I start with the URs and Problems and clear them up, then I work town by town doing road typing (Minor Highway, Primary Street, etc). While I'm doing that, I also cleanup driveways, turn restrictions and map new roads at the same time. I also deal with new URs as they come in...

Depending on how big your area is, I usually let new developments get reported before I map them (in areas I've already been through) - that way other Wazers have driven it & (hopefully) put road names in URs. If they do that, I usually give them a few days to finish it off (so they get a all the points for their work), but if they don't I'll take care of it.

My order of operations on a city, no matter what size. If the city is large, I'll do this entire list in sections of the city. I don't do the first few bullets on a large city then don't do the rest until later, etc.. One exception could be fixing the very first bullet (Interstates) and not touching the rest of the city when I'm solely focused on fixing Interstate. I of course would not mark a city as "done" in that case.

This pretty much assumes nobody has edited the city at all in the past, obviously the steps will change if that has already been done. I'm re-using your list in some places.

• Interstates and their associated Junctions, Ramps, and connectivity to the city
• Major then Minor highway connectivity in the city and immediately beyond it
• Mass-edit cleanup of unknown, and incorrect one-way/two-way roads and turn restrictions
• Correction of any one-way streets and obvious turn restrictions
• Extend editing of Interstates, Major and Minor highways to the next city in each direction
• Deleting crazy roads running across lakes and other roads that don't actually exist
• Deleting useless driveway roads, 4x4 roads, other nonsense from the basemap
• Cleaning up extra junctions (which often exposes city name or street name issues)
• Comparing streets against Bling aerials for sanity checking
• Verification of Major/Minor/Primary street designations and general cleanup of street designations
• Adding unmapped neighborhoods if possible

When this is done, we (Kentucky AM's) have a Google Spreadsheet we update with the date finished, date last checked, and also a Google Map we add a shape to so we can visualize what's done. We prioritize on the largest cities. We also try to review cities at least every month or so, the spreadsheet changes the color if the last reviewed date is too old to indicate we need to do so. That usually means a more in-depth review than just UR's. We scan for UR's in the largest cities weekly or so, and try to make it to the smaller cities at least once a month.

Just a FYI, I am always careful with the mass edits. Again if a city has already been edited, I rarely will use that broad swath of a tool, and I'm always careful of dual carriageways, ramps, existing one-way's, etc, to make sure they don't get reset back to 2 way. And I usually make one more pass through the city when I'm done, usually finding dozens of little stray things I didn't notice because I was concentrating on "something else".

stevecody wrote:khaytsus,

Awesome reply. Thanks. This is very helpful. I am finding myself looking through my areas for edits and basically telling myself, I need a way to track all of this and make smart(er) edits, some sort of "top down" approach.

You mentioned using google maps and a spreadsheet for tracking. I think that's a good idea. I keep thinking I need a physical map that I can draw a square on and focus on all of the various items, like what you listed, in each square.

Thanks again.

Steadily working toward 100k edits... I think I still have 30k+ to go.

I've just recently started this Wiki page, but the spreadsheet and google map are listed. I know you can read-only the Spreadsheet, not 100% sure about the Map. Let me know, the Map was started by another AM, not sure if he has read-only for all or whatnot permissions can be thrown on that one.

https://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Ken ... _resources

Let's see how some of the other big boys respond to my list.. I know some people violently foam at the mouth when "mass editing" is mentioned, but IMO it's a tool. It's an axe, you use it to cut down trees, not for carving a boat out of soap. Said another way, why spend hours doing what the script will do for me in minutes? That gives me time to concentrate on useful stuff in the map.

For new developments I switch on the GPS layer. If there are traces it gets added ASAP.

I use the GPS layer a lot. I check any popular routes to make sure they work. Set the correct road type and then name them. I then move on to the popular side streets.

To do a 2 mile route Waze used to send me on 5-10 mile detours. The base map was that broken. It now seems to work fine in my area.

I've have now moved on to naming each housing estate one at a time.

khaytsus,

Awesome reply. Thanks. This is very helpful. I am finding myself looking through my areas for edits and basically telling myself, I need a way to track all of this and make smart(er) edits, some sort of "top down" approach.

You mentioned using google maps and a spreadsheet for tracking. I think that's a good idea. I keep thinking I need a physical map that I can draw a square on and focus on all of the various items, like what you listed, in each square.

Thanks again.

Steadily working toward 100k edits... I think I still have 30k+ to go.