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Post by PesachZ
Odessit68 wrote:How long does it take to set up the closure? I have submitted the form over a week ago.

Just in case:
Here is the info on the closure.

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I have set a restriction on the segment for the time being, just to stop routing through the bridge.
If its been over a week you can check the status on the sheet. If its still not been reviewed, please contact your local SM, RC, or champ.

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Post by PesachZ
Odessit68 wrote:How can we report the end of the closure?
For example this closure is over, I drove through this segment two days ago. Can it be removed?
When there is a [CLOSURE] UR like the one in your link, the best option is to add a comment to the UR. Otherwise contact the editor who uploaded the closure, place a comment on it in the sheet, or contact the SM/RC/Champ for the area.

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Post by PesachZ
voludu2 wrote:What is the correct procedure when closures are submitted, but do not get added to the map after 10 days or a week?

There are several yellow lines in several regions, for closures that have now begun and will still run for a week or several months longer.

Is this spreadsheet too cumbersome for the champs who are forced to use it? Can I help with a little bit of redesign?
You can also note all any available rank 5 editor with pet m permission in the area to add closures. So this should become more manageable now.

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Post by PesachZ
It's also still efficient for lower rank editors to give us the details in a manner we can easily copy into WME

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Post by PesachZ
citeman wrote:Trying to use the closure form this morning and getting an error saying:
"You must provide the WME permalink"

For the permalink, I have turned off all layers, but road. However the pasted permalink is still throwing the error when I try to submit. Did Waze change the permalink text and it is not passing the test on the form? Or am I doing something wrong?
Can you paste the PL here you tried?

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Post by PhantomSoul
I know that NJDOT describes closures in terms of the posted detours to through traffic, so they almost alway imply that any local access that doesn't involve driving over the actual part of the road being worked on is allowed. Yeah, it takes a little more work to research and determine which segment is actually being ripped up, but that's why we have a community of editors, no?

For things like bridge or culvert replacements, I try to isolate the 1 segment (or 2 segments if spanning a city boundary) that is over the disrupted part of the road. Waze will pick up the detour around it anyway for through traffic, while still correctly navigating to/from local places/addresses in the area.

I guess the only problem I see with this is if there were multiple ways to get around the closure on more local streets, when the state/county/city designated a specific detour for through traffic, but so far I haven't come across that.
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Do you mean like if the closure on a small part of a much longer segment with maybe like houses along it? I thought of this actually but figured since closures go down independently of map edit builds, and breaking the segment up to isolate the specific closure would involve map edits, it could potentially create a conflict or end up closing the wrong segment do ending on how segment numbers are assigned during such a split. So I figure it's probably just better to isolate the smallest accurate set of existing 1 or 2 segments to submit as closed.
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Post by PleaseDriveFast
Following guidance here:
pumrum wrote:If you specified the correct end date in the original request, then no further action is required - the closure will expire automatically.

If you need to adjust any aspect of the closure such as the end date/time being moved up (construction ahead of schedule?? HA!), submit the closure as you did initially with the updated information, and note in the comments that you are modifying a previous entry. The manager reviewing the closure will see that, find the original entry, and modify as needed.
I had submitted an update request to open the PL'ed segments here on August 22. This was based on a UR report and my own driving down these segments to confirm.

I think I initially had the closure ending 2014-08-31. Should this expire on its own or should there be an update to remove the closure?
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Post by Poncewattle
Should the list of node IDs be separated/delimited by commas, spaces, or doesn't it matter and I'm just too obsessive about these sorts of details? :geek:
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Post by pumrum
A couple questions on this great new feature:

The guidelines mention that closures can be added 24 hours or more prior to an event. Is this subject to the standard WazeHQ availability of Sunday through Thursday (USA time, observing Friday and Saturday as Israel days off), or will events submitted on Friday be live for Sunday (or late Sat)?

Are these updates subject to the tile updates, or are they independent? Said another way: if a closure is uploaded Monday morning, but the tiles don't update for another 3 days - will the closures still appear in the app or will they not appear until the tiles update?

I see that this is targeted for construction or emergencies, but some are also using this for localized events (parades, etc) which I think is awesome. Some locales such as NYC don't publish full closure information about localized events until very late in the week and I want to make sure it is OK to use this system for those types of events. There is a high impact to traffic, but details are often not provided far enough in advance to qualify for a Major Event.
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