Hey guys, figured I’d check for something dumb I’m doing here before raising this in a more appropriate forum…
Over the weekend I recorded a path out to Castlepoint & then drove back along it. Much of the way had no cell reception at all but it seemed to be following turns, direction & speed ok regardless.
The track is visible on the client on my phone but isn’t showing up at all in the editor - and I suspect it’s not on the scoreboard either.
Is this just a natural outcome of having no cell reception? Is it supposed to upload the track once its got a connection to the waze server again?
I’m not sure either how it works, although I’ve noticed a similar thing before - the ‘new’ road shows in your own client but not on the map if there was no reception. We are hoping to head out that way in a couple of weeks too.
Nice to see another Wellingtonian on here, I’ve seen your monster icon around quite a bit
Ive found that you need to start [b]and end[/]b the paving in an area with reception. Waze will not let you start whe you dont have reception but it silently ignores the route when you stop.
Ive also found that paving doesnt go straight into the map for me (when I first started it did, but then stopped), I have to go into the editor, select the newly driven area and use the Create road function.
Still hasn’t shown up so I figured i’d add it manually, only because it hasn’t worked out that I actually drove there it doesn’t let me edit.
So then I thought, i’d just apply to be an Area Manager for the Wairarapa / Tararua / Hawkes Bay type area - except the permalink I took from the live map is apparently wrong or incompatible or something.
I’d take a permalink from the editor but I can’t zoom out to cover the area i’m keen on working with - has anybody got any hints for how I can get the area right for my application?
Hope I’ve figured it out. Think it’s because you can’t use livemap permalink. Requested area manager again using several editor permalinks because you can’t zoom out far enough.
Correct, the permalink needs to come from the editor not the live map. Glad you got it working.
From my experience, roads paved where there is no reception at all will not show on the map and the detail of the driven route will only be recorded where reception is available too. Looking at some of my drives through rural areas I can see where the phone lost reception as the track changes colour and goes to a dotted straight line until reception is returned and the route starts following the road again.
If all is working well, there should be no need to add the roads manually.
I just wasted $60 bucks on gas driving some rural roads. It would have been much cheaper drawing from my desk. Not to mention less dangerous. It was some goat track that I have now labeled 4x4. At one point I thought if I go off the edge nobody will ever find me. Traction control was going crazy. Am I building a picture here…
