Truly social features should also be good realtime features - hooking up with local providers of data like fuel prices would be the most useful thing for the community. I think there's a request in uservoice for it already, but it would be good to see this happen sooner rather than later.

bpitas wrote:I thought of this because there used to be someone in the Boston area (northbound Rt 95) near Highland Ave) who would report a "speed trap" just about every day, even though it was just a roadside sign with a K-band transmitter on it. The first few times I heard it, I was driving myself crazy trying to find the cruiser, thinking maybe they were doing the classic "hide in the radar" near the sign, trying to catch people without warning counters (ala Valentine 1). Then I realized it was just someone who got a radar detector squawk every morning and reported it.

I'm not sure which platform you're using but that functionality is already present on the Android (and presumably the iphone) client, especially for police reports. I get a popup as I'm approaching and there is an option to indicate that the police or hazard is no longer there. I assume that when I click that, the report is deleted for other wazers.

Make official training for map editing. Features are only unlocked if you have viewed the training. (and make it not just a click through thing)

xerxesz wrote:Especially in areas where not enough users are present this can turn into strange form of streets.

I agree. This would require some sort of "calculation" like "1000 users in the area, if at least X% use that road every Y days then update it in some form". Not a fixed number, something in relation with the number of users roaming the area. I would not like Waze to mark my garage as a public road

dmcconachie wrote: Protect the community's treasure:
This is a difficult one - waze actually has a hierarchy built in but it doesn't get used. As a veteran editor I can definitely see the need for it but if it is to be used there has to be much more transparency around area managers, who they are, whether they're still active and how to get in contact. I also think this hierarchy should be based on editing points and not total points (as per Atlas85's point). AM status should be revoked or suspended based on a time of inactivity!

Yeah, there is no contact whatsoever as how to get in touch with other users. I can be an AM and never check into the forum. I don't know if revoking AM status is the right idea. Maybe an AM stops editing because there is not much to edit anymore. But if a user applies as an AM in an area where another AM is active, this could need some authorization from the original manager. If he authorizes it, the new user can get control of a sub-area of the master AM. If he doesn't reply in X days, the other user gets authorized by the system and this somehow could lead to AM loosing their powers.

dmcconachie wrote:True Social GPS:
I totally agree here, the "social" side is very weak! I also think we should be able to elect to have a more real-time view of other users on a user-by-user basis!

What exactly do you mean by this? What do you want to see from other users?

dmcconachie wrote:Learning my doing:
This is difficult again, mainly down to the fact that GPS accuracy can vary wildly.

Yes but the average of the users GPS signal will always be the best alternative since, that way, the average user will always be on the right road or "poped on it" by waze client.[/quote]

dmcconachie wrote:Only very recently the automatic road correction was switched off for any road which has been manually edited - I think this should be an option in the edit panel - occasionally I don't have time to edit miles of a road but want to confirm name, connectivity, directionality then let the server adjust the geometry - this isn't currently possible!

This would be really great. It would also be nice to do some sort of "partial locking". Sometimes I want the road to get corrected by the system, but I don't want it to be changed from a "one way" to a "two way" street.

dmcconachie wrote:Quick reports widget:
There is an Android widget on the way - whilst we don't know the full feature set yet I am hopefull that it will have a quick report function! This will however require your GPS to be on more and thus eat battery life!

I always have my GPS enabled and it doesn't use any battery if it is not in use. The great thing about GPS is that it is not "turned on" when you enable it, it just gets "cleared for application usage" which means it stays turned off but any application can turn it on to use it at any time. Since I don't have any background application using my GPS it doesn't use any extra battery.

dmcconachie wrote:I had a similar (albeit slightly less structured) rant a few months ago, have a browse through the thread if you've time!

I'll take a look at it and see if I can import anything else into this post.

adamridley wrote:Definately a +1 here. You should create this as a suggestion on uservoice. Slight correction for you, I'm assuming you mean "learning by doing" not "my"!

The automatic geometry correction as someone said was turned off not that long ago.
However, I do think that it will work very well with a selective algorithm like you suggest limiting it to 50 users in a week before an edit was made should be sufficient. Even more so if it ranks gps points by the reported accuracy of those points.

Thanks I corrected that. I will post it as a suggestion only if I get enough attention in this post to "attach" the post as a link to it so they see how important these features are for all users, not only for me.
Why did they remove the automatic geometry correction? Did it not work? It is the most awesome feature of Waze

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:They could get even fancier and do flash or other interactive web-based training where they actually can perform actions and be evaluated on their properness.

That would be awesome. I had quite some doubts when I first started mapping for Waze. "is this a highway? is this a major road? is this a ramp or an access road?"
And it would even help us, more experienced users by creating a world-wide pattern. Each country seems to have their own way of adding roads to the application. This shows some pattern, but not a world-wide pattern.

I took the major comments and joined them into the first post. Hope this helps new users to get a quick look faster.
It would be great to hear more of other users and, of course, to get some feedback from the development team as to what we should be expecting and what we should not expect any time soon.

Of course, in our opinion waze needs these features to continue its existence...

how about reviving this?