Those of you active in the UK forum will already be aware of this script, and since it now has a slowly but steadily growing number of users based outside of the UK, it was suggested that I announce its existence in the global editing forum…
What does it do?
There are two main features to the script. The first is to add a pop-up box next to whichever user request or camera marker your mouse pointer is hovering over. This box contains a summary of the details for this UR/camera, allowing you to quickly see if it’s one that you need to pay more attention to without having to click on the marker and wait for WME to reload the map at the marker position.
For UR markers, the box also contains three links allowing you to open up a new WME tab centred on the marker, to open up a new LiveMap tab, or to hide the marker for the remainder of this editing session (if you’ve decided that it’s a UR you definitely don’t want to be bothered with today)
The second feature is the ability to filter UR and camera markers by various parameters - type, age, keywords etc. e.g. if you don’t want to see any General Error UR markers, they can all be hidden by ticking a single checkbox. If you only want to see URs that were created at least x days ago, but less than y days ago, you can do that too. If you’re in the habit of setting URs to remind yourself about a map issue you want to fix when you get home, and you insert your username into the UR description to remind everyone else not to touch that UR, you can then find these URs easily by using the keyword filter…
Camera markers can be similarly filtered, although the range of filters is somewhat smaller here.
The script was developed in Firefox/Greasemonkey, but has also been tested (and used by others) in Chrome as an extension.
Note that, to the best of my knowledge, all of its current users are based on the world server - I would therefore appreciate any feedback from users on the NA server!
In production WME, UROverview and Tim’s highlighting interfaces kind of play ok together, but that left side area becomes quite messy. So far, functionality is fine.
It’s not terrible, but with both showing, it goes beyond the screen height (for this monitor) and covers everything over there. Workable, but it’s quite crowded. If Mike can get the OK for inclusion in the WazeBar, the way that tool is giving access to these cool scripts is much cleaner. I look forward to that.
Yeah too tall for mine too, before he split the UR and camera features onto two tabs this one alone was too tall for my monitor! Is the WazeBar available for Chrome yet?
Nope. Unsure if it will be. It’s a different beast to do this in Chrome. It’s a good reason to use Safari, though. I’ve mostly switched over, but you’re right, it would be nice to be totally cross-platform.
Minor update to 1.4.1, to fix the livemap links in the UR popups on systems where the main livemap link at the top of the WME page doesn’t include a reference to your current position within WME - on these systems the livemap links were being generated as relative links to WME rather than the absolute links to livemap as expected…
It would be excellent if you could display the UR in the livemap. Why? Because in livemap less data is requested to the server so it is possible to set a zoom good enough to get a UR overview in larger area.
Do you think this is feasible?
In a country it would be great to quickly identify the areas we should zoom in and fix in the editor
Can we just have the 2 devs tools either integrated together with on off switches OR one script for each dev? It’s brilliant that we have such clever buggers among us, but it’d be nicer if the number of different things we had to install and use was lower, that’s all
Or, someone find out how to hack the editor to give another zoom out level… Not sure that’s possible as that may require a different call to the server, and it likely rejects other zoom levels.
I doubt this would be possible (except that a WME in another tab would be used to scan for UR+PR+Cams and the script would tunnel its data into LiveMap). It just uses the related data being read by WME and I suspect that LiveMap does not contain any bit of it.
I have suggested another zoom out level. However I have been told that it would overload the server because many users, at the same time, requesting the most zoom out level, would produce too much data request for the current Waze infrastructure.
Between, if you check the WME Extend or the WazeBar plugins they have a fullscreen option. This is already increasing the data you should normally request.
In the LiveMap less layers are loaded so the zoom out levels are wide. You can see wholes countries!
If the UR layer was implemented in the LiveMap it would be great. After identifying the places where there are UR we could zoom in and change to edition mode
It’s useful, I just wish it didn’t insist on popping the box up on top of the UR’s unless I make sure to move them to the upper left portion of the screen. I don’t need to open the UR’s in another tab, I just need to be able to click on and open the UR and the pop-up box trying to cover the UR’s gets annoying quickly.
I was hoping to have 1.6 fully tested/debugged before releasing it, but having waited a week for some new problem markers to show up in my area, I figured it’d be better to release 1.6 now with problem marker support disabled, and then re-enable it in a future release…
The main reason for wanting to get 1.6 out the door is that it should fix the problem of the pop-up obscuring the UR marker, so I’d appreciate feedback on whether or not it’s actually succeeded here. It also introduces auto-opening of the UR details panel when using the “open in new tab” link, so that you no longer need to click on the UR marker once the tab has loaded.
I’ve mostly switched over, but you’re right, it would be nice to be totally cross-platform.