My last map edits and my last post.
I've been using Waze for a few months now, racking up the points etc doing my bit for others with no problems whatsoever.
Then I moved on to map editing - and wished I hadn't.
Firstly, I DARED to improve a piece of road that I use on an almost daily basis. It is a large dual carriageway but is shown as a single carriageway on the maps. I spent some time re drawing the maps accurately as a dual carriageway - as shown on Google Maps, My Navteq based in car sat nav maps and a few others I checked.
Then I start to receive criticism over the change - Why? ?
The guides show a road like this MUST be marked as a dual carriageway. The GPS traces confirmed two distinct carriageways with a gap in the middle - dual carriageway.
Secondly, someone flagged up a break in the road. I had a look, checked with a few other sources and joined the road up. Then I receive a PM from someone asking me NOT to do this as there are roadworks there blah blah blah. Why did the user flag the road was open if it isn't? And why didn't the individual who PM'd me put a note there asking NOT to rejoin the road before asking?
If this is how new people are treated then the whole Waze model WILL NOT WORK. If I had made some catastrophic cock ups then all well and good. As it goes, I didn't. All I did was try and improve the map data and accuracy on a piece of road I know really well.
I have spent a fair amount of my time deleting wrongly added speed cameras etc etc. which I don't have a problem with. But to be criticised like this has put me off completely.
It seems to be a common thing on web forums - experienced members are very quick to attack newcomers.
I've also spotted loads of problems in London with turn permissions etc but everything is locked so one has to grovel to have everything unlocked - then it appears you have to justify your actions constantly.
The permissions system needs looking at, it will put so many people off and problems on maps will NOT be corrected leading to piss poor navigation and a loss of users.
This is my last post here and I won't be doing any more map edits. I might even delete the whole Waze app as well, that's how much of a bitter taste this has left in my mouth.
Warm welcome? I think not. Bye all.
Then I moved on to map editing - and wished I hadn't.
Firstly, I DARED to improve a piece of road that I use on an almost daily basis. It is a large dual carriageway but is shown as a single carriageway on the maps. I spent some time re drawing the maps accurately as a dual carriageway - as shown on Google Maps, My Navteq based in car sat nav maps and a few others I checked.
Then I start to receive criticism over the change - Why? ?
The guides show a road like this MUST be marked as a dual carriageway. The GPS traces confirmed two distinct carriageways with a gap in the middle - dual carriageway.
Secondly, someone flagged up a break in the road. I had a look, checked with a few other sources and joined the road up. Then I receive a PM from someone asking me NOT to do this as there are roadworks there blah blah blah. Why did the user flag the road was open if it isn't? And why didn't the individual who PM'd me put a note there asking NOT to rejoin the road before asking?
If this is how new people are treated then the whole Waze model WILL NOT WORK. If I had made some catastrophic cock ups then all well and good. As it goes, I didn't. All I did was try and improve the map data and accuracy on a piece of road I know really well.
I have spent a fair amount of my time deleting wrongly added speed cameras etc etc. which I don't have a problem with. But to be criticised like this has put me off completely.
It seems to be a common thing on web forums - experienced members are very quick to attack newcomers.
I've also spotted loads of problems in London with turn permissions etc but everything is locked so one has to grovel to have everything unlocked - then it appears you have to justify your actions constantly.
The permissions system needs looking at, it will put so many people off and problems on maps will NOT be corrected leading to piss poor navigation and a loss of users.
This is my last post here and I won't be doing any more map edits. I might even delete the whole Waze app as well, that's how much of a bitter taste this has left in my mouth.
Warm welcome? I think not. Bye all.
Re: My last map edits and my last post.