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This comprehensive Glossary has been designed to function as a glossary, an index and a cross reference by means of sorting features and a table of context index.

It attempts to include all of the many abbreviations, acronyms and terms that we may see in the various Waze communication mediums.

Some existed before Waze, while others were officially coined by Waze. Many evolved naturally within the various Waze communication mediums used by Wazers and staff alike. Regardless of origin, all are important to help understand Waze Speak!

Please carefully consider your use of the abbreviations and acronyms in your conversations, since they can be unfamiliar when not used in conjunction with other terms or without defining context.

Many terms apply globally, however, this glossary is North American English centric.

The descriptions within this Glossary attempt to merely resolve ambiguity of terms, and reference other Wiki pages, articles, and sections, along with other Waze and external sources. This intentional lack of description content helps avoid duplication of source content, and facilitates future maintenance when source content changes.

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Glossary Table

Waze Glossary
(With sortable entries!)
Glossary Term Abbreviation
Acronym
Alias
Description Date Updated
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Date Added


At Grade Connector AGC Segments that interconnect roads at the same grade elevation.
See At-Grade Connectors Wiki Page
2014-10-11 (A)
AGC abbr. See At Grade Connector Glossary Term 2015-02-08 (A)

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Area Manager AM An assigned role to help manage a given geographical area.


See Area Manager Wiki Page
Also see Community Roles Glossary Term
Jump back^

2015-02-08 (U)

2014-08-11 (A) "

AM abbr. See Area Manager Glossary Term 2015-02-08 (A)

"

Waze AM Layers AMGR 3rd party web tool used to visualize Managed Areas from WME-Tools.

Coming soon: http://waze.tools
See WME-TOOLS.com External page
Also see Coming soon: waze.tools External page

2014-10-11 (A) "
AMGR abbr. See Waze AM Layers Glossary Term 2014-10-11 (A)

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Angle ~ There are three different types of angles.

Please choose the relevant Glossary Term:
See Junction angle Glossary Term
See Roundabout angle Glossary Term
See Turn angle Glossary Term
Also see Juntion Angle Info Glossary Term
Jump back^ ^ ^ ^

2014-10-12 (A) "
Junction Junction node, Junction point
The point where two or more road segments connect at their ends. It is sometimes called a 'junction node' or 'junction point', but should not be confused with other types of nodes.

Junctions look different depending on the situation:
Selected and editable segment junction
Selected and uneditable segment junction (no permissions to change due to locks)
Changed, unsaved junction

A junction should be visible at the end of a dead end road, and should be corrected if not visible.
See Junction Style Guide Wiki Page
Also see Nodes Glossary Term
Also see Fixing Dead-End Nodes Wiki Page
Jump back^
2015-02-08 (U)

2010-09-16 (A)

Junction node alias See Junction Glossary Term 2015-02-08 (A)
Junction point alias See Junction Glossary Term 2015-02-08 (A)
Junction angle ~ The measured angle between any two segments connected at a junction.
Also see Junction Angle Info Glossary Term
Related entries: Angle | Jump back^
2015-02-08 (U)

2914-09-02 (A)

Roundabout angle ~ The relative position in compass degrees where a segment connects to a roundabout.
See Roundabout Angle Wiki Page
Related entries: Angle
2015-02-08 (U)

2914-09-02 (A)

Turn angle ~ The supplementary angle to the junction angle between any two segments connected at a junction.
See Turn angle Wiki Page
Also see Junction Angle Info Glossary Term
Related entries: Angle | Jump back^
2015-02-08 (U)

2014-09-02 (A)

Junction Angle Info JAI A browser extension script which displays Junction Angles or Turn Angles in WME. It can also estimate what a turn instruction will be for a given turn.
See WME Junction Angle Info Wiki Page
Related entries: AngleJunction angleTurn angleAutomatic Speech Recognition
2015-02-08 (U)

2015-01-30 (A)

JAI abbr. See Junction Angle Info Glossary Term 2015-02-08 (A)
Automatic Speech Recognition ASR The ability of a smartdevice to convert voice commands into actions on the device.
See Voice Commands Glossary Term
Related entries: Voice | Jump back^ ^
2012-08-18 (A)

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Voice ~ Various male and female voices are available based on location, in a number of languages to provider spoken navigation instuctions.

While all voices provide turn instructions, only some also provide Text to Speech (TTS) instructions for street names. In the U.S,, Samantha and Tom are two English speaking voices that support TTS.

All voices are assigned human names in the client application. Novelty voices may also be available for some languages such as ""Boy Band"", and celebrity voices such as commedian Kenvin Hart introduced in late 2013.
See Automatic Speech Recognition Glossary Term
Also see Text to Speech Glossary Term
Also see Kevin Hart rescording voices for Waze. External page
Related entries: Text to Speech | Jump back^ ^

2015-01-30 (A) "
Voice Commands ~ See Voice Commands Wiki Page 2015-01-30 (A)
Text to Speech TTS Navigation instructions spoken to the driver by the Waze application that includes street names. Some of the Waze "voices" used for navigation support TTS, while others can only speak directions, and cannot speak street names due to their lack of TTS.
Also see Voice Glossary Term
Also see Voice Commands Glossary Term
Also see Kevin Hart rescording voices for Waze. External page
Jump back^ ^
2015-01-30 (A)

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Best Continuation BC The segment that Waze determines is what drivers would consider the ""no turning path"" or ""going straight"" through the intersection. This segment will get a 'continue' instruction, which is ignored by the client app.
See Best Continuation Wiki Page
2014-09-14 (A) "
Beta beta (β) WME and Client betas. [also add Wikipedia def link] 2015-01-30 (A)
Best Practices/Best Map Editing Practice ~ See Best_map_editing_practice Wiki Page 2015-01-30 (A)
Big Green Sign BGS A Big Green Sign is the US standard road signage for exits and other information. 2012-08-18 (A)
Blog ~ The Waze Blog
See Waze Blog Waze Blog
2015-01-30 (A)
Bonus Candies ~ See Candies Glossary Term
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Bookmark BM 2015-01-30 (A)
Bookmarklet BM A Javascript stored as a web browser bookmark.
See Bookmarklets Wiki Page
2014-10-11 (A)
BugZilla ~ Third party "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System" previously used by Waze
See Bugzilla Wiki Page
2015-01-30 (A)
Candies ~ See Road Candies Glossary Term
Jump back^
2013-05-11 (A)
Road Candies ~ Small candy shaped icons that appear on the Waze client app. Drive over them to collect the points associated.
See Road Candies Wiki Page
The Road Goodies Glossary Term links here
Related entries: CandiesRoad Goodies
2015-01-30 (A)
Road Goodies ~ See Road Candies Glossary Term
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Carriageway ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Community Action Request CAR 2015-01-30 (A)
Connected Citizens CC The Waze Connected Citizens program
See Connected Citizens Waze Blog
Also see [ ]
Related entries: Connected Citizens NYC Meet-Up.
2015-01-30 (U)

2015-01-30 (A)

Connected Citizens NYC Meet-Up. W10 The W10 are the first 10 international cities, United States Departments of Transportation (DOTs), and municipal organizations whom Waze has empowered to serve their citizens in the Connected Citizens program.
See Connected Citizens Glossary Term
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Car Pool Lane ~ See Carpool, HOV, Transit_lanes Wiki Page
The HOV Glossary Term links here
The HOT Glossary Term links here
2013-03-12 (A)
Data Waze ~ Data Waze
See Data Waze Waze Blog
2015-01-30 (A)
  1. VALUE!
High Occupancy Vehicle HOV See Car Pool Lane Glossary Term
Jump back^
2010-09-16 (A)
  1. VALUE!
Waze Map Editor WME See Waze Map Editor Wiki Page 2012-12-24 (A)
  1. VALUE!
Coordinator ~ See Coordinator Wiki Page
Also see Regional Coordinator Glossary Term
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
  1. VALUE!
Country Coordinator CC [role]
See Regional Coordinator Glossary Term
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Regional Coordinator RC [role]
Also see Relase Candidate Glossary Term
Related entries: CoordinatorCountry CoordinatorRelease Candidate | Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Release Candidate RC Also see Regional Coordinator Glossary Term
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Census Designated Place CDP A United States Census Bureau term for a concentration of population that lack a separate municipal government, but otherwise resemble incorporated places. It is sometimes added to a city name with that classification if there are multiple cities in the same state with that name.
See CDP Wikipedia
2013-09-10 (A)
Central Reservation ~ British English term for the strip of land or barrier separating a Dual Carriageway which is also a British term for a Divided Highway.
See Median/Median Divider Island/Median Strip Glossary Term
Jump back^
2010-10-11 (A)
Median/Median Divider Island/Median Strip ~ Strip of land or barrier separating a dual carriageway.
See Median strip Wikipedia
The Central Reservation Glossary Term links here
Related entries: Central Reservation
2015-01-30 (A)
Continuous Flow Intersection CFI A general category type of intersectiion
See Displaced Left Turn Glossary Term
Also see Continuous Flow Intersection Wikipedia
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Displaced Left Turn DLT At specfic type of a Continuous Flow Intersection.
See Displaced Left Turn Wiki Page
The Continuous Flow Intersection Glossary Term links here
Also see Continuous Flow Intersection Wikipedia
Related entries: Continuous Flow Intersection
2015-01-30 (A)
Champ ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Community Roles ~ [role]
See Coordinator Wiki Page
2015-01-30 (A)
Roles ~ See Community Role Glossary Term
Jump back^
2015-01-30 (A)
Chat ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Client ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Color Highlighter CH 2015-01-30 (A)
Country Manager CM 2014-12-07 (A)
Forum ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Community Forum Forum (this should be destiniation 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Forum Forum 2015-01-30 (A)
Community Manager CM 2015-01-30 (A)
Community Roles ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Community Wiki ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Codes ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Connector ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Cookies/Cookie Munching ~ 2010-10-11 (A)
Coordinator ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Crowd Source ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Camera Watch List CWL 2015-01-30 (A)
Dashboard DB 2015-01-30 (A)
Disambigution DAB 2015-01-30 (A)
Data Base DB 2015-01-30 (A)
Bid Detour Prevention BDP 2015-01-30 (A)
Dead End Node ~ 2012-08-18 (A)
Detour Prevention Mechanism ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Directionality ~ 2010-09-16 (A)
Divided Highway ~ 2010-10-11 (A)
Drives Tab Enhancer DTE 2015-01-30 (A)
Dogleg ~ 2015-01-12 (A)
Department of Transportation DOT 2015-01-30 (A)
Dirt Road DR 2015-01-30 (A)
Drives ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Duplicate Carriageway ~ 2010-10-11 (A)
Duplicate Cities ~ (link with Smidge Cites) 2015-01-30 (A)
Editable Area ~ 2013-01-23 (A)
Elevation Level, Rank & Zoom terms) 2015-01-30 (A)
End Point Node ~ 2013-05-06 (A)
Estimated Time of Arrival ETA 2015-01-30 (A)
Event ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Expert ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Express lane ~ 2012-08-18 (A)
Extension ie browser ext script, script, WME script 2015-01-30 (A)
Frequently Asked Questions FAQ 2015-01-30 (A)
Ferry FE see Road Type 2015-01-30 (A)
Federal Highway Administration FHWA 2015-01-30 (A)
Community Forum Forum 2015-01-30 (A)
Forms [link to Forms page in Wiki] ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Formal Mentoring FM see Mentoring 2015-01-30 (A)
Freeway FW 2010-09-15 (A)
Global Champ GC see roles 2015-01-30 (A)
Geometry ~ 2010-09-15 (A)
Geography Handle ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Geometry Node Curve Point, Geonode 2012-08-17 (A)
Geonode or Geo-node ~ see Geometry Node 2012-08-17 (A)
Curve Point ~ see Geometry Node 2015-01-30 (A)
Champ ~ see roles 2015-01-30 (A)
Geographic Information System GIS 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Hangouts GHO, GGH, GH, GHO, Hangouts, HG (GHO is preferred abbr.) 2015-01-30 (A)
Hangout, Hangouts see Google Hangouts 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Group Hangout GGH 2015-01-30 (A)
Group Hangouts GH 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Maps GMAP 2015-01-30 (A)
Greasemonkey GM 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Map Maker GMM 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Forms ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Hanouts ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Sheets ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Gore ~ A small triangular piece of land. The (typically) grassy area where the exit sign is placed. It also describes the area of land where the ramp merges with the highway. 2014-11-02 (A)
Global Positioning System GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite based system used by navigation devices to locate the device anywhere on the globe. Applications like Waze use this information to provide turn-by-turn information. 2014-02-17 (A)
Grade ~ 2010-09-15 (A)
Greasemonkey ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Groups ~ also see Google Hangouts 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Streetview SV, GSV 2015-01-30 (A)
Streetview SV see Google Streetview 2015-01-30 (A)
Handle ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Helo Center HC 2015-01-30 (A)
House Numbers HN 2015-01-30 (A)
IGN (Imagine Game Network) IGN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGN 2013-03-11 (A)
Israel Waze server IL 2014-05-17 (A)
Inter-geometry node ~ 2014-07-29 (A)
International Intl 2012-10-04 (A)
Informal Mentoring IM 2015-01-30 (A)
Internet Relay Chat IRC 2015-01-30 (A)
ISO-8601 ISO-8601 2015-01-30 (A)
Junction Node Fizer JNF 2015-01-30 (A)
Junction Style Guide JSG 2015-01-30 (A)
Junction Angle ~
Related entries: Angle
Landmark ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Level ~ 2013-10-17 (A)
Local Champ LC 2015-01-30 (A)
Livemap LM 2015-01-30 (A)
Livemap, Live Map LM 2015-01-30 (A)
Live Map UR Overlay LMUR 2015-01-30 (A)
Lock ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Loops ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Major Highway MH 2014-08-11 (A)
Managed Area ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Map Issue MI 2013-02-25 (A)
Map Problem MP 2014-08-11 (A)
MapRaid MR 2014-11-10 (A)
Map Tile ~ 2012-02-08 (A)
MediaWiki ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Median ~ 2010-10-11 (A)
Median Barrier ~ 2010-10-11 (A)
Mentoring ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Micro-dogleg mDL 2015-02-03 (U)

2015-01-12 (A)

Minimum Bounding Box ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Minor Highway mH 2014-08-11 (A)
Michigan Left Turn MLT a specific type of MUTI commonly used in Michigan and now adopted elsewhere.
Mood ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Motorway ~ 2010-09-15 (A)
Multiuse Lanes ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Munching ~ 2010-10-11 (A)
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices MUTCD 2015-01-30 (A)
Median U-Turn Intersection MUTI 2015-01-30 (A)
North American NA 2012-10-04 (A)
nanoRep ~ 2014-11-18 (U)

2013-06-01 (A)

National Functional Class NFC 2015-01-30 (A)
Functional Classifiction FC 2015-01-30 (A)
Not Identified NI 2015-01-30 (A)
Name Normalization NN 2015-01-30 (A)
Node ~
Related entries: Junction
2010-09-16 (A)
Nuance ® ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Opening Post OP 2015-01-30 (A)
Origin ~ 2010-09-16 (A)
Pacman Roads ~ 2010-09-24 (A)
Pathfinder ~ 2012-08-17 (A)
Pedestrial Boardwalk PB 2015-01-30 (A)
phpbb ® ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Permalink PL, Super Permalink 2014-08-04 (A)
Super Permalink ~ 2015-02-09 (A)
Places ~ fka Landmark
fka [ ]
Parking Lot Road PLR 2013-06-03 (A)
Places Update PLU 2015-01-30 (A)
Private Message PM 2013-04-30 (A)
Point of Interest POI 2015-01-30 (A)
Point, Points ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Pothole ~ 2012-07-21 (A)
Private Installations ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Primary Street PS 2014-08-11 (A)
Pedestrian Boardwalk PB 2015-01-30 (A)
Private Road PR 2015-01-30 (A)
Place Update Request PUR 2014-10-05 (A)
Roundabout RA 2015-02-09 (A)
Ramp ~ 2010-09-15 (A)
Rank Lock level, Points Rank (ranking) and Editor Rank & Zoom terms) 2013-10-17 (A)
Rcut Rcut 2015-01-30 (A)
Restiction Types ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Reverse Connectivity RevCon, Reverse Connection 2013-01-14 (A)
Reverse Connection ~ 2014-01-27 (A)
Reverivle Lanes ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Red Light Camera RLC 2015-01-30 (A)
Road Muching ~ 2010-10-11 (A)
Road Types ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Rest Of World ROW 2014-05-17 (A)
Routing Penalties ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Rail Road RR 2015-01-30 (A)
Real Time Search Engine RTSE 2015-01-30 (A)
Runday RW 2015-01-30 (A)
Scoreboard ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Small Detour Prevention SDP 2015-01-30 (A)
Seach Codes ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Segment ~ 2012-02-07 (A)
Selected Roundabout Segments SRS 2015-01-30 (A)
Self Connectiviey SelfCon 2013-01-14 (A)
Self-Management SM 2015-01-30 (A)
Simple Segments SimSeg 2015-02-09 (A)
Slip Road ~ 2010-09-15 (A)
Smudged City ~ 2013-06-01 (A)
City Smudge ~
State Manager SM 2015-01-30 (A)
Split ~ 2014-12-10 (A)
Single Point Urban Interchange SPUI 2015-01-30 (A)
State Route/Road see Road Type 2015-01-30 (A)
Selected Roundabout Segments SRS 2015-01-30 (A)
Street ST 2015-01-30 (A)
Status ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Streetview SV 2014-08-14 (A)
Support ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Stairway SW 2015-01-30 (A)
Tampermonkey ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
WME Toolbox WMETB 2015-01-30 (A)
Toolbox TB 2015-01-30 (A)
Time Based TB 2015-01-30 (A)
Time Based Restriction TBR 2013-03-27 (A)
Time Based Segment Restriction TBSR 2013-11-04 (A)
Time Based Turn Restriction TBTR 2013-11-04 (A)
Turn Restriction TR 2015-01-30 (A)
Teams ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Tile ~ 2012-02-08 (A)
Traffic Locks TL 2014-02-06 (A)
Transclude, Trabsclusion ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Transit Lane ~ 2013-03-12 (A)
Transfix ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Taxiway TW 2015-01-30 (A)
Text to Speech TTS 2012-08-18 (A)
User Level Monitor ULM now know as CAR. See CAR. 2015-01-30 (A)
Update Request UR 2012-10-04 (A)
Road Report ~
Update Report Overview URO, URO+ 2015-01-30 (A)
Universally Unique Identifier UUID 2015-01-30 (A)
Venue ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Voice ~
Related entries: Text to Speech
2014-07-29 (A)
WME Aerial Shifter WAS 2015-01-30 (A)
Wayfinder WF 2012-08-17 (A)
Waze Champ ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Expert ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Expert ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Global Champ GC, Global Champ 2015-01-30 (A)
Global Champ GC 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Local Champ LC, Local Champ 2015-01-30 (A)
Local Champ LC
Waze Wiki ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Mobil ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Speak ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Wazer ~ 2010-09-24 (A)
Waze Wiki ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Wiki ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
WME Chat ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
WME center to Begin-End of Street WME-BES 2015-01-30 (A)
WME Color Highlighter CH, WMECH 2013-06-03 (A)
Color Highlights CH 2015-01-30 (A)
WME Tool Box TB, Toolbox, WMETB Browser extension script for WME 2015-01-30 (A)
WMETB WMETB 2015-01-30 (A)
Tool Box TB 2015-01-30 (A)
WME Validator WMEV, Validator 2015-01-30 (A)
Validator ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
World ROW 2012-10-04 (A)
Walking Trail WT 2015-01-30 (A)
Zoom ~ 2015-01-30 (A)
Map Protection ~ 2015-02-09 (A)
Throttling ~ 2015-02-09 (A)
Regression Checker ~ 2015-02-09 (A)

Notes

Many other non-Waze centric terms not included above may be found in various resources such as the Wiktionary - English Internet Slang.

© = Copyright Symbol

^MUTCD http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/ Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices