Selangor residents will likely be able to report potholes directly to municipal councils by using navigation application Waze, by year-end, said Waze Google Malaysia sales manager, Edward Ling.

He said the app developer is currently in discussions with the state government on the matter and an official announcement will be made on Nov 21 to unveil further information on the service.

"If you report a pothole (on Waze), we will channel the data to local councils and hopefully it will get them to immediately patch it.

"We are giving the data to the state government for free," he told reporters on the sidelines of the Urban Public Transportation Summit 2016 in Kuala Lumpur today.

Menteri Besar Azmin Ali is reported to have said earlier that the collaboration with Waze would strengthen the state government's initiatives for smart solutions in Selangor.

He noted that six municipal councils, including Ampang Jaya (MPAJ), Kajang (MPKJ), Shah Alam (MBSA), and Petaling Jaya (MBPJ) would be involved in the project.

Edward said the pilot project would be the first initiative undertaken by Waze in Malaysia, but the second in the Asia Pacific region, after its implementation in Jakarta, Indonesia.

He said the app developer has embarked on this initiative in more than 100 cities worldwide, including Boston, Washington DC, Sydney and Rio De Janeiro.

Asked if there could be cases of false reporting by wazer, he added, the data is a crowd source where Waze relies on the community to double-check its accuracy.

"I am confident that the location which is backed by wazer with a picture, will be 99.9 percent accurate."

Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app. It has been available in Malaysia from 2008 with about two million active wazers, the common name that refers to the app users, in the Klang Valley area at present.

Edward said Malaysia is ranked among the top five countries in the world in terms of active users per capita.

- Bernama