- An editor may disconnect a road that is closed for several months. Someone else may come along, not realise why it has been disconnected and re-connect it, or make other changes, or simply waste time trying to work out why it's disconnected.
- We don't all have great memories - I can't even remember where I left mine
. We might make an alteration that should be there for 3 months and not remember to come back and fix it. - Not everyone stays with Waze forever. (Traitors
). There are areas of the map covered in the names of editors who haven't touched it for months or years - names I've never heard of, but some of you will recognise. How many un-reverted changes have they left behind? - Closures may end early and be noticed by someone other than the original editor.
- The editor who originally finds the problem may not have rights to make necessary changes or may lose them. (In my case, I initiated some alterations and FTW near the Barbican in Central London after finding a UR there. But since then my editing rights for that area have been lost.)
So what I would like to suggest is that we have a UK sub-forum where we can record roadworks that have needed a temporary change to the map. If our updates get quicker, there are only going to be more of these.
The topic would be titled with the location of the roadworks. We could, perhaps, prepend [PENDING], [IN PROGRESS] or [COMPLETED] to the start of the OP title to help organise them. The original post could also be updated with a summary of progress.
Each topic would contain as much information as possible including things like:
- Permalink
- Description of the roadworks
- Dates of closures/alterations
- Any available links to web sites with details of the works
- Any Feed The Waze notices set up
We could also use the Livemap to post a UR at the location with a link to the relevant topic. In that way, when you come across a user UR caused by roadworks that are already known about and being dealt with, you don't have to search around to find the reason for the user UR.
I don't know how useful this will be countrywide. I certainly think it will be useful here in London, where we have several very active AMs overlapping and plenty of new users coming to edit the maps.
I will follow up this post with a sample of what I'm thinking of. I would greatly appreciate your comments.
