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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|700px]]
[[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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-GPS Tutorial

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:

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.