Hi Wazers,
In the next few days (hopefully less than two weeks) we are going to deploy the following changes in editing permissions:
Level 3 is a significant level that allows editing high risk segments and therefore requires extensive knowledge of map editing and a lot of experience. Currently, this level can be reached too fast. To avoid innocent mistakes on important segments, the number of edits required for level 3 will change from 10k edits to 25k edits.
Level 3 editors - permission radius around driven area will change from 4 miles to 3 miles
[Comment]In the future we plan to support different radius permission parameters for different countries but until this is supported - we chose numbers that are reasonable on a global scale.
And it isn’t getting easier to map roads as there isn’t many left to map… Just Waze driving
Unless a Lvl 1 editor decides he’s going to stuff things up.
I think the whole editor rank system needs a re-work. It’s worked so far to get things going and to get people engaged, but it allows too much freedom to newbies to totally mess up well-established maps.
Maybe editing should be a more graduated role, example:
level 1 able to pave new roads, suggest significant edits, and make basic edits (street names, numbers) but no delete (essentially nothing that could seriously affect stability of the map_)
Level 2 able same as level 1, with addition of editing intersection navigation
etc etc…
perhaps even a basic online test system to graduate ranks??
This will ensure that those who want to be involved are actually exposed to the ‘rules of the road’ at least once
I also think It would be well-worth applying an automatic level-lock to roads that fall under highway category as they are more sensitive.
thoughts?
I realize that such a change would require a significant code change for Waze,
Hi ispyisail.
We have been testing the auto lock system in Costa Rica. It works fine, we managed to reduce max lock to 5 in order to keep it accessible for the editors. This system also works increasing locks level, but never decreasing.
About the editors level, there are several communities working on a mentoring program which is planned to teach new editors rewarding them with editing levels according to their progress in the course.
If you want to improve this too. Let me know.
Regards.
You are misunderstanding the idea. This will be a separate thing. To help people to edit and increase their level with out waiting for edit points. Both systems will work at the same time, the editor will choose the way to go.
With the automatic road locks, you are correct based on how busy the road is. Currently you cannot relock a road below the minimum auto lock, but a lot of countries have complained about this and Waze is rewriting the code so a higher level editor can force drop the UL of the segment. That part hasn’t made it into the beta stages yet, but the lock system works quite well on the production server. I’ll take a few happy snaps for you to look at.