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==What is a "GPS Trace"?== | ==What is a "GPS Trace"?== | ||
You will often hear editors talking about using a "GPS Trace" to verify roads that don't show up on either the satellite view or street view -- but what are they talking about? | You will often hear editors talking about using a "GPS Trace" to verify roads that don't show up on either the satellite view or street view, or to verify directionality -- but what are they talking about? | ||
Waze records the direction of user travel at routine intervals, and it uses little colored arrows to show those routes in the map editor: | Waze records the direction of user travel at routine intervals, and it uses little colored arrows to show those routes in the map editor: | ||
[[File:GPS traces show traffic.jpg| | [[File:GPS traces show traffic.jpg|center|600px|thumb|Screen shot of GPS arrows, all other layers turned off.]] | ||
Notice that, in most instances, there are two different colored arrows side by side. This shows two-way traffic. | |||
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What is a "GPS Trace"?
You will often hear editors talking about using a "GPS Trace" to verify roads that don't show up on either the satellite view or street view, or to verify directionality -- but what are they talking about?
Waze records the direction of user travel at routine intervals, and it uses little colored arrows to show those routes in the map editor:
Notice that, in most instances, there are two different colored arrows side by side. This shows two-way traffic.