I’d like to ask for 3 temporary closures on the map. All are displayed on http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/article/26662 (screen grab attached) which is simply a port of https://roadworks.org/
I’ve cut and paste the data as given on the site for each closure.
Sorry about the full paste of the permalinks, I haven’t figured out how you do them short!
- closure of the bridge between Linton on Ouse and Newton on Ouse due potential flood damage
https://www.waze.com/en-GB/editor/?env=row&lon=-1.22254&lat=54.03511&layers=165&zoom=5&segments=243228495
29 Dec 2015 - 12 Feb 2016
Cause: Weather event
Closure in force: All the time
Name: 7339 Linton Bridge Closure
Description: Linton Bridge to remain closed until a structural survey can be undertaken to assess potential flood damage. To allow the survey to be undertaken the river levels needs to drop.
Emergency access will be maintained at all times.
Highway authority: North Yorkshire
Work info last updated: 8 Jan 10:50
Last updated on roadworks.org: 12 Jan 21:01
Data source: North Yorkshire County Council
Number 2 Closure of railway bridge on Chapmans lane for reconstruction
ID: 123619760, 123619915
https://www.waze.com/en-GB/editor/?env=row&lon=-1.17837&lat=54.03145&layers=165&zoom=4&segments=123619760,123619915
26 Oct 2015 - 26 Feb 2016
Cause: Streetworks
Closure in force: All the time
Name: Chapmans Lane October 2015
Description: Road closure at railway bridge ECM5/17 for reconstuction works
Emergency access will be maintained at all times.
Traffic Order Documents File: Highway 18 Month MADE.pdf
Highway authority: North Yorkshire
Work info last updated: 14 Oct 2015 16:52
Last updated on roadworks.org: 12 Jan 21:06
Data source: North Yorkshire County Council
Number 3 Closure of Railway Bridge due to recontruction
ID: 123619650
https://www.waze.com/en-GB/editor/?env=row&lon=-1.20654&lat=54.06567&layers=165&zoom=6&segments=123619650
26 Oct 2015 - 16 Feb 2016
Cause: Streetworks
Closure in force: All the time
Name: Warehill Lane, Tollerton October 2015
Description: Road closure at railway bridge ECM5/19 for reconstruction works
Emergency access will be maintained at all times.
Traffic Order Documents File: Highway 18 Month MADE.pdf
Highway authority: North Yorkshire
Work info last updated: 14 Oct 2015 16:54
Last updated on roadworks.org: 12 Jan 21:09
Data source: North Yorkshire County Council
Thanks, this will make a lot of users on roads without multiple diversions much happier.
There are additional closures that the council is not necessarily logging in http://roadworks.org/
They are listed at http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/25369 and I’m particularly interested in the C100 closure.
I’m not going near the C100 at the moment because the diversions are well away from it. I am also aware that even if I do it in the app it needs another app user to do so for it to be confirmed and thus may not get closed.
Is there any way to get these type of closures added at WME?
Hi there, and welcome to the forums! :mrgreen:
Great information! I’ve added the 3 closures in the first post to the map and they are effective immediately. The river bridge closure is likely to be somewhat fluid :lol: in the length of the closure because of weather. The railway bridge closures are quite long, so the end dates may well change if work goes well or badly. Pleas let us know if you hear about any changes in the dates.
As for the second post, first a very brief thing to note. Often, senior editors will check this forum but may assume that any post that already has a reply is being dealt with - so by posting again on your own thread, you might get overlooked for a bit. Fortunately, I read them all sooner or later. 
Creating closures via the app is really pretty unreliable. As you say, it takes more than one Wazer reporting a closure before it takes effect for anyone else. And a busy road may need many Wazers to report the closure. Plus the closure so created has no end date and will disappear if Waze thinks drivers have gone through.
Editors from L3 upwards can add closures directly through the map editor, as I did for your first 3 closures. The details you provided there were excellent - if anything more than I needed. If you can provide me with a permalink, start date and time, end date and time, and closure reason for the C100 closure, I can add it easily enough. Feel free to guess for the times: most closure reports via roadworks.org don’t quote them, so I’m constantly adding closures with guessed times. At this time of year (short daylight hours), I generally use 8:00-17:00 for start & end of all day or longer closures; 9:30-15:30 for off-peak; 20:00-6:00 for overnight.
Thanks Ian,
It was a lovely surprise to find them closed when I drove to work this morning 
Do you often edit at 3am?
I gave you too much because I was being lazy and doing a copy and paste from the Roadworks.org!
I do wish there was an automated feed into Waze out of the Elgin resource. I do occasionally see stuff on the map marked as ‘Elgin’ but maybe that hasn’t been this type of closure stuff.
I’ve got an understanding what to do now so you may see some more from me (it was a bit of a pain finding out what ‘permalink’ was, in some places it just said use it but didn’t tell you what or where it was, I found a full reference to it eventually of course). I’m probably admitting lack of reading the wiki in full which is a heinous crime but life does go on.
Thanks again.
More often than my boss would appreciate if he knew! :lol:
There is actually a feed of sorts from Roadworks.org that has been live for a few months. Any closures on the roadworks.org map (shown as a circular no-entry pin) generate a Map Problem in the Editor Map. Unfortunately, there is often far more detail on roadworks.org than is fed through into Waze, so most closures need to be checked there.
My never-ending task is finding these all over the country and trying to keep ahead of the game. Since new closures are added at midnight, that’s why I’m often editing late. Since these Map Problems for closures started appearing, I have probably entered over 2000 closures on the Waze map.
I should also note that not all road closures reach Waze. It seems to vary by Local Authority. Some LAs do not provide information to Elgin at all. Others do not mark every closure as a closure - London being a prime example. In these cases, the LA report “roadworks with a closure” - what you see as a triangle sign with a small no-entry sign on it. These pins don’t go through to Waze. Other LAs will report a “roadworks with closure” and a closure.
We are also experimenting with our own system. Timbones, the UK Country Coordinator and resident genius, is experimenting with a data feed from the Highways Agency and an automated system to close & re-open roads. If the HA hadn’t changed the feed format recently, that would be working for some of the UK major roads right now.
Clearly those of you who lead around here are well aware of what would be good for the community and already do much to try to improve the system. I’ll sit quietly in the background now and create as little additional work for you as possible.
Bye.