iainhouse wrote:We would almost certainly not want Local Authorities directly creating closures on the map - the reason being that they would simply make a big mess of it.

Doesn't the Connected Citizen Program offer the ability to partners to directly add closures?

We would almost certainly not want Local Authorities directly creating closures on the map - the reason being that they would simply make a big mess of it.

As John says, many LAs already feed information to roadworks.org. Although the data feed plainly has specified fields for start & end times, the majority of items fed to roadworks.org do not have these fields filled in. I also suspect that the feed does not have any way to specify periodic closures (e.g. every day from 9am-5pm).

These LAs have already committed to passing information to roadworks.org and aren't doing a great job of it. Even if we could persuade them to feed to Waze, they wouldn't make a better job of it.

In practice, I think the current situation we have is about the best we can hope for: the LAs feed information to roadworks.org; roadworks.org feeds closure events into WME as Map Problem pins; experienced editors examine the additional un-coded data that appears on roadworks.org (as descriptions or attached PDFs) and add the closures.

If there's any scope for improvement, it would be with LAs passing better data to roadworks.org.

In the UK, they already do so - the system is called Elgin and it populates a website roadworks.org. Waze subscribes to an Elgin feed which populates WME with Map Problem reports. There're other posts about this in the main UK forum and sub-forums because they sometimes don't expire at the correct date.


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