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Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone. It has the following features:

• Spoken turn-by-turn directions
• Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech) ^
• Real time traffic reports
• Real time Gas Prices ^^
• Toll road avoidance ^^
• Free regular updates to the map that you can help make are installed automatically
• Search for destinations how you like: entire address at once, category, place name, landmark or use the addresses from your contacts
• Integrated destination search: Google, Foursquare, Bing
• Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
• Support for multiple languages
• Gaming elements for fun and integrated social networking

^ BETA: in selected countries

^^ Toll Roads and Gas Prices dependent on user contribution

Read more about the amazing way Waze gets better when you just drive around with Waze turned on

• Read the User Manual
• Get the free Waze app for your supported smartphone
• Get help when you have Waze running but the map shows few or no roads, or streets with no names, or you travel to an unmapped area
• Understand the timing of updates, including when you can edit roads you have driven on
• Edit
  • Please do not edit the map until you have read the Waze Map Editor manual and reviewed the best map editing practices
  • Please do not turn on recording a new road unless you are about to drive on to a road that is not already on the map
• Use the My Dashboard section on the Waze website
• Read the answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and a glossary of terms
• Participate in the announcements and discussion forums

If you have problems, try and find your own solution or ask the community for help:

• Use the Wiki - there is a search box just to the left
• Use the Discussion Forums

If all else fails, you can email Waze with your problem