In order to enable better communication and support for upcoming events, we created a new and improved event form and process including the following steps:
1. Completing and submitting the form with all required details 2. The Waze team will review the submission and the event will be approved/disapproved. 3. If the event is disapproved, an email will be sent to the reporter to inform him/her that the event cannot be supported by Waze. 4. If the event is approved, the reporter will automatically receive an already formatted spreadsheet to update any road closures. 5. An email will automatically be sent to local champs/localization experts to share any closure information they can provide on the same spreadsheet in collaboration with the reporter and Waze team. 6. When all closures are finalized and approved by the Waze team, the roads will be closed. 7. A website page will be deployed when the event causes major traffic and is in a central location.
There was a thread (redviper26’s?) about the winter storm in the Southeastern US and trying to get a handle on what roads were closed. Now I can’t find the thread, but to the point, there needs to be a real-time method to update continuously changing traffic information. I’m sure there’s discussion about that somewhere!) Probably 100 miles of I-10 in the Florida Panhandle region has been closed for over a day, but is close to being opened as temperatures begin to crawl above freezing.
There’s no Wazers out on the roads because so many main roads are closed. It would be interesting (for the developers) to explore real-time integration with sites such as this: http://www.flhsmv.gov/fhp/traffic/crs_h002.htm
Thank you Orit, is a new thing and will help us a lot.
It would be nice to have also the possibility to translate it so as to facilitate the work of the local user.
I submitted an event which was accepted and got the link to the spreadsheet but I can’t get the segment information from the map editor because I’m only level 1. How do I get this ramp closure - Los Carneros on- and off-ramps from southbound US101 in Goleta CA - submitted? The off-ramp was definitely closed (coned off, signed) this morning but I am not sure if the on-ramp is completely closed yet. Today (19Feb) is the target closure date so it’s probably closed as well.
The ramps will be closed for a year for bridge construction - http://www.project.goleta.com
This is my first semi-success with the new process. It’s frustrating to say the least. First, I learn of the event, then remember to view it in the editor in Waze, then submit a form with a complete description of what is to be done, then I have to wait for an e-mail that gives me a spreadsheet into which I paste segment numbers from the editor, and I have to request access to that spreadsheet, THEN someone has to put the restrictions in a day before the actual event. I don’t learn about these things until a week before, sometimes, and other times they’re not completely specified.
Maybe there’s a way we can allow users to enter restrictions for roads locked above their rank and then have some modest review process rather than all this crazy time-consuming process to allow me to specify something of modest traffic impact in the grand scheme of things.
One problem I noticed is that. People may not know of an event until the day before so adding to waze might not get done in time. How long does it take to check and add these events?
Waze is pretty good with all closures. They check requests several times in a day and can close the roads right away (without needing tile update). Usually, we have enough info and time to enter/close mega events.
Hi, I don’t know if it’s the right topic,
I’ve submitted an event, which was accepted,
While I want to add a road closure, I get this message “YOU NEED TO BE A LEVEL 3 EDITOR / WAZE PARTNER EDITOR TO ADD / EDIT A CLOSURE.”
How to become partner editor ?
Thanks for helping,
You can’t really become a “partner editor” as you call it, “Waze partners” or in this case Waze Global Event Partners are organizations who are also the official organizers of specific events and who sign partnerships with Waze. That isn’t something that can be done by just anyone as an individual.
To maintain a certain security and quality of routing for Waze App users and to avoid abuse, any other regular editor cannot create road closures until they reach L3, in some countries this may also be restricted to anyone lower than L4.
As this varies from country to country, I invite you to find your local forum here: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=19
and to get in touch with your local community about this event.
