO&Founder - tai@psych2go.net
Sponsorship inquiries - adam@psych2go.net
Want to illustrate or animate for us? cindy@psych2go.net
Write for us? kelly@psych2go.net
Want to be interviewed? monica@psych2go.netPsych2go is a mental health community that has close to 9 million followers on YouTube. Amanda Silvera is one of the most favored and popular voice on this channel. It would be awesome if Waze teamed up with Psych2go for Mental Health Month this May with Amanda’s comforting voice helping navigate. Mental Health is very important especially now in the wake of many current crisis’ of the world. It may also even help with road rage scenarios with an optimistic voice help you during your commute. Below is Psych2go’s contact information.
CONTACT
CEO&Founder - tai@psych2go.net
Sponsorship inquiries - adam@psych2go.net
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New "Recent Locations" Screen
New feature with "Recent Locations" is of no value to me. The recent locations were already on your landing screen. There was no need to create this extra navigation step. I now have to take the extra step of navigating away from it and go to the old screen to type in an address. The extra step is time consuming as I use the app quite a bit, slows my day. Less is more folks, this is 2021, simple and quick was working well. Would be great if you can add an option to revert back to the old landing screen. Migrating to Google Maps for now but will keep an eye on Waze changes. thanks.
New feature with "Recent Locations" is of no value to me. The recent locations were already on your landing screen. There was no need to create this extra navigation step. I now have to take the extra step of navigating away from it and go to the old screen to type in an address. The extra step is time consuming as I use the app quite a bit, slows my day. Less is more folks, this is 2021, simple and quick was working well. Would be great if you can add an option to revert back to the old landing…
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Add 'BBC Sounds' audio app.
Please add 'BBC Sounds' audio app.
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Make Waze AUTO sleep after 5 sec when Power is UNpluged while in the App
Make a setting to make Waze AUTO sleep after 5 sec(or X sec, normal Waze countdown style Ok/Cancel box) when Power is UNpluged while in the app. This could be further improved with a "only within 5 mins of reaching a destination" setting.
I think everyone that have Waze in the car has the phone on acc power and it would be so nice not to have to remember to Sleep Waze EVERY time I get to my destination.
31 votesGreat thinking! We’ll share with the team; they’re always interested in new feature ideas.
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Keep The Grand Tour voices!
I downloaded your app just to use them. I love having James May telling me where to go! :-p
31 votesThank you for your suggestion!
As you probably know, some of the voices we feature are promotional, meaning they are only available for a limited time.
We offer special voices for holidays, events, and just for fun.
You can use these for the length of the promotion. When the promotion ends, your voice will reset to the default and the voice will no longer appear in the Sound menu.We hope that you enjoyed the voice while it was available and can’t wait to share more exciting voices to come!
Want to try another voice?
Tap Menu and tap the Settings wheel.
Tap Voice & sound.
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What about allowing the users to REALLY contact you? I have a problem and the "Help page" does not help at all.
I have a problem and the "Help page" does not help at all. Why the hell you don't allow a direct contact?
If I cannot solve my login problem I will have to delete the app31 votes -
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OBS, FALTA AVISAR LOMBADA E PEDÁGIO A FRENTE, E CORRIGIR E LIMITE DE VELOCIDADE NAS VIAS;COLOCAR TAMBÉM VEM OPÇÃO DE VEÍCULOS, CAROS,CAMINHÃO,VANS ETC. Obrigado
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Celular 99849-0615 whatshapp31 votes -
add friend by username
I would like to add friends by their waze username. As a long time adapter of waze, I always found it odd that I couldn't add friends by username. WIth social media being so open, there are still users who feel waze does not need to know their phone number and shares the drive just fine through email and text messages. It is unfair to only allow people to connect by giving up personal information or using social media. A person's location is private information and should be allowed a more private way to share it if needed.
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Sort searches by smallest deviation from the route
When I create a route and then try to search a place (within the categories), the list shows the closest places, but it doesn't mean the smallest deviation from the original route. The results should be sorted by smallest deviation or by smallest increase on ETA.
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turn off phone notifications while driving
I want to be able to turn off all phone related notifications while driving. I was in a new place looking for a turn when the phone rang switching off waze.
this would also improve Saturday.
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Support ODB bluetooth dongles
Allow the use of an ODB bluetooth dongle to get a number of improvements. These dongles are quite cheap and provide a wealth of extra data. Possible uses:
[ Better dead reckoning using vehicle speed ]
Using the actual vehicle speed combined with compass, accelerometer and map matching it should be possible to have accurate positioning in tunnels/urban canyons. TomTom does this and is able to do near-perfect positioning with only one GPS datapoint every 30 minutes.[ Monitor fuel usage ]
Things like planning a gas stop could be automated. When the tank gets below a certain percentage, add a stop to the current route at a gas station. Also; monitoring fuel efficiency and using that to calculate range remaining and warning when a planned route exceeds that range (adding gas stops maybe?).[ Stop detection ]
If the ODB is not available or indicates the car is off the user is taking a stop so don't report a traffic jam.[ Fuel efficiency tips ]
Using accelerometers and ODB data you can build quite a detailed report of driver behaviour and give the driver tips to get better fuel economy.Allow the use of an ODB bluetooth dongle to get a number of improvements. These dongles are quite cheap and provide a wealth of extra data. Possible uses:
[ Better dead reckoning using vehicle speed ]
Using the actual vehicle speed combined with compass, accelerometer and map matching it should be possible to have accurate positioning in tunnels/urban canyons. TomTom does this and is able to do near-perfect positioning with only one GPS datapoint every 30 minutes.[ Monitor fuel usage ]
Things like planning a gas stop could be automated. When the tank gets below a certain…31 votes -
Addresses in Colombia
Addresses are pretty easy to implement in Colombia, they have 2 components. The main road being it a Calle or Carrera most of the time, and the House number, made of two parts, The intersection with the opposing road, for example a Carrera would intersect with a Calle and viceversa, and the distance from the intersection. For example, Calle 45 #67-85 would be 85 meters after the intersection of Calle 45 and Carrera 67, on Calle 45 going towards calle 68. It would be pretty easy, and really convenient for users in Colombia.
31 votesThank you for this suggestion.
We are aware of this need since address fields are ordered differently from one country to the other.
Providing this flexibility in address fields is planned but it’s out of current scope so we can’t share a timeline at the moment.
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Personal statistics
Would be nice to get stats about your personal routes : average travel time between your first 2 or 3 destinations, average waze error on ETA (accuracy and precision - see wikipedia for the difference), time you spend driving per day, number of wazers you cross... one can invent all sort of fun and useful statistics.
31 votesWe plan to work on having a personal statistics of the routes taken 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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