WAZE free sat nav

[Antimus]

For all who are looking for a free navigation system WAZE is the way to go.
It's a community project and help is still needed to make it a perfect app.
Means driving new roads and naming streets.

A very nice feature is the that you can submit LIVE trafic information (hazard, speed cam) and if you drive slow it will show that for others too so they can avoid this street.

For WM is a new version available and it does look much better now. The one on Omarket is v1.4, so forget that one.

Here you can get v1.8
http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t...

The installation will take up to 10min. So dont worry.

The roads in the UK aren't complete yet, but with enough people helping out they will be!
I'm having a play with it today

[HalfMoon]

Just taken it out for a drive and I'm loving it. There's something addictive about adding new roads!

[Frederick]

I've been running it on my N1 when I'm out and about... it's gonna take a lot to make it a usable sat nav application (roads need to be mapped and named etc) but it's definitely got potential...

[todd69]

Thread revival!!

This app really has got better over time and is available on most platforms now (WM7 look away!).

Been using it for the past couple of weeks and has saved me from getting caught up in a couple of jams.

Really only any good if you have an unlimited data plan though.

[andy-xr]

And another revival, I've been using this for the past week or so and the content seems to have come along nicely. I've run it side by side against my TomTom Live and it's been really accurate on traffic. I've added things as well on the odd occasion, hazards and cameras mainly.

Really impressed!

[va1o]

Used this today, surprisingly impressed. Really nice interface, the routing seems good and the ETAs are spot on compared to my usual inaccurate Co-Pilot. Amazed that they've managed to fit this much into a free App. Hoping it can find me a way round the hellhole that is the ACW M25 morning rush hour tomorrow.

EDIT: Didn't work so well today Partly my fault for putting in the wrong postcode (by one digit) but it was insisting the entrance to McDonalds in London Colney was how to get onto the M25... er no.

Edited by va1o on Tuesday 31st January 12:56

[todd69]

Maybe it sensed you were hungry ;-)

Seems to be an update to it today, certainly a lot easier to navigate the app.

[jimbobr1]

I used this yesterday for the first time. I'm very impressed on a roundtrip of over 350 miles it was faultless and traffic info was better than the system in my Lexus.

[sneijder]

Absolutely love it, anyone else trying to spot the other users as you pass them ?

[R1-Jay]

got it on the iphone, very good!

sometimes it says im passing someone else with Waze, but no one is there!!! and wished they could sort out the 200 mile trip limit!

[badger61]

Its great on the iphone 4s (I use it in conjunction with CamerAlert) until the iphone loses GPS. Not a fault of Waze but the iPhone I guess. Definitely worth a bash though.

[va1o]

Yeah overall I'm pretty happy with it, use it quite often now as it does better routes than co-pilot most the time and the traffic information is great.

[magpies]

what is it like in the rural areas where phone signal isnt good (or non existant for miles)

[Rawhide]

There is now a pistonheads group on there. Only 14 members though so sign up today

[va1o]

magpies said:

what is it like in the rural areas where phone signal isnt good (or non existant for miles)

Depends if you have already got your route programmed in it can be OK, but if you start of from a signal dead zone it probably won't work.

Rawhide said:

There is now a pistonheads group on there. Only 14 members though so sign up today

Sounds good - how do you join it?

[R1-Jay]

16 now!

[gruffalo]

Does Waze cover France?

[sneijder]

gruffalo said:

Does Waze cover France?

I use it here Norway, so I would guess so.

Unless you have a French SIM, the cost would be crazy, it's all downloaded live on the go.

[budgie smuggler]

Been trying to use this for a month or so but don't understand what all the fuss is about. A list of bugs as long as Brian Blessed's back hair.

And I can't report any as I still can't log in properly - I go to www.waze.com, log in. It immediately redirects to world.waze.com and I have to log in again. I do so and it says "The Waze Server has returned an error for this operation". Wat? No clues. My fault or their fault? Is it being logged or do I have to report it? Useless.

Once I did log in successfully, I made a tonne of corrections and the blasted editor didn't save any of them despite being on my allowed area. No error, just disappeared after pressing save. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

The routing is crap due to all the errors, and the instructions are just stupid due to this. Driving along the A130 it keeps saying 'in one mile turn left'. Er, I can't it's a straight piece of road, there is no turning.
Roundabouts even when mapped correctly as roundabouts in the editor are pot luck. KEEP RIGHT KEEP RIGHT. Screen shows a left turn.

The idea is great, but the implementation is properly amateur hour. I'd rather pay a £10er and get some decent developer time on it.

[thetapeworm]

Waze ruined me - I have a "slightly" addictive personality and found myself spending hours editing maps, creating new ones and driving around strange (and sometimes scary) places to capture new roads and chase virtual cupcakes / pumpkins / ghosts. As games go it got quite expensive once petrol costs went silly.

I might venture back at some point to see how it is now, take-up in the UK was fairly poor back then and it really didn't work very well.