Gas prices feature: everything you need to know

[Spazinbc]

I dont have gas stations in our province or even in neighbouring states, but really? what does it matter? Gasbuddy dominates this and will always.

I say let's focus on other areas to add new and improve existing features to the app like the ability to manually add incidents on the map without first coming across the incident, like Beat the Traffic does.

[sticks221]

Firstly, thanks for the new feature and to all those involved!

In the Beta forum, a question was posed by Dave2048 here http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23638&hilit=Beta regarding the layout of the gas price list and showing the address. Is this likely to happen as per the documentation and, could the same view be applied to updating of gas prices when selecting the nearby station? When trying to add a gas price at a motorway service station and there are two stations (one either side of the motorway), it's just a pure guess as to which one I am updating and being able to see the address would add much needed clarification.

Thanks in advance!

[tallyg8tor]

There is a gas station near me that is in the long location on the map. I believe that its GPS coordinates were calculated when the data was imported, and incorrect house numbers led to it being incorrect in the Waze gas station database.

I have since fixed the house numbers, but it still shows up in the old, incorrect location. I am guessing that I either have to wait for it to be updated or that new editing feature to be added for the US.

[Tekmisfit]

I can post gas prices in Canada but unfortunately the price format is the US type.

[thePunishERD]

We have an issue with gas prices here in Panama. Gas was always sold per gallon, but not anymore, now it's been sell per liter. So now the price shown by the gas stations is around $1 per liter, when it used to be around $4 per gallon.

Here is where the problem begins. When we try to update the prices in the app, it sends us an error because prices that low doesn't seem correct to Waze.

Also, the prices used to have 2 decimals, but now they have 3 decimals.

So we will appreciate if you can take this into consideration and do the fixing ASAP.

Thanks you for this excellent app!

[tiejustice]

as you may know its rubbish? For us UK users.

1st find gas station will only work within 100 yards of a gas station I live between 4 gas stations less than 1 mile but it can not find any??

2nd when you do update a price the last digit will not show a #9? But will only show the #8?

3rd today's us price $3.70 as a average per a gallon = $8.58 if you got your gas in the UK at £1.41 a liter at a $1.61 to £1.00 so now it is so important for us UK users to get the best price and need it to work.

So sort it out or tell us what is wrong with my iPad and iPhone my wife's iPhone and my brothers iPhone as we all have the same problem??

Ps did a trip last week from South Wales to Birmingham easy trip not to hard to get lost why did it not take me around the road works that have been going on for some time? Instead it wanted to take me to the road works and add 15 min to the last 12 min I had left to get to the end of the trip? When I did go around this problem it insisted that I should sit in a traffic jam for 15 min more? I ended up taking just 2 min more by going around the M5 road works not 15?

This program no longer works with rerouting when it see's a problem instead it tells you to just sit in traffic jams and tells you how much longer it will take, any sat nave will do that?

App store score has 1 * from me now pity there is now way to give no starts.

[TonyG-UK]

Sorry if this has been covered, but I couldn't find it from a search. Are there any guesses when this feature will becomje available in the UK?

It's already live in the UK!

What was I saying about users not using this feature the way it's currently implemented because of the UI.

[Twister_UK]

On more than one occasion I've seen my own name, "updated by CrackedLCD today" when I hadn't submitted prices yet. I conferred with another Wazer here and he has noticed the same issue. We're not faking prices but the system is acting like we've posted when we haven't.

Are these at stations where you've submitted prices within the last 24 hours? I get this a lot on stations I pass every day, where I'm passing by a few minutes earlier than I did the day before. At these sites, even though the UI says I updated today, I still get the 8 points for the update. I've only ever seen it happen once on a station that I'd never submitted a price for, and at this location it did behave as if I had already entered a price that day, not giving me the 8 points.

[Twister_UK]

Has the price reporting functionality just been given a behind the scenes tweak? Every set of prices I submitted today was acknowledged in the client, not by the usual message, but instead by "Your price will be posted once confirmed with other Wazers", which I've never seen before.

Whilst the idea of not posting prices until they've been confirmed seems like a good idea (a few times I've seen completely incorrect prices locally, all appearing to come from the same user...), I think there needs to be some tweaking to the implementation. Based on the client behaviour today, other than that text at the bottom of the price submission screen, there's no other feedback given to the user that their submitted prices are awaiting confirmation, so if you're in an area with a whole bunch of stations and you've forgotten which once you've already submitted that day, you can't then select a station and see that you were the most recent update - until your prices are confirmed, the station details show up exactly the same as before you made your earlier submission, so you might end up trying to resubmit in the belief that you hadn't sibmitted to that station already, or that your earlier submission didn't make it. It'd be useful if the client could mark the stations somehow to show if we've already submitted prices today...

One other thing about this feature-if no-one else confirms the new prices, do they just get lost or do they get posted anyway after a while? I'm thinking that if prices *have* to get confirmed before they're used, some stations could end up with very out of date pricing, especially if by the time the next Wazer passes the station, the prices have changed leaving them unable to confirm. If their updated prices then get put in the confirmation queue, and the prices then change again, will the station ever get updated?

[Twister_UK]

Outdated prices don't need to be highlighted specifically, as the client tells you when they were last updated when you access the price entry screen-what we need is a way of knowing that we've already submitted an unconfirmed price for that station, so that we don't end up wasting time resubmitting.

Having now said that, today at every station I've passed so far, the client has been accepting new prices immediately, so it looks as if something has been changed again...