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Placing notes/comments in WME as a place-type object

Post by jaywazin
The concept of inserting notes within WME has come up before in 2014-2015 in a few flavors:
WME Notes as Segment Restrictions
Interactive notes for WME
Proposal: New UR type – Editor Comment

I don't think there has been any action on any of these suggestions, and this is a different sort of implementation which seems like it would be more generalizable.

I posted a suggestion to the Waze suggestion box to have a "notes/comments" functionality which would behave similar to place area/points from the map editor perspective, but
(1) Would not be rendered in the app or in livemap.
(2) Would be on a separate layer which could be turned on or off.

This would allow comments to persist in the map editor either:
- as points similar as the current UR tagging that's being used, including why a road segment might be up-locked, as well as
- in the form of areas which might mark an intersection, temporary contruction speed limits, out-of-date aerial imagery, etc.

Also this would allow comments to be locked/unlocked/deleted, and otherwise managed in a manner similar to current venues/places.

:arrow: :arrow: Please take a look here and vote up if you think this would be a good idea!
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I'm in favor and while I have heard that the staff is working on this feature all we hear is soon...
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Post by jaywazin
vince1612 wrote:Staff is already working on it.
I guess the big thing is that we don't know what "it" is - the ability to make notes/comments? And is there expected to be anything "soon"?

There are many different ways to implement comments as noted in the forum threads that I linked.

My suggestion was made as a possible "flexible" manner of commenting or leaving notes which would fit many different purposes but still be within the general coding framework of the existing waze editor, in a manner similar to how parking lot areas (PLA's) have recently been added as a special type of "place".
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Post by jdelosa
I hope this will come sooner than Soon!

All joking aside it would be a great feature, along with a segment history, something that would show the last few editors and what they changed.

Thanks John
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Post by vince1612
Actually there is no need to vote. Staff is already working on it.
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Post by vince1612
Unfortunately we can't give too many details as any time GCs are shown early development screenshots or info we're asked to keep it confidential, mostly because nothing is in its final form yet and it's not fully ready for beta testing.

But like I said, no need to vote for the idea of it, it's already in the works, meaning that staff has already gone beyond the "finding ideas" and concept drawing boards steps.. better to wait until it's released in beta to make suggestions based on what staff presents then.
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