SA Editors, a new version of the WME Editor was released today that brings some new exciting features : Conversations and Time Based Restrictions.
Please view the original announcement and ensure you familiarize yourself with the functionality in the wiki.
Wiki page for Conversations
Wiki page for Scheduled Restrictions.
Regards
Yay, finally!
Hi Carel
At last!! I suppose it’s going to take a while before we get all the regular editors on the same page, as I just had a UR on which I had started a conversation on Monday so as to figure out what this Wazer thought was wrong, only to have it closed as unidentified by another editor.
I’m going to try PM this editor to ask them to play nicely, and to read the wiki article, though I don’t know if that will make any difference, as they don’t seem to visit the forums.
And to top it all, I just got a notification within the App to tell me that the map problem that I reported has been fixed! Oops. This could get very interesting. I was only following the conversation. I wonder what message the reporter got? :?
Leigh.
Hi guys.
You must be wondering if I’m still around! Doing occasional edits because I’ve been very busy work-wise.
I would love to try a couple of UR tests to see how the conversation thing really works. Unfortunately, even when you say “for RodNav” they sometimes get closed without anything being done. Although I will say that the problem’s not too bad here in Cape Town. Anyone willing to do some test URs/conversations? We can but hope that if we type that it’s a test, that it might actually be left alone. 
Will soon be travelling quite a bit, so looking forward to some waze driving in different areas - you know, actually navigating to places! Also, I might drive to PE in Dec (about 730km). Will be the longest waze drive I’ve done 
Back to editing (video editing, not map editing!)
Regards
Rod
Hi there,
I’d be happy to be involved in some testing. I’ve had the same experience that I asked a question about what the reporter meant when they had a general problem near the Meadowridge Engen garage, then later that day the problem was resolved by ‘rietrot’. I don’t know if perhaps that was the original reporter of the issue and they decided to mark resolved, whether the original problem reporter came back with a comment that enabled the fix, or if the rietrot just marked as fixed.
I can’t now see the problem or it’s commentary, perhaps the fixer made a comment that I can’t see?
Let me know what I can do.
As I understand how things work, as a follower of the conversation, you should have received a copy of the comment if the reporter had replied.
I know it was suggested that a similar rank system be used, to prevent a lower level editor resolving a UR where a higher level editor was busy with a conversation with the reporter. Doesn’t look as if that was implemented, though if this becomes a big issue, it may well do.
Leigh.
PM would be the best option. If there is no response in a few days, we can probably ask support to assist in getting an email to them if this continues.
If you subscribe to a conversation you should normally get an in-app notification and an email on any status changes or new responses.
Unfortunately the user would get the normal closed notification with either fixed or not identified as well, so it might be a good idea to actually start the conversation using a canned response indicating where the user can get hold of you in the forums IF the conversation gets closed prematurely by another editor. You can also use an e-mail alias to keep your anonimity for this via gmail or your normal isp if they support aliases as many people are naturally shy of forums.
You however should get a mail with a subject [A map issue you are following was resolved as ‘fixed’ / ‘not identified’].
@RodNav - Happy to assist with some tests any time, just shout.
Cheers
Carel
Dave,
The last comment should be available in-app in your inbox - assuming you subscribed to it. Please note that if there are multiple comments, the full series can be expanded by tapping on the grey
[ … ] bar at the bottom of the visible comment.
Cheers
Carel
I don’t think waze likes me talking to myself!
Yesterday I took a drive down the new Sandown Rd extension that opened last week, and created missing road URs at several of the new but incomplete junctions. If I now add a comment to the UR, it indicates that “Reporter” added the comment, yet if I place my mouse over the UR icon on the map, the balloon shows “2 comments (none by me)”
I’ll wait for my updates to go through, and drive down there again on Monday or Tuesday, as the road is not where the the original editor placed it, so I moved to closer to my user track. I also need to get the names of some of the unnamed roads off Parkland Main Rd.
Leigh.
This conversation thing is great but twice now I have replied to the user to get more information, and another user has come and "Solved " the issue. Waze should think about locking it to the user who got there first. Maybe I am overreacting but i thought it was a dick move. :x
I can see this getting out of hand, but at least you should now know who “Solved” the UR. I think we need to keep a list of the editor that do this. Been thinking for the last few days as to what to call the #%&%*ing clowns. We’ve already got jolly drivers and jolly editors, and they are both good for a laugh.
Irresponsible editors is probably more appropiate, though I’d like to call them something far worse.
So far we have kgatit reported by myself, rietrot reported by xcentricdave, and you can add yours to the list. I’m hoping that it’s only a handful of editors doing this, so we can to ask them to play nicely.
It may well be the case that these are their own URs, but I feel they should at least take the trouble to notice that another editor has started a conversation, and reply in the conversation that they have resolved the UR and will the marking it as solved. Marking the UR as “not identified” while another editor is trying to gather more information is a big no-no.
My 10 cents worth.
Leigh
Leigh,
I added a UR there from Livemap as well, and it looks like Livemap correctly associates the UR with my logged-in Waze account. Previously you had to supply some extra info, so this is actually cool.
In this case, I’m also seen as the ‘Reporter’ when I comment.
This is most likely due to privacy concerns - at least we know that editors will not be able to identify & try and hunt down OR send some not-so-nice PMs to that “friggin’ ID10T user” that keeps posting all those ‘General Error’ UR’s with no descriptions in their area 
Cheers
Carel
The privacy part works very well.
As I mentioned in a comment in one of the conversations, I’d forgotten/given up on LiveMap, as after six months, roads I’d added in Durbanville were not shown in LiveMap. I see they are there now, a year later, along with roads I added last week. Obviously a sign for me to start using LiveMap!
If the ID10Ts get requests for additional information as we’re not mind-reader, they’ll might get the message.
Leigh.
This made me chuckle :mrgreen:
I’ve found that before we had the whole conversation feature if I reported something, then came back to solve it myself Waze would still email me saying something along the lines of “elphix, a Wazer like you solved a problem you reported!”. Thankfully this functionality seems to have gone, perhaps we can suggest a similar function to the conversations that says “problem closed by reporter” . Naturally this would only be sent to those that are following the conversation. Thoughts?
I tend to agree with Leigh here about asking nicely but I don’t feel we should be pointing fingers just yet - at least not without some explanation. It was another editor that did that to me that brought me to the community in the first place.
Hi, I just had a conversation on a “General Error” UR and the user responded that the reason for the UR was that the Waze map just “went blank”… Can anyone tell me what is the best way to respond to an error like that, as it was probably caused by the users hardware or the client, and not a map problem? Unfortunately someone “solved” the UR and closed it, so I cannot post the permalink where the conversation was.
Herein lies the problem. Editors generally know what a map problem or user reported map problem should relate to, but the average user wants to use URs as feedback about the app. There are just too many variables that could lead to any client problem like lagging display, missing tiles, GPS jumping to spots where you are not. Some might be backbone infrastructure, some app related, but most are likely network, flaky GPS or even just device related.
e.g. A full network signal may look good, but it does not tell me that an over-eager techie at my ISP/Data provider just choked their DNS service or tripped over his shoelaces and flipped some important big red switch by mistake.
The best is to explain that it is not a map related problem and that they should preferably give app feedback via the forum threads for the current version for their OS, ie Android / iOS. One would ‘assume’ that the email address listed in the app stores should be valid and monitored for feedback, but I understand it might not be in this case, so would not advise that route.
As editors there is nothing we can do, but some forum feedback to the devs might highlight specific patterns or even get them a workaround to some problems.
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