Script Idea: Old Comments

I don’t know how it is in other areas, but even with the map raid, older comments often don’t show up until you’ve zoomed to 3 or closer. This caused me to missing many of my own URs prior to the map raid, as I was either zoomed out too high to see them, or so close it was easy to miss areas while scrolling around. My assumption is that this is due to Waze limiting the number of URs shown, and giving preference to the newest URs.

I would love to see a script, that reverses this behavior. Giving preference to the oldest URs when choosing which URs to display. URO+ does not do this. You can set it to hide newer URs, but if Waze never loads the older ones, you still don’t see them.

Anyone willing to take a shot at this? Does this function exist already in a script I’d overlooked?

It’s a “feature” of WME, as it can only display a limited number of URs on the screen.

As for a script, something that scans and logs at Zoom-5 like Validator, then parses them against a user-set filter like URO+ (or even uses your settings from URO+) would do the trick.
I don’t think that would be able to render on the map, but a page of PLs would be quite useful.

A maximum 500 URs are returned regardless of status. If there is a way to override the default request and limit by status or increase the amount returned, it is not readily apparent.

For actual display on the map, but you also can’t see Streets at wide zoom angles.
When you hit the “play” arrow on Validator, it zooms in tight and scans the map tile by tile, so it is able to load everything into a buffer.

What my idea basically does is takes the filters from URO+ and combines them with the Validator-like scan to produce a simple Validator-like report of clickable PLs.
Added bonus, the link color of the PL changes so you can tell if you have already visited when running the next scan.

I agree, there’s no way a script can do exactly what is requested since WME is masking the older URs by default.

Well, I would like to take a shot at it, but what about auto replying to some common UR’s?

Like ‘General Error’ with no description, I always reply ‘Please give us more information’…

Would that be a nice one? I think so, I’ll try and dive in the WME api or other scripts… No promises, no expectations, no eta :stuck_out_tongue: :lol: just a look if I can do something about this :geek: even if it’s only for myself :stuck_out_tongue:

Not mass automatic replies, and there are actually scripts that do this on an individual basis already such as UrComments and Auto UR. There was a lot of discussion about that capability on and off the forums when we first started working with those scripts.

https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=118512#p995334

The 3.35 release of URO+ now includes beta test code to work around this server-side limit…

Thank you for this. It is making it much easier to find the old URs!