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  1. Allow option to disable new editor help

    With a recent release of WME Production, a new feature (pop up box at the bottom of the screen saying "Click on map to start drawing, double click to finish drawing") was added for new editors to teach let them know what to do when they are creating a new segment. This feature is great and should be there for all new editors.

    My suggestion would be to disable this feature for all L2 and higher editors since they should already know how to do create new segments.

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  2. More complexity for Residential place point house numbers

    More Complexity was adder for House Numbers when using House numbering -feature. However, there is still restrictions when adding Residential place point.

    Because It's not possible to use House numbering feature in country side where houses are far away from named road.

    " As a WME user I want to add House number format for example 180-7 for residential place, in a case when houses are far away from named road"

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  3. Remove suggest an edit after changes

    With the addition of suggest an edit and on segment suggestions from Google, we have run into an issue. If the segment is changed (cut or deleted), the suggestion can no longer be processed. There should either be an automatic clean up process or editors should be able to simply reject it.

    69 votes
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  4. Replying and closing UR should give editors an edit point

    Currently, when you close a User Report (UR), the count of resolved URs increases on the editor profile. However, there is no reward of an edit point.

    Editors spend vast amounts of time looking for, investigating, replying and managing the lifecycle of a UR. I propose that both replies to a UR and closing a UR should each give a single edit point.

    Given that Waze tracks the number of URs resolved, adding points retrospectively would also be appreciated. Though I understand UR replies couldn't be added retrospectively.

    The awarding of these edit points should still be subject to throttling…

    84 votes
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  5. Allow all ranks of map editor to see turn closures

    Can WME display turn closures to all map editors the way it does with segment closures?

    Currently, a lower level editor can see that there's a closure there only by hovering on the segment, which turns red. They cannot see any indication that a specific turn is closed.

    This leads to wasted time as they ask a higher-rank editor to block the turn when that has already been done.

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  6. Warn if adding restrictions (bus, hov, ...) that applies to all lanes

    When adding restrictions to segment(s), the default selection in ENTIRE segment (in other words, all lanes).
    If, for some reason. the editor misses this setting, the segment will be excluded (by mistake) for navigation for certain vehicles.
    For instance, adding BUS lane for all lanes will prevent private cars from using this segment. This would lead to wrong and strange navigations.
    For that reason, and especially since, after saving, there is no visual mark in WME for this selection (ENTIRE vs specific lane) it is advised to add a popup warning message for these cases, like the warning message that…

    46 votes
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  7. Support house number format eg, 123/45-67

    In our area, there is an HN format that looks like 123/45-67, which is also used. However, I am unable to save the HN format in this way since WME provides an error that says, "The highlighted place has an invalid house number." Due to this, I am not able to add those kinds of house numbers in WME.

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  8. UR User Preference Panel - Combine passes/permits into expendable list

    Since User Preferences have been introduced into User Reports, solving URs has become much easier. One drawback is that the list can be extremely long if a user has many passes or permits, forcing the input field well off the bottom of the screen. One example found recently has 722 passes, as shown in this video:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/15iVQMdq9muJoGqItdFZ26Ctx031hu2sY/view?usp=drive_link

    Our suggestion is that passes are combined into one initial entry - "added passes", and there is an option to select it, which opens up the list.

    75 votes
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  9. Enable closure duplication on expired closures

    It would be very convenient if you could duplicate an expired closure as you currently can with an active or planned one.

    78 votes
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  10. Automatically clear the street city field when its value is "None"

    Currently, when opening the street name editing panel, the input fields get populated with the string "None" (localized), which requires editor to delete the text manually before setting a new name.

    When the street has a "none" street or city name, these fields should be empty (or, at most, with a "none" placeholder that disappears when clicked).

    If the user does not change them, consider them as being "none".

    183 votes
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  11. External providers: Sort suggested places by distance with closest first

    WME uses Google Maps as the external provider in Israel and suggests places located in different towns, especially when the edited place belongs to a network. It would help to choose the right place if the suggested places are sorted by distance, with closest places first.

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  12. Include layers settings NOT marked as default

    Hello, I am almost sure that I am writing a duplicate of a proposal here. However, I have not found anything in a hurry.
    What is a minor annoyance in daily editing and helping new editors is clicking on permalinks that contain layer settings. Unfortunately this option is turned on in the default. My suggestion is I think quite simple to implement. By default this function should be deselected. If you have to send your layer settings (there might be reasons to do so) you have to check this option actively."

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  13. External providers: Don’t suggest extremely far places

    WME uses Google Maps as the external provider in Israel and sometimes suggests places located in other countries, thousands km from the edited place. There should be some filtering to exclude very far places.

    100 votes
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  14. Keep start/end times when duplicating a closure

    When duplicating a closure and changing the date, the duplicated end time changes to match the start time. I suggest that when duplicating the times do not change unless the editor clicks those fields.

    Forum post: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2354616#p2354616

    78 votes
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  15. Revert requiring street/city name to be case-sensitive to auto-populate in results

    In previous WME production releases, you could begin typing a street/city name in any case and the results would auto-populate. The current WME production release requires both to be case-sensitive for the results to auto-populate. This slows down the workflow for editing segments and places. Here is a screen capture of the behavior: https://www.dropbox.com/s/10p1ocs243mitiq/streetnamecasesensitive.gif?dl=0

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  16. Issue Tracker's "Search Area" button gets in the way

    Please move the "Search Area" button or make it hide when attempting to add a road or anything from the top bar.

    WHY?

    The "Search Area" button gets in the way when trying to add a road.

    Issue Tracker must be set to Map Area and the "update results" box must be unchecked.
    Hover over Road and then drag down over the "Search Area" button.

    https://youtu.be/UtWcmytG8Dc

    40 votes
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  17. Setting to have vertical menu item selected when opening

    I often times use scripts or change settings before making my first edit. It would be useful to have the option to have WME open with a specific element of the vertical menu selected. That may be any of the options available, but Feed/Issue Tracker and Scripts would be my most likely to use first.

    80 votes
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  18. In WME: Force L1 & L2 editors to be "visible"

    To actively follow the edits of new editors in WME, it would be helpful to force them to be "visible." This would be limited to L1 and L2 editors. Perhaps this could be incorporated as part of the new L1 edits approval process.

    (Moved from "Other" category of UserVoice)

    75 votes
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  19. Road details

    As we all know, WME is changing its appearance and because of that, many of us complained about the unneeded "empty space" that is everywhere on WME.

    I know that some extra work is being done by staff, in order to please us all the best way possible :) , but something more can be done.

    One suggestion is to use symbols, instead of text, for what I call "road details": Unpaved; Tunnel; Headlights; Next to BUS lane; Beacons.

    This would allow saving some more space and the icons are more or less self-explanatory, being possible to add a text/explanation…

    99 votes
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  20. Move segment IDs to bottom of WME

    With the latest update to WME, when you select a segment, the segment IDs are now at the top of the side panel.
    This is fine when you only select one segment, but when you select several segments, it makes the left panel virtually unusable.

    We are constantly selecting multiple segments for various reasons like closing a stretch of road, adding speed limits to several segments, etc.

    Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please consider moving the segment IDs back to…

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