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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

Post by jm6087
Outstanding. This is amazing news. This should resolve quite a lot of issues that users have when searching for an address.
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

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xanderb wrote:Is that HN and RPP addresses?
Excellent question

And for clarification, the address in Waze places is still not included in search results, correct?
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

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SeveriorumPatrem wrote:As an aside, considering how high the confidentiality of the beta program generally attempts to be, does anyone else feel a little scandalized by this very public announcement about a beta feature? LOL
The champs asked Daliah about this point and she said
Daliah wrote:we posted in WME, because it's not confidential and you can share it with all editors
but you really can only test it if you're in beta
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

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smokingtree wrote:But I still can see Waze PP not being shown as blue dot under debug mode. When I click the white dot results I found that it’s actually a blue dot place but the display didn’t conform to the regularity.]
This release is not related to PP searching but HN searching which has never been in the autocomplete until now. The PP searching has been in the autocomplete for years.

That said, the place in the list is the actual google result, when you clicked it, the external provider link that was added to the Waze PP kicked in and took you to the the Waze PP instead of the google place. That is how the external provider links work.
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

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glenan56 wrote:Thanks for your answer.
I think that it is difficult for editors not to know from where is coming data address.
It is as difficult to edit well as to answer to update request when People are driven to bad adress.
It should be clear for everybody (editors and wazers) from where are coming solutions that waze displays. Google or waze.

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100% agree. The filled in blue icon is not really useful (even if the wazer happens to know how to get into debug mode) I would love to see an obvious difference between the two results. Maybe filled with a "G" and "W"
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

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Vespucci41 wrote:2. The blue pin is only in debug mode and will not be visible to users (this is not a new addition)
Will there be consideration in changing from a blue dot to something more obvious, like a "W" in the middle?

Will there be consideration in making it standard without having to go into debug mode?

Making the pin obvious it is a Waze place as opposed to a Google place to the normal user, not in debug mode, will go a long way to being more user friendly to the app users.
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

Post by Leorenaud
Great, that should solve a lot of problems.
I would suggest to show the Waze address first, above the Google address.
But......
It only works if you type the addresses without the city name.
If you also type in the city name only the Google result will show up and not anymore the Waze address.
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

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smokingtree wrote:I don’t see anything as exciting. I think it was quite inconceivable for an App just to be a wrapper of another for years especially we have many hard working editors trying to create right place and stop points to help drivers (not self proclaimed)

But I still can see Waze PP not being shown as blue dot under debug mode. When I click the white dot results I found that it’s actually a blue dot place but the display didn’t conform to the regularity.
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That's probably because you linked it to a Google place.

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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

Post by ojlaw
xanderb wrote:
Is that HN and RPP addresses?
I tested both in an area that google doesn't have in their maps and both HN and RPP seem to be showing the Waze results with the blue dot as an indicator
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Re: [Search] - Autocomplete now include Waze Addresses in Be

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there might be a Waze place there(without a google link), however, there is also a google place there with the exact same name so you could be seeing the google result-
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