I hope this is in the correct section as its my first post here.
I love waze etc etc, and im going to france this summer so thought id put my route to france into waze and noticed that it cant find the route from England.
It doesnt seem to be able to include the ferry crossing at dover to calais, so instead it just comes back as route not found.
Am I missing something somewhere as id have thought it would have been able to include this in a journey, the ferry crossing is on the map though. Any ideas?
The Channel crossing routes are not routable because there are too many additional considerations that would really need to be taken into account
How frequent are the crossings? Although it’s a while since I used the ferry, the crossing used to be every 90 minutes with fewer at night. Depending when you arrive, you might get straight on a ferry with no wait, or have to wait a couple of hours because you just missed one.
How long are the queues? As a biker, I used to practically drive straight on. In a car, you sometimes have to queue for quite a while. If you’re towing a caravan, you may have more delays.
Price - Waze has no way to factor in the price of a crossing. Are you on a budget?
Delays. One cancelled ferry or a fire incident in the Chunnel can have a major effect on trip time - but not enough Wazers will be providing data to pick this up.
Ferries don’t follow a straight line - so Wazing across the channel is unlikely to be able to snap you to a ferry route.
GPS doesn’t work well in the Chunnel.
How do you prefer to travel? From, say, London to Holland you might go via Chunnel & drive most of the way, or get a ferry from Harwich to the Hook with much less driving. Both routes might take the same amount of time, but would you rather drive for 6 hours & sit in a train for 30 minutes, or drive for 90 minutes and sit on a ferry for 5 hours?
The general principle we follow is to only map ferries that are “turn up & go”, run quite regularly (although they don’t have to run 24 hours) and can save a significant amount of distance.
For a Channel crossing, the assumption is that the driver needs to make a conscious decision as to which crossing method to use. They can then Waze to the crossing point, make the crossing, then “Waze on”. :lol:
