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Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:39 am
by DangerDaneDK
Long has it bothered me to see that you have to enter adress to actually "select" your home location in waze. Why not simply make it possible to add a GPS position instead?
Re: Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:50 pm
by AlanOfTheBerg
The proper format for GPS coordinate entry in the app is found in the
FAQ.
Re: Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:51 am
by BlazeTool
Most definitely can be GPS coordinates. And, on iOS at least, you can even put the GPS coordinates as the first line of the address for a contact and then have the search pull the coordinates from the contact. Very helpful for those places Bing doesn't get right.
Re: Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:18 pm
by BlazeTool
Either just hover over the location in
WME (it shows in the lower right corner), or
LiveMap (be warned though, the numbers display backwards from the order you need them),
or use Google Maps along with a bookmarklet.
I modified an existing bookmarklet to put the coordinates in the right order without any superfluous labels. Just create a shortcut with the following as the URL and when you are centered on the location in Google Maps, click on the bookmarklet.
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javascript:void(prompt('', gApplication.getMap().getCenter().lng() + "," + gApplication.getMap().getCenter().lat()));
Unfortunately there is no way I know of to grab the coordinates from the waze client.
Re: Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:17 am
by DangerDaneDK
I thought it had to be adress only. If you use the home "button"
Re: Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:49 pm
by DangerDaneDK
Then I just have to figure out how to "grab" the actual coordinates
Re: Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:33 pm
by gerben
You can search on coordinates, but you might have to switch lat and lon before it works.
Re: Putting in "Home" via GPS location rather then adresss?
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:42 am
by jasonh300
MeX_DK wrote:Long has it bothered me to see that you have to enter adress to actually "select" your home location in waze. Why not simply make it possible to add a GPS position instead?
All you have to do is tap/hold the home location on the screen and set it like that.