My starting point varies, since it starts over at every bathroom stop, but it’s generally west of Washington, PA, always on Interstate 70 .
End point is always Hagerstown MD.
Because only an idiot takes a semi truck down Interstate 79 to 68 (the mountains make it over an hour longer than staying on 70), in previous versions of the app I had dropped a pin in the middle of the road in Breezewood as a way point.
After an update a few months ago, Waze rejects my attempts to use way points that aren’t addresses. By dropping a pin, I mean I created a favorite place, listed in my favorite places as “Breezewood.”
I suppose I COULD just direct Waze to Breezewood, then select Hagerstown once I reach Breezewood. But why not use an existing feature?
Thanks for the post. Did you use the Places pane to add a place point to the map? If so, this may have been deleted as unnecessary when it was found by an editor.
Regardless, you don’t need to add a place point to the map for what you want to do.
You can open the app, pan across the map to where you want to set a favorite preset. Then long touch the map in that location. You’ll get a pop up, where you can set that exact location as a favorite.
See the last method on this page…
https://support.google.com/waze/answer/6263214?hl=en
I would use my favorites to select a way point, and it would, for instance, let me use one of the truck stops at Breezewood, with an actual address as an “add a stop”, but it won’t accept the pin I dropped in the middle of the intersection.
That pin is in my favorite places as “Breezewood”, but Waze won’t accept it as an intermediate stop.
After reading that longer routes load down the swerver, I settled for breaking up the trip, but it’s odd that I could use a business with an address to add a stop, but I can’t use a drop-pin favorite.