Map Editor Suggestions
Welcome to the Map Editor's suggestion box!
This is the place to share your ideas for improving the Waze Map editor.
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alternate routes
I drive to the same home twice a week, another location once a week, and run errands on Tuesdays. I use Waze not because I don’t know the routes, but to ensure I’m taking the path of least resistance.
Waze often suggests a route different from my usual one — but I don’t know why. It would be extremely helpful if Waze could show a brief explanation such as “2 minutes faster due to traffic” or “avoids accident ahead.”
Knowing the reason would help me trust Waze’s rerouting, especially when I have regular routes and driving habits.
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Add Road Recommendation Options: Automatic / Recommended / Not Recommended
I suggest adding a new feature in the Waze Map Editor (WME) that allows editors to set a road recommendation level with three options:
Automatic – Let the system decide the road's priority based on current data.
Recommended – Gives the road a higher priority in route suggestions for users.
Not Recommended – Lowers the road’s priority in suggested routes, used only when no better alternatives are available.
Benefits:
Improves navigation accuracy for drivers.
Prioritizes safer or faster roads.
Avoids suggesting problematic or less suitable roads unless necessary.
Provides greater flexibility in controlling road priority to better match real-world conditions.
3 votes -
Add "Road Under Construction" option in WME
I suggest adding a new option in the Waze Map Editor (WME) called "Road Under Construction", allowing editors to mark roads that are incomplete or still being built and not yet open to traffic.
Benefits:
Prevent drivers from being routed to unfinished or closed roads.
Visually distinguish these roads with a special color or icon.
Allow setting an estimated opening date so the road can be activated automatically when ready.
Reduce complaints and reports caused by inaccessible roads.
This feature will help improve map accuracy and provide a better user experience for Waze drivers.
3 votes -
Minimum Zoom level for URs/Issues Tab
It would be great to decrease the minimum zoom levels for Issues tab, which would help editors monitoring a larger area. Currently URs/Issues are only shown at a minimum zoom level of 12, which isn't wide enough for bigger countries like Australia.
It would be much more convenient for an editor to have this level reduced to something close to 10.
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Automatic approval of EVCS PURs from EVCS Feed Data
Since these come up from an automated feed (I am assuming Waze has some channel similar to Petrol Station PURs), is there a reason that Waze doesn't automatically approve them?
I understand that, similar to petrol stations, these need to be verified, to some extent. However, the scope of verification of these places could easily become unmanageable for volunteers.
Unlike traditional petrol stations, with EVCS, there could be any number of plug types, network types, payment types, etc., all at the same place.
It would be much better use of volunteer time and resources to automatically approve first (as configured),…
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Mute Button for temporary stops
On the app, how about a mute button for temporary stops, like for a rest stop, gas station or restaurant that is off a highway? Not having to listen to make a u-turn every 5 seconds when a restaurant is a mile off the interstate, can be annoying
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Have police marking start at dark blue...
On the app, have police marking start at dark blue and the next 10 minutes, have the shade go lighter and then again in 10 minutes, even lighter. This will help determine how long ago that the report was made.
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Better support for Rural map editors
I live in a VERY rural area. Quite often, I'll be driving but not get EA credit because I didn't have cell service. I can literally drive for 50+mi without any cell coverage. I drove 530 miles two days ago and maybe got credit for half of it.
I'd like it if map editors would have the ability to turn on some sort of feature in the app that saves their location history until cell service is restored. Also, as I have seen others suggest, a larger EA radius from a given drive would be very helpful out here as…
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Expand character limit for the name of an MTE
Currently the character limit for the name of an MTE is 25. Common MTE names often come very close or exceed 25 characters, such as "Electric Ave Bridge Replacement" (31 characters). It would be helpful to have the character count increased, possibly by another 10-20 or more.
87 votesGreat timing! We’re currently working on expanding the character limit for the name of an MTE. Keep an eye out for updates on the WME.
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About road closures from the app
Currently, the Waze app only allows you to set road closures in the direction of travel, but if you could select road closures in both directions, we believe it would be possible to provide more flexible and accurate traffic information.
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Narrow Road Permanent Hazard
This permanent hazard would warn users of an upcoming section of narrower road width that has traffic and/or safety considerations. Potential applications include:
Areas where a two-way road transitions to a single-lane width where opposing traffic must alternate/give way through the narrow section
• Ex. 1: https://waze.com/en-US/editor?env=usa&lat=41.26449&lon=-75.78368&marker=true&zoomLevel=18&segments=502096154
• Ex. 2: https://waze.com/en-US/editor?env=usa&lat=42.10978&lon=-71.24117&marker=true&zoomLevel=18&segments=74434220,22554146
• Ex. 3: https://waze.com/en-US/editor?env=usa&lat=44.33295&lon=-73.28244&marker=true&zoomLevel=19&venues=187892155.1879052625.3735122Two-way roads of limited width where common parallel/street parking cause drivers to have to move in or out of the parking lanes to allow traffic from no parking direction to pass
• Ex. 1: https://waze.com/en-US/editor?env=usa&lat=40.02695&lon=-75.22336&marker=true&zoomLevel=18&segments=41758956,41751608,41747111,41755005
• Ex. 2: https://waze.com/en-US/editor?env=usa&lat=41.88316&lon=-71.35791&marker=true&zoomLevel=17&segments=43507359,43531672
These are strictly permanent hazard warnings…
92 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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Unsaved edits - apply to map without saving
Related to this announcement:
if there were an option to simply “apply” the unsaved edits to the map, without saving them (basically treat the unsaved edits as a draft) that would be awesome. Sometimes the browser crashes or something gets in a weird state while doing a complex edit (common use case where this happens a lot is dividing roads for the falcon snapper) and I have to start over.
I think the times when I have a crash in a place where I'm actually ready to save my changes are much rarer than when I'm in the middle…
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House Number Mode Delete/Trashcan
With the new House Number editing mode, with the segment selected and actively editing house numbers, using the trashcan removes the segment and not the house number.
If I'm editing house numbers, the house number I have selected should be the object deleted. This is not a consistent behavior across WME.
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Lane guidance: Make "View Only" and "View and Hear" behaviors consistent for "continue straight" lanes
In WME we have two options if we want to force "continue" lane guidance to be surfaced to the user - view only, and view and hear (or more recently, with and without audible instructions).
Aside from the obvious difference in whether or not an audible instruction is issued to "use the Left 3 lanes to continue straight ..." or only a visual instruction, there's another more subtle behavior change that is not always welcome - namely, if you use the "View and Hear" option, it is additionally treated as a "Continue" TIO (turn instruction override). This means that, if…
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missing sign icon, speed camera icon
There used to be an icon for missing signs, can we have it back? Here in Florida, we have lots of missing signs due to hurricane damage. Also, there are new speed cameras that are solar powered so they can be placed anywhere. Can we get an icon for those?
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Show arrival time in the correct local time zone.
If drive from Texas and drive to New Mexico, please show the arrival time in the correct local time Mountain time zone. It currently will show the Texas Central time zone as arrival time.
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Allow us to mark where a train is crossing a road
If we could let everyone in our area that a train is blocking a road, it would save lots of time sitting at the crossing waiting and burning gas.
3 votes -
Edit opening hours
Today we cannot modify opening hours assigned to a place, but have to delete them and add new ones. We need a control to modify opening hours.
7 votes
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