Walking Route Option

[harling]

@Bozwell

Yes it’s easy to automatically determine that someone isn’t walking at 50mph, but it’s not impossible for a car to crawl in traffic at 2mph. So how could this be determined automatically?

During GPS track post-processing, if part of a GPS track:

• goes “off the map” rather than following an existing road
• is characterized by short segments and abrupt angles, rather than long straight stretches
• totals less than a certain distance
• never exceeds a certain speed
• returns to its starting point before resuming driving-like motion
  then it probably represents walking rather than driving. Adjust these heuristics and you probably could identify bicycling as well.

IMO it’s unnecessary work for Waze to develop this kind of functionality when they will never do it to the same standard as a dedicated walking app of which there are many, and it would risk damaging the main function of Waze.

The point is not to make Waze a walking app; it is to protect the road statistics from the “pollution” resulting from leaving the app running while walking, without depending on Wazers to remember to turn off the app or set an appropriate mode.

[thefatveganchef]

I would love to be able to use Waze while I am on the olyptical, stationary bike, treadmill, or even the rowing machene. That way I can get my points while excersizing and see how far I have gone on the map before having to turn around and come back.

Please Waze give us this ability?? :mrgreen:
/sarcasm

[karrows]

@harling

The point is not to make Waze a walking app; it is to protect the road statistics from the “pollution”

This exactly. Waze is for driving, don’t change the focus. But we can’t stop people from walking/biking/flying/or boating with Waze. Yes I’ve even seen people use Waze on boats. We need a “not driving” mode for those people.