English Speaking Okinawa Community

Hello,

I was wondering if there is a English speaking community that is able to actively work on Okinawan roads? I recently started using waze and have fell in love with it, compared to google maps. I have noticed, however, that almost all of the roads that I have seen in Okinawa have not been edited in years (some since the admins originally created them). There are so many, in fact, that it is too much for me to handle alone. This creates a lot of issues when trying to navigate Okinawa using waze (longer travel times, etc).

Also, a good fraction of the island appears to be underwater in the waze drawn map (both in-app and online).

If there isn’t already a English speaking community, I was wanting to start one. Or, I could use this as an opportunity to enhance my Japanese speaking abilities (currently very basic) by working with native map editors to get the highest quality edits (in terms of street names and speed limits).

Thank you all in advance and I look forward to working with you!

Translation from google translate (翻訳):

こんにちは、

沖縄の道路で活発に活動できる英語を話すコミュニティーがあるかどうか疑問に思いましたか?私は最近gozeを使い始め、グーグルマップと比べてそれに恋をしました。しかし、私が沖縄で見たほとんどすべての道路は何年も編集されていないことに気づきました(管理者が当初作成したものからのものもあります)。実際にはたくさんありますので、一人で扱うには多すぎます。これは、wazeを使って沖縄を航行しようとすると(多くの旅行時間など)多くの問題を引き起こします。

また、島の大部分は、wazeの描画された地図(アプリ内とオンラインの両方)で水中にあるように見えます。

英語圏のコミュニティーがまだない場合は、始めたいと思いました。または、これをネイティブの地図編集者と協力して最高の品質の編集(街路名と制限速度の点で)を得ることによって私の日本語の話す能力(現在は非常に基本的な)を向上させる機会として使用できます。

事前にどうもありがとうございます、私はあなたと働くことを楽しみにしています!

ldhacker1
I think the English community is good
It is good because local people know the local thing the best

I agree that local people know best, but with the number of American military members living in Okinawa, I think that it would be beneficial to have a separate community. However, no one (regardless of nationality or language) is very active in editing Okinawa. I am just trying to increase map editing activity in the area. It doesn’t have to be English speaking people. I apologize for any misunderstanding.

OK
This is → no one is active in editing Okinawa (regardless of nationality and language)

Simply put, Japan has various road navigations
I think that many people think that there is no need to do waze editing hard

In the app, Yahoo! GPS · Google Map etc. can be used for free

In the United States waze is popular, but there is a google map Why is waze popular? about it

Another interesting thing to say
Japanese like Open Street Map
Why? I was able to edit google map in old days, but because of mischief
Because I can not do it
It seems that the editor moved to the open street map

The biggest reason is waze Japan is unknown
Even Japanese people have few people

Perhaps 10 years after the United States will finally be popular in Japan

(^ ^ ゞ Hahaha