I hail from Farmington, NM, up by the Four Corners. I fix computers for a living, work on old Tercels as a hobby.
I’m originally from Texas, then the family moved to colorado in the 90’s. As a result I’ve driven US 550 over Red Mountain pass more times than I care to count! :lol:
The other day I found out about the Waze app so downloaded it and gave it a try. To my dismay, the navigation was pretty bad, it tried routing us down every side street. I was pondering what to do when I found the Map Editor. Lo and behold, most of the side streets in Farmington had incorrect directional indicators, and a lot of them were set to one way, so I’ve been fixing stuff, adding neighborhoods, etc.
How long does it take for edits to make it live? I keep finding conflicting info.
We’re running pretty close to daily updates now… See http://status.waze.com/ for details as to when the database pull happened (remember it’s in UTC, so you’re going to have to do some math to figure out local time).
Okay it looks like the main problem with the routing, and I’m trying to figure out where the problem is ocurring at, is that Waze doesn’t think you can go up 516/550 to Aztec to points beyond, and is trying to send you up 170 to Hesperus and then to Durango to join the 550. At least if you are at the location where a search for just Farmington NM pins for the start point. I placed a pin on the east side of Farmington and it leads right up 516 to 550 and on over the pass to Montrose (where I put my destination pin just for reference.)
Okay I think I found a part of the problem. Where 64 curves down from main to broadway, the next couple blocks simply will not route on 64, meaning the primary route through town was broken. I’ve fixed that by resetting the all intersections and once it updates tonight it should work better. But I’m gonna keep tracing the route to see if I can find any more problems. Alot of these rural hwy’s here in the west are broken. We’ve fixed many of them (heck I’ve fixed many of them across the mountain and south west) but we still stumble across ones occasionally that have not been fixed even though they get significant traffic.