WAZE not finding signal.

When you select "Navigate" and then pick a destination, it will calculate a recommended route. At the bottom of that initial screen there will be a button that says "Routes." Hit that and it will give you three different routes to choose from.

Roland said:

qrysdonnell said:
If you're going anywhere near NYC or some place that you can conceive of being crowded Waze is a must. It knows when you should take side streets through Leonia/Ft. Lee to avoid 60 minute back ups on the GWB. I trust it completely. I'd drive into a lake if it told me too, because I know there would be a good reason for it to tell me to do it.

The Leonia/Ft. Lee alternative has been a time saver, but I wish Waze had a feature that allowed you to select how much time a driver wants to save. I have often found myself zigging and zagging through side streets to save less than a minute. It seems that Waze is programmed to pick the fastest route even if it involves 5 extra turns and only saves 30 seconds

yahooyahoo said:
When you select "Navigate" and then pick a destination, it will calculate a recommended route. At the bottom of that initial screen there will be a button that says "Routes." Hit that and it will give you three different routes to choose from.

I do that. But on my 25 mile commute, they are all substantially different routes with substantially different times (usually). For me, they're not tweaks on the same route.

I gave up using Waze for routes I normally take since it was using up major amounts of data.

The zig-zag tendency drives me crazy. For a new trip, I always try to check out MapQuest or google maps at home, then I can fine-tune the zig-zags on Waze as I drive.

I've reported a few map errors or closures; major pain to follow-up on, though.

It depends on the complexity of the issue and the clarity with which you report it.

Every now and then, for instance, Waze gets in its head that you can make a left turn from First Street onto Sussex Street in Newark. If you hit report - map issue - turn not allowed, assuming Waze had directed you to turn left there, it should get fixed without anyone asking you for further help; the problem is obvious.

But if you clicked "general map error" or "wrong driving directions" or something, you might get asked for more info.

I used to do a lot of Waze editing with the map editor a few years ago and fixed a good amount of broken things like that myself -- more than 2,600 edits, just checked -- but I eventually quit because someone went and "locked" just about all the local roads bigger than side streets so that only higher level editors could touch them. All those edits I made + all the driving and reporting I'd done only got me to 92,000 some-odd points and I was still a lowly level 0 map editor, unable now to fix anything. (That no-left-turn from First To Sussex, for instance, is locked to levels 4 and above. Whatever, Waze.)

Anyway, I find it generally pretty reliable, though it's completely failed me once or twice, sending me to the wrong place. And it's a bit obnoxious about both its preferred routes and about only allowing you to choose from 3 options no matter what. If you want to head up into New England but are positive you'd rather do so on the Merritt and not 95, you may have to do something like tell it you're going to Inwood and only then give it your true destination, since the 3 routing choices it will give you from your driveway might all be different variants on how to get to 95.

yahooyahoo said:
Yes, you can report an issue. But then they send you a message asking for further detail which requires the login, etc.

sprout said:

yahooyahoo said:
I've tried this but you have to login to the webpage, etc etc. Why can't I just send a message and be done with it?

fabulouswalls said:
For those of you who use Waze a lot, please take the time to report the map issues when you have them. It really helps the rest of the community.
For support with GPS issues you can go here: https://support.google.com/waze/?hl=en#topic=6273402

I think there is a "report map issue" button right in the app itself. So (if you have a passenger) you can report the map issue at the time it occurs.

If I know where I'm going generally, I just don't do the zig-zags, especially on my daily commute. It often wants me to turn before I get to South Orange Ave, so I'm potentially making the left onto SO Ave from Rynda instead of at the light. Sure, it *could* save time, or I could also be sitting there for minutes. I choose to just not do that and it recalculates without getting too cranky.

Is there a way to explicitly tell Waze to avoid toll roads?

ParticleMan said:
Is there a way to explicitly tell Waze to avoid toll roads?

Yes.

Click the "Settings" gear -> Navigation -> Click the "Avoid toll roads" checkbox

The_Soulful_Mr_T said:

mrincredible said:
I had this problem Friday evening, but apparently it was a server problem with Waze.
When I used it today it worked correctly.

You think it was a server problem with WAZE? Or you know something? I depend on WAZE and if it's not going to work, I need an alternative, stat, as they say. Thanks.

I googled "Waze Server Outage." I found a link to a site called downdetector.com, which is apparently a place you can go to report problems with network connections.

You can check it out now, at this link: https://downdetector.com/companies If you find Waze on that list and look at past issues, you can see that on Friday evening for a couple of hours there were several hundred reports of connection problems with Waze. This seems to be strictly a crowdsource kind of deal, not really any official status of the company's servers.

My googling also led me to the Waze status page: http://status.waze.com/ This didn't give any information about server outages, but it did reveal that they were doing some map updates.

I put two-and-two together and figured there were server problems at Waze. If I could talk to someone at Waze and ask them I would. But their website is pretty opaque when it comes to technical difficulties.

This is just a question, have you reached any kind of data limit on your mobile phone for your current billing cycle?

sprout said:

ParticleMan said:
Is there a way to explicitly tell Waze to avoid toll roads?

Yes.
Click the "Settings" gear -> Navigation -> Click the "Avoid toll roads" checkbox

Yeah, i found that, but was hoping there was a way to do it on a trip by trip basis, like you can in Google Maps.