Member review

[james_8970]

Is there a method of reviewing or deleting everything someone has done? I've wasted at least 3 hours fixing something one person did in various places. The individual feels the need to add primary roads over top existing streets all over the place. The person also has twined various roads (in some cases for the better, but rarely) but never modified any junctions. It's a mess.
James

[AlanOfTheBerg]

Nope. A wiki, the edit map environment is not.

[james_8970]

That's what I figured. Just annoying to continually find reported errors all over the city and its often as a result of this guy overlapping roads without making any junctions. I have a feeling he just jumped in without trying to make sense of what he was doing.
James

[harling]

Try sending him a (diplomatically-worded) PM via the forum, and include links to the Wiki, especially the editing pages. Chances are he's trying to make something work without "reading the manual". If that doesn't work, you might contact Waze and let them know what is going on; maybe they can get his attention, or as a last resort disable his editing permissions until they can get the situation sorted out.

[james_8970]

I was avoiding it, but I ended up doing it.
James

[DonJ2]

Recently had the same thing happen. User was apparently frustrated that waze kept routing them through a neighborhood instead of remaining on a minor highway, so user overlaid a new road bypassing the neighborhood junctions. Part of the problem in this case is slow map updates, but due to the junction count on the preferred road versus the neighborhood route, and the preferred roads speed only being 45mph, I fear that the 5 second delay per junction is the main issue and reason that this issue may never get resolved without a change to routing logic; these junctions do not have traffic lighs, entry is via center turn lane.

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[jasonh300]

Try changing the road in question to a Minor Hwy. This should supersede any penalty from the junctions and prevent routing through the neighborhood.

[gettingthere]

We are more likely to see new editor snafu's since Waze is now suggesting that they edit the map themselves per the email that is sent when a problem can't be found per Update Request.

Good and bad. Maybe more editors going forward but also potentially more errors as new editors are learning.

[DonJ2]

Try changing the road in question to a Minor Hwy. This should supersede any penalty from the junctions and prevent routing through the neighborhood.

Is it really true that highways supersede junction penalties? If so, that's good to know.

In the case I described, the road that waze had him exit has been defined as a major highway (US Hwy) for a long time, but the users desired route includes traveling farther North up the major highway, then taking a left onto a primary street, and then finally into the neighborhood streets. I have already set the primary street to minor highway (it barely qualifies, if primary street had a preference over street, then I would have just left it as primary street), and here's were waiting for the map update comes in, his patience ran out.

[gettingthere]

There is recent information from Waze staffer krankyd that may quash this so call '5 second penalty' in regards to junctions and routing. I guess it depends on how you interpret:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=15530&p=141955#p141955

"Working on excessive nodes is indeed painful, but that's not the most important things to get your maps closer to perfection (an additional node has its affects, but routing is not one of them)"