We all know that moment. You’re driving on a relatively empty road and you see another Wazer, or two, right nearby, but you can’t quite tell which car it is. And for good reason – there’s a tiny bit of a delay on the exact location of the Wazers as they appear around you on the map. This is to protect people’s privacy, of course, but for those of you who want to broadcast to others, loud and proud, that you’re a Wazer – well, this one’s for you…

We’ve created a sticker, on sale on our Cafe Press store for $2.99, that isn’t about advertising, with a URL. It’s sole purpose is to identify you to other Wazers out there on the road.

We like to think of it as a secret society, of sorts. When you’re driving around and see this sticker on cars around you, you’ll be one of the very few who knows what it means. And if you want to connect even further with other members of your local driving community who are also sporting the sticker, drive by and flash a three-fingered ‘W’, in solidarity. They probably won’t understand what your hand sign and goofy smile mean, but wouldn’t it be cool if when you drove past, they saw your same sticker, and then they’d know? (Yeah, okay, maybe we’ll just stick with the stickers…)

This past weekend, we gathered our top users across Europe for our very first Mega Wazers Meet up – check out a few of our Waze royalty arriving to the event, above. Four Waze team members were joined by over 20 of the most active users in Europe, representing communities in France, The Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, England, Scotland and Italy – including the world’s #1 Wazer, asterix06.

So, why’d we gather our top users together? ‘Cause the Waze driving community is truly the heart of what we do, and it was important for us to hear some face-to-face feedback from the people who know our product the best and spend the most time contributing to their local driving communities.

Overall, it was a great success. We got important insight into what’s on the mind of our top contributors and got a chance to fill them in on what’s going on over here at Waze, as well as our plans for the future. We also saw how important it is for us to maintain direct communication with these top contributors and hope to have other meet-ups, for other communities around the world, in the future.

French user, Jabou, live tweeted the event, so if you’d like to see his tweets, you can search Twitter with the hashtag #wazemeet to see updates from the event. Thanks also to Dave Langley for his great documentation, above and below! More pics found on our FB page, here.

Woo hoo! Today we hit the #1 spot on the Appstore, and that gives us all huge smiles around the office. Mainly ’cause it means more exposure, which means more wazers, which means better traffic info for all, which means smarter commuting, which means happier people with more free time, which means less road rage, which means more…Love – and at the end of the day, it’s all about Love, right?  ;-)