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Type: General error
Description: animal on shoulder

I guess someone has been mapping EVERY little landmark around here! ;)
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Post by WeeeZer14
shawndoc wrote:Hey now, I resemble that screen capture! (Actually, I grew up in Oregon and have more of a white trash/redneck accent than a valley accent)

That reminds me, is Southern California the only place where people preface the freeway with "the"? I've done a fair bit of traveling around this country, and I don't think I've noticed it anywhere else. Take "the" 210 to "the" 101 and then head south until your hit "the" 5.
I thought it was only CA and all of CA for that matter. Is it just parts of CA?

Here in TN is seems to be "Interstate x" and "Highway everything-else". While in NJ and most of the north east, everything is "Route x" or even just "x".

In NJ I would often take "124 to 78 to 287 to 202 206" (NJ-124, I-78, I-287, US-202 / US-206) and everyone knew what that meant :) To this day I usually just use the numbers unless I am trying to be very clear for someone.
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Post by WeeeZer14
rotus8 wrote:
jasonh300 wrote:I heard it in San Francisco and San Jose. So I think it's all of California.
Nope, it's southern CA only. If you hear it up north, it is coming from an import.
So what would a native from north CA say?
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Post by WeeeZer14
rottielover wrote:
Type: General error
Description: no redlight cameras a appear at this intersection
Left at an intersection where none have been reported....
Could it be that there IS one in real life but not on the Waze map?
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Post by WeeeZer14
Ayzmo wrote:Type: General error
Description: direction of my car is incorrect
Reported on: yesterday

The image looks like the person did donuts in the middle of an intersection
I'd love the option of sending a response along the lines of "The GPS in your phone sucks. Get an external GPS receiver or a new phone."
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AlanOfTheBerg wrote:
WeeeZer14 wrote:I'd love the option of sending a response along the lines of "The GPS in your phone sucks. Get an external GPS receiver or a new phone."
But what if it's the earth doing a slightly different wobble for a few seconds?
Response = Please excuse the Matrix as it adjusts.
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Post by WeeeZer14
Or like reporting cameras, a user thinks that by panning the map on their screen they magically transport themselves to the location they are looking at ;)
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Post by WeeeZer14
bz2012 wrote:Suggestion: the client software should send a screen snapshot along with reports such as this one:

That way, we might be able to figure out what the drivers are TRYING to report. :)

I would normally classify problems such as this a "a loose nut on the keyboard".
However, I think that some tweaks to the client interface could eliminate a lot of these problems.
(it would get rid of some of the fun, however. :lol:)
I'll bet you good money that this person was sitting at home and panning the map thinking that they can report things they are looking at.

That said, screenshots could be nice help in some situations.
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Post by WeeeZer14
RE: screenshots... probably too much trouble for privacy concerns (even if there are none) and size/storage of files.

So instead, give two points on an UR... one being location where the device is at the time and the other being the center of the view on the screen at the time. Or even a rectangle object showing exactly the bounds of the screen view at the time of the report.

That won't help if the issue is a graphics bug or glitch, but for actual map problems, that should be helpful.
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Post by WeeeZer14
That is another valid approach, but my concern is that sometimes we can get a valid correction from someone scrolling the map. Especially for roads that don't actually exist. It is hard to drive out to the middle of the forest to report that you can't drive there ;) (Especially if there is no cell service.)

And before we just say direct them to the livemap on the web, 1.) that isn't totally user friendly to tell someone "yeah, that thing you are looking at right now? Remember it and try to find it over on a website you will need to pull up on another machine" and 2.) not everyone may have access to a device that can use the livemap as more and more people live on their phones and tablets.
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