jr1982jr wrote:The short term answer is that no GPS means no good Waze functionality. The longer term answer is that Waze has been trialing some GPS beacons that will help with this. The article I included below talks about the trial in Pittsburg and several internation cities.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/21/waze-beacons-tunnels/

This is awesome! I have actually thought about this several times (Apple iBeacon) while in a tunnel and I don't know if I'm staying straight or going right at exit 9 to capital. I remember the MLB Ballpark app used to have some iBeacon settings that would check me in and was supposed to eventually help someone navigate the ballpark inside the app. The setting seems to have disappeared and I haven't heard of iBeacon probably ever since but always thought it had good potential for something like this forum topic.


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The short term answer is that no GPS means no good Waze functionality. The longer term answer is that Waze has been trialing some GPS beacons that will help with this. The article I included below talks about the trial in Pittsburg and several internation cities.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/21/waze-beacons-tunnels/

It did not occur to me when I posted previously but we actually have a meeting with Waze staff next month. I will add the beacons to my list of discussion topics.

Thanks for the quick reply! Is there any way in the map editor perhaps to schedule a traffic jam? There's lots of roads in the area that become one-way at certain times, and Waze never sends me the wrong way in those situations.

Haase6 wrote:Thanks for the quick reply! Is there any way in the map editor perhaps to schedule a traffic jam? There's lots of roads in the area that become one-way at certain times, and Waze never sends me the wrong way in those situations.

The one way streets are already programmed into Waze by using Time Based Segment Restrictions.

To "schedule a traffic jam" is already taken care of by the historical speed history and the algorithm. That is why if there is a large backup on an interstate, then Waze can pick it up fairly quickly and offer alternate routing.

At the NE meetup, the staff gave a presentation on beacons. Talking to Irad, it appears that will be on the MAR meetup agenda too.