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Post by bz2012
Description: Not finding My ending destination
Reported on: January 10
Afraid we ALL have the same 'ending destination'.
Description: Why am I a only 1000+ wait but on the scoreboard I'm number 20 154,000+ points
Reported on: December 13, 2012
I think he needs a 100 wait light bulb. :)

Description: Incorrect route from mingo to Ames.
Reported on: February 20, 2012
I hope he finally got there.
From the middle of Marshalltown, Iowa,
Description: Tulsa ,ok
Reported on: December 25, 2012
Tulsa is ok with me, too.
From the middle of a corn field in Iowa,
Description: No road
Reported on: March 23, 2012
Wonder how much it cost to get his car towed out of the corn field.

Hey, Everybody! Let's sing a choirs of
'We are poor little sheep and have lost our WAZE, Bahhh, Bahhh, Bahhh',
said Tom, sheepishly. :P
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Description: name of road is not Buck Johnson
Reported on: January 21
great. What is the name of the road?
Description: says I'm somewhere south of Odessa tx. I'm probably 50 miles away south of midland tx. strong 3G service as well. won't refresh to the correct location.
Reported on: October 01, 2012

Description: F***ing stinks like hell right here
Reported on: December 14, 2012

Description: addresses are on wrong side of the road on wave. even should be the north side of junction, and odds on the south. thank you.
Reported on: January 20

Description: insane route, not even close
Reported on: July 29, 2012

Description: I have arrived...it isn't any further down the road.
Reported on: October 20, 2012

Description: quicker route than map predicted
Reported on: November 20, 2012
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txemt wrote:

Description: LIGHT TRAFFIC
Reported on: January 24

Display related:

Report as:Open Solved Not identified
Yep, I would expect so...https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=6&lat ... TTTFTTTTFT
The DARK FORCE has made the TRAFFIC LIGHT there!
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Post by bz2012
Description: sending me a route amost 2 times longer & slower.
Reported on: October 04, 2012

Description: y'all have it wrong, turn on hwy 9 in eupora, then at akerman continue on #9 to Louisville catch 397 straight into dekalb,
Reported on: December 17, 2012
Hmmmm that is about what livemap shows me for the fastest route from the balloon's location.
Description: also y'all showing go 2 miles on old 82 to get to us-82, why us-82 is in my front yard lol
Reported on: December 17, 2012

Description: look at my starting point, 29 old hwy 82
Reported on: December 17, 2012
maybe his routing problem is already fixed. It was detailed, which is nice.
The following ones were not very useful
Description: driving route should be on main highway not side streets
Reported on: November 03, 2012

Description: in the whiting nj section of map there are all not right streets
Reported on: July 05, 2012

Description: It's called Delicious Orchards
Reported on: November 12, 2012
darned indefinite pronouns! I would like to know what 'it' was.

Description: incorrect entrance to gated community
Reported on: November 04, 2012

Description: Eli is the wrong name
Reported on: August 15, 2012

Description: Cvs is in wrong place
Reported on: December 06, 2012

Update Request: Incorrect address
THIS is really Crystal Hill Lane. It never would pave on my phone but popped up recently. I had previously sent you a message that another street had this name. Sorry!
Submitted 84 days ago
nice to get an apology, now and then. Not sure what to do about it, but nice!

Posted from https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=6&lon ... TTTFTTTTFT

Description: when traveling to hinds college Raymond campus waze tried to send me east on hwy 18 instead of west 3 miles
Reported on: January 11
By my reconing, raymond ms IS about 20 miles north east of the balloon location.
I don't see why they would want to go west. Perhaps their GPS located them in the wrong spot by 23 miles?
Description: turns before I do
Reported on: yesterday
hmmmmm?
A birdwatching friend once told me to 'leave all turns un-stoned'.
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txemt wrote:

Problem: This highway is under construction there's absolutely no find a state that I'm here
Reported on: February 02

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User drive (GPS trace) Waze provided route
I understood up to "a state that I'm here"
sHe obviously lives in the State of Confusion.
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xteejx wrote:Someone was playing hide and seek I think...

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sHe may have parked and gone into the building with WAZE running.
The inherent inaccuracy of the GPS could then, over a period of time, have misplaced the actual location by a variable distance and direction, causing the 'path' shown to be traced out.

I have noticed that any GPS will, over a period of time, show 'small' movements in various directions and variations in altitude as it picks up and uses the data from different satellites as they come into range and go out of range and the signals experience various doppler shifts due to the satellite motion and due to variations in ionospheric and other atmospheric conditions.
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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:)
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WeeeZer14 wrote:
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.
Exactly my point. If WAZE included a snapshot of the screen that the user was looking at when they started to submit the report, we would not have to guess. It should be a rather small tweak to the client software. Most of the 'stuff' needed is already in place because users can submit snapshots taken with their camera now.

It would take up a bit of bandwidth to send and would require server storage space and a change in the editor to let view the snapshot when we open the user's report.

It would vastly improve the 'communications of data' that the problem report is intended to convey.
I think the benefits would far outweigh the costs.

Trying to think of unintended consequences. Have not found any yet.
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How would the screen shot taken as someone is attempting to report a problem be a privacy concern?

It would be taken with the consent of the user and the user would approve it. It would NOT be 'forced' on the user.

I can see how a screen shot taken at some other times could be of concern but under this specific set of circumstance, I don't see a problem.

I do appreciate your raising the issue so that it could be clarified.
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petervdveen wrote:But if you have a datalimit, you won't like it very much I think.
Also when dataroaming it will get a bit expensive ;)
Then you don't need to send reports of map problems while you sit in your living room, looking at the map in WAZE. :)

I think that these reports are being sent by people trying to be helpful.
Due to current system limitations, the reports are 'worse than useless'.

This idea would solve THAT problem (and eliminates many 'Jolly drivers' reports.)
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