When should I use the pave feature. I guess it makes sense when you are on a road that isn’t in the GPS system. But what about fixing map mistakes. I drive from NJ to Vermont a lot and in the Troy NY area there seems to be a problem with navigation. The GPS acts like there is a disconnect in the road or something. Can I use Pave feature to fix map mistakes?
Do not use the Pave feature when on actual roads, only activate it when you are driving on a road which doesn’t appear on the map at all. You will only be adding short segments of road off to the side of the main road. Go to the map editor for the road in question and make sure it aligns with GPS tracks of drivers. (Don’t always trust aerials).
Most GPS chips in phones these days are really not all that accurate, include the latest revisions. I’ve seen my own tracks go haywire and seen how bad they are by looking at my Drives in the Map Editor. All sorts of reasons why GPS may be inaccurate, too, not just your phone’s fault.
One thing I’ve noticed on my own phone while experimenting with GPS Essentials, is that enabling AGPS (WiFi, network and sensor aiding) added only a foot or two to accuracy only while stopped or moving very slowly. At driving speeds it made it LESS accurate, and every time my phone switched cell towers the accuracy would be off by kilometers for a second or two. AGPS, at least on my phone, is only good for getting a “quick” general fix for things like foursquare, but is detrimental to actual nav apps.
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I personally don’t use pave anymore (at all). drives show on editor so much faster, so I use them as base for adding new roads to “dark areas”.
Alan might tell me, if there even is an actual benefit in using the whole pave feature?
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There are two current positives to recorded roads that I can think of:
- Roads appear nice and bright red and are visible at much higher zoom levels than normal streets, so they “pop” visually in the editor, so if a user doesn’t even know about the map editor existing, any editor can see them if they are within view and connect, adjust and confirm.
- You get points for the recorded length
Peraonally I wazer the main roads and then map from the pc all the smaller ones. Waze doea not always recognise ita paving on short roads. Also wazing comes in handy when i know the riad geometry has changed and the aerial maps have not updated yet.
thanks guys. I already paved today 
All tupos result from my fat fingers…
Do you get points from selecting a red road on a saved route and clicking create road? I’ve driven some unmapped roads but didn’t turn pave on so was wondering if that create road approach will get the same points as pave.
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You may get another edit credit when you name the road after creating it in the editor, so this may even out. But paved points is by distance, not so in the editor.
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