Tom Tom etc.

[xtago]

I don't use waze for the routing and I don't fuss about the traffic reports most times the traffic jams don't exist and probably based on 1 wazer driving down a suburban road at 10kph meaning waze will say blah blah road a dead end street will have standstill traffic on it lol.

But I always turn it on for every drive it's mainly to edit and fix up problems in areas that I'm driving through.

I also assume this will build up some route data and traffic data I do traffic reports as well.

See what happens I guess.

The TomTom maps use an official traffic management data provider that also includes the weather as well.

I would suspect the Apple traffic data is the same as google's traffic data which just shows up speed data.

[WeeeZer14]

I also assume this will build up some route data and traffic data I do traffic reports as well.

Yes, simply driving with Waze on will build up historical data on the roads and will benefit the system as long as you a driving "normally" on those roads.

[qhphotography]

I'm also disappointed with Waze in Sydney. I used it when living in London and it was great. But for my trips between Liverpool and Crows Nest it is useless, always taking me to congested roads without knowing it.

So I switched to MetroView, for the price it is pretty good and Tomtom Traffic info (in app subscription) helps.

I tried Waze again few times but no luck.
I then decided to contribute with editing and paving maps but then the map editor sees me as having never driven so does not allow me to edit anything. And the new update of the app on ios just doesnt le me pave...

[daknife]

As to the map editor never having you driving. Make sure you are logging into the correct server.

[hohum3001]

I'm also disappointed with Waze in Sydney. I used it when living in London and it was great. But for my trips between Liverpool and Crows Nest it is useless, always taking me to congested roads without knowing it.

So I switched to MetroView, for the price it is pretty good and Tomtom Traffic info (in app subscription) helps.

I tried Waze again few times but no luck.

qhphotography, Waze is infinitely close to useless for me personally for traffic avoidance in Sydney & even if people here used it in it's social context to chat and share info I can't participate because I'm driving anyway.

However I keep using Waze because I see it as an extremely good idea and I want to support free services such as this. In other words I'm investing my battery power & remembering to do it on every drive for a better future (& secretly hoping Waze acknowledges my effort in some way eventually as a loyal Sydney pioneer). The thing with Waze is that unless a lot of people use it, and stick with it, it can't gain the critical mass it needs to be useful here, & then the only choice we'll have are commercial services.

I wish there were some way to get other traffic monitoring services data in to waze, even if I had to pay.