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Search for a wazer, ping, locate and navigate.

Post by autourdupc
Hi,

It would be great to have possibility to search for a wazer using its pseudo...

We can imagine to ping it, locate it and navigate to it !

We can also imagine a new entry in setting like "Permit my location on ping" on/off (so we can preserve personnal life).

Thank you very much for this very nice application.
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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
The iPhone beta currently out has location/destination sharing options now. From the map you can tap-hold your current location then text/email that location to your friend to load into Waze and navigate to. I haven't been able to test this yet.
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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
Autourdupc wrote:That is great... I would appreciate to have the same option for Android :mrgreen:
EDIT: Deleted part which duplicated Darren's post. I wish for waze to have internal user-to-user communication for this type of sharing without having to rely on email or SMS. Directly to your buddies would be superb.
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Post by autourdupc
AlanOfTheBerg wrote:The iPhone beta currently out has location/destination sharing options now. From the map you can tap-hold your current location then text/email that location to your friend to load into Waze and navigate to. I haven't been able to test this yet.
That is great... I would appreciate to have the same option for Android :mrgreen:
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Post by autourdupc
AlanOfTheBerg wrote:EDIT: Deleted part which duplicated Darren's post. I wish for waze to have internal user-to-user communication for this type of sharing without having to rely on email or SMS. Directly to your buddies would be superb.
Even if it is by SMS or email, that would be great for a first time.
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Post by dmcconachie
Autourdupc wrote:
AlanOfTheBerg wrote:The iPhone beta currently out has location/destination sharing options now. From the map you can tap-hold your current location then text/email that location to your friend to load into Waze and navigate to. I haven't been able to test this yet.
That is great... I would appreciate to have the same option for Android :mrgreen:
In the latest beta Android can receive these invites from iOS wazers and in the next beta will be able to send them too.
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Post by dmcconachie
AlanOfTheBerg wrote:
Autourdupc wrote:That is great... I would appreciate to have the same option for Android :mrgreen:
EDIT: Deleted part which duplicated Darren's post. I wish for waze to have internal user-to-user communication for this type of sharing without having to rely on email or SMS. Directly to your buddies would be superb.
And to take it the other way I wish I could share my location to someone else via text/email without it being a waze link!
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Post by gettingthere
There is an option in Waze 3.1 (currently in Beta for iPhone) to send you route to another Wazer so they can navigate to the same destination.
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Post by gettingthere
wl02703 wrote:For a social GPS, the social side is really weak.
Although it's difficult to be social in a navigation application when you are supposed to be driving and concentrating on doing so.

I don't see Waze as a social networking application but as a community input, community collected data driven, focus on traffic avoidance, GPS application.
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Post by harling
Autourdupc wrote:It would be great to have possibility to search for a wazer using its pseudo... We can imagine to ping it, locate it and navigate to it ! We can also imagine a new entry in setting like "Permit my location on ping" on/off (so we can preserve personnal life).
Good ideas. Maybe settings such as "allow friends to find me" and "allow any Wazer to find me" would make sense. Search for them on Uservoice: vote on it if it's already there, or create a new one if it isn't.
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