Waze used to be very quick at updating drives to appear on your feed in the WME, seems to be getting more and more out of date now…my last reported drive was August 6th, 6 days ago. I have driven every day since.
Also seems that there are missing drives as well, I’m sure I did more drives on the 6th than have been reported.
Does anyone know what the issue is?
Tim said in this post that there was a backlog: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1471054#p1471054 But I have no idea what’s causing that. And yeah, there are definitely drives missing from my overview as well.
Note that in addition to the missing drives from your history, it also appears that any URs submitted during these drives are also being backlogged - other than a handful of URs submitted via Livemap or tools emulating the livemap reporting mechanism, no new reports have appeared in the last 5 days anywhere in the south-east (and I’m guessing the same is true across the country).
So that’s going to be a fun tidy-up session once the floodgates are opened and the deluge of increasingly out of date reports gets dumped onto the map… And when I say fun, I mean in the “no, not really” sense of the word.
Yeah, I had submitted some URs on missing roadworks (maybe they were missing for the same reason), so I put them on and the next day they were gone. So I submitted them again, thinking someone must’ve ticket the “not there anymore” button. But the next day they were gone again. By which time I thought ‘Bugger this for a lark’ and stopped. :roll:
Looks like a number of speed limit reports have come through on the WME…
The question is whether they’re auto-generated or raised by users. I’ve seen numbers of them reporting that the speed limit is 60mph on a variety of South London backstreets where accelerating to 30 would be hard work for a boy-racer!
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The UR’s come from android devices who have been able to report SL’s for about a week. I believe you can report the speed limits as normal - or they can report speed limits by hitting their speedometer on the application which may give different results. I haven’t been able to test this, however, since I use an iOS device.
Now a large number :o
Speaking of speed limit reports, what’s the best way to validate these? Is there a central resource somewhere that details road speed limits?
What do most editors normally do?
Personally, I do the following:
If StreetView is up to date (i.e. <1 year old) and shows the same limits as reported in the UR, then I assume it’s OK unless I’ve got a good reason to suspect otherwise - e.g. if there are other verified limits along that stretch of road which would make the suggested limit on this section seem out of place.
If the SV imagery is older than this, but the UR still suggests the limit hasn’t changed, then I’ll probably also go with it, though now I’d be more sensitive to any hints in the surrounding data that SV and the UR aren’t to be trusted.
Whenever a UR suggests the limit has changed, regardless of how recently SV was updated, and whenever my spidey-sense makes me think the UR and/or SV isn’t reliable, then I err on the side of caution and look for some confirming data before verifying/altering the Waze data. If it’s an area I already know, or can get to easily, then getting this data is easy enough. Otherwise it’s a case of making yourself comfy and hammering the search engines until something pops out or you give up…
For urban areas (particularly in London), the local authorities are pretty good about making a big deal out of areas where they’ve lowered the limits, given how much of a hot topic this is right now. For other areas, you may get lucky and find local resident association newsletters containing relevant articles. And then there’s the go-to site when all else fails - The Gazette - which is a fantastic resource of official notifications once you work out which search terms to use to avoid being deluged by hundreds of irrelevant results.
And if after all of that, you’re still unsure, then leave it alone…
Well the drives and UR’S are about a week behind at the moment just answered all in East London today
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Strange, I’ve had one drive (of a few) from the 16th showing up, but then my next one after that is the 10th!
I too have drives from 16th. I am missing drives from 11th and 14th
Same for me, I have a gap on the 11th, 12th and 15th.
Added drives on 18th August but still missing 11th and 14th. Any news from HQ?
Added drives on 18th August but still missing 11th and 14th. Any news from HQ?
Hi,
the same situation for me: drives between 11th and 15th of August are missing. Although starting 16th I have all the drives.
Thanks!
Looks like there’s issues again…no drives showing for the last 2 days. And I dropped a report on a missing road in Hitchin last night and it’s not showing…
The last drive showing up was on the 20th. Have driven every day since…