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iainhouse wrote:Made it - my first year on Waze! :mrgreen:

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It's been a hell of a year! I'm particularly proud to have gone from nothing to being part of the UK self-management team.

I could not have done this without the help and support of all my fellow Wazers, not just here in the UK but across the world. I just hope I have managed to give back a fraction of the support and help I have received.
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As you can see, my editing pace has slowed down somewhat in the last year - mainly due to much more work involved in UK Self-Management and the editor community. But the UK map is also getting more mature - it's rare to find any sections of untouched basemap now and most areas have at least seen the touch of an editor.

I'm now #7 in the thanks list with 1145 thanks. But that includes thanks on the closed forums, so that figure only shows for Global Champs (I think). When not logged into the forum, I'm #5 with 1047 thanks. As you can tell, I'm pretty active on the forums. ;)

Number of times I've seriously considered giving it all up in the last year - at least 4. Pressure from outside Waze has been fairly intense in the last year, not to mention the pressure of all the things I've committed myself to within Waze. I miss the days when there was nothing I had to do, but could just do some editing when I felt like it.

Number of times I've changed my mind about quitting in the last year - at least 3. But you haven't got rid of me yet. :lol:
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iainhouse wrote:Made it - my first year on Waze! :mrgreen:

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Existing Kilometers: 13997.305
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UK all-time ranking: #8 (I reckon I made #7 last night but, with perfect timing, the scoreboard hasn't updated today :x )
Not been outside the UK weekly top 10 since Christmas.
Thanks toplist: #9

It's been a hell of a year! I'm particularly proud to have gone from nothing to being part of the UK self-management team.

I could not have done this without the help and support of all my fellow Wazers, not just here in the UK but across the world. I just hope I have managed to give back a fraction of the support and help I have received.
2 years completed - time for the obligatory comment that you can get less than that for killing someone in some places.
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As you can see, my editing pace has slowed down somewhat in the last year - mainly due to much more work involved in UK Self-Management and the editor community. But the UK map is also getting more mature - it's rare to find any sections of untouched basemap now and most areas have at least seen the touch of an editor.

I'm now #7 in the thanks list with 1145 thanks. But that includes thanks on the closed forums, so that figure only shows for Global Champs (I think). When not logged into the forum, I'm #5 with 1047 thanks. As you can tell, I'm pretty active on the forums. ;)

Number of times I've seriously considered giving it all up in the last year - at least 4. Pressure from outside Waze has been fairly intense in the last year, not to mention the pressure of all the things I've committed myself to within Waze. I miss the days when there was nothing I had to do, but could just do some editing when I felt like it.

Number of times I've changed my mind about quitting in the last year - at least 3. But you haven't got rid of me yet. :lol:
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Now #5 on the all-time thanks list with 2172 thanks (including on the closed forums). #26 all-time number of forum posts. As with last year, there's less editing and more community work. I have been as high as #38 on the ROW all-time scoreboard, but I generally seem to be floating around #40.

I made a rough estimate of the amount of time I've spend on Waze in the last 3 years. If I turned that time into 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, I would now have worked for Waze full time for over a year - and that's without taking any vacation time! :lol: I wonder what the average annual salary of a Waze employee is?
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iainhouse wrote:Made it - my first year on Waze! :mrgreen:

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Existing Kilometers: 13997.305
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UK all-time ranking: #8 (I reckon I made #7 last night but, with perfect timing, the scoreboard hasn't updated today :x )
Not been outside the UK weekly top 10 since Christmas.
Thanks toplist: #9

It's been a hell of a year! I'm particularly proud to have gone from nothing to being part of the UK self-management team.

I could not have done this without the help and support of all my fellow Wazers, not just here in the UK