I disagree Scott, there are inherent GPS issues with mobile devices. If the client offered to create a new road every time their GPS went wonky, editors would be cleaning up random stray "paved roads" constantly.

Here is a better idea, if a vehicle goes off a road. A message will pop up New road yes or no it automatically starts drawing that road and when it catches up to an existing road it will now pop up what is the street name? And submit button. Now you could put in a new button in the menu were users could go if that is their neighborhood or has nothing better to do and map the building numbers.

I drive a lot with my job and in many towns there are new neighbors witch not appear on the map and so streets too. It was a good idea to make roads. Please remove the Caterpillar

I am possibly one of the annoying users who leave the tool on....
I do it because 90% of the roads around me are not mapped, and knowing which ones are and are not requires attention when driving. I also however check the map editor waiting for the road(s) to show up so I can correct it.

Would it not be a better option to only add a new road WHEN the person has confirmed its correct in the map editor (eg. send them an email), then they could also be shown the bits that look wrong (eg next to each other, overlapping...) so they fix it.

i agree with the need. however I think it has to be done very carefully. Example, has a track in my town that existed more needed to record a new track, because the former was very wrong in relation to the actual map.

And make it stop if they go into an existing road for so many units, I have users who will create roads on top of existing roads, sometimes for seemingly no reason, sometimes because they recorded a road that didn't exist but continued onto existing roads.

I think it would be great if the MAKE NEW ROAD would not STOP recording when DUE to in accuracies the gps jumps to neighbour road .. or for that matter .. IF THERE is a new road ( FLY over ) but the system thinks its d old road n hence stops recording...
SO i think it would be nice that the system continues to rec NON STOP till the user feels the road is done...

else its stupid as the sys recs in bits n pieces n hence the road is in complete....

pls update this feature... rec non stop n no jumping on to near by roads

I am also an Area Manager and this problem is really frustrating. Furthermore, there could be like a message for users using this option in order to educate them about not paving when the road is already there or for those who are just playing with this feature.

add "can't enable bulldozer if accuracy less than 20m" and "automatically turn off when accuracy drops below 20m" and I'll be a happy bunny. :-)

Bulldozer has been removed from the main screen in the Netherlands. If your country is basemapped (or just mostly mapped) contact waze to get it off the main screen.

Totally agree. Waze could be more intelligent if it recognize "the road is already there" and treat those duplicated records as "supplement" to existing ones(not 'new road').

Or restrict the use of the bulldozer to users with x points/edits/stars...

This would be an excellent idea and make the job of area managers easier as they would not have to tidy up after others.

this should be easy enough to be implemented and it would make for a much more pleasant experience for enthusiasts (less mindless busywork) and as such would serve as a positive argument to keep wazers wazing.

I must admit that I have occasionally left the 'Record new road' feature switched on by accident yet I have the habit of cleaning up after myself but there are many wazers that have never seen the Cartouche in action and some of those use early GPS chips (wildly inaccurate: http://world.waze.com/cartouche/?zoom=2&lat=59.26594&lon=24.66327) and cause most grief to an area manager (such as myself:). I have also considered making an improvement proposal for area managers to be able to ban these ancient devices from using the Record new road feature.

In addition to this very good proposal I have written a onother proposal solving this problem too: Automatic deletion of roads marked "pending for deletion"

http://bit.ly/9UdMdz :

If a road is marked with "Warning: The selected road is pending for deletion" AND (it is not part of at least 6 connected road-segments) THEN it should be deleted automatically after 3 weeks, that is long enough to connect it to at least 5 other road-segments by editing. Additional, if another user tries to delete it again, he should be informed: "Because this road-segment is already marked as "pending for deletion" and is not part of at least 6 connected road-segments this segment will be deleted automatically on day-month-year ...."

...and in countries where there is a reasonable detailed basemap it is so rarely needed, take that bulldozer off the map alltogether! Question: why is the bulldozer removed from the map in Germany, but not in the Netherlands?