All it takes is typing "o" and drawing the mouse a bit, but at the lowest zoomlevels it should simply not be possible.

Sorry to revive an old thread - I just found mail in my spambasket explaining that Wazesupport will not roll back mapdata as it simply is too expensive. I guess it involves a lot of manual work (for the sysops).

Oooooo - a vision of a 4th round of infrastructurechanges! Something must be wrong with your tapwater...

xteejx wrote:This should not be happening with normal editors with the new level system though. I was under the impression that if roads are well driven that new editors couldn't do anything to them.

I don't think that the newer security model has been implemented by Waze.

xteejx wrote:haha!
No seriously though, SQL is rollback-able IF users edits are stored in changesets like OSM. I can't understand why they haven't implemented something similar. It would solve most, if not all our problems.

It would probably multiply several-fold the amount of data they have to store & manage. But as the number of man-hours-per-square-mile invested in the map increases, at some point* they will decide it is worth the insurance.

* e.g., soon after someone takes out a major city.

AndyPoms wrote:Didn't Waze used to have that insurance? Where an Area Manager had to confirm road deletions in Cartouche?

Only explicit deletions needed to be confirmed; it was still well within non-AM capacity to disconnect, merge and shrink a screen-full of roads into a single 1m-long segment out in the woods somewhere, without any AM review. The current roundabout feature doesn't require nearly as much dedication to vandalism, but it could be done.

Is that a giant roundabout? Does it have an editor name on it?

Has Waze ever actually rolled anything back? I keep seeing that suggestion, but have never seen any example of them being able to do it.

It could be a new ring road. Has anyone checked with the local council to see if one had been planned for there?


It's a bit better/worse (delete as required) again today

Well that's one way to reset the test rig!

I am in favor of locking all freeways and major highways. Other AM's and higher can still edit them. All we want is to stop new drivers from mucking up the map with careless edits. I wonder, will a huge roundabout be able to "nuke" locked segments? (I mean, if a lower level did it)