Map Editor Suggestions
Welcome to the Map Editor's suggestion box!
This is the place to share your ideas for improving the Waze Map editor.
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House numbers with slash
Allow add house numbers with slash. For example: 631/29. 639 is for building, 29 is for entrance (Distance between entrances can by big). All block-buildings in my country has this double numbers.Also houses can be marked 10/a 10/b. It is not possible to add this type of number to editor, so usually we have just streets but no one is adding house numbers - as it would be inaccurate to put just first or second number.
2,848 votesThis is now available in WME prod. Thank you for voting!
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Allow more than 16 connections in Junction Boxes
Allow more than 16 connections in Junction Boxes.
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Add Pictures to places from WME
Allow a map editor user (level 4 or higher) to add images to places.
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Update the "Map editors" colour scheme to the new colours of the Waze Map Editor.
The roads colours on the Waze Map Editor have changed. So the colour scheme named "Maps editors" should be updated accordingly.
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Camera's Lock
Possibility to change lock of cameras.
Topic: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=211&t=153831
346 votesGreat news! The option to change lock of camera is now available in Waze. Install the latest app version to check it out.
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Additional camera types, with names and TTS defined by community
July 2020, Waze has three camera types: speed, red light, dummy. It is clear talking to different community leaders that the requirements for specific cameras vary from country to country. Thus, we are asking for the ability to add new camera types per country, with the ability to input into text to speech (TTS), and on/off toggle alert in the app. These could be provided by form, similar to new gas station brands, etc. by a country's leadership.
Alternatively, collect a list of camera types from the communities to create a long list, and allow countries to turn them on/off…
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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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Separate layer for natural features
To make it lighter to load the map in WME, it would be great to have all natural features in a separate layer under places to be turned on/off. Notably:
- Canal
- Island
- Sea / Lake / Pool
- Dam
- Dessert
- Forest / Grove
- Rivers / Stream
- Natural features
- Swamp / MarshThese rarely get URs in any case. It will make it easier and faster to navigate the map, looking for URs.
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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…233 votesThank you all who submitted and voted for this suggestion! It is now available in Production.
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Road Closures History
For a segment, it can be useful to have the history of closures, with start and ending, especially the most recent ones.
This could help in the management of some UR (a closed segment the previous days helps to think that the segment is still closed).
208 votesThis is now available! Past closures are displayed in the closures tab, for up to 7 days after their end time.
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New editors contact
Frequently, all we've found bad editions, make it by new and inexperienced editors.
In Spanish Community we send a PM to those editors, showing what they are making bad, inviting them to know the Wiki and forum or offering them our help.
Usually this editors don't know about the existence of Wiki neither forums and therefore never read our messages, continuing with his bad and useless work or leave to edit because never see his work in the maps.
I think would be an interesting tool if when we open WME, would appear a message advertising that they have a…177 votes -
Holiday based turn/traffic restrictions
Many streets, due to noise restrictions, or public leisure policies (weekend bike paths, leisure streets, etc), have their traffic/turns restricted not only on sundays, but also during holidays.
I suggest that the restrictions screen on WME have added the "Holiday" flag. This flag would be checked against countryID, stateID and/or cityID (for national, state and city holidays) in a worksheet updated by champs, so that on these days the restrictions would take place.
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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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Close the turns
Now we can only close the segments, but it would be really useful to be able to close only the turns.
In many cases, for example, when there are road works at an intersection or roundabout, you can turn in one direction but not in another.
In these cases for the moment, we can not do anything, at most we can insert a restriction on the turns but obviously with all the limitations of the case.
They are not in real time and are not visible on the map.
The ability to close nodes recently arrived on the WME does…158 votes -
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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Promotion of house numbers edition
Everyone knows that adding house numbers is a tedious, long job.
Today, whatever the account of house numbers added, only 1 edition per edited segment is counted.
We should count 1 edition per house number. This should value the work provided by the editor.
This is all the more necessary as the map becomes more and more mature, it is complicated for editors to earn points and thus hope to evolve in the community.137 votes -
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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Two arrival points for places created as Area
Currently when creating a place area as there is only one arrival point to be adjusted.
Tip: In certain types of places, especially Mall, there should be the option of adding another point of arrival because usually the Mall have more than one entry and Waze could trace the route to the nearest point of arrival at that location.
Another problem is users who create places like area and do not set the finishing point, often cause routing problems for the nearest street may be another, then my suggestion is that when created places like area WME let alone save…
123 votesThank you for the suggestion. This is currently supported in WME but pending app support.
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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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Display why sometimes it is not possible to remove the streetname
There are different cases when it is not possible to remove the primary name/city from a segment (the "none" checkbox gets grayed out).
Unfortunately, there is no way to know why that happens, for normal editors.
When hovering on the checkbox, you should display one of these 2 reasons:
- This street has house numbers
- This street has a Turn Guidance set
- if there are other reasons which I still didn't find, add them too :)115 votes
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