Rustika wrote:Hi everyone,

It was a real pleasure and an encouraging experience to meet with the top Brazilian Wazers last week in Sao-Paulo.
I was geniounly impressed by the great team of people who came to share their opinions and to be part of the event.
I believe the Brazilian community - which is the fastest growing amongst all Waze communities today - has already proven to be an engaged and dedicated group which is greatly contributing to the joined success of us all.


...So after a super-intensive week in Sao-Paulo and Rio, a very-long trip back home and a Huge backlog of items waiting for me -- I'd like to summarize and follow-up on the items discussed during our meeting last week.
So first - please accept my apology for the long delay and for lack of responsiveness to any inquiries over the last week since we've met in Sao-Paulo.

Here's the summary of the issues raised and discussed:

Map issues: the main issue raised was regarding the road-types and their affect over the routing-service.
Many cases of routes which prefer highways over prime-roads and make no sense
People suggested we add another road-type between a primary street and a minor highway
We might need to calibrate the routing algorithm BUT in order to look into this we MUST have examples for those cases
ACTION ITEM: please send us examples with permalinks and detailed routes
Radio-stations: we heard there are some very popular radio-stations broadcasting traffic reports. We will start a business dialoge with them.
Road-closures: a major issue in some local regions throughout the country. As discussed - our next client version should offer some control on a user-level, we will keep you posted about the progress.
Road-split and merge: people reported it created a U-turn instructions. As it seems like a bug (or a map problem) we would like to get examples for the location where it happens.
Traffic reports & alerts: people shared the notion that in some cases we're missing alerts on traffic jams. We are working to improve this and should have visible results in the very near future.
'Wish-list': people shared the following items they would like to see in the forthcoming versions -
- Road-type issues resolved
- Road-closures capabilities
- House-numbers update capabilities
- Road-split issues resolved
- Search by postal code
- Collaborations with radio stations
- Portuguese UI to the website
Forum: we would like to do the following -
Open a dedicated forum for Brazilian area-managers
Turn top-editors to country-managers and grant them rights for editing throughout the country
Add qualified editors to the international Waze-champs forum
Please comment or add your notes.

Thanks again for your great contribution and wonderful job!

Regards,

Chen/Rustika

adriansinger wrote:Oi galera, para estar organizado, precissamos que vocês preencham esse formulário.

Por favor, lembrem que o encontro não está confirmado e para fazé-lo precissamos da participação de pelo menos 10 usuários.

Abraço,
Adrian

Tchelow wrote:Confirmo minha participação também!

Abraços,

Tchelow

scarlogarcia wrote:
Eu gostaria de lembrar o nome do AM de Campinas que estava ao lado do Thiago. Gostei bastante das coisas que ele falava.

antigerme wrote:Teve também uma parte que gostei mas desconhecia que foi a penalização aplicada pelo app na mudança do tipo de via.