I’ve been fixing them as I see them, most of the A1 between Newcastle & Alnwick navigates OK now, I am going to work down it in slow time and make sure its good.
There were three major problems with the basemap import as I see it…
Roundabouts was a big problem, they’re not uniquely british but few other countries have such a large number of them. You’ll find a number of them in every town in the UK, which cannot be said for most other countries I’ve been to.
Also the basemaps are based on aerials, so if you have detailed and recent aerials you were ok, if you didn’t then you could be looking at over 5 year old map data. This has caused some big headaches too.
Basemap source was third, again because it came from aerials, Waze has been incorrectly detecting some roads and adding lots of non-roads. I still have a few days worth of work just in finding and fixing footpaths, farm tracks, quarry trails and private estates.
Two of the problems could have been fixed by using up to date vector data in place of aerials (as a trip to ordnance survey for the vector district maps and installing “arcgis explorer” would demonstrate; but Waze decided not to take that route and so what’s done is done and those of us who choose to remain have to move on.
Yes, the Isle of Wight was included in the update. For the rural parts it’s good because it’s unlikely they’d ever get mapped completely, unless someone with lots of time and high pedantry rating decided to get stuck in.
Kieron
You called? 
You not got enough to do fella, or has the addiction taken a sinister turn?
I just heard someone say pedant and assumed my attention was required!
As for the addiction… I think it’ll go nuclear after this weekend! :-/
I need to get my edit on this weekend. Only bronze last week, and this week I probably wont even get that unless I do something about it! I think Dave has gone mad fixing everything up in Lincoln again, he was almost top 3 world last week.
Nothing planned until Tuesday though, so I can get stuck in… well, pub tonight of course 
Hi,
Another thing I have noticed, and very annoying it is too, is that all (well, nearly all) roads are “disconnected”. My maps are chock-a-block with error 6’s all over!
That whole town I built up was near perfect for connectivity and had, if I remember, only 2 errors showing up. Now hundreds of disconnected roads!
This is really frustrating…
Des. . .
Same here.
I’ve managed to fix all mine now. . .
I’m now on to (re)naming roads.
Just tried to route the length of the M1 south bound, there is one bad junction (junction 14 near Newport Pagnall on the southbound leg) other than that I can get all the way down from Wetherby to the M25. Looks like a quick simple fix, but I lack permissions in that area to add junctions, could someone give it a quick nudge (did manage to separate the fault so it stands out at the moment).
Please…
(bumping old thread in the hope that some people subscribed to updates)
Is it just me, or are there not so many editors in the UK forum since the base map import?
Will the new map editor and Waze 3.0 be enough to tempt them back? There’s still a huge amount of work that needs doing around the country…
We definitely lost a couple (Philnaughton and 2tiredlegs are two obvious ones who I’ve been trying to coax back). I believe Kawimantab was making noises of returning to the fray too. In addition to this thread you might get a few more bites in the UK Wazers FB group too!
There’s a Facebook group? More time to waste …
Seriously, I salute all you old-timers. Papyrus is so much easier to use than Cartouche. I just don’t know how you guys did so much fantastic work - you must have so much patience.
I can still rememebr how difficult we drew roads without ariel map and limited GPS points.
I remember those days too. Immensely satisfying we you got it right, but found yourself constantly checking and re-checking your work.
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I had some nostalga the other week when I drove around a new housing estate with ‘Create New Roads’ turned on, and then editing the red spagetti in Cartouche, staring at a field on the arial maps. I forgot all the road names though, and the map provided by Barratt for the estate was no use. And I got a pile of marketing bumpf through the door as I had to register on their site to get the estate layout, :x .
Kieron
Hi,
We still, for the time being, need the old cartouche for the reports feature. And I still like it over papyrus for completely eradicating roundabouts… 
Des. . .
Would it be wrong to send out a few PMs to past editors to see if they’ll come back?
…I guess we should wait for the database issues to be fixed, and those last few features added to Papyrus.
Guys I suggested almost the exact thing Tim mentions to Dror and Erhud when papyrus was opened up to all comers
My idea was to send a blanket email to all registered wazers past and present announcing the new editor.
Maybe it’s worth mythering waze towers again now some (you swines) have v3.0 and suggesting that they put a newsletter type thing out to all registered users announcing all the massive changes there have been in last 12 months.
One of us could even write it and let google translate manage the language barriers and then Waze Towers only have to distribute??
Nothing in the User Blog since January!