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Thanks 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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Whilst Waze would be unsuitable for cross country hikers, those walking on sidewalks could quite easily be the first the spot a traffic collision, road closure, police etc.
Obviously walkers would need an option not to auto-edit the map because they can safely ignore most direction restrictions, and you don't want their slow walking speed automatically generating a false traffic alert -- plus they'd add so many non-drivable routes that the database would grow 100x at the very least. But, just because they're walking doesn't mean they can't report problems before a car gets there.
Perhaps do let walkers auto-edit the map, but alter the mapping system to realise that 50+ registered Waze users have walked this way, but nobody has ever driven it... Therefore it's probably not a road but walkers can still take it. This way walkers can still use it to cross a busy city and find out which walking-only-streets are closed due to protests etc.
Seems short sighted not to build in such a feature. There's plenty of pedestrians visiting a city for the first time who'd want to know how to get round it just the same as any driver would. But I'd understand restricting it to high volume areas so as not to clog up the database with tiny villages that are easy enough to work out from a satellite view.