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Display Waze Traffic Updates on your screen. Use the embed link to share real-time traffic data, and keep your team informed and up to date.

Creating a Waze App

Click on the Waze app within your app gallery to add it, and fill in the app details as follows:

  1. A name and an optional description are required for the app.

  2. Paste the map 'URL' as it appears in Waze settings, under the Share and embed section.
    ​You can check the next section on how to get the Map's URL.

  3. Of course, you can upload an image to the Fallback Image button to display if the app fails to load.

  4. You can also set a tag for this app to manage it better in the future.

  5. Set the Default Duration so that the app will appear in a playlist.

  6. You can set the Availability. More details can be found in the Media Availability guide.

Yodeck Waze app depicting the configuration interface.

Creating a Waze app (new with empty fields)
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Yodeck Instagram app setup with a Shared Map, displaying the respective map.

Finishing and saving the Waze app (final image)

Reducing the App Size

Reducing the app size in the Layout Editor may cause web elements (for example, search bars and captchas) to appear in the viewport. Always check the preview before assigning it to screens.

How to get the Map URL from Waze

  1. Visit this page, https://www.waze.com/, with your browser and navigate to the desired location you want to display.
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  2. Then, open the settings (from the box of driving directions, highlighted in green).
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    Waze Driving directions box with the settings menu icon highlighted


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  3. Select the Share and embed option.
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    Waze settings menu with the Share and embed option highlighted


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  4. And on the pop-up window that appears, select the Share the map tab.
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    Waze Share and embed dialog on the Share the map tab with the Copy button highlighted


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  5. You can then click on the Copy button to paste the map into the Url field of Yodeck's Waze app.
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    Waze app settings in Yodeck with the copied Waze map URL pasted in the URL field

  6. After completing the configuration, please click on the Save button.

Waze app example

Waze Traffic Yodeck example

Preview example of the Waze app

F.A.Q.s

Got questions? We’ve got answers! This section addresses common questions about the Waze app.

Can I embed driving directions on my display?

No. Embeds cannot display driving directions (a route from an origin to a destination). You can only embed a single pinned location.

Need Help?

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