Keyboard shortcuts

When using Waze Map Editor or Cartouche there are a number of keyboard shortcuts available to make editing the map a bit easier if you don't like to use the mouse as much.

Waze Map Editor shortcuts

Below are the default keyboard shortcuts for the Waze Map Editor. You can customize some keyboard shortcuts by bringing up the keyboard shortcuts help window (with the ? key), select a shortcut and then press the single key you want to use instead of the default one. This affects the current browser and computer only. This shortcut information is not stored on the server, so you would have to repeat this for each computer and browser you use.

• ? (or [Shift]+[/] or [Shift]+[-] or [Shift]+[~] or [Shift]+[ù] ) - shows keyboard shortcuts
• d - delete node from road geometry while hovering cursor over it during road geometry editing
• m - toggle multi-select mode. Default behavior is that to select multiple segments, you must use the modifier key to multi-select. When toggled active, multi-select mode lets you select multiple segments without using the modifier key as described in the Selecting Multiple Segments.
• Delete (Del) - delete the selected object (segment, junction, landmark). To delete multiple objects, you must click the trash can icon and confirm the multiple delete.
• Esc - deselect all objects
• e - when a/segment(s) are selected, activates Edit mode (shortcut for clicking the Edit button)
• h - when a/segment(s) are selected, activates House Number mode (shortcut for clicking the Edit House Numbers button)
• a - toggle connection arrows transparent or opaque so you can see beneath them and click items under them
• s - toggles separation of connection arrows so they do not overlap to ease clicking on either
• [Shift]+[z] - toggles display of disallowed connections (turns) for every segment/node in the view. When active, no green arrows are shown.
• q - disable all connections for the selected junction which makes the turn arrows all red for that selected junction.
• w - allow all connections for the selected junction which makes the turn arrows all green for that selected junction. Note that this key will only enable all turns that had not previously been automatically enabled by the Waze routing server, called soft allowed turns. The soft allowed turns have a higher penalty than turns enabled by the editor. Therefore since soft and editor allowed turns have the same color green, if it is known that all turns are enabled at a particular intersection, it is better to first force all turns to disabled with the q key and then press the w key to force them all to editor enabled.
• r - toggle segment direction between 1-way, reverse-1-way, 2-way and No Entrance (Undefined directionality)
• i - insert/draw new segment (equivalent to clicking Road under the big + button)
• o - draw new roundabout (equivalent to clicking Roundabout under the big + button)
• g - draw a new Gas Station (equivalent to clicking Gas Station under the big + button)
• p - draw a new Parking Lot (equivalent to clicking Parking Lot under the big + button)
• u - draw new landmark (equivalent to clicking Landmark under the big + button)
• [Shift]+[d] - toggles No Name segment highlighting
• [Shift]+[f] - toggles Full Screen mode
• [Ctrl]+[a] - Select Entire Street
• [Ctrl]+[z] - undo ([Cmd]+[z] also works on Mac)
• [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[y] - redo ([Cmd]+[Shift]+[y] also works on Mac)
• [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[z] - redo ([Cmd]+[Shift]+[z] also works on Mac)
• [Ctrl]+[s] - save ([Cmd]+[s] also works on Mac)
• [Ctrl]+[UpArrow] - increase Level of selected segments (if all Levels are the same)
• [Ctrl]+[DnArrow] - decrease Level of selected segments (if all Levels are the same)
• [Shift]+[b] - toggles Bing Aerials layer
• [Shift]+[c] - toggles Cities layer
• [Shift]+[r] - toggles Roads layer
• [Shift]+[g] - toggles GPS points layer
• [Shift]+[a] - toggles Area Managers layer
• [Shift]+[l] - toggles Landmarks layer
• [Shift]+[s] - toggles (speed) Cameras layer
• [Shift]+[p] - toggles (map) Problems layer
• [Shift]+[u] - toggles Update requests layer
• [Shift]+[e] - toggles Editable areas layer
• [Shift]+[o] - toggles Other users layer (Not currently available)
• [Shift]+[UpArrow] - zooms the map in one level
• [Shift]+[DownArrow] - zooms the map out one level
• Arrow Keys - pan the map in all four directions
• [Shift]+click and double-click - re-centers the map on at the clicked location and zooms in one level

There are also user-definable shortcuts for:

• Toggling the highlighting of Empty streets (segments with no name)

Cartouche shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts are available in the older Cartouche editor.

• G - edit the selected road/node/landmark geometry
• E - edit the selected road/node/landmark details
• C - connect the two selected roads
• S - select 9 closest segments which belong to the same street
• D - delete selected node from road geometry (only while editing road geometry)
• Delete - delete the selected feature(s) (fn+delete on some Macintosh keyboards)
• Insert - create a new road
• Esc - deselect all features
• Y - yes in confirmation windows
• N - no in confirmation windows