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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Add “Speed bump” as a map error report option
Add “Speed bump” as a map error report option
It would be useful to allow users to report speed bumps as a map error instead of only as a general hazard.
Currently, speed bumps are often missing or inconsistently mapped, and reporting them through broad categories reduces accuracy and slows down data correction.
Proposed feature:
- Add “Speed bump missing” or “Incorrect speed bump” under Map error reports
- Allow users to pin the exact location on the map
- Optional details (type, size, visibility)
Benefits:
- more precise map data
- faster correction of missing road features
- improved routing accuracy and driver awareness
This…
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Notify User when PUR approved
Waze should notify the user when an editor approves or disapproves a PUR. That way, the process doesn't feel as much like a "black box" for the user.
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Allow user to switch Google Street View provider
The most GPS-ically perfect street view images are provided by Google Street View, however, there are also volunteers who contribute their street view imagery to Google but lack perfect GPS linkage with the imagery.
Allowing users to switch the imagery by providing the option will significantly cut off the time for searching the particular imagery provider, where the editors are currently switching imagery by dropping the man icon over the streets manually to check the provider.
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Arrow buttons at the bottom of "Your Drives" sidebar.
Arrow buttons at the bottom of "Your Drives" sidebar. I always have to go back to the top to go back in dates when searching for drive from the last so many days.
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Editor drop pin on app
It would be great if Editors could have a "pin" button on the app drive screen. Sometimes when driving I come across a map error or some feature not existing on the map that would be good to add (like new speedbumps, changes in speed limits etc).
At the moment Editors would either have to wait for someone else to report the change, or they need to log a General map error, which takes a few screens to complete on the app. This is quite a dangerous situation as your eyes will not be on the road but trying to…
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Show when a driven editable area will expire
When you gain an editing area by driving, WME never tells you when it will be taken away. The only way to know is to remember the date of every trip you made, which is not realistic. In practice editors discover the loss after the fact, sometimes in the middle of handling a UR that can then no longer be closed.
The information already exists on Waze's side: those areas are derived from dated drives, and WME already shows that drive history to the editor in "My drives". What is missing is simply surfacing the resulting date.
What would help,…
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Option to add roads to avoid
When we go through a road and it is very bad, we may not want to use it again in the near future. We should have an option to add that road to avoidance.
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Exempt from Traffic Restrictions / Rodízio" toggle for users with disabilities (PwD)
Many cities around the world, like São Paulo (Brazil), implement license plate-based traffic restrictions (known locally as "Rodízio"). Currently, Waze allows users to add their license plate to avoid restricted zones.
However, drivers with disabilities (PwD / PcD) are legally exempt from these restrictions. Waze currently forces these users into alternative, longer routes even though they are legally allowed to drive through the restricted areas.
I would like to suggest a global feature: a permanent "Exempt from Traffic Restrictions" toggle under the Navigation / License Plate settings. This would be a game-changer for accessibility worldwide, ensuring that users with disabilities…4 votes -
Add a "Boat Ramp" category in Waze Map Editor
Hello,
I would like to suggest adding a new category called "Boat Ramp" in Waze Map Editor.
Currently, when adding a place where boats can be launched into the water, we have to use the "Port, Marina" category, which is not always suitable.
There are many boat ramps along rivers and lakes that are not part of a port or marina.
This new category would help fishermen and boat owners easily find places where they can launch their boats.
Thank you!
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More options for the business hours for shops or places (WME)
In the WME, I guess we can modify the option available to define the business hours.
In France and I guess in other countries, some shops or places are closed for lunch. We should be able to define the duration of the break between morning and afternoon.
in the same way, some shops or places don't have the same business hours for each day, so we should be able to define the business hours hours day by day.
Last point is that depending on the seasonality shops or places ( for exemple on the west coast in france) don't have…4 votesGreat thinking! We’ll share with the team; they’re always interested in new feature ideas.
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Metodo para ascenso de editores nivel 1
Permitir un método para que los editores nivel 1 puedan realizar ascenso de nivel en ste momento no existe forma de avanzar
4 votesGreat thinking! We’ll share with the team; they’re always interested in new feature ideas.
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Invalid Railroad Regression Error
I would put this in Beta Bugs but I know that technically it is not a bug. So I am going to make it a suggestion instead.
If you have a railroad segment cross a street segment and you decide to junction them.
(pic 1)
You get an error when you save telling you that all turns are disallowed.
(pic 2)While technically this is true, you CAN"T allow the turns onto/off the railroad segment (and you shouldn't be allowed to).
This is a left over error from back when turns could be set on railroad segments and needs to…
4 votesHey!
This seems to be a bug.
A bug was opened to the relevant teams in the HQ.Thanks,
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custom layers and map editor colours / themes
so I have used Waze for a bit and I love seeing the editor map with the coloured roads, but there's a few problems...
- no support in night mode
- can't change the colours, even if it's there to match the sign sometimes I want to have custom colours,
- can't have custom layers, sometimes I want to have the alternate route 1 in Melbourne Australia white or create my own custom routes. a layer I would like to create is a mobile camera colour where a road that has mobile cameras and such shows up as a custom…4 votesThanks for your feedback. At this time, this doesn't fit on our roadmap, but we'll keep it in mind for future product planning.
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Harmonize poor-road nomenclature to "Poor roads"
Please harmonize the nomenclature Waze uses for roads that may beat up cars or get them dirty.
Currently, WME allows marking segments as "unpaved", while the companion feature in the app allows the driver to avoid "dirt". But unpaved and dirt are two different things; for example, many would consider a gravel road to be unpaved, but few would call it dirt. Meanwhile, even some paved roads have such poor surface quality that local drivers might wish to avoid them in favor of better alternatives.
Since the underlying goal is to allow drivers to avoid roads with poor surface quality,…
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place destination counter for the last 30 days
Selecting a Waze place could show the amount of route requests in the last 30 days that had the exact Waze place as a destination.
This would be quite informative and could give us editors an insight on how demanded an entry is.
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Save changes as a draft
The "save as draft" button keeps the changes made but not yet saved, so that they can be resumed at a later time or continued on another device.
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Restore UR interface to prior version
WME v 2.1.344.1-4e85e205 broke the UR comments interface in numerous ways. Restore it to 2.1.285.3-612222ad
See comments at https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=338797
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Allow editors to approve new RPPs
New WME version 2.92-9 broke this. Please roll it back.
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Display state instead of country when zoomed out
If a country uses states then when between zoom levels 5/6 to 10 it should say the state name rather than country name. Once you are zoomed out past level 5 or 6 then it should start saying the country name.
E.g. More useful to know I am looking at Queensland instead of Australia at this zoom level
https://i.imgur.com/gCI2CdO.pngBut more useful to know I'm looking at Australia at this zoom level
https://i.imgur.com/j91y7wA.png3 votes -
Allow un-checking Segments layer to be persistent
When using Street Vector Layer I turn off the Segments layer but each time a hard refresh is required (which is far too often) the Segments layer is re-activated by default. Please allow the setting for the Segments layer to be persistent.
3 votes
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