Adress search (house numbers) in Russia
Hi Waze Team!
First of all thank you for great product!
Bad part
Waze have a realy bad adress search here. Yes, waze can use other adress providers, but they all can't give a result. Except google and foursquare.
I don't know why but in waze client google can't find adress. It can find POI by name, shows it's adress in search result, but when I enter this adress in search field it shows me nothing. It works well in browser.
Foursquare can find POI by adress but in residential areas it don't work. No POI there.
Waze allows only numeric addresses as part of the street and it's useless in Russian cities. 1, 2, 3
Why it's so important?
Yes most of wazers has 3-5 places they drive every day. Foursquare helps to find places (POI) for weekly drives. Users got good traffic reports, smart navigation, and they happy.
If user base is small you don't have good traffic reports, navigation not so smart, but it works. In this case users download and run navigation app when they do not know where they were going or how to get there. These users know only the destanation address. But waze can't help them.
"Does not work!" Unistall.
How about taxi drivers? They needs havigation apps. They have internet connection, smartphone, car charger but they can't use waze. It doesn't search for adress!
"Does not work!" Unistall.
Adress search is a BASE functional and it's DOES NOT WORK.
As result we have ~5 active wazers on 1M city.
Please do something.
First of all thank you for great product!
Bad part
Waze have a realy bad adress search here. Yes, waze can use other adress providers, but they all can't give a result. Except google and foursquare.
I don't know why but in waze client google can't find adress. It can find POI by name, shows it's adress in search result, but when I enter this adress in search field it shows me nothing. It works well in browser.
Foursquare can find POI by adress but in residential areas it don't work. No POI there.
Waze allows only numeric addresses as part of the street and it's useless in Russian cities. 1, 2, 3
Why it's so important?
Yes most of wazers has 3-5 places they drive every day. Foursquare helps to find places (POI) for weekly drives. Users got good traffic reports, smart navigation, and they happy.
If user base is small you don't have good traffic reports, navigation not so smart, but it works. In this case users download and run navigation app when they do not know where they were going or how to get there. These users know only the destanation address. But waze can't help them.
"Does not work!" Unistall.
How about taxi drivers? They needs havigation apps. They have internet connection, smartphone, car charger but they can't use waze. It doesn't search for adress!
"Does not work!" Unistall.
Adress search is a BASE functional and it's DOES NOT WORK.
As result we have ~5 active wazers on 1M city.
Please do something.
- Fix the google (The easiest way?)
- Add some other providers in search like http://maps.yandex.ru/ or http://maps.2gis.ru or http://www.openstreetmap.org/
- Improove waze map(The worst way?)
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