[Script] WME Route Checker - v1.40 Sep 2020

[GizmoGuy411]

Wow Tim!

This is great. Didn't we ask Waze for something like this ages ago?

One small note. You may want to caution editors that it will only show routing changes after an edit goes live. While it was not much of an issue before when your tool worked with Live Maps, using it with WME, many people may expect it to reflect their edit changes immediately.

[gizmouf]

I'm also having problems for the last couple of days getting a result back from the Livemap server (I'm stuck on the 'Fetching route' animation).

I'm using Chrome with the 0.6 version of the script. I tried to disable all the other extensions but no improvement.

[Glodenox]

It would be possible with GM_xmlhttpRequest, but that is quite a pain to use and not really worth it here, I think.

[guitouktm]

Hello, is there an update that will happen following the update of WME, because to do function under chrome, you must disable tempermonkey.
Thank you.

[Happy_Lyn]

Is anyone else having a difficult time getting this script to show up? I thought maybe I didn't have it downloaded, but that was not the case. It's updated, and I have the "/" in my WME URL.

[Herve-rv]

Hi,
(I am coming in this post following the advice of JimmyK1 : https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 17#p658817)
I am using waze from France and I have no "Route" tab when I select two segments of road.
Instead, I have the message "2 segments selected, segments are in opposing directions" even if they are not in opposing directions, so I don't know what to do : is it a bug ? a misunderstanding ? a limitation of a non-US or Israel server ?
Herve

[Herve-rv]

well, well, well, all this post is quite complicated. I thought that waze was just a hobby for me and this post looks like my office (I work in computing sciences).
Kidding apart, I tried to install WME Route Tester from this post : https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 58#p634853 and it changes nothing. What do I have to do to make it work (I'm using Chrome generally) because I lost my mind among all those adds-on, their versions, bugs, patches, etc ....
Regards, Herve

[Herve-rv]

Hi,
I got the link "Show routes between these two segments" now and it works !
Thanks, Herve

[iainhouse]

is it technically feasible to add the ability to route based on immediate edits? or is the routing engine only available for edits that have been committed to the live map? if it's technically feasible that would be a great feature to have -- so you can test your edits without having to wait up to 24hrs or more. if not, perhaps that's something we can put on our Waze wish list...

Unfortunately not. Routes are determined by the Waze servers and are based on the client map - i.e. the editor map as of the last update. The Route Checker actually uses the Livemap to get the route, then overlays the results on the editor map.

Routing based on the current editor map would require a non-trivial amount of work. However it is something that has been on the wish-list for quite some time.

[iainhouse]

Tim isn't around this week, but I can identify the problem. With Livemap, you can get a route between 2 points which you select on the map. The script doesn't allow you to select discrete points. It takes the segments you have selected and calculates their mid-points: these two points are then passed to Livemap to return a route.

I think that there is some very slight difference in the way the GPS coordinates are calculated in WME and Livemap. This occasionally results in issues like this - where a coordinate passed to Livemap is actually closer to another segment. I find it frequently happens with split carriageway segments which are long and curved.

The general workaround for this is to try and select earlier or later start/end segments on the same route. In this case, my gut tells me that trying this segment as the destination might work better - assuming I've followed the route you're trying to test.