I’ve scoured the wiki pages around map editing, but am not finding a concrete answer, so I’d hope someone here can help.
I travel quite a bit for both work and play and had some downtime on my hands, so I wanted to go back and add/edit/fix some of the places I spent significant time at during my travels. I’m finding that I can’t seem to edit any place that I haven’t driven at in >3 months. Is that the way things are supposed to be?
NY - editing just fine (except for some parts of the Rockaways I’ve not been through lately)
Places I’ve been in the last 3 months I can edit:
California (SF & LA)
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Illinois
Places I’ve been from 3-6 months ago I cannot edit (yes, I am using the World server for the non-US locations):
Washington, DC
Texas
California (Sacramento)
Cambodia (drove >1000km around the country)
Thailand
UK
Don’t feel bad - I know the answer, but I couldn’t find a link to point you to!
Your “driven areas” are areas where you have editing rights based on having driven there - and driven areas expire after 90 days/3 months (I’m not sure which). :geek:
I’ve found it’s [usually] 90 days, rounded the the end of the month of the 90th day. For example, a drive today + 90 days = October 14th, but will likely be editable until the end of October. It’s probably a once a month purge of data. It’s not always exactly the 30th/31st; I’ve sometimes seen it happen on the 27th-29th.
Thank you both for the answers from experience, given that there’s no Wiki info on that. Guess I need to get around to any planned cleanup with a bit more haste. Out of curiosity - have either of you noticed that this limit used to not be in place? I distinctly remember being able to edit my drives around Oregon much later than 90 days after my travel, but that would have been 3-4 years ago.
By the way- your respective taglines made me chuckle. Iain - you should ask Pete about which Vermont commune would be best for your relocation. :lol:
I’ve been editing for 3 years and, as far as I know, drives have always expired after 90 days. It’s possible that wasn’t true further back in the past. Also, back then we had fewer updates and more frequent delays. Since clearing expired drives is probably part of the update process, drives might have lasted longer for that reason.
As for the tagline, it’s a paraphrased quotation from The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder - well worth a read and some of it is available online. The quote is about one of the engineers building and debugging a new minicomputer who burns out:
Its a reminder to myself to try & not take this all too seriously.
I write this comment wondering if it will pop up if front of someone who will know how to move it forward. I think that the time limit on a Editors drive area should have the ability to be extended by a State Manager if a editor is making a reasonable good contribution to that area.
We had a editor who was editing in an area where there was no other editors and when his 90days were up the area fell abandoned. It does not make sense to me. My 2¢ Thanks JD
I think it’s extremely unlikely that Waze would ever introduce a facility to extend the 90 days limit on driven areas. I don’t say this because it’s a bad idea in a case like you mention, but because there is already a mechanism by which your State Manager can give extended editing rights - by assigning an Area Manager area.
I can only speak directly for what we have done before in the UK, but I’m sure other countries operate in a similar way. We have occasionally assigned AM areas (without necessarily having a promotion in rank) for similar reasons. There may be a remote area with poor cell coverage which is frequently visited by an experienced editor who is willing to take care of it. Indeed, after I had been with Waze for a few months and already had a “home” area, I took on an area covering southern Wales - a massive area that was sorely in need of both editing attention and cell towers to gain permissions. We have also temporarily assigned AM areas during a country-wide effort to improve the mapping of retail Places and car parks.
That’s exactly it. By the time the 90 days is up, if the editor has really been working the area over, he or she should already have rank 2 and possibly even rank 3, and will be ready for an AM.
Guess I need to get around to any planned cleanup with a bit more haste. Out of curiosity - have either of you noticed that this limit used to not be in place? I distinctly remember being able to edit my drives around Oregon much later than 90 days after my travel, but that would have been 3-4 years ago.