How do you become an Area Manager? Please dont say email support as they are non responsive.
Also how do you increase your ranking level. I have increased my ranking from 160,000+ to 39,000 but I am still a level 3 editor. Whats the point otherwise?
Some countries are self-managed (meaning that country admins handle AM applications) but Ireland isn’t one of those countries, so here we have to deal directly with Waze. See this slightly out-of-date wiki page and then fill in the application form on this page. I’ve found in the past that AM applications are handled pretty quickly.
It’s not automatic; you usually have to ask Waze support to bump you up when your edit count gets high enough for a new level. The default editing rank for an area manager is level 3, but if you have more than 100,000 edits you can go up to level 4 - but again, you have to ask Waze support for it. If you have more than 250,000 edits, you can go up to level 5.
Hope that all makes sense - does it answer your question?
++David \ davidg666
Yes, but its not the answer I was hoping for. I have yet to receive a reply from Waze support :roll:
In the AM Application form, what do they want Permalinks of?
I know … however the application form for area managers sends the application in directly, so it doesn’t go by the same route as normal messages to Waze support.
For message to Waze support don’t use the email address (I’m not sure that that ever works) but go via the Ask a question page - put “increase editing rank” in there, and then click the “Click here” link next to the message “Still can’t find what you’re looking for?” at the bottom. That’s worked in the past for me, although I have to admit I haven’t used it for a while.
EDITED TO ADD: just had a fiddle with that form and it takes a bit of poking until you can get it to give you a form you enter subject, username, location, device, OS and more details. I think they make it hard to do on purpose to force people to read the documentation first…
++David \ davidg666
Permalinks from the editor centred on the area (or areas) where you want to be area manager status. What I’ve done in the past is centre the editor on the area I want (for example, a town that I know and want to manage) then zoom all the way out, make a permalink, and send that. That results in a fairly large rectangular AM area being added to the set of areas you have AM rights over.
It is (or, at least, used to be) possible to get a non-rectangular AM area by giving them a description of the area you want - but I don’t see a field in the form for providing a description.
Hope this helps,
++David \ davidg666
Thanks for the help on this
Ah ha! I am way off the mark, I have only 22,000 edits. I was looking at points :oops:
Ah well; keep editing so 
I’ve you want to rack up a lot of legitimate edits and get good practice, one thing to try is to pick a town that you know but that is poorly mapped and go through it from top to bottom, mapping every street, getting all the junctions and street names right, adding landmarks, and mapping the roads in the countryside around the town too. I find it takes a while (2…3 weeks per town, depending how many hours a day you put into it) but the results are worth it. This is what I did for places like Wexford, Enniscorthy, Athy, Kilkenny and Carlow (building on the work started by others, mind you - Waze mapping is definitely a team effort!)
++David \ davidg666
And house numbers! don’t forget house numbers!
I have to admit that I haven’t bothered with adding many house numbers - it takes a lot of research and time for not much perceived gain.
Do we know if house numbers actually get used for address searches if they’re present? It’s always seemed to me that address searches don’t get you any closer than the street being searched for, although that might because there are very few house numbers in there; maybe if we did have more house numbers added they would, in fact, become useful…
++David \ davidg666
House numbers do seem to be making a difference for me, although I don’t know if it is because waze have implemented searching them internally or if they are still pulling that sort of detail from Google. I shall continue testing. I do know that some of the area/places are now properly searchable, but… the results are not structured in a usable way, this I believe is being worked upon.
Pip
Greetings dmeehan,
Yours
Its great you have such interest and that you do a big amount of great work.
Correct house numbering is VERY important for future developments. Editing on Waze is not about quick gain. If that is identified, Waze is not really interested in elevating editors. It is about authenticity and the needed in-depth correctness of the map that can be relied upon by users. Any half-hearted effort is now readily identified over time, as is the good stuff.
Ireland is working towards having its own determination in course.
Have a read of this - Area Manager - https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Area_Manager
Regards,
Arthur O Hara.
Well a little our of date, but you will be happy to know that Waze now uses it’s internal house number for searches. It kind of has for a while, however recently as last week; Waze implemented a bug fis that was causing Waze to still use Google.
This news is still undergoing testing in the US to confirm. But as I hear more I’ll let you know.
Also I don’t know if it has been posted. But ever since the release of the new client and Places system. Waze now prioritizes it’s own POI database over Googles.
Both searches can and sometimes do appear in the auto-complete, so you have to make sure you select the Waze one.
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