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Dear Austrian, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Serbian Wazers,

We want to organize a regional meetup in Bratislava, Slovakia (maybe this is the "most easiest to reach" city for these countries) in the second half year for the TopWazers in this region.
We want to do some workshop about the future features of waze, the "must to repair/develop" functions and, of course, we want to know each other much more.

Update

Date: December 1, 2012. 11:00 - 17:00 GMT+01:00
Location: Digitale, Letná Residence, Hálkova 1/A, Bratislava, Slovakia (Google Maps)
Waze navigation links: (Launch from your phone) Parking Lot (free) | Street parking (free) * | Entrance
* In case you will use the Street parking, please double-check you are not blocking any garage / house gate!
Meetup Agenda: PDF

http://files.guri.sk/meetup_halkova.png

Free WiFi
Network name: Waze Meetup Hotspot
Password: metamorphosis

Attendees

FINAL LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

WAZE STAFF (4):
[IL] Ori CONFIRMED
[IL] Ehud (Co-Founder, CTO) CONFIRMED
[IL] Amir (Co-Founder, VP R&D) CONFIRMED
[IL] Chen (Head of Community & Support team) CONFIRMED

HUNGARY (7):
[HU] wroadd CONFIRMED
[HU] ZseZo CONFIRMED
[HU] Kaszast CONFIRMED
[HU] Mochrul CONFIRMED
[HU] Szata76 CONFIRMED
[HU] vtibi CONFIRMED
[HU] Botika CONFIRMED

CZECH REPUBLIC (3):
[CZ] Zirland CONFIRMED
[CZ] Fotrik CONFIRMED
[CZ] Greby CONFIRMED

SLOVAKIA (12):
[SK] guri211 CONFIRMED
[SK] porubcan CONFIRMED
[SK] M-A-L CONFIRMED
[SK] Shalafi CONFIRMED
[SK] Suik CONFIRMED
[SK] foxitrot CONFIRMED
[SK] Glipko CONFIRMED
[SK] grafik CONFIRMED
[SK] (Jozef Drahovsky) CONFIRMED
[SK] MagicOfLA CONFIRMED
[SK] duky5 CONFIRMED
[SK] SonkaW (Assistant) CONFIRMED

AUSTRIA:
[AT] GPSRitter CONFIRMED

SERBIA:
[SR] dragstor CONFIRMED AGAIN

NORWAY:
[NO] Pepsodent CONFIRMED

ROMANIA:
[RO] Spookyx CONFIRMED

Agenda (download agenda here)

Official start 11:00

Introduction of regions & attendees
One wazer from each country introduces attendees & status of Waze in his country (i.e. Mapping status, ETA accuracy, coverage, etc).

Infrastructure changes (waze HQ)
What exactly has changed? Why is routing expected to be better? Does it have any influence on better ETA accuracy? Regular map updates - how often? Is the speed of Map Editor also positively affected?

POI & Address search (guri211)
How should it work? How to make POI search easy and intuitive for users? Using aliases and partial strings "Hilton" vs. "Hotel Hilton". House numbers are back, but map editors don't like the implementation. Idea of new POI & Address search (v1 - simple, v2 - advanced).

How is ETA calculated? (waze HQ)
How are the traffic jams taken into this count? How many wazers do we need to create traffic jam on a street / minor hwy / major hwy / freeway? Could a single baby wazer create a standstill? Is the event information severity (i.e. Minor vs. Major Accident) and number of likes or comments also important? Is the ETA for each turn different? Is the color-coded displayed speed different from ETA speed on the same segment(s)?

Building up CE Waze Community (wroadd)
How to build our community together?

Hazard Reporting
Offline reporting - remember report when temporarily offline and send a few seconds / minutes later. Reporting Closures. Option to report Ice on road. Consider transforming the speedcam report into an Update Request.

Map Protection
Quality control for map editing

Other Issues
ETA +1 min. Unicode characters problem when loading favorites from server. Do not allow jumping to lat=0,lon=0 position - show previous position instead. ETA historical data do not respect day of week

Feature Ideas
Speed Limits. Lane Guidance (incl. hazards). Vehicle types (incl. type-specific turn restrictions). Navigation signs & Traffic signs. Expected time to green light. Augmented reality. TopWazers version w/map debug information. Add option to manually reorder favorites. List of (own) URs in Editor, even if closed recently. Access to bug tracking (ticketing) system for betatesters (at least read-only).

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Nice to hear, that You are interested! :)
Of course it is not so hardly limited to Top users :)
Details will come in July or August.
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Hi Guys!

WARNING: MEETUP DATE HAS CHANGED!
Meetup date: December 1st 2012, Saturday
Old date: 17.11.2012, Saturday (NOT VALID)
The place will be defined by Slovakian Wazers, but somewhere in Bratislava, Slovakia.

The program:
need to be defined, but we should meet ~11:00.

Here is the Google Calendar template of the event:
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?a ... google.com
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Ok, let's collect, who could be attending, please write Your name on the end of the list, if You can attend:

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Sorry guys, it is my mistake. I was tried to calculate the best date from the answers of the filled forms.
I didn't want to put it later and this date was enough good to have some guys from HQ.
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So glad to hear :-)

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MagicOfLA wrote:Guri, I'm Slovak, you know... ;).

M.
Sorry, it was me :)
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AlanOfTheBerg wrote:Enjoy the meeting!

Curious: I notice the 'manual reorder of favorites' on the agenda. This is only missing in android, which I do find especially odd. What about ios made it so much easier that its been in that version for a long time.
Alan, message forwarded :)

I want to say thank You for all of the participants for this great day, especially Guri, who managed everything from the beginning and made all is possible.
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It is public holiday but it is also Saturday. So it makes no difference.
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