While I'm glad to see some progress on this, it doesn't necessarily give us as editors the ability to do one MAJOR thing that we have had to hack WME with for years and years.

The base water layer that shows rivers, lakes, etc. needs to be accessible for us to adjust. We continue to place in riversand lakes that don't exist in the app but do in real life and are critical in some places for navigation. We also have to place islands over land (neighborhoods) where the base water layer shows water in the app.

This should be fairly easy to implement: for each type of individual feature we have in WME just have a flag that we can turn on and off to disable the display on the map.

I have a fairly high end system, high end graphics card and 2K (full screen) monitor. When encountering areas of the map that have large amounts of polygons (like for water objects) really can degrade the responsiveness of WME. Plus: being able to dynamically remove these objects reduces map clutter for the editor.

This looks like a duplicate of "Forests in separate layer"
https://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59225-map-editor-suggestions/suggestions/42286768-forests-in-separate-layer

This looks like a duplicate of "Separate layer for natural features"
https://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59225-map-editor-suggestions/suggestions/42720863-separate-layer-for-natural-features

Franky, I'd rather the dessert, Tony ;)

I'm hoping you meant "Desert" and not "Dessert" :D

Hi!
Agree with @bobbyqat; in Bahrain, almost 50-60% of the map is covered by layer "Islands" and making it very hard to edit the map due to multiple layers

I've suggested this a while back. Feel free to upvote it: https://waze.uservoice.com/forums/59225-map-editor-suggestions/suggestions/42720863-separate-layer-for-natural-features

Yes please! There are times when you only want to turn off certain place types. Either you want to turn off large area places because they are in the way, or you want to turn off places (because there are lots) but leave large areas so that the map draws quicker.

Yes, this. But also, let us turn all the different categories on and off.

I think this is a great suggestion, as the US is going to likely be using this category more and more. To expand on it, though, I think there should be a natural features parent category added to the WME layers menu that includes forest/grove, river/stream, sea/lake and island. That way editors can turn off the “base layers” when editing roads and places.

PS. Sorry, I did not mean to duplicate Richard. I didn’t see his comment before I posted.

Or better yet, a Natural Features layer that at least includes Forest, River, Island, Lake

Especially when the coastline is wrong and is corrected by "island", a city along the sea can be fully covered by a place "island" which isn't easy to manage

Perhaps these could be merged with the hidden water layer and editing of those objects could be enabled for end users. We have many false 'island' place types in coastal areas to correct inaccuracies in the water layer.

Forests are nice on map, but they can be really annoying when dealing with segments beneath them. Large area places can also make some slower computers struggle while editing the map.
So the suggestion would be to have a possibility to turn off forests while keeping all other places visible. Just like we have parking lots.