Not sure if you can use an existing shape, but you can import a WKT file to add an area.
You could also draw the new area over the top to get it into WAL. The area doesn’t save on the map so it won’t be duplicated.
Thanks for the quick reply.
I had initially drawn an area comment so I could share that area with other editors. It wasn’t too complicated but took some time to accomplish. One of the drawback is the comment area is filled and not just an outline.
As you suggested I did actually overdraw it and saved in WAL - along with generating the WKT file. The benefit of the WAL area is it can be drawn as the outline - perfect! Drawback is that the WKT file would have to be shared with others … they’d have to have WAL installed and enabled.
I’ll probably take the approach of just drawing future areas in WAL …
Be nice if WME allowed for the export of WKT for areas …
For any existing area, you can get the WKT from any area place natively by clicking on the copy button in the left panel (see my screen grab). Just paste it in a file and save with a .WKT extension.
Nice! I guess I should go mousing around WME more - thanks for the pointer!
Anyone having any issues at the moment? WAL has been stalling and not working for me…
The problem seems to be WME Color Highlights; not sure what I am looking for in the console.
I’m having issues with WAL at the moment stalling
It’s stalling for me too. I run it in a VM and I haven’t got WME Color Highlights on that browser.
WAL stalls for me about 9%.
I am having the same difficulty, but I do not think that it is a script problem. This same console error occurs with no script running at all.
If I’m doing a WAL scan of any size I turn off all other scripts in TM and shut off any extensions. I know WAL handles much of that, but… just my way of eliminating any possible issues because I’ve seen Validator (??) still evaluating things in the background
I’ve seen it stall, and bringing up the console with F12 ( using windows) it shows server errors. Often after a few minutes’ pause it continues to scan. Sometimes switching away from Chrome and then back will trigger it to restart - or maybe it would have anyway, I’m not sure.
It doesn’t continue after a stall my end, and I’ve sometimes let it hang for many many hours.
And I’m running it on a browser with no other extensions. If there’s anything I can do to help troubleshooting, let me know (wouldn’t call myself savvy interpreting the console).
Hi,
So far, I’ve tested WAL script with WAL Places plugin script in Czech Republic. And thanks for the great tool! 
I’ve got a couple of observations, which -I hope- could be somehow tackled:
1. While scanning (relatively small) area I ended up with out of memory error. It’s reported by browser but not sure, if it comes from the browser or from the script.
My area: GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POLYGON((14.386881743316495 50.064439898570626,14.340876494293003 49.9541194572342,14.604548369293704 49.94064302923339,14.633730803375128 50.08338949459974,14.386881743316495 50.064439898570626)))
With smaller area this does not happen. If this is not a bug and it just derives from the amount of output data: It might help to have a possibility to have some filtering already in the search query. (e.g. filter places by type or with certain string in the name, or in certain country, etc.)
Update: I encoutered this issue only if the target for the output is a browser windows… with having CSV as an output, the issue hasn’t occur so far.2. UR-MP tracking script has got “Scan editable area” function. It would be nice to have it has well… Especially useful for lower-level editors.
3. Scanning with having unnecessary layers disabled (e.g. satelitte imagery) seems to progress much faster. Maybe scanning queries could be automatically optimized to save bandwidth and cpu.
4. During the scan the road segments become visible, even if I scan Places and I disabled Roads layer before the scan. Is showing/loading of road segments expected/needed?
5. Note: If Places layer is disabled, the scanning (for Places) returns zero results. It’s logical but the script could display an error or warning right in the beginning.
Otherwise… really great script. Thanks once again!
One more thing… Sometimes, the scanning stalls. In my case this is usually because of (corporate-enforced) screen-lock. I can resume scanning by triggering the map load. (e.g. By slightly panning the map.)
It would be great if script could resume scanning automatically.
I discovered that with color highlights running, WAL stalls. Once I disable color highlights, WAL works correctly.
Another thought:
It would be great in case that WAL could ingest areas directly from mymaps URLs. For example I have created following areas. Currently, I have to export them to KMZ format, than use some KMZ-to-WKT converter, edit WKT file manually and replace ‘LINESTRING’ element by ‘POLYGON’ element and than only pass it them WAL.
btw:JustinS83’s script OOM has got a similar capability.
I have the same issue. Seems like WAL needs to check if ColorHighlights is being used, and disable it before it starts the scan
Alas, that’s not how things work. In order to “disable” a script, you have to first disable it in Tamper Monkey, then do a hard refresh. Otherwise, the script remains loaded and active in the current window. So, the only way your idea would work was if WAL interacted with TM (which I’m not even sure is possible, and I’m certain it’s generally not desirable) and then either forced a refresh or opened a new tab, also not generally desirable behavior.
I agree for sure. But there should be some way for WAL to work alongside ColorHighlights (I would hope)
Hi, is it possible to speed up the scanning process so it will be possible to scan a state for places at reasonable amount of time. Regards.
Any possibility of adding “loops” to the list of selectable issues?