People seem to be running Waze on a bus...

by **maantje76** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 7:20 am

Gps speed indication in waze stops around 225/230 km/h. At higher speeds it's not locking very well anymore.

Other GPS app's can give a higher speed without a problem, so it's not limited on the phone...

This is was allready with 2.x client on both iphone and android. I don't know what android 3.x does...

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by **xteejx** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:06 pm

Should you be driving at that speed legally?

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by **maantje76** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:18 pm

xteejx wrote:Should you be driving at that speed legally?

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yes in Germany (our neighbours) there are lots of freeways without speedlimit.... ;-)

by **fvwazing** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:21 pm

I stopped making screenshots over 190kmh.

by **McCracken808** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:32 pm

More importantly, should you be driving 224k/h with a right turn coming up in 24 seconds?

by **maantje76** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 5:47 pm

A 'keep right'...little difference. If you don't have to catch your plane, maybe not

but during the weekend at that time, nobody on the road :-o

by **xteejx** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:17 pm

Ahh the Autobahn! Has anyone emailed Waze about the limit?

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by **maantje76** » Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:21 pm

xteejx wrote:Ahh the Autobahn! Has anyone emailed Waze about the limit?

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Yeah, a year ago allready :-p never had a response...

by **redmaxx23** » Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:57 am

In central Alberta, smaller prop planes follow pipe line right of ways. at least one of thee planes carries Waze as i often see 4-5 mile runs which are arrow straight but completely off of the road grid. I will check for id in the future to see if there is a consistant name/user.

by **vectorspace** » Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:31 am

fvwazing wrote:But you did not run Waze on a plane, did you? If so, at what speed did it stop?

I've run Waze on an airplane before several times on my iPad, just to see what it would do and to also examine a wider part of my AM area. It only works well if you have an internet connection. Because you're not supposed to have your cell signal on, you cannot get maps and connectivity to Waze. Even if you did, the connection would likely be extremely spotty. I was able to do it because I was on American, and they have Internet on many of their airplanes. You also generally have to sit next to a window to get GPS.

Waze showed a speed of zero the whole time, even though we were going 600+ mph ground speed via other apps I could use. The map worked relatively well at wider zoom levels and it was great seeing different ground features. Getting to close was a poor display. Sometimes Waze would lock me on a road for a while, other times it was just skipping over blank area like it can do in larger parking lots that are not mapped. I was able to chat with a number of people while flying over Texas.

I only did this a couple of times as I learned what I wanted and I didn't want to generate map error reports.