Re: [Script] WME Toolbox (>1.4.2.8)
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:08 pm
Did anyone download the script? Maybe we could get that section of the script to manually enter the links back into the toolbar for those who want to use it.
Waze: outsmarting traffic together
https://www.waze.com/forum/
This is the very reason for those other sources being disallowed. Looking at Google Maps to get the name of the street could be construed as a copyright violation.elcitia wrote:...this is important to search any point place or street name quickly, and the other map will be reference for best result...
The removal of the links to Google and Bing and other external sources is absolutely 100% about copyright. We've been warned not to use copyrighted sources for years. It's been in the Wiki for years. An entire country lost all its maps because of copyright infringement before and we don't want that to ever happen again.AdreNalinGuY wrote:CBenson, this is clearly not because of copyright. The removal of the live map link doesn't make no sense. There is something else in between but we will never know what. They don't treat us respectfully for what we do for them, we don't have to know much. Do your job and shut up. At least this is how I feel.
You can use the GIS maps for your state for this, and probably get a better reference. You still wouldn't have a link to them, but you can keep the map open in another window and switch back and forth over a large area and follow the state line.tgfathergoose wrote:For me, Google Maps provided a valuable resource not present in the Waze Map Editor: state boundaries. Maybe not so much in metropolitan areas that straddle state lines, but in rural areas, many roads have the wrong state. For example, there are roads in Texas over 150 miles from the New Mexico border that have the state listed as Texas. If I have a whole group of roads somewhere near a state border, Google Maps could tell me which were in which state. It's not too difficult when there's a road listed as being in Alabama when it's really in New Mexico, but we really need the state boundaries in the editor. I have suggested before that state boundaries be added in the WME, but this has not been done. I would NEVER just go with Google Maps for names; I'd go to the local governmental source, if at all possible. Yes, it takes some digging to find these GIS sites, but better to go with the governmental site than what Google may have picked up off some developer's plat.
Calm down guys, it's not the end of the worldct13 wrote:You don't get to L4 without knowing that you shouldn't copy information from other maps. As a secondary option, maybe toolbox could have a permalink style button that spits out the GPS coordinates of your locations, so that you can paste it in whatever search box you like.
go to GM, GMM, Bing, etc.
Working great for me here.AdreNalinGuY wrote:
Today ToolBox has been killed.
R.I.P.
It will be missed.