Integration of new Brazil base map

by **hebermc** » Mon May 28, 2012 4:18 pm

Is there an ETA of when the integration might end?

Is it a whole country integration or just specific cities?

Others and I tried asking in the thread about this topic in the Brazilian section of the forum, but nobody from waze seems to be watching it.

by **gettingthere** » Tue May 29, 2012 2:03 am

You may have some luck if you post in one of the Spanish language forums for South America. You may get a response from Waze employee Adrián Singer.

Otherwise try contacting Waze support directly. www.waze.com/support

by **hebermc** » Tue May 29, 2012 4:27 pm

gettingthere wrote:You may have some luck if you post in one of the Spanish language forums for South America. You may get a response from Waze employee Adrián Singer.

Otherwise try contacting Waze support directly. http://www.waze.com/support

In the Brazilian topic there is a thread about this, but nobody from Waze answered any of our questions.

by **fvwazing** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:51 pm

by **fvwazing** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:20 pm

To make the estimation a bit more precise: 2 years ago, Germany took 2 weeks to convert. Brasil has 8 times the quantity of roads. That would have taken 16 weeks then! But according to Moore's Law computing power tends to double every 18 months. Which could mean - very loosely interpreted - that Waze can buy 2.66 times the amount of computingpower at Amazon for the price they paid 2 years ago. It is very likely (given all the growing and infrastructurechanges over the years) that there is more growth in Waze's power than that - lets assume its twice as much money for more roughly 5.3 times the power. In that case Brasil will take about 21 days.

All that based on extreme extrapolation, bad memory, false assumptions, wild interpretations and hefty guesswork. Please, if the import of the Brasilian basemap is over tell me how long it really did take, as by now I am very curious myself.

by **hebermc** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:17 pm

We are now at 16 days since the start of integration.

No news from Waze developers of an end.

dmcconachie · by **dmcconachie** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:32 pm

hebermc wrote:We are now at 16 days since the start of integration.

No news from Waze developers of an end.

Be patient, trust me, you want them to get this right! The UK basemap import very nearly drove me away from waze!

by **fvwazing** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:32 am

But do you still know how long it took? (no! Do not use the searchfunction at first!)