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Hi,
when editing in africa, sometimes people are paving roads but it is very hard to find them because they don't say it, and it can be anywhere and searching in thousand of kilometers at 200m zoom level is not very efficient.
An idea of script would be a "scanner" that would scan a box and find if there are unedited roads.
When finding them it could give a permalink.

That requires a script to make it's own calls against the Waze database, essentially scraping road data not in the current view. Waze does not want these kinds of scripts to be written or used, last time we checked.

Unconfirmed (red) roads show at all zoom levels to me. However, only those added in the editor directly will show. Paved roads, I don't believe, show up the same way.

kpouer wrote:The problem is that it it is too slow

It could be much (few times) faster, but I need to check if it's OK with Waze staff.

At the moment that's the maximum speed I can squeeze out of the WME, sorry

Sure, but it's kind of a low level protocol and it need to be approved by the Waze staff.

You get ~0,5K segment at zoom 4 over Paris, ~74K segments at zoom 0 and ~188K segments at zoom 0 over New Delhi.

I'm afraid WME won't work well with so many segments

Ok I understand that, because it could cause heavy load on the database. So I continue stalking the map.

In fact another solution would be that WME would show them at every zoom level, it would help a lot.

No only roads created in the editor shows at all zoom level. Paved roads with the client are showing at 200m but are editable at 100 only.

The problem is that it it is too slow, it takes several minutes to scan and the max width of the screen is around 40km. I'm working on Algeria and it is big as 1/4 USA and The drivers are paving sometimes but do not validate the roads and do not tell me, so it can be anywhere

I understand, it would cause heavy load on the server. Do you know if the api allow to ask for a specific type of road only instead of getting everything?