I’d like to take this opportunity to express my frustration with all the rules Waze has imposed on map editors in recent years.
According to a notice in the editor, to be able to perform road closures you need level 4, and for this you need 100,000 edits, an amount that seems totally exorbitant to me.
If there were also some editor in the Canary Islands who actually took care of this BEFORE having to request it in a forum, I wouldn’t have any problem, but I see that’s not the case.
I also see that the forum is generally quite neglected, with generic posts, full of broken images, incomplete ones, etc. — if you want the community to participate, then let the community participate and reduce such extreme requirements.
Waze works precisely thanks to its community. If you just keep closing doors on us, then there isn’t much of a future for this.
Hi kondadotm1. The closures you’re asking for are already being handled by some experienced editors in the area, and you can easily contact them if you need to. Even so, if you see anything wrong, don’t hesitate to let us know. By clicking on the closed segment, you can see in the feed which editor made the closure.
I’d like to ask that when you need an area of the map to be addressed, please include the Waze Map Permalink or the decimal degree coordinates in your post (which Google provides if you click on the map in that area). This way, those of us who unfortunately aren’t very familiar with the island can find the location much faster.
Regarding the comment that many edits are required to perform a closure, you have to understand that GPS maps are not a game—and I don’t mean to imply that you suggested they were. They are constantly under attack by people with malicious intentions (hackers, cyber-terrorists, etc.), and both deleting major roads and closing them can cause a lot of harm. We need to have complete trust in an editor who needs to perform closures before we can let them do it themselves. It’s not enough for someone to log into the editor once a year, and the information they provide must be completely reliable.
As for the forum, it migrated to Discuss just a few months ago, and everything from the previous forum is gradually being moved over to the new one. If you notice anything wrong, it would be great if you could let us know; that way, together, we can make it great instead of chaotic, as it was becoming in its later versions.
Best regards, and we’re happy to have your collaboration.
I appreciate the extensive response; however, the part I quoted contains the exact reason for my frustration. Why does this have to be managed by an editor “who unfortunately doesn’t know the island very well”? I think it’s understood that this is a rhetorical question. Starting with the fact that, supposedly, nobody should edit roads they don’t personally drive on in real life.
Why then is someone like me, who has driven nearly 1,000,000 kilometers in my life, most of them specifically on this island, forced to copy permalinks instead of being able to participate actively?
As for people who ruin maps: I understand perfectly and agree there must be safeguards against it. But precisely because it’s an island, and even though I’ve been on Waze since 2013 and have made occasional map edits, I only have 3,796 edits. Which, depending on how you look at it, is good news, because it means there isn’t much to correct. But then, how am I supposed to reach 100,000 edits if I shouldn’t touch roads I don’t drive on?
Anyway, I’m just providing some feedback so that when the day comes that nobody uses Waze because it simply doesn’t serve its purpose, no one wonders why.