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Post by tpmcguire
xteejx wrote:Probably a noob using paving mode. Either way as above, report them.

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Post by TruckOttr
ArlenBystander wrote:Parking lot crazy.

It looks like a new editor created them a couple months ago. I'm wondering what the problem was that caused the admin account to update them this past week...and, why they didn't follow the best practices for parking lots.

I'll give it a couple days and clean it up if nobody else gets to it.
Look here first: http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=37914
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Post by TruckOttr
tpmcguire wrote:Anyone know why these red streets were put on top of existing roads? the user did this somewhere else on a GSP exit north of here before I think.

https:/www.waze.com/editor/?lon=-74.20289&lat=40.42355&zoom=4&layers=BTTFFTTTTTTFTTTTTTTTTFT

The user is GlnH
I dont see any posts in the forum by them.
Looks funky to me. I would leave it and report it to the nanorep and let Waze deal with it.
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Post by TruckOttr
This seems to be a favorite pastime among new editors--even without Cartouche's all-too-easy "split road" function.
How Waze editing is set up unfortunately promotes this type of activity for new editors. Editors aren't distributed evenly. Most new editors tend to end up in places where the maps are somewhat mature, such as in major metropolitan areas. They look around wondering what they can do, so they start doing what's "missing", splitting roads, adding drive-thrus, landmarks for "Jane's Cupcake Shop", etc.

It's only going to continue to get worse as the maps mature, to the point where a large chunk of time is being spent reverting "bad" edits from new editors.

I don't know how many times the Wikipedia page for the planet Earth had to be reverted from someone changing the page to say "Mostly harmless". Now there are scripts that are automatically run to look for common things like that and autocorrect them.
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