I would like to see a Training Environment set up for WAZE. A separate, limited version of the “live” environment where new editors can play, make mistakes, and follow the Waze learning material (online) without having it affect “Real World” data.
I got to the third course in the series and had to find an empty space to draw an intersection. All in the LIVE environment. This frightened the living daylights out of me, I always had in the back of my mind that this was LIVE and someone, somewhere was going to want to drive this box intersection I was creating in the middle of a forest area. The fear extended to the realisation that any mistakes I made affected the accuracy of Waze in some unrecoverable way.
It would also be a valuable tool for 1 on 1 coaching sessions with mentors and more senior editors, via Discord of some other chat application.
Anyway, that’s just a thought I had during the excellent presentation last night.
If you open up WME in an incognito window (or log out of your account), there is a “Try Practice Mode” button underneath the login button.
In Practice Mode none of the changes will be saved and you will be able to use tools which would normally be unavailable at your level but are available in the training courses, e.g. junction boxes. You won’t be able to save any changes, but it will allow you to follow along with the courses or your mentor without having the chance to affect the live map.
No worries. If you haven’t already, I would encourage you to get in touch with your local editing community if you have any questions. There is also a Discord server for the Australian community if you prefer a live chat. Happy editing!
Thank you, and yes, I am already linked in with the Australian Editing community. I’m considering the A/NZ Local Meetup in (?Melbourne) this coming August.
At the moment, I’m just looking for things to occupy myself while I sit in Hospital, visiting my father.
Don’t be afraid, in the course it says very clearly, do the exercise and delete the created segments. The courses are great, don’t forget to register your data for certification and your claim your badges. Greetings from Colombia