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Reports Pinned to a Wrong Road?

Post by TWSchroeder
A UR I worked made the following claim. Can this claim be verified? If so, should this be viewed as an enhancement need to the app?

First, recall that when roads fork from another road, Waze generally thinks we are driving on the Waze route until the location services clearly distinguish that we actually are driving on another road, but fairly close to the Waze route.

Given that background info, here is UR claim:

In the time period when Waze thought they were on the Waze route, they entered a report. They claim that the report remained on the Waze route road, instead of the actual road they were traveling on.

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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
Yes, Waze pins the UR to the road it showed the driver was on at the time the report was submitted. Essentially, the UR is "snapped" to the same road that the app snaps you to in order to account for GPS inaccuracy.
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Post by TWSchroeder
Very good to hear. Thank you.
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"Those" roads are nearly impassible and barely jackassable.

I think it says a lot about an editor to view how often they thank others.

[img]https:///tdL1sG[/img][img]https:///ubk1Zx[/img]
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