Hi guys,
This is an issue I reported through the app before, but it got lost in the whole missing drives issue back in October. (I’d love to rant about that, but that’s for a different occasion 
) It concerns the routing to IKEA Nottingham:
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It directed me up the M1, then on M1 J26 unto A610. And this is where it gets weird:
Instead of turning off on IKEA island and directing me to the carpark, it continues straight on A610, to the roundabout A610/A608, all the way around said roundabout, back down the A610, and then stops in the middle of A610 next to IKEA.
Attachements 1 and 2 are what the Waze app shows me, I tried to get it to show as clearly as possible.
The Livemap routes to the carpark as it should, no issue there. But one doesn’t use the livemap whilst driving.
Google Maps also directs to the carpark (or close enough).
So what can we do? It’s out of my editing area, because the drive never showed up, plus it’s too long ago now anyway.
Thanks for any help!
I’m not certain but it sounds as though Waze may be routing to the google result. Even if this is not the problem the map would be improved by linking relevant google results to the IKEA place in Waze.
I can’t do this as I don’t have editing rights anywhere near Nottingham.
Cheers
I think you’re absolutely right. On Google Maps, I’ve edited the position marker, moving it closer to the internal road system which will, hopefully, solve the problem, if the edit is accepted.
@wooddale @TheMKLightning
Fancy having a quick look at a similar issue I had on this thread a while back please? I didn’t get any responses
https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=216424&p=1572215#p1572215
Hi Steve,
I think you are right. I’ve added a comment on your original post.
Cheers
Thank you John and MK! I’ll try again in a few days time and see if this has corrected the issue.
My edit of the Google Maps marker for IKEA is still “pending”. I’ve submitted another edit as a nudge.
Thanks for the follow up, John.
And it’s been accepted. The destination point on Google Maps is now by the front door 
I waited with replying until after INTL tiles had updated. Now that they have, the issue is not resolved yet. Routing still stops in the middle of the A-road.
Is there anything else we can try?
Have you tried deleting this destination from your recent history / saved locations as Waze caches the end points of journeys to provide quicker lookup. Waze will therefore ignore any changes if you still have a destination in the list of recent searches.
My search result below:
Stupid question, I know, but can you please confirm you did a new search and selected the same result? I remember reading somewhere that Waze caches previous search results so, if you select the same one, it takes you to the cached destination.
I just ran a search for IKEA Nottingham and was offered IKEA Way or IKEA Giltbrook Retail Park, selected the 2nd, and found the destination point is correct, by the entrance.
Can you try that, please?
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Numpty Me hadn’t though of that… blush
I’ll try that tonight when I have time to play around with it. Thank you for reminding me, John!
Hi John,
Yep, that did the trick alright!
Thanks for the assistance and I’ll remember to delete it from my favourites/recents next time. :oops: