Nothing can beat real people working together

Traffic is more than just red lines on the map

With community-edited maps, you won't hit a dead end

Your friends are just around the corner

Save on gas, every time you fill up

WAZE. OUTSMARTING TRAFFIC, TOGETHER.

Waze is a free turn-by-turn navigation app with daily map updates, speech support and real-time traffic information.

Waze Meetup 2019 near Brussels

Oct 29, 2019

Past weekend the BeLux and Netherlands Waze Communities organized the yearly local Waze meetup. During this meetup several members and partners of the community presented various projects that have taken place the past year. Also, we had several fun activities and...

Back to school

Sep 1, 2019

The summer holiday has come to an end, marking the return of a lot of children to their schools. To increase safety, the Waze Belgium community has added alert markers at most school entrances. The start of the new school year seems like the perfect moment to remind...

Fuel prices available in Luxembourg!

Aug 26, 2019

Up until a while ago, there was little use in enabling the fuel prices feature in Luxembourg as all gas stations had the exact same prices listed. All gas stations closely followed the maximum prices set by the government, except for maybe one or two cents. This has...

Rock Werchter 2019

Jun 26, 2019

Are you thinking about rocking out at Rock Werchter this year? Waze is ready for it! To ease your trip, we have listed a couple of tips & tricks below. To try and get to the festival as smoothly as possible, it would be best to choose one of the destinations...

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Railroad crossings added to Waze!

Jun 2, 2020

A couple of days ago, Waze added support for railroad crossing alerts. The Waze app now contains over 1200 railroad crossing alerts in Belgium. Improving safety Waze is a free GPS navigation app for your smartphone, which alerts you of dangers on the roads as well....

Waze banned in Germany? Not really…

Feb 21, 2020

Yesterday you may have read about this news in several media outlets. Germany declared a law that expands the existing ban on radar detectors. The new law applies to navigation systems and smartphone apps as well. The titles of the articles seemed pretty clear: Waze...

Waze Belgium Playlists

Nov 16, 2019

Do you look up to the ride to or from work, do you have a long drive ahead of you, are you on your way to a party, are you in nice company,... All reasons are good to listen to some music (not even in the car, but also in the office, at home,...).For all those...

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Getting in touch

Want to ask us a question or send in a remark? The best way to get in touch with us is via our social media accounts:

Please do note that we can’t help you with any account-related issues or app-related questions. For those, it is best to contact Waze Support.

Should you wish to get in touch with a private message, you can always use our contact form. Only the community leaders will receive these messages.

Want to help out?

Do you have any burning questions, amazing suggestions or just want to help Waze grow by becoming part of the community? You can join our Slack collaboration group where it is easy to talk with all other members of the community!

Where to get Waze

The Waze app is free to download on both Google Play & the App Store.

Did you know?

Waze has its own separate map, which is completely disconnected from all other maps, maintained by thousands of volunteers worldwide.

The Waze map of Belgium was objectively found to be the best of Europe in 2018 by the Waze developers.

Waze has been around since 2006, then called "Freemap Israel". It was created after the frustration that it was impossible to submit any corrections to the then-present navigation systems.

The Waze map receives an update almost every day. The latest map data gets pulled automatically whenever a user starts driving, allowing for very up to date driving instructions.

All of the collaborations with governments, road agencies and most other companies are done for free. The Global Event Partner and Connected Citizen Programs are provided by Waze, but the local community does more than that!

Waze's accurate traffic information comes almost exclusively from the aggregated location data of its users. This allows Waze users to help out each other.

Belgium was the first country in Waze to have a country-wide coverage of over 99% on speed limit data on roads and is still one of the few countries in the world with this coverage.

It is very possible that the quickest route still goes through a traffic jam. Waze generally does not evade traffic jams if there is no time to gain.

It is very easy to report map problems to the Waze community with the orange button in the app or via social media.

Even after being bought by Google in 2013, Waze is still a company functioning on its own for the most part.

Waze organizes a meetup for the local community every year. There you can hear about upcoming features and what the local community has achieved during the past year.

Everybody is allowed to make changes to the map in their local area! At the very least you are able to change the local roads, as long as you have driven near them lately.

There are only about 5 road maps with a worldwide coverage in existence and the Waze map is one of them.

Waze cares for your privacy. For example: if you report a map issue, volunteers do not get to see any information near your starting point or destination.