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About Waze</p>
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Welcome to the Waze wiki.
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Getting started</p>
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=Getting Started=
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* [[FAQ]]
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* [[User Manual]]
You can make Waze even better</p>
* [[Manual de uso]]
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{{:Main Page/Help Improve Waze}}
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=Map Editing=
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* [[Editing your route on the map]]
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* Editing Manual
Problems, bugs and limitations</p>
** [[Cartouche - Update map]]
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** [[How to fix scan problems (problems 1-31)]]
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** [[How to fix merger problems (problems 51-60)]]
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* [[How to label and name roads]]
* [[Known issues]] with Cartouche
* [[Cartouche Changelog]]
=[[Dashboard]]=
==My Dashboard==


Hello everybody, in this section we will explain you about all the personal information that you can get from your “Dashboard” .
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Development plans and priorities</p>
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First of all of we need to understand what it is “My Dashboard”  label and what do you can find inside it. Inside the Dashboard  label, you will find all your personal information and driving statistics. This info and statistics are personal, which is why you will only see them after sign in to the website.
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Technical information</p>
 
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After signing in, you will see that your Dashboard has been divided in four different sections or quarters. In each of them, you will find all your personal information and your driving activity inside Waze.
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==Personal Details==
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The First one of these sections is dedicated to your “Personal Details”. In this section you will can change and update your personal details such as your password, Birthday, Gender, etc. .
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==Your recent routes==
<p style="font-size:xx-large;font:bold">Have fun going your own Waze.</p>
The second section it is dedicated to “Your recent routes”. In this section you will be able to follow and check all your recent routes. For checking the route of your interest, you need to click into the link of “show route”.
 
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For more information about your archive you can visit, the following page.
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Editing_your_route_on_the_map#Finding_the_roads_you.27ve_driven
Please note that your routes usually take up to 24 hours before they are uploaded to your dashboard. So usually you will be able to see all the drives from yesterday (and before).
 
==your Rank and Points==
The third section is dedicated to your Rank and Points. In this section you  will able to follow your progress and driving activity inside Waze. Each field represents a different type of your activity inside Waze. Every night our system will calculate all the points that you accumulated in all the different fields through the day. The system will then allocate you in your new position inside the rank table. Your rank can change on a daily basis.
 
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==optimize your daily commute==
The fourth and last section is dedicated to “optimize your daily commute”. In this section you will be available to follow your daily commute statistics.
(coming soon...)
 
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=Forum Tips and Tricks=
* [[Login to forum]]
* [[RSS feed for subforums]]
 
=Map Editing - Different languages=
==United Kingdom==
* [[How to label and name roads (United Kingdom)]]
* [[How to label cities (United Kingdom)]]
 
==Netherlands==
* [[How to label and name roads (Netherlands)]]
* [[Checklist basiskaart]]
* [[Plaatsen in Nederland]]
 
==Italian==
* [[How to label and name roads (Italian)]]
 
==German==
* [[Straßen zuordnen und benennen]]
* [[Übersetzung der POIs aus Cartouch]]
* [[Anleitung fuer Benutzer]]
 
==Sweden==
* Instruktioner till Cartouche
** [[Introduktion till Cartouche]]
** [[How to label and name roads (Sweden)]] dvs. Vägtyper och Namn
** [[SCAN problem 1-31]]
** [[MERGER problem 51-60]]
** [[Vanliga frågor och Svar ang. Cartouche]]
 
==España==
* [[Como categorizar y nombrar vías (España)]]
 
==France==
* [[Comment nommer les routes et les villes]]
* [[Cartouche - Carte d'édition]]
* [[Manuel d'édition (Petit manuel du parfait petit responsable de zone (Area manager))]]
* [[Problèmes de scan]]
* [[Avancement des zones]]
* [[Normalisation des POI]]
 
==Lietuviškai / Lithuanian==
* [[Klausimai ir atsakymai|Klausimai ir atsakymai (Lietuviškai / Lithuanian)]]
 
