Closed Road while Road works

by **fenryl** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:49 pm

Hi i'm missing the Option to report closed roads cause of road works

or do i have some tomato's on my eyes?

Cheers
Cenk :?:

by **gettingthere** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:06 pm

There is no such option in the Waze application.

by **CrackedLCD** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:26 am

I really hope the Waze crew can add that option at some point. We just had a hurricane blow through and it caused some moderate flooding, which closed many area roads. It would have been nice to have an alert specifically for that, instead of me using the "object in road" section and noting "water over road - closed" in the comments section for 10 different roads.

by **AlanOfTheBerg** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:22 pm

If they are long-terms closures, the roads can be disconnected in the editor. See the guidelines in the wiki for more, too.

by **Caradellino** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 8:15 pm

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:If they are long-terms closures, the roads can be disconnected in the editor.

You could also change the turn-restrictions to exclude temporary closed roads froum routing.

But either disconecting or manipulating turn restictions...you'll have to wait for an update to get it into effect. So if a road ist closed for about a week you can't really do something in Waze (Alan, please correct me, if I'm wrong)

CrackedLCD wrote:I really hope the Waze crew can add that option at some point.

I absolutely agree and second your motion...
We had a long-term construction zone here in Vienna, Austria, with aditional speed cams and reduced speed limits - after its clearance the community had everything changed back to normal in aproximatly no time

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...still I am enjoying warnings for no more existing speedcams for about 2 weeks now because there was no update of the Livemap since.

Don't get me wrong, Waze has still the far fastest Updates, but as far as I see it: temporary road closures can't be dealt with in the moment.

by **AlanOfTheBerg** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:42 pm

I usually do a disconnect or depending on the situation, just delete the road being changed especially if it is not going to exist in the future either. I don't rely on turn restrictions very often because they are not foolproof an Waze can and does route through them if it calculates a lower penalty for doing so.

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by **vnikolic** » Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:18 pm

I have been looking for the same options. Here in Toronto, ON, we regularly have roads closed for construction, and being able to mark that on the fly could save us all HOURS in traffic. IE, a simple (and sometimes frequent) highway exit closure on my way home from work makes me travel another 5km in heavy traffic to another exit! And than I have to travel 5km back! However, if I know it's closed, I can take an exit 1km earlier and take a detour home.

A reporting option on the phone would be fantastic, rather than having to edit maps later on. This way anyone could report it, and Wase could reroute and recalculate routes accordingly. Also having an option to mark the duration of closure (here they are regularly marked with construction start/finish dates - they sometimes go later, but they never finish earlier). So setting an end date or hour for closure would be amazing!!!!!

by **AlanOfTheBerg** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:25 am

vnikolic wrote:A reporting option on the phone would be fantastic, rather than having to edit maps later on. This way anyone could report it, and Wase could reroute and recalculate routes accordingly.

I think this would be useful but there must be very strict controls around it. Can you imagine how much Waze would suck if just 1 or 2 people in a high volume freeway decide to post a road closed causing Waze to try to reroute people off the freeway for hours?

by **CBenson** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 12:39 am

If waze can't tell when a high volume freeway isn't closed, there not using their data very well.

by **Caradellino** » Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:19 am

CBenson wrote:If waze can't tell when a high volume freeway isn't closed, there not using their data very well.

Not necessarily...as far as I see it Waze just tracks Wazers and not TMC. If the Wazers avoid a "closed" road, Waze won't notice any traffic - therefore how would they get the information? In other words there is no data to use in that matter.