Anyone from Malaysia using waze?
Yes, there are some regular users using waze but not that many. New users are turned off when routing doesn’t work well due to roads not properly connected.
I’m trying my best to name all roads and make it routable. Sure eats up a lot of time editing the map… Do let me know if anyone finds that I’m editing the incorrect way. Waze on! :lol:
i am one! :mrgreen:
Hey Malaysian Wazers, is it OK for me to make these assumptions?
- Freeway is for interstate, e.g. PLUS, ELITE, NKVE, etc.
- Major highway is for those tolled highways and those labelled as lebuhraya, e.g. Kerinchi, LDP, Sprint, Penchala.
- Minor highway is for those BIG jalan like Jalan Duta, Jalan Kuching, Jalan Damansara, etc.
- Primary street is for those main road in that area like Jalan Kepong, Jalan Cheras
- Street is all other small roads.
Do let me know, OK! :lol:
How to edit map? Can anyone help?
Hi Alvin,
you can go here http://world.waze.com/cartouche/ to edit maps. Do read the wiki http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Map_Editing on how to edit maps before you begin.
Thanks for your support and good luck! :lol:
Hi guys,
We need more wazers to help us in KL map editing. There’s a lot of work to be done. Do open up cartouche at least once in a while to do some updating ya… Thanks! :mrgreen:
Hi Hooijack,
I’m helping as much as I can. I did a lot of editing the last two weeks and found a lot of problems like eg Mahameru mapped as one view etc.
I’ve recently sent out a long list to my FB friends and my team here at Celcom which consists of almost 70 people. Since then got a couple of new joiners on Waze, but as you rightfully said so it’s hard as a newbie as the routing isn’t working. I do find almost on every trip that the routing isn’t there due to not properly connected streets, especially on highway ramps.
Well, the spaghetti ramps here in KL really don’t help much, they’re some of the most complicated once, right now I’m working on Bulatan Pahang, which is 3 level deep.
What I’ve also noticed is that we need to agree on some rules on how to name ramps (going to and away from highways) and to make the roads next to flyovers (like Jalan Tun Razak) as service roads (that is correct according to the word document that Waze sends out to new area managers). It’s very confusing, please also avoid writing street names in CAPITAL letters, all need to be in small letters (well, starting with a capital though LOL).
I’d also like to suggest that we reach out to all people that are interested and maybe use this group as an organizing way to discuss eg which mayor highway to do next. If we manage to make every mayor highway in the correct fashion (that is actually making two separate roads, both one way roads), then we can move on to work on all mayor ramps where these highways have intersections with other highways or primary streets.
Please let me know your comments,
Andreas
PS: Currently No 26 in MY and climbing 
PPS: Area manager for Bukit Tunku and surroundings
Hi Hooijack,
what I found extremely useful is to checkout Google Maps, not only because their aerial view is much better and can be used at a lower granularity, but as they actually already solved your questions above. Jalan Pahang or Jalan Ipoh is eg a Primary street according to them.
I do think the freeways are mainly the ones connecting the big cities, like KL to JB, KL to East Coast or to Ipoh/Penang. Means a freeway is outside of the cities, with almost no exists just connecting the big cities.
There’s also an excellent article on this topic in the wiki, you might want to check it out further (obviously being based on the US):
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_label_and_name_roads#Highways
Andreas
Hi, I have been making some updates in Bangsar area as i found the maps in this area are in the simplest terms, chaotic. Bits and pieces of roads appearing everywhere. I’m currently editing the roads that I’m completely sure with but I’ll need the area manager to help out on the approvals to remove the bits so I can proceed with naming and connectivity of these roads.
Hi Wei2009,
first of all thanks for joining in our KL community of map editors. We’re just a few, so we can need any helping hand!
I’m about to finalize my work in Penchala Link/LDP crossing in Mutiara Damansara, will switch then immediately over to your section. If you have any questions on using Cartouche, please check FAQ or post it here or send me a PM please. We area managers are here to help and support you.
I do also have a word document for area managers on editing from Waze directly, if you would like to read it (it’s quite useful), please pm me your email.
Once again thanks for helping us,
Andreas
PS: You’re right, Bangsar is a pain and not much done yet, I did the BSC and Bangsar Shopping Village myself,as well as Jalan Maroof
Hi Andreas,
Nice to see a reply so soon as I wasn’t expecting any replies since the thread doesn’t seem to be active. But I’m glad. I’ve been reading up in FAQ’s in wiki and I’d be glad to help in cleaning up areas in Bangsar where I know better. Been driving around lots with waze today hoping I could get more areas in which I can edit making waze more usable.
However, I found that there seems to be a few things that can be improved with waze. As I was driving with waze on, when I was arriving at home, I was stalled at the traffic light for a minute or so and proceeded to my apartment and I saw that waze has updated that Jalan Maarof was a standstill. Apparently waze doesnt take into consideration cars that stop along side the roads for a break or say in my case, driving into a car park thus stopping. I wonder if there are settings to make waze more ignorant of such stops.
Anyways, I’d love to help and hope I can pick up some speed in editing as I go along. I spend more time reading than editing at the moment.
Cheers,
wei2009
Hi Wei2009,
you’ve found a point that a lot of us trapped in. Leaving Waze running whilst stopping on the curb or accidently leaving it running whilst at home is reporting a jam. Reason for that is actually one of the strengths/advantages from Waze over a regular navigation solution like Garmin eg.
Should a wazer fall for a defined section of a road fall statistically significant (I don’t know the precise % as I don’t work for Waze, I just use it) under the defined average speed for this segment, then it gives automatically a moderate traffic, slow traffic or even a traffic jam alarm to all wazers.
The average speed is being built up over time, so even though Jalan Maroof can be quite jammed during Pasar Malam and before prayer times, it still knows from the remaining time what the correct, actual average speed there is than one can drive (including some that speed maybe at night LOL).
So it’s not a flaw, it’s actually a great feature. You just have to keep it in mind. BTW, Waze is intelligent enough to see that one other wazer than driving there with average speed that your “reported” jam is no longer existing. The same concept is used on reported jams, as nothing is worse than an outdated report of a jam that is no longer existing.
Thus it’s highly important to always keep Waze running whilst you’re driving, to report jams and built average speeds, give feedback about the streets that you drive!
Hope this explains it, if someone from Waze wants to correct me jump in,
Andreas
Dear MY wazers,
Malaysia map is missing for me in http://world.waze.com/cartouche/
is it same for you or only me can’t view?
map looks ok for me. pls provide superpermalink of missing map area.
hi all,
i’m a newbie here, but i find the map of klang is very limited, and most doesn’t even have road name yet, need any help?
Hi Darren,
I did some correction to Klang area and Kapar west of B1 Jalan Meru.
Some of our newbie users just go in and do several errors like building new roads over existing, no names, don’t correct the direction (meaning a lot of one-way) and the wrong classification wrong (normal street instead of ramps or primary roads).
I would suggest to read through the excellent 6 threads from Gvmsia here which explain all easily.
Sure we need your help and please join our “Waze in Makaysia” community on Facebook (see another thread here)
Cheers,
Andreas
Good to be here!
I’ve been updating for Damansara Perdana area and KL Sentral area!
KL Sentral is quite ok but every helping hand is welcomed!
Thanks Stevo,
Andreas