Speed Cameras / Radar Alerts / Warnings / Reminders

Map Editors Community Community Issues And Requests
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It would be good that Waze for iPhone emits a Sound Alert before arriving to a Speed Camera, as a visual alarm is not enough. Could you please consider this feature suggestion?

I have to use iphone app Wikango for this purpose but I consider would be better to have it all inside Waze.

Thanks :wink:

2

I’m getting a ‘Warning: speed trap ahead’ prompt on iPhone (2.2.xx)

3

You should be getting a visual notification. You’ll only get an audible alert if at the point of notification you are exceeding the assigned speed of the camera!

4

I agree! All in all there are too few options for sounds; it’s either on or off. If you turn off the navigation guidance everything get silenced. I have just started to use Waze and I noticed some minor imperfections. The accuracy is poor, varying from pretty accurate to several 100 meters wrong. Pushing the “not in right position” button switches the Waze completely off. I understand it will be like that because from the time you see a speed trap to the time you can send a report you have already driven several 100 meters.
If you silence the guidance there should be an option to still choose an alarm sound for optional warnings. In my old TomTom the speed trap warning was integrated as a POI (Point of Interest like parking spots, hotels etc.) and you could choose which of these POIs you would like to show on the map and which of them you would like to have and alarm warning for. So I could turn every sound of the navigator and still be warned with a loud alarm when I got close to a speed trap. To only play a sound if you are speeding is not good enough because the speed trap is maybe not where it is on the map and you can accelerate before it comes. And even if it is on the right position you still can accelerate so close to the trap that Waze don’t react fast enough.
In Norway there are plenty of speed traps and the lowest fee is $ 320,- for only a few km/h to fast. So for me a reliable speed trap warning is crucial.

5

I get warnings for police and red light cameras, not sure about accidents, even with routing is turned off/muted or not in use at all.

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But you’ll only get audible alerts if you’re exceeding the designated speed at the notification point. The previous poster wants an audible irrespective of speed. I can understand this, I wouldn’t mind an option to set a quieter (or less intrusive) alert for an upcoming camera but I’m currently under the limit.

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Nope. Police alerts regardless, as do red-light cams because they have their speed set to zero. Speed cams will likely alert, and yes, if you are exceeding the set speed. Why would you want to be notified if there is no “danger?”

But it has also been brought up before, and there is likely a uservoice for this, to have settings for all alert types.

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Due to the fact waze can only warn AT the point of notification, not if i increase my speed between notification and the camera itself.

Also, many red light cams are also speed cams in Europe. You could argue that they should be listed as the latter but I’m not sure about that one.

I think android still doesn’t alert audibly for redlight cams due to a missing audio file. Can’t remember the status of this one.

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The point is that in Norway we have narrow curved roads where speeding is nearly impossible. One other thing that’s not possible is to pass the car in front of you that have all the time in the world and stay 10-15 km/h below the speed limit. When you finally comes to a straight piece of road you have to break the speed limit in order to pass him before the next curve. And all speed cameras are set up in such stretches. You have no time to check if any alarms pops up on your screen; you want to focus on the driving. And that was where my TomTom warned me. Even with loud music on the stereo I could choose an alarm signal that I could hear and slow down in time. If you switch off the navigation you also switch off the audible warning from the polite lady inside the iPhone that tells you the a speed trap is near. You still got the warning on the screen, but that is easy to miss.

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I see what you mean. In those stretches specifically, why not set the speed cameras to a ridiculously low number like 5kmh?

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I would have loved to do that. How can I? I am sorry, but I am new to this:)

12

We’ve got a wonderful wiki which has all sorts of documentation on map editing. What I would do first, though, is once getting yourself into the system before doing any editing, is to enable the area manager layer to determine if there is someone who is already ‘managing’ the area and PM that username (or usernames; there can be multiple) here on the forum and discuss the topic. If there are no managers, it is all up to you. :slight_smile:

Also, there is a Norway forum under the country-specific section of the forums. You could bring up the topic to your country-peoples.

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Thank you so far! :slight_smile: I will check it out and see what we can do. Have a nice weekend!

14

I too wish to have no sound for guidance, BUT always sound alerts for speed cameras, red light camera and police zones. The reason are varied :
-I’m accelerating ! (especially with motorbikes).
-The speed limit is Waze is wrong.
-It’s raining, which changes the speed limit (in France).
-Traffic light camera : sound must be “on” all the time.

If this is available in Waze, I would get rid instantly of my radar detector, and use WAZE all the time I ride or drive.