Map Editor Suggestions
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This is the place to share your ideas for improving the Waze Map editor.
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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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Allow assigning road shields to alternatives names, too
Currently, the WME only allows assigning 1 road shield to the primary name.
This has a lot of limitations:- The PN must be unique inside its state
- If a road has a local name, a Road Shield can only be assigned to the entire road (or the segments must be renamed).
It would be good to be able to assign 1 Road Shields for each alternative name, too (which is even already supported by the data model).
The Client, could then:
- randomly pick one road shield to show for that segment (for streets with multiple RS)
- must also…236 votesThank you all who submitted and voted for this suggestion! It is now available in Production.
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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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Display name labels on places
Display name labels over every place, so they're easier to spot when looking at an area at lower zoom levels.
152 votesCongrats! This feature is now available in the WME.
Many thanks to all who contributed!
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Remove the inert speed field from Red Light Cameras in WME
As I was informed by staff today that the speed field in RLCs have no effect on the app behavior at all anymore. Furthermore any effects they did have were a bug. "We recently fixed a bug that was triggering the red light cameras' TTS based on the speed field added there. This behavior shouldn't be based on speed, so I highly suggest you create a suggestion on UserVoice for removing this field."
Therefore i recommend removing the speed field from red light cameras entirely in WME. There is already a separate discussion and work being done on the possibility…128 votesThis suggestion is now in Production! Congrats to all who campaigned for it!
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WME ruler
Having in mind new functionalities like Falcon and Road Width, it would be very helpful to have a simple tool on WME to help to quickly check the linear distance between two points.
This would help to determine, in case of Falcon, the need to make a split of a segment or, in case of Road Width, to evaluate its width.
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Add an item under the Place menu for Residential Point Place
Right now, to add an RPP one must select a place type (other than residential) and then click to convert to residential. The vast majority of PPs I add are RPPs and this adds an unnecessary step. This should be simple to add, with no downside.
79 votesThanks to all who submitted and voted on this suggestion! It is now available in Production.
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Blocking the creation of an item if the corresponding layer is inactive
Editors frequently create an item, such as a Parking Place, only to realise later that there was already a Place at the same location. The initial Place was not visible because the "Place layer" was inactive.
WME does not allow creating closures when the Closure layer is inactive.
The same logic should apply for other types of items, perhaps all items.74 votesCongrats! This suggestion is now available in the WME!
Many thanks to all who helped advance this idea!
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Share Permalink settings should persist between sessions
The new Permalink option has a checkbox to include or not include layers. This is great but whatever option you select should persist between sessions. I should not have to change it every time I open WME.
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Pressing Enter on the "Add street road shield" screen should submit the form
Typing the shield value into the textboxes is the last thing you do on the "Add street road shield" screen, and it is automatic for users to hit "Enter" to submit the changes like you do when editing an address. Currently, it does nothing. Please change so that when you press enter on this screen the form is submitted.
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make geonodes easier to find
For really long straight segments, it can be a bit of a pain to find the little handle to make adjustments to the geometry as it is often entirely off-screen. This is especially noticeable now since we're making small adjustments to segments that formerly had no geonodes at all to bring them into better alignment for Falcon.
So as a suggestion - I was wondering how hard it would be to make a tweak to where there's always at least one "add geonode" handle visible on screen when a segment is selected?
At a minimum it would be helpful to…
54 votesCongrats! This is now available in the WME.
Many thanks to all who contributed!
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Left panel has limited space when a warning is in the panel
When a warning such as a segment is part of a junction box a is displayed in the left panel the warning does not scroll away in the current WME beta. The previous behavior used to allow this warning to be scrolled away. The new behavior is for this warning to stay persistent. The new behavior makes it so there is very limited space to see the segment properties. This is especially problematic when trying to edit things like lanes where it is necessary to see what lanes are being assigned to each road.
The suggestion is to revert the…
52 votesThank you to everyone who made this suggestion possible! It is now live in Production!
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WME Advanced Preferences - please correct defaults
"Draw new roads as two-way" and "Draw new roads with all turns allowed" should be on by default but are not. This will prevent a lot of mistakes by new editors.
50 votesCongrats! This suggestion has been implemented to the WME.
Many thanks to all who worked to advance it!
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Make URLs in Map Comments clickable
Currently if you add a URL in the top comment box of a Map Comment it is not clickable. You have to save the map comment then add a URL as a conversation comment to get it to be clickable. Please make URLs in the top comment box clickable. This is the comment box that is editable after saving. Here is a link to picture of the problem. https://imgur.com/2Bz4fVt In the picture you can see the top https://www.waze.com/ is not underlined so you can't click it to open the URL. However, the bottom https://www.waze.com/ is underlined and you can click…
48 votesCongrats! This suggestion is now available in the WME!
Many thanks to all who helped advance this idea!
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Sub-tab is blank
The new WME version has impacted scripts/tabs that have multiple sub-tabs. If the tab has multiple sub-tabs, it will open and be blank. If you open another sub-tab then re-open the first sub-tab, it will show the content. But this will repeat every time. Here is a screen capture of the behavior:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9w48tjktx8yvti6/blank.gif?dl=047 votes -
Floating Geometry Handles for Area Places
In WME it was recently introduced to have floating geometry handles to create new geo nodes. This is very convenient, and it would be great if the same could be implemented for Area Places.
45 votesVirtual node handles for Area Places, Map Comments, and Restricted areas have been added to the WME. Read more here.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Press enter to save closure
Please add the ability to press enter when adding/editing a closure to save it. This will make it quicker to add and edit closures, especially when they need editing en masse
38 votesAvailable in Beta
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Allow linking of more Google places
Hi Guys,
Since some time we can now add multiple entrances to a Waze place (up to 20). Up till now we are only able to link a maximum of 4 google places. It would be nice if this restriction could be removed.Very often all entrances of a building are mapped in Google Maps. Since these are often more than 4 we ran into this limit much more quickly. This happens at Airports, Train stations, Soccer stadiums, Shopping centers, etc..
By: petervdveen
Link to original suggestion: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1525&t=27879238 votes -
Limit name input in event mode
Technically, the name of an MTE is limited to a specific length (number of chars).
But nevertheless, I can type longer MTE names into the name field of a new MTE.Sometimes I have trial&error situations because of that. I simply have to test whether a name is still short enough by trying to save the name. If the name is too long, I get the error displayed that finally shows it.
It would be way easier if the WME could directly stop the input when the maximum name length is reached.
34 votesCongrats! This suggestion is now available in the WME!
Many thanks to all who helped advance this idea!
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Area Managers Listed in WME
There is a new function in WME Beta to display Area Managers at the top of the map area. The issue is that currently, if there are more than 2 Area Managers that cover an area (which is not uncommon at all), all the editor will see is "Multiple Managers". 2 or less will show the names of the Area Managers.
We would like to suggest that when you hover over "Multiple Managers" that a list will show on the screen of all the Area Managers. When you hover over one of the names in the list, it will pop…
33 votesThis suggestion is now available in Production. Congrats to all who helped make it a reality!
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