GarvinGray wrote:I have just read through this thread and seen the history from 2013. Now to give some thoughts of an editor from Brisbane who has been editing for just under 2 years, but has dealt with the locking situation since the start.

Firstly, I find it interesting that this thread seems to have died in 2013. Nobody kept up with it and monitored the effects of the changes over time. New editors did not report in their experiences with locking procedures, or the changes to the locking system.

Now to myself, I read the thread and thought it was going to be exciting at the start, mentioning about how to upgrade levels as an editor, move through the system, become more experienced etc. But then the thread fell flat when the reality sunk in that the discussion stopped in 2013 and my own experiences and what I know now has taken over.

It is waze policy that an editor requires 25,000 edits to get to level 3 rank, which then means they can then edit state routes and other such privileges as listed on the first page. But what I have noticed from reading this thread, is that there is a wide variance on how many 'roads' are locked, how strictly places are locked and how active higher level editors are for when a lower level editor requests an unlock in the forum.

I believe the 25,000 edit limit is ridiculously high for Australia. I have been fortunate that I have been granted Queensland Area Manager status, so I can edit throughout the whole of Queensland, but still this does not mean I can edit any roads that are locked to level 3 or above, no matter where they are in the state.

Coaching- From my experience, coaching has been on an informal basis, certainly nothing like the formal type basis that was listed in these posts in 2013. So as far as I am concerned, this service delivery area has been a massive fail.
I have received quite a lot of informal coaching from different higher ranking editors and I am thankful for this, but the purpose of this thread was discussion of rank and formalised coaching and assigning of responsibilities.

I am just over 10,000 edits after all this time and still have another 15,000 to go to reach 25,000. I have to admit that I regular contemplate giving waze editing away as I do not see reaching level 3 editor rank as an achievable goal with the current restrictions and policies in place by Waze HQ and affiliated bodies.