[UK]: Can you link to Trafalgar Square?

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Here’s another mapping challenge for all of my fellow UK Wazers!

What’s the furthest point that can currently link to Trafalgar Square?

The furthest I can find at the moment is Basingstoke… Can anyone do better? Let’s watch this thread as the map extends further and further out, and I’ll buy a round of drinks to whoever completes the routing between Trafalgar Square and John O’Groats, or Lands End. (Drinks to be collected at a pub of my choice next to Trafalgar Square!)

zzyzxuk!
Mapping London since 2009

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Will Amsterdam qualify? :twisted: Trying to get you connected before the end of the week (I should have enough data).

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Amsterdam isn’t a bad destination… I think you guys have had Waze a bit longer than we’ve had it in the UK though… <G>

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No, we didn’t… We had it at the same time.

I’m getting closer to trafalgar sq.
M20 Northbound is kind of finished (Southbound is still a mess) up until the M26.

Routing from J5 (M25 CW) to Trafalgar Square fails, so I’ll have an extra challenge there. Probably a gap somewhere in the M25.

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That’s odd.

I just checked the M25 southbound carriageway at this location:

http://world.waze.com/cartouche/?zoom=4&lat=51.29818&lon=0.14822&layers=BFFTFFFTFFFFFTFFTTTTTT&seg-1=60109190

And you’re right - it won’t generate a valid route for Trafalgar Square. But if you follow that carriageway to the SW a few miles, it DOES generate a valid route - and that segment is connected to the other segment just fine, so I see no reason why it shouldn’t also do a valid route unless there’s some other criteria going on that I don’t know of…

anyway, I’ve submitted a bug report to ‘alpha@waze.com’ about it.

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WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO
Well, it has been fixed somehow.
Consider yourself connected, you can travel to Trafalgar Square from any of the addresses in the following post:
http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1325
(Though the server times out most of the times on this route :shock: )
Still need to fix the return way though