A few suggestions for improvements
Dear Wazer friends,
I'm a great Waze fan, use it daily and try to spread the word as much as possible. It's a great APP and thanks for making it.
As I said, I find it a fantastic tool, but have found a couple of points that I would like to suggest as improvements. These are the points:
- Good traffic: I speak from experience in Brazil, it has now become totally the rule that people use the "Moderate Traffic" to report good traffic. There are two aspects to this: 1) people like to report good news also, not only problems, traffic, accidents, potholes etc., and 2) although people are well intentioned when they make the report, it is confusing to map viewers as the "traffic" symbol appears on the map. Only by clicking on the symbol to you discover that it is "Moderate" and that the person meant traffic was good. My suggestion: create a green "Good Traffic" option in the traffic reports that will show up green on the map. In fact, it can replace the "Moderate Traffic" button as this isn't really something you report. Why report something average? You report good, bad and terrible.
- Speed Cameras: I believe it is Waze's suggestion to report temporary speed camera's as "Police", so they appear immediately for other drivers and are not permanent. However, people who don't read the instructions (and that means almost everyone) will report a temporary camera as a Speed Camera. Not only it never appears to other wazers, but it also trashes up the map with a huge amount of junk that someone has to clean up. My suggestion: make a "Temporary Camera or Radar gun" button in the Camera section. This would be reported just like police to other wazers.
Once again, thanks for the great APP.
Regards,
John
I'm a great Waze fan, use it daily and try to spread the word as much as possible. It's a great APP and thanks for making it.
As I said, I find it a fantastic tool, but have found a couple of points that I would like to suggest as improvements. These are the points:
- Good traffic: I speak from experience in Brazil, it has now become totally the rule that people use the "Moderate Traffic" to report good traffic. There are two aspects to this: 1) people like to report good news also, not only problems, traffic, accidents, potholes etc., and 2) although people are well intentioned when they make the report, it is confusing to map viewers as the "traffic" symbol appears on the map. Only by clicking on the symbol to you discover that it is "Moderate" and that the person meant traffic was good. My suggestion: create a green "Good Traffic" option in the traffic reports that will show up green on the map. In fact, it can replace the "Moderate Traffic" button as this isn't really something you report. Why report something average? You report good, bad and terrible.
- Speed Cameras: I believe it is Waze's suggestion to report temporary speed camera's as "Police", so they appear immediately for other drivers and are not permanent. However, people who don't read the instructions (and that means almost everyone) will report a temporary camera as a Speed Camera. Not only it never appears to other wazers, but it also trashes up the map with a huge amount of junk that someone has to clean up. My suggestion: make a "Temporary Camera or Radar gun" button in the Camera section. This would be reported just like police to other wazers.
Once again, thanks for the great APP.
Regards,
John
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