Posts Tagged ‘maps’

Palo Alto Meetup Brings Together New and Experienced Map Editors

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

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Boy, do we love meetups!

Earlier this month, a group of new and veteran map editors convened in Palo Alto to do what they do best — discuss how to create the best and most efficient community mapping initiative possible.

In attendance were special guests from Waze HQ: Co-Founder Ehud Shabtai and Community, Support and Product team members Shirli, Jonathan and Ohad.

The agenda featured wide-ranging talks that were mostly technical in nature. Everything from modifications to gas stations, turn restrictions, intersections, service roads and more map editor features and tweaks were discussed.

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Highlights included a talk by CEO Noam Bardin and presentations by top map editors ‘skbun,’ ‘bgodette’ and ‘AndyPoms.’

Major accomplishments in 2012 were discussed, as well as goals for 2013.

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“We still have a lot more to do. It’s not going to get boring,” Noam said in his talk.

Introducing the Waze World Records

Monday, July 30th, 2012

Olympics-fever has swept over Waze HQ! And without a pass to this year’s games, we’ve decided to reveal our very own international mapping medalists.

As briefly mentioned last week, we’re going to be releasing the names of our all-star mappers in a series of blog posts that will acquaint you with our top mappers.

These dedicated map-editors hold the records in:

  • Solving system-generated map problems
  • Solving user-reported map problems
  • Adding house numbers
  • Adding roads

Can you guess who will top each category? Are there any other record-breaking categories you’d like to see?

Update: We’ll also be revealing the editors that have made the most all-time map edits as well!

Waze In Netherlands, two days after launch – GO GO Netherlands!

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

The waze Netherlands community is building very quickly! This is the map and community two days after launch.

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