I am quite new here. I tried to get answer by searching but only found that house number editor is off now.
I like Waze a lot but missing house numbers looks like big problem. I guess it is based on Open Street Maps that do have them so I do not understand it.
In my area there is not too many users and when part of them would edit numbers it would took years to fill whole city.
Waze gives me good direction I would say much better Apple maps do but in some cases It gives very bad because missing house numbers. When there are long streets and lot of one way streets results can be not usable.
When you add that you can not Waze say which way you are heading at start, suggestion can be really funny. You have to start slowly and wait to Waze recalculate route.
House number data comes from Bing in most cases. This data is fed to waze as latitude and longitude and Waze routes you to those coordinates. So in most cases, house numbers aren’t needed.
However, there are always exceptions, and bad Bing data, so there is a House number feature that’s currently in beta testing and should be released to the general public some time in the near future.
And to add RE: Open Street Maps – there is absolutely no connection between Open Street Maps and Waze. Using data from or copying between Waze and Open Street Maps is a violation of copyrights and terms of use of both projects. Entire countries have had to be deleted from Waze in the past due to improper use of data from other mapping projects. This applies to things like Bing and Google maps as well. (Waze has a business relationship with Bing to be allowed to look up the address info.)
When I search V Bezovce 32, Plzeň Waze gives me result but just street without number. Goggle and Bing gives no result. Live map shows right result V Bezovce 1362/32, 301 00 Pilsen, Czech Republic but map is blank. No roads, no streets, even city is missing :-o.
You are right. I somehow end up at http://www.waze.com/livemap/ instead world… version. But then it looks even more strange. http://www.waze.com/livemap/ gives right position with house numbers (and blank map) but world version gives only street without numbers. Why?
Always keep an eye on world vs. www when going between the editor, the forums, and the wiki. You never know when a link from one will point to a server you don’t want to be on
I see a marker pin with the full search text (“V Bezovce 1362/32, 301 00 Pilsen, Czech Republic”) on both www and world. No streets on www of course.
Interestingly, if I am zoomed in to the area, it will NOT find the full address. But if I zoom way out, it has no problem.
I see that sometime I am logged on one tab and not in another.
But it seems we live on different planet It NEVER return any result when I search address with house number for me. It only give popup listing of possible locations/streets but never with numbers. See image so I do not understand what you write or better can not believe. Talking about world version.
It does gives me landmark but for street generally
So what can be wrong.
I do not understand exactly to remark about zooming too. Even on Top zoom out no change.
Firefox 18 on XP
So, after we sorted out which server to use, back to the basic problem.
House number feature is planned for next version of World map editor. Currently there is no data about the house numbers in “Na Bezovce” street in Plzeň.
We will do our best to map all houses after the feature will be enabled in editor.
Okay, now I am getting mixed results. Before I’d get the exact location if I was zoomed out to see most of Europe. If I was zoomed in on the city, I’d only get suggestions.
Just now trying to repeat those results, I only get the suggestions no matter the zoom level.
BUT, if I open a new Incognito window in Chrome (to be sure I have a fresh browsing session), I get the initial results again where I will get the exact location if I am zoomed out. :?:
Both www and world are beta testing the ability to edit address numbers directly in the Waze map editor. Eventually this data can supplement/override the address info from other sources.
I looked but haven’t found whether Czech addressing style has been submitted to Waze from their request. I’m afraid this might have only give out to Champs.
aladincz, why don’t you post on your country forum whether anyone has submitted the country addressing style to Waze?
What do you mean “Waze does not contain house numbers”?
When I enter an address complete with house number Waze generally guides me to within 60 feet of that house number. So apparently Waze knows very well how to deal with them.
Outside of the U.S. and other basemapped countries without Bing or Google lookups, it can be a problem. There are also areas in the U.S. that are either not in the house number database, or are wildly incorrect.
A little to the north in Canada, GPSes don’t have a clue where the exact address is. My worst case scenario was when Google thought my destination was 10-15 minutes north of the actual location. If google or bing is supplying Waze with the exact location of an address, I don’t feel confident in Wazes ability to direct me to the exact spot I need to go. I can’t wait for the day that Waze will use user supplied data for addresses. It would have great potential.
so I do not understand what you write or better can not believe. Talking about world version.