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A few days ago I was in the unfortunate position of trying to get to an event and Waze was unable to navigate me to the desired location due to a large amount of road closures for the actual event. Waze is still new in South Africa and did not know you could report public events. A few days after the event I was talking to the guys in the office and as i said “if only Waze could manage reporting events” i fount the report event button. I would however preferred capturing the event details prior to getting there in order to easily have navigated around without driving down each closed road. I look forward to when this kind of pro-active reporting will be switched on.
There are two systems that are already working - 1) the in-app closure feature and 2) the Traffic Events Center explained in the first post in this thread.
Please note that events submitted to the Traffic Events Center take time to process and be added to the system (it’s not automatic yet).
It does, but it is a rare to see working because it takes more than one user to close major roadways. A single user only has so much “power” and can’t close major roads with a single report. We’d have a huge mess if one person could close major roadways during rush hour.
We have tried a couple of times to close a ramp with three champs and could rarely succeed to close it down. How often will you have three champs or more passing the same road works and taking time to close exactly the same turn? Never. So for me it just doesn’t work.
I would hope at least that a L6 could one-shot close something, or two L3s, or an L5 and an L1, or six L1s closing the same segment. It should not take that much corroboration to close a segment, or else closures won’t ever happen. They’re difficult enough to report as it is.
We all know the client isn’t anywhere near forgiving enough when it comes to reporting closures. I saw a dot-matrix sign a quarter mile before an intersection that said one road coming off it was closed. Even stopped at the second block before the intersection, I could not report that right turn closed.
Are closures submitted through this Event Traffic Center limited to the Tiles Update schedule, or are they more time-specific, for example, 8 pm on a Friday through 5 am the following Monday?
These closures are not limited to tile updates, and does support things like 8pm on Friday through 5am on Monday. Please make it clear that it is a continious closure when you are submitting it (so they do one continuous closures instead of a repeating closure that would close the road from 8pm to 5am the next morning for Friday night, Saturday night & Sunday night).
I submitted one for I-95 in Delaware. On the first page of the submittal I made it clear the times the roads would be closed. The second page (with the permalinks of the affected roads) does not allow me to specify a date along with the time(s).
Several of us have asked use to have them change that & allow date/time entry for each closure.
I’ll take a look at what you’ve submitted & PM orit_y (Waze staffer who made the original post) to make sure they do it correctly. They may email your directly about this to verify things…
