Main Page/Development plans and priorities

Waze is growing fast in features and popularity. This is not a complete list of development areas, but should reassure you that Waze is aware of your concerns and is working to make things better.

Current development focus includes:

• Upgrading the worldwide infrastructure to allow Waze to support the growing number of users while making the service more reliable
• Bug fixing
• Integrating features to generate revenue for Waze
• ASR (Automated Speech recognition)
• TTS (Text to Speech voice guided turn-by-turn instructions that announce the street names for upcoming turns) in multiple languages
• Releasing feature equal clients for Android and iOS
• Gas price integration
• POI category search
• Toll Road avoidance
• Time of day turn restrictions
• Time of day road directionality changes
• Adding the ability to search for location by UK postcodes
• Implementing road blocks and road closures
• Supporting Carpool, HOV, Transit lanes

Recently completed:

• Making the Android version stable
• Upgrading the World servers, which has increased the reliability and speed of editing maps
• Improved the routing in areas of Private Roads and Parking Lot roads