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New version available in the appstores

Friday, December 11th, 2009

And the highlights this time:

  • Foursquare Integration - A very cool integration with Foursquare that so many of our users have asked for allowing you to checkin directly from the waze ‘Report Menu. Ain’t it a cool combination of 2 mobile location based apps with a gaming twist?
  • Support for multiple languages - All translated by waze community members!!! thanks everybody for the hard work. Anyone interested in translating to more languges is welcome. Visit the forum for more info.
  • A broad selection of map color schemes (for those who insisted a map is a map and it should have colors…) . Would love to hear your thoughts and preferences.
  • More automated road tweets you can send right from within waze
  • Bug fixes and more…

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New version coming out any day now + get ready for a sweet feature!

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

We submitted a new version to the iPhone Appstore a couple of weeks ago. It should be approved and become available any day now and  includes a lot of great features and bug fixes – plus, there’s also a very cool surprise feature, especially for those of you addicted to road munching…. that’s all we can say at this point :roll:

Here are the main features coming out in this version:

*  Quick access to your iPod

*  Navigate to an address in your contact book

*  Landscape view

*  More control over what appears on the map

*  Bring up top bar on tap

*  Define which layers will appear on map

*   View nearest wazer & click on wazer to view their details (joining date, distance, points, rank)

*   Crowns for high scoring area managers and map editors

*   Ability to set preference for dotted routes

*   List view of driving directions

*  AND LASTLY… A SURPRISE FEATURE AND CONTEST FOR THE ROAD MUNCHING ADDICTS AMONG US!!!

Wazers nearby and wazer details screenshot, below…

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Italy diggs waze. Here’s the map, a few days post-launch – WOW!

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Waze reached nearly  10,000 downloads on its first day in the Italian Appstore.

  • Road recording and community activity is in full speed. This is very exciting to us, and to think that there’s not even a base map yet! Oh…. and there seems to be lots of chit chat :) .   This is also an opportunity to apologize for the tech difficulties we’ve been having over the past week. We’re working tirelessly to fix them.

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  • The community prepared videos on how to edit the map and is very active in the forum.

International users FYI – we are working on a platform that will allow you to translate waze into any language, except the UI and the Voice prompts. We’ll get it out there as quickly as possible. Upcoming version will have Spanish in it, the following will be open

to any language that the community has translated. If all goes well  :)

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DEMOfall annoucement: Waze is now available on most smartphones including Windows Mobile, Symbian, Iphone and Android

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

demofall09_172x271Our CEO, Noam Bardin, will demo waze today at the DEMO fall conference.  DEMO is one of the most central events in the consumer tech space.  The format of the conference is great.  Here’s how they describe it:

Each company is given just six minutes on the DEMO stage to truly demonstrate how their product will change the world. No PowerPoint or flashy corporate presentations allowed. Just the founders and the technologies many are staking their careers on… it doesn’t get any more straightforward and fast paced than that.

At DEMO, we’ll announce the multiplatform availability of waze! As of today most smartphone users can download waze to their phones and join in on the building of the world’s first free driver generated live map,  real time road info, and turn by turn navigation service.  We are working on more and hope to support Blackberry soon.

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Map editors, improvements and area managers

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The waze map is constantly improving and really starting to shape up – thanks to more and more people who are getting involved and helping us make the maps of their hometowns better.

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We invite all map lovers to check out our new and improved map editor (cartouche), that now has a few new features that help you map better:
  1. State and city names pre-filled when creating a new street
  2. connect and disconnect roads to junctions with one click
  3. layer transparency (to view more or less of the roads / gps points / satellite imagery / any layer you choose)
  4. Editing a few segments at once
  5. much more

This is also a good chance to give a big kudos to some of our top notch map editors: Fitch, hodgie2005, sstair, ryman1, seppesai, dougm, kasrhp and Meister! Keep up the good work!

We are now starting to appoint area managers; an area manager has more privileges and permissions in his specific area of expertise (for example, your city or neighborhood).


If you’d like to learn more about map editing or becoming an area manager in your city, drop us a line at alpha@waze.com

Your phone could be wazing soon

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about support for more phones, so we’ve figured  to share our roadmap for the near future here on our blog and unwind some worried minds.

Waze is currently supported on Android devices (G1, MyTouch / G2) and will support future Android devices as well.

waze on WinMo coming soon!

Here are the next versions we are currently planning:
  1. Windows Mobile – around the end of August we will support touch screen devices such as the Touch Pro and Pro2 (Fortress) , Diamond2 and the Omnia. A qwerty version for phones such as the Snap, Jack and others will follow shortly after.
  2. iPhone – the waze version for iPhone will be available on the app store by late August / early September, and supported on both 3G and 3Gs devices
  3. Nokie / Symbian – we will support both touch (5800 / N97) and non-touch (E71) phones by early Septemeber.
  4. BlackBerry – we are planning support for BlackBerry devices (touch and keyboard), but those are still in early stages of development.
You can always sign up for our next alpha to receive an email as soon as these version are available: http://alpha.waze.com/alpha_register/

Keep following our blog for updates on new devices and features!