First of all apologize if this is not the right place to post this topic.
any chance to make layer of cities from Google maps as benchmark to mark city boundaries? our community is on a project to make city names in Indonesia, since we can find city boundary from Google map and it quite accurate.
example city boundary
thanks
Not going to be sanctioned for two reasons.
1 - Google maps are not perfect. I find improperly named roads from time to time, in an area that SHOULD be mature (Los Angeles). Google business locations and even address pins are notoriously prone to error. We do not want Waze to be a copy of Google Maps.
2 - Waze legal policy is that we are forbidden to use any external copyrighted source of information that is not already provided by Waze within WME.
The use of Google Street View is permitted, as it is contained within WME. The use of Google Street View in a separate browser window is not permitted.
The entire COUNTRY of Chile had 100% of WME map edits reversed and the entire country went back to square-one with the basemap import because of legal action due to 3rd party data having been imported.
Yes, Waze is owned by Google, but it is a completely separate corporate entity, right down to Waze servers still being housed in Amazon data centers rather than Google, and Waze must pay to license the use of Google data.
I don’t aware if we cant use google map a benchmark to waze as we all know its the same company, i know its not possible if we use other source, but not google I presume. but as i mention in my first post here we are on a project to create cities in our community. in all number of the city is 6k+ cities to be made. it will be very long time and hard to create that manually.
any sugesstion?
Outside of what is available to us within WME, the only acceptable external sources are those derived from personal research, and sources that are in the public domain, which would include governmental GIS information and maps.
Most cities that have web sites have a map reflecting the city boundaries, as well as the boundaries of their sphere of influence.
thats what i mean and plugins request! 
if only there’s a way to convert those GIS information to WME.
anybody?
If everything available online were in the ArcGIS format, then it would be possible (not easy, and most likely not free).
Presently, most agencies post either PDF or JPG images, and some use a GIS export with a browser plugin viewer… there’s just not enough consistency to make a plugin viable.
Not that it changes your copyright point at all, but don’t blame us editors. http://blog.waze.com/2010/08/thanks-and-huge-apology-to.html
Is there a link on this site (waze.com) where I can verify that? We were told to remove links to governmental GIS information and maps (INEGI in MĂ©xico) and only use satellite view and streetview available in WME, which is not always as up to date as Google Maps (the site).
+1
Is this what you need ?
A script that overlays polygons in WME that has nothing to do with the ones from Google? Does your country allow the use of GIS data files?
That could be the case in Mexico. The general discussion in the forum followed that if the data is owned and maintained by a public agency, it is public domain and “fair game”… this may not be the case in other countries, nor even in all agencies within the US. Some cities contract out for their GIS services and this data moves into a grey area.
Thanks and corrected.
Yes,
Some provincial governments allow us to download it’s GIS data files. And that would be a big step to mark 6k+ cities [emoji4]
That’s what I have in mind right now how to mark a city boundary.
And of course share of best practices from other Waze community will be great…
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
I’d rather see Waze implement governmental/neighborhood layers which are maintained completely separately from the city name applied to segments. Then Waze could just import the publicly available shapefiles…
You and everybody else Having the city layer tied to segments is a pain.
Maybe, but at least it will be done automatically and not labor intensive [emoji28]
And it will become temporary segment and deleted when city already formed
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Really need help on this; any method will be fine 
I’m working on an extension that will load a variety of geometry files (not from Google) and display them on the editor.
If anyone has some examples of data they’d like to see imported, please send them to me so I can test if they’ll work. Thanks.
[Data files must be free-to-use, etc]
Send you actual files like KML or even CSV? Would the extension be able to handle a WMS layer from another site in addition to files?
I can definitely handle GeoJSON, GML, GPX and KML, but I’m interested in seeing any other formats you might have. WKT and TSV are also options, though I’ve not had much success with either one yet. I can also convert binary formats like ESRI Shapefiles into a text format if necessary.
Upload to DropBox or Google Drive or something, and PM the link to me.