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What is an IGN?

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:43 pm
by
I've searched the wiki and the forums. The wiki turns up '0' hits and the forums seems to just have people complaining about IGN's wrecking havoc all over the place.

I asked because I've been editing the area around where I live, a somewhat remotish area in north Georgia (Calhoun, GA) and have suddenly run into a ton of very randomly scattered "parking lot" zones marked all over the place. Some of these are private businesses and really... I think it's expected that they have a parking lot. Some are so scatterbrained in the layering, they actually run off into the street and road (the zone of course, not the lot). Some just highlight the whole business or store and lot and street and everything. But I digress... I figured the parking lot was more reserved in the sense of a parking garage, somewhere specifically meant for parking and walking, which we only have one of in town.

At first I thought it was just someone being somewhat lazy. Then I started thinking someone was just spamming edits for points. Then I noticed there were different usernames all with the IGN prefix, started searching a bit and found the complaint posts. So I guess I'm joining in on the complaint posts.

Ultimately, what are the IGN accounts, and can I feel comfortable just deleting the nonsense they've plastered down? :) Oh, and I am right in assuming a parking lot means basically a parking garage that isn't a garage, right? ;)

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:56 pm
by AlanOfTheBerg

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:53 pm
by AndyPoms
IGN are editors that work for a company Waze contracted to do map edits...

They seem to be attracted to areas when Problem Reports (not URs) are marked as "Not Identified"... As you've found, they are notoriously bad at editing and seem to put down parking lot roads & parking lot landmarks everywhere they go...

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 4:04 pm
by AndyPoms
ovaid wrote:as an editor you can take down most of these false parking lots/businesses, providing they haven't been locked by a higher ranked IGN. most of them aren't they are on lock 1.

Waze should have an application for reputable map editors to become IGNs....i think
In accordance with the Forum Rules, please do not reopen dormant threads.

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:50 pm
by Bigbear3764
lizaoreo wrote:I've searched the wiki and the forums. The wiki turns up '0' hits and the forums seems to just have people complaining about IGN's wrecking havoc all over the place.
Yep, go and clean it up. When you see a system error report because someone left their route to go thru the McDonald's drive thru, Waze kicks out a route error. Most editors use to just clear them as Not Identified. Waze gets them and turns them over to the IGN editors. They don't follow our Best editing practices and draw in the parking lots. I have them put in right turn lanes that are labeled as ramps.

When you see a system generated error and you under stand why it happened, mark them as solved.

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 12:45 am
by Daknife
Good expansion of the Acronym but it's not automated, it's humans that don't follow the editing guidelines.

Just think of it as free points as you correct their errors and close all the UR's that pop up until your corrections go through.

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 10:41 am
by DangerDaneDK
I suspect its that work thing where people can sign up and do smaller menial tasks for cents :P. And the name is MechanicalTurk

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:53 pm
by DangerDaneDK
Still waze could have contracted it out to Amazon. I mean i tried the mTurk edition and i quit it soon after. 2 hours of work and not nearly enough to even call it close to minimum wage.

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:58 pm
by Grid64
AndyPoms wrote:IGN are editors that work for a company Waze contracted to do map edits...

They seem to be attracted to areas when Problem Reports (not URs) are marked as "Not Identified"... As you've found, they are notoriously bad at editing and seem to put down parking lot roads & parking lot landmarks everywhere they go...
I've been noticing they love to mark roads as service roads.

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:40 am
by Grid64
MeX_DK wrote:I suspect its that work thing where people can sign up and do smaller menial tasks for cents :P. And the name is MechanicalTurk
Nah, mTurk is strictly Amazon.

Re: What is an IGN?

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:29 am
by Grid64
MeX_DK wrote:Still waze could have contracted it out to Amazon. I mean i tried the mTurk edition and i quit it soon after. 2 hours of work and not nearly enough to even call it close to minimum wage.
mTurk was never a replacement of a part time job. You'll never make minimum wage with the website and it should have been obvious within using it right from the start. It's just a nice thing to user when you need a little bit extra money.