==Slovakia==
* [[Označovanie ciest na Slovensku]]
* [[Návod na úpravu máp (Cartouche)]]
* [[Area Managers na Slovensku]]
* [[Zmeny v doprave]]
 
==Czech==
* [[Značení cest v České republice]]
 
==Brazil==
* [[Como categorizar e nomear vias (Brasil)]]
 
==Denmark==
* [[Hvordan vi navngiver vejene(Denmark)]]
 
==Others==
* [[Edicion de tu ruta en el mapa]]
* [[Como categorizar y nombrar vias]]
 
=How to send log files=
*[[Turn on debug mode]]
 
=Current Phone Versions=
* [[iPhone]]
* [[Android]]
* [[Windows Mobile]]
* [[Symbian]]
* [[Blackberry - client version's features|Blackberry - alpha version issues]]
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* [[Source code]]
 
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* [[Translate waze (client text) to your local language]]
 
'''What happened to the wiki articles that used to live here?''' <br/>
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We've changed the way we work on translating waze to make it easier for all sides. Please check the new wiki article (above) for all the info.
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=Area Manager FAQ=
* [[Area Manager: 101]]
* [[Area Manager: Diagnosis]]
* [[Area Manager: Tips and Tricks]]
* [[Area Manager: YouTube Training Videos]]
* [[Area Manager: How to edit wiki pages]]
 
=Area Manager To Do lists - Map Editing=
* [[To Do lists - Major Cities]]
* [[To Do lists - POI Categories]]

Latest revision as of 23:24, 20 June 2018

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About Waze

Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone and provides the following features:

  • Spoken turn-by-turn directions
  • Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech)
  • Real-time traffic reports
  • Real-time Gas Prices [a]
  • Toll road avoidance [a]
  • Free regular updates to the map that you can help make are installed automatically
  • Search for destinations how you like: entire address at once, category, place name, landmark or use the addresses from your contacts
  • Integrated destination search with a massive country-wide database and Google
  • Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
  • Support for multiple languages
  • Gaming elements for fun and integrated social networking

^a Accuracy dependent on user contributions


Read more about the amazing way Waze gets better when you just drive around with Waze turned on

Getting started

If you have problems, try and find your own solution or ask the community for help:

If all else fails, you can email Waze with your problem

You can make Waze even better

You can make Waze better for yourself and everyone else

Problems, bugs and limitations

Waze is a fun and sophisticated navigation app. In most developed countries Waze provides superior navigation information over commercial GPS applications. Like any developing application, there are issues and complications that are being worked to resolve. Many of them are cosmetic and do not prevent a fully gratifying experience when using Waze.

Temporary issues are tracked in the official Waze server status and issues page.

Note that Waze Bugzilla, a tool previously used for bug reporting, is no longer in use. The Waze community used to report and tracks bugs and problems in the Bugzilla application. At the time, it was the best place to identify any currently known issues. There is no official replacement for Bugzilla.

Some of the more common issues include:

  • Routing distance is limited to about 1,000 miles (1600 km) distance. To route to longer distances, select a point between your origin and destination less than this limit.
  • When you request a route, the client device app assumes you are continuing in the same direction you last traveled. This is often desirable, but can lead to unnecessarily longer routes when you have a choice of direction from your starting position. If you start driving the other direction, it will recalculate the route.
  • Issues and limitations on your supported model smartphone
  • Odd routing: Waze has been known to make short detours. In these situations, Waze instructs the driver to turn off a road, only to have the driver immediately return to it. Ostensibly, this shortens the route, but it produces routes that many drivers consider unreasonable, and the time savings are often dubious. Editors can often work around this using the Detour Prevention Mechanisms.


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, allowing Waze to support the growing number of users while making the service more reliable
  • Bug fixing
  • Integrating features to generate revenue for Waze
  • Releasing the same features for Android and iOS
  • Supporting correct routing of authorized vehicles on Carpool, HOV, Transit lanes. Waze currently supports taxis, and private vehicles.

Recently completed:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Gas price integration
  • POI category search
  • Toll Road avoidance
  • Time of day turn restrictions
  • Time of day road directional changes
  • Implementing road blocks and road closures


Have fun going your own Waze.