What is the point editing?

[tt91]

Seriously this editor is going to make me crazy. Has it been designed to make you click the most possible number of times?

Default one-way streets? Each time I create a street I have to change it to one way.

Default red junction? Each time I create a street I have to click two or three times to make the arrow green.

This is so user unfriendly.

[tt91]

Many assume they can just start editing without reading any documentation. That would be a bad assumption. Do you just rip apart the engine of your car and rebuild it without having any training on how to do so?

Then make it clear. Sorry but I never had to read a single page of documentation to properly use my Android phone. I still believe Waze GUI is very unintuitive.

I will try and read the documentation and see if I understand better how it is supposed to work.

[tt91]

For example I was trying to connect roads: the documentation says "For existing roads, if you move the end of a segment onto an existing segment, a junction is created "

I have two erxisting roads I tried 10 times to move the end node of one road on top of the other road and it won't connect. SOmetimes it tells me "The highlighted segments are not connected by a node. Please connect them to one another and then try again." but I have no clue what to do to effectively connect them.

[tt91]

Another example:

Splitting a segment

There are three options for splitting a segment, or adding a junction to the middle of a segment:

Add a new segment from nowhere to the point of the segment you want to split. A new junction will be added. Delete the new segment just created.
Add a new segment from the spot you want to split to nowhere. A new junction will be added. Delete the new segment just created.
Disconnect one end of the segment. Draw a new segment from the segment end to the node it used to connect to.

Give me a break. Why just not SPLIT instead of creating and then deleting? Three operations to perform a simple thing?

[tt91]

Give me a break. Why just not SPLIT instead of creating and then deleting? Three operations to perform a simple thing?

Explain how you would do it quicker?

Add a split command. Click anywhere on the road line. Split. Done.

[tt91]

Yes I am using Firefox.

To go back to the original topic: it has been about 10 days since I made the road "not red" but the map still did not update. When can I expect this to happen?

[tt91]

While I don't agree with the attitude and the level of entitlement, I understand tt91's frustration. There's a dearth of information about the update process, and status.waze.com does little to shed light on it. According to the status posts, the NA server is both "running the tile process" and "not running the tile process because another process is running." That sure cleared things up. They might as well say the pretty lights are flashing on the box-thingy and we hope someday it will magically produce the results we wanted.

The attitude is equal to the level of frustration.

The incentive to contribute to this project (which while free to us is presumably intended to make somebody at Waze rich) is diminished by the lack of payback for hard work.

+1

I really appreciate Waze for the traffic information. Thank you for the hard work there.

Nevertheless I still find the editor crapy. I'll just be a user in the future and continue editing maps on more user friendly projects such as Google Maps (although updates are VERY slow there too) or OpenStreetMaps.

[xteejx]

We all manage without problems. You're just not reading enough. Really, it is all explained in the wiki. If there is something not on there that you think as experienced editors, we've missed, let us know but it sounds like user error to me.

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[xteejx]

Ahh I've never come across it as I only use Chrome.

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[xteejx]

OSM updates in under an hour usually. It's where I came from so I've kinda gone the other way.

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