A lot of the roads around the Trial Lake area of the Uinta mountains a incorrect. I would like to fix them but they are outside of my “driving area”. Is there any way around this? There are a bunch of roads identified as one way that aren’t and it looks like some of the walking trails up there are identified as roads.
There is no way around it, in order to edit the area you must drive within a mile radius of the segments you want to work on.
The only other option is to work with someone who has edit rights on getting things updated.
There’s a Google Hangout for Utah that you can join and help relay the information or flag issues present around Trial lake.
Join link for Utah: https://hangouts.google.com/group/YOKeHSbjpkLFpYn82
Did you travel that area with Waze and no editing area showed up after visiting/driving around Trial Lake?
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I have a similar issue. Even when I go drive near roads needing attention up in the mountains, since I don’t have good cell phone coverage up there, I don’t end up actually gaining the EA that would let me make the changes. It may be that we need to work with an area manager (if any) for that area, or with our state manager, Blair (herrchin), who can edit anywhere in the state.
Thanks,
Mac
Or even better, work toward becoming an Area Manager for that area.
UncleDimmie, after you’ve been editing the map for a while, a natural progression is to apply to adopt an under-served area of the map as its Area Manager. That’s typically how more out-of-the-way areas get taken care of, since no one is unlocking them via normal Waze driving.
Sounds like there needs to be some added flexibility in the areas without cell service. Personally I don’t care because I’m familiar with the area. I worry more about people who are unfamiliar with the area and would like to correct it to make their lives earlier.
There have been many “store and forward” requests to handle areas where data signal is gone, especially from other countries. No idea where it is on the Waze priority list though.
I agree. I use Waze to travel quite often from the Salt Lake area to the Crystal Lake Trailhead/Trial Lake area and it always routes on the bogus ‘Notch Mountain Trail’ which, isn’t a road in the first place and isn’t accurate for the trail either, instead of the Trial Lake/Crystal lake turn-off so it shows the trip taking 2.5 hours instead of the 1.5 hours it really takes. None of us can fix it because there is no cell phone service up there and it is ‘out of our driving area’ even though we’ve driven it many times. Navigating to Trial Lake, Trial Lake Campground, Washington Lake Campground all do the same thing.
If you know what it is supposed to look like, there are a few people (like the State Managers) who have editing rights there, despite the lack of cell coverage or not having traveled there. If you can help us identify the problems and how to solve them, I suspect we could enlist help from someone to make some of those adjustments, considering how bad it is currently. An easier way than this forum might be to join the Discord chat room with us, where we have a #utah group and can help with it there. The link to join is https://discord.gg/twxnqnU for our Southwest Region (SWR). Thanks!
You can use a GPS tracking app when you drive the route and then someone with editing rights to the area can do an overlay of the captured track onto the Waze Map Editor to update the map.
There is a lot of untouched and incorrect basemap in much of Summit, Morgan (less so), Rich, Weber, Cache, and Box Elder counties. I’ve been thinking I ought to apply to be an Area Manager for this under-served area and start cleaning it up. I used to live in Evanston (and delivered pizza), and so I know the roads around there quite well. My in-laws live on the Mirror Lake Hwy (SR-150) south of Evanston on the Utah side, so we are up in the Uintas quite frequently, and we like to take “Sunday drives” from our home near Brigham, up Logan Canyon, Bear Lake, Monte Cristo, and around the Wasatch Back – the Bear River and Weber River drainage basins are our “explore area”. (Admittedly Trial Lake drains into the Provo River, and Mirror Lake is on the Duchesne/Green side, but up around 11,000 ft they’re all in close quarters.) But lack of cell coverage means only the critical thru-routes get any attention.