jfc people. Where’s your mates? C’on.
I live in the inner west of Sydney & skirt the CBD on my way to Sydney every day. I travel in peak hour. Yet I see few wazers out there and even Apple maps gives me better info.
I make a dick of myself every other week begging people to get on board. What are you guys doing?
lol.
Ping me, you’re welcome to if you see me.
(can I block mad people?? < probably should have asked that first 
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Traffic depends on general traffic done by waze people driving and people doing reports.
If no one drives on the roads you use or makes reports then you wont see anything.
You can ignore people as well
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Agreed. Some days I drive and they’re 10 or so online in Brisbane, then sometimes, you are driving in a world to yourself… :-/
I’ve only seen one other Waze user to the west of Brisbane, heading NW of Ipswich. I have done a fair bit of mapping in Ipswich and to the NW so it would be good to see other people just contributing traffic data through use of the app. I’ve got my brother to take interest in the app, he travels from the northern suburbs to the southern suburbs of Brisbane every week day.
Hey clemmo,
Congrats for being an active Wazer! We need more of you out Ipswich way. There are a 2-3 of us that live out towards Springfield/Greenbank way, but we all head into the city on our daily routes.
As mentioned before, it really depends on the time of day if other wazers are online, I got 5 towards Calamvale around 3pm, but no-one towards Rocklea, Wacol direction.
Waze IMO has come a long way since its debut in Australia, but there are still many roads to be wazed and many more to be named and corrected. People don’t appear (or don’t have the time) to make the extra effort (such as yourself) to map new roads, etc… Hopefully it will become a piece of great mapping & navigation software down the track in Australia.
I’ll share my first experience with Waze too…
The first time I saw it I was impressed, I watched the promotional videos, read a few US based reviews, and I thought - “its about time” !
I hurriedly installed it on my phone, typed in my work address (only 2.5km away, so just for kicks really) and it couldn’t find the address… or the police station next door, or the hospital behind, or the McDonalds over the road… to say I was disappointed would be an understatement.
When I finally found an address in town that it recognised (3km away) it couldn’t find a route…
My own street wasn’t even listed (its been here since the 90’s).
In a word it was useless.
Sadly that’s as far as most people get. They uninstall it, and never recommend it to their friends.
I’m one of the few who took the other approach… I spent a few hours reading, did a bit of googling, then took to the map editor.
I started with my own street, and then the 2 routes to my office… I must admit it took about 3 weeks to be updated back then, but I persevered.
Since then the old servers have been replaced, and the updates are being processed about once a week. I’ve mapped out most of my own suburb, and most of the drives I use in my work (I put in a lot of miles in the Wide Bay area)
I drove to Rocky a few months back, and discovered quite a few missing road segments along the highway - no phone coverage, so no road, and no editing ability.
Again I went back to the WIKI and the Forum and did some reading. I discovered another way to be allowed to edit a road was to become an area manager. This month I fixed the Bruce Highway all the way to Cairns, next month I’ll be concentrating on all of the roads to Mount Isa.
My hope is that next time a Queenslander loads Waze onto their phone it will find a route for them, and they can start submitting traffic and road reports to the benefit of the rest of the community.
So now the “take away” - even if you don’t have the time to edit - please stick with it - use the “report - map issue” function. One of us will see your report and fix the map for the next person who needs it. 
Hi folks,
dave_cairns - I enjoyed reading your post here - In a way, your story is the story of Waze in every country in the world… The whole project begun when one man drove around and recorded new roads between his (former) work place and his home - now he’s the CTO (:
If you guys need any help, don’t be a stranger - this is why we’re here.
Ori
Great story!
Just so you don’t feel left out. Many of us in the USA can relate to your story.
The first time I used Waze about two and half years ago, I deleted it after my first drive. It was pretty much useless to route with as it thought every overpass was connected to every road under it, and driving through fences to get on a freeway was not my idea of routing.
At about the same time I had been using the “Foursquare” mobile app, and had been contributing to it heavily. After some time I realized that my contributions were pretty much a waste of my time, and I gave up on it.
For some reason I learned that Waze had a feature to allow map editing, so I decided to try it again. So this time, like you, I started to edit my neighborhood and surrounding suburb. Soon I started to fix the nearby highways, and expanded my editing until I reached my editing boundary. Like you I applied to be an Area Manager to expand my area, and contribute more.
Once I had most of the major highways in my area correct, I started to recommend Waze to my friends. I quickly learned that being a Wazer and being a Waze editor were two very different things. Not one of my friends at the time continued to use Waze, and most uninstalled it. It was not until a year later that I started to recommend it again. Even now I caution people that while it may work great in our Toledo Ohio Metro area, and along major highways to other areas, is still has much maturing to do in the rural areas.
While I could never recruit any of my friends to help me edit, I since have made new Waze Area Manager friends who all help contribute to making Waze work in NW Ohio and SE Michigan as best as we can.
Many of us here communicate regularly and cooperate on various projects in the area. We are working hard to get the rural areas edited as complete at the rural areas.
Having other local AMs to work with has also helped me share some of my attention with more national and global issues with Waze, as a County Manager and Waze Champ. This includes various projects including work in the forums, and the Wiki.
So it is interesting and encouraging to see your familiar story from the other side of the world!
Engage others to help edit in your area and once a few become more active you will see Waze become more and more accepted with everyone. Keep reminding them that it is a community based app!
Happy Wazing!
Hey this is great! I think I needed to read this too…
I’m in Sydney - eastern suburbs - so there are a few more people around, but even in urban Sydney I’m seeing it improve slowly. Wish I’d got on board a little earlier when there were more roads to map; it’s fun
I ride a motorbike most of the time, so I’m not really relying on it for directions (though I’ve bunged on the 'phones a couple of times )
I’m also still wary about recommending it to people - at this stage it has to be people who get the concept; it’ll get better as people engage with it.
The more you use Waze, the better it gets.
The more people are on-board - the faster the maps will be built.
We’ve had countries in eastern Europe who’re lacking in decent navigation solutions build the Waze map of their country in just a-few months.
All it takes is a community, bent on having the best possible map - and you’ll be getting from home to work and back in record time! 
-Yonatan
No argument there, but I know people who discovered Waze well before me, used it once or twice, and then dropped it because they weren’t interested in helping to build a nav app. I love it! I think it’s the coolest thing that I can make changes when I notice something not quite right, and a few days later it’s in!
My point really is that I feel like there are people who if I recommend Waze to them now will be turned off by what they see as an unfinished nav app and drop it, rather than being excited about the idea of a crowd-sourced map system…