daknife wrote:Please ask your friend to NOT use waze while biking. There are apps for biking, Waze is for driving. Such use corrupts the traffic data and is thus strongly discouraged. And the corruption of said traffic data is a reason Waze is not likely to provide a bike option anytime soon, GPS's just aren't accurate enough to discern between a bike lane and the neighboring traffic lane. Also walking trails are not to be mapped in. Waze is designed for commuter use. They may increase the scope in the future but that is still likely to be a long time out.

Do not add walking trails, I will delete any and all I see. While they are not totally forbidden in the wiki, anytime they start getting added they start getting junctioned with the road network and that will cause problems. Waze will try to avoid such routes but if available it will give routings on such supposedly non-driveable routes.

I get what you are saying; yet what about the bike lanes strictly from a motorist's point of view? Surely showing them would help us drivers be more aware of bicyclists, no? Perhaps editing the affected street name's to include something to show that, like +BL (for Bike Lane)? Maybe I'm straining at gnats here, but I can see the value in that. Or maybe those roads could have a pink(or some other color) line/border on either side of the road to indicate it as well (which could then be used on whatever type of street/road it might be, from minor highway to a cul-de-sac.

I totally see your point, daknife about the data getting messed up. Yet seeing as bikers on the road are certainly a potential hazard (and Waze goes to such great lengths to help us be aware of such driving hazards), I believe that indicating such lanes would help all Wazers be at least a bit more careful while "sharing the road" as the bicyclists say.

Speaking of Bike Lanes, what about the HOV lanes? Would it not be a good idea for Waze to have some way to include those as a separate distinction/add-on, like my suggestion for the Bike Lanes? I've seen on the other forums that it is in development, but not anywhere near close. Just my two cents...

Totally understand the issues with the lanes there. In the meantime though, perhaps we might add another indicator to show Wazers that there is an HOV lane (add something to the name, like "I-15 & HOV Lane"), which could be useful for indicating Bike lanes as well (not for driving of course, but simply to alert drivers, like "E 800 S & Bike Lane"), like the CONST ZN addendum that used to be used? That way, at least for now, nothing needs to be updated program-wise, yet those lanes are still obvious to all Wazers. Thoughts?

Sounds like a plan then

Yeah, I went back and corrected those...thanks for pointing that out.

I agree with adopting the California and Nevada standard.

Resistance is futile.