Learning my routes

by **julienmason** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:16 pm

I cannot seem to "train" WAZE to remember my preferred route to work. Though my preferred route is available to me as an alternate, I always see the WAZE default which I do not take.

How do I teach WAZE to use my preferred route rather than the default?

by **AlanOfTheBerg** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 7:53 pm

Waze does not learn routes. It learns destinations. There is no way to "train" Waze to learn routes. The option in settings is misnamed. We've asked Waze to rename it for... oh, well about a year? At least 9 months.

by **julienmason** » Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:18 am

Thanks. I appreciate it.

by **hegedusa** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 1:12 am

Are you sure waze doesn't learn routes? Or at least reduce the "cost" to locations on your way to your destination? This isn't the experience I have. I'll explain:

I regularly drive to one place at different times of day (I called it "work") using my own preferred route. This is west of where I live. Waze seems to have now "learnt" that I prefer that route, and sometimes the alternatives seem quicker. The route uses a major trunk road - the A12.

However, recently, I asked to route to somewhere else, in the other direction, about 50 miles away to the east. Waze took me on part of my regular route to work, via the A12 west of where I live, rather than a junction with the A12 east of where I live actually on the way. This route was a few miles and 10 minutes longer than a better route.

Waze knew about this route because when I asked for other routes, it only listed one, and that that was what I would regard as the proper route.

So in a nutshell, waze shows me an inefficient route that uses part of my way to work, and when I ask to show me routes, it shows me just one route, a sensible one.

So it appears to be behaving as if it attributes a low cost to locations along regular routes, in preference to what it knows to be a correct route. It added only a small percentage to the time and distance travelled. When I tried routing to other locations along the way to the second route, it stopped using the "silly" route when the destination was nearer home.

by **xteejx** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:04 am

Yeah that's probably map errors in the 1 direction, Essex is really bad for map errors.

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by **hegedusa** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:38 am

I've noticed, having made almost 5000 corrections. Roads with turns blocked, roundabouts randomly placed 500 yards from the junction, roads not named and littered with one way roads.

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by **xteejx** » Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:55 am

That'll be why your routes are dodgy ;-)

If you can PM me a permalink I'll have a look at it.

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by **reflon** » Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:53 pm

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:Waze does not learn routes. It learns destinations. There is no way to "train" Waze to learn routes. The option in settings is misnamed. We've asked Waze to rename it for... oh, well about a year? At least 9 months.

Even tho I know Waze don't learn routes there is a video on YouTube from Waze showing that it does learn your preferred route. Do a search on YouTube for waze tip #3. I think waze needs to take this off of YouTube.

by **xteejx** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:06 am

This is a feature, but it's been broken for as long as I can remember.

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by **txemt** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:45 am

After about 15 tries, Waze "learned" that I can use the back gate (and routinely directs me that way) of my apartment complex. Although my apartment complex has now closed and lock the gate, Waze does route me that way. It choses a private road and street as opposed to the primary street at the front of my complex. So....I don't know.