sockslabs wrote:

Problem: accident on 495 exit 22

Did the accident alter the road in some way? Otherwise I'm not sure what you want me to do.

Perhaps the reporter thought s/he was too far outside 128 for police to come and remove the accident vehicles. (Sorry -- I used to live in Northborough, and the "you're too far from Boston for me to visit you" attitude I used to get from my friends back then really infuriated me.)

Perhaps they wanted you to change it to Burger King.

https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... 933&zoom=5

"Problem: Starbucks is here"

Well, if people would just patronize their local mom-and-pop coffee shops instead, that wouldn't be a problem, now would it?

Taco909 wrote:

bgodette wrote:This is something that may be possible in the near future. There's supposedly in testing a (national?) system for querying gate status for rail crossings. If that system has a public query api or private access can by negotiated by Google/Waze, it's certainly feasible to implement.

That would be great, but what kind of time buffer would we be looking at? With Waze client alert update times taking up to 5 minutes to distribute, and in my city, a typical commuter train gate activation only lasts 45-90 seconds, it seems that it would only be helpful when a crossing is closed for an unusually extended time period such as for switching operations.

I think this would be more useful for freight train crossings. I commute across this ungated CSX crossing every day. It's not common, but about once or twice a month I get stopped for 10-15 minutes near here as a freight train crosses. "We're detecting a slowdown. Are you in traffic?" "No." The problem with taking an alternate route in this case is that pretty much all of them cross the same CSX track, so you'd likely be delayed the same amount of time at another crossing.

I've also lived in more populated areas with commuter trains that put the gates down and take no more than your average wait at a red light to pass through the railroad crossing. A reroute would be of limited utility in this case. It is more for freight train crossings, I think.

Problem: no turn til 315
Reported on: October 09

tckma(3) on October 13, 2014
Which turn is time-restricted?

Are there additional time restrictions on the turn?
Reporter on October 13, 2014
Only school days.

The UR is on a turn from what looks like a school exit onto a road. Obviously this school isn't great at teaching reading comprehension.

There's no GMSV from the correct angle. I can see there's a sign under a stop sign, likely with some restrictions listed, but I can only see the back of the sign. Further, the UR isn't in an area I have frequent reason to drive through to check.

My response:

tckma(3) on October 16, 2014
I've added a time restriction on the left turn from Owings Ct onto Franklin Blvd from 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM on weekdays. Is this correct?
tckma(3) on October 16, 2014
(I cannot add a restriction for "school days" in Waze, so unfortunately, this has to be restricted on holidays and school vacations as well.)

We'll see what transpires.

Problem: no sign for boulevard circle.

What do you think we are? The highway department?

I'm not entirely sure how to respond to this one. "Contact the highway department?" Or should I actually make the request for the reporter?

"Problem: there is no issue."

Well, all righty then. *marks UR as solved*

jasonh300 wrote:This is a first. Place submitted with name in Chinese. I ran it through Google Translate and got "Guesthouse". The actual location turned out to be Country Inn & Suites.

Well, while that is technically correct, it's not specific enough, and is unhelpful to Wazers who don't speak Chinese.

SCP1906 wrote:no previous contact, no place point in that area
just asking how we could help

This driver was not very jolly at all!

I'm going to have to sign up for flickr or something since I can't post screen shots directly to the forum.

General error.
Reporter typed nothing.
Waze-recommended route suggests they turn out of the parking lot onto a main road.
GPS track shows them (presumably) walking around inside a Costco.

What I thought of saying about 10 minutes after the fact:

"Although it would be a cool feature, Waze does not currently provide shopping cart navigation instructions for avoiding crowds inside big box stores and warehouse clubs."

What I actually said:

"Hello. I am a volunteer map editor responding to your problem report in the Gateway Overlook shopping center in Elkridge/Columbia. Unfortunately, Waze did not provide enough information for me to tell exactly what happened. I can only see that Waze suggested you turn from the parking lot onto Waterloo Road, and you were (likely) walking around with your phone inside the Costco.

What was the nature of the problem you experienced?"

Let's hope s/he has a sense of humor. I've left Waze on after I've stopped driving and forgot to close the app; if I look at some of my drives I can see myself walking around the house, or chasing my dogs around my back yard when they don't come when called. It's given me a good laugh, although I know it DOES pollute the GPS data.