Hi I would like to become an editor
jushag
June 7, 2026, 12:32pm
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Hello and welcome! Thanks for your interest in becoming a map editor, we can always use help maintaining and keeping the map up to date. We have an extensive Wiki that serves as a great reference for all editing topics, an intro is here:
New Editors
Glossary
FAQ
Waze Map Editor
Manual
State guides
Forum
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You can bring up comments or questions about this in [image] "New and prospective editors" portal forum topic .
Essentials
Permalink
Quick Start
Best practices
Common mistakes
Your area manager
cheat sheet
Tools
Keyboard shortcuts
Magic
Toolbox
Color Highlighter
Chat addon
Assisted Edits
Unlock Forum
US road closures
Non-US road closures
Our motto is “Usability, Simplicity, Retention” . Make it useful, keep it simple, and do not delete. You are about to join a community working together to improve wazers’ drives by improving the Waze map. You have probably figured out that you have the power to tremendously improve wazers’ commutes. To do that, just start simple, learn the basic principles, and connect with the community.
Waze is an app that helps its users avoid traffic while navigating to their destinations. It relies on a map suitable for a small smart-phone screen. It needs a map that accurately represents where motor vehicles can drive, is simple and uncluttered, and retains the road segments with the traffic data.
usability, simplicity, and retention.
Familiarize yourself with our Waze Map Editing Communication platforms . Communication and collaboration are a key part of Waze Map Editing, and engaging with other editors early in your editing can avoid a lot of common pitfalls and establish a good knowledge baseline.
Be prepared to see your changes to roads go live at the next tile update.
Be prepared to wait for approval on your place changes until you reach level 2. New places appear at the next tile update, but place updates go live as soon as they are approved.
Watch the status updates to see when tile updates happen. Tile updates happen frequently – usually every 1 to 3 days anywhere in the world.
Register an account and set a password
If your username begins with usa_ or world_, please change your username to something memorable .
Log on to the waze forum . This will make sure your forum account is set up so other editors can contact you.
Practice your skills in the practice editor – log out and choose practice mode at the waze editor . Read a bit about how to edit .
Live Users .
Open chat [image]. Send “Good Morning. This is my first time editing!” and say what you are here to do. Any available experienced editors will be very glad to talk to you while you make your first edits.
Remember that you need to stick with the work you started until it is finished and corrected. Follow the best practices guide, and use the Quick Start Guide if you don’t know how to do something. Also, you should take the time to read over the full Waze Map Editor guide, which goes into great detail and shows you how to do many things with the editor that might not be covered in the quick start and best practices guides (or not in as much detail).
What is safe to do your first time out?
Correct spellings.
Check and correct road direction (one-way or two way).
Check whether turns are allowed or not.
Create new roads or fix up roads you have recently “paved” using the app. Remember to confirm the road , connect it to other roads, and fix all the allowed and not-allowed turns to make it route properly.
Unless you are working closely with an experienced editor, you should:
Not delete roads or any parts of roads – because that deletes traffic data.
Not create new parking lots or other area places . Becaus…
Our main means of communication is Discord so we’d love to have you join the NOrtheast Region (NOR) server here:
https://discord.gg/sF39wSt
This is the most efficient way to collaborate on edits and provide information for the areas you’d like to edit. This is not required, so if you’re not able to join that’s fine too - you can always reach out here in Discuss for help or feel free to send me a direct message and I’ll be happy to assist.
Thanks again and let us know if you have any question after reading a bit of the Wiki!
Best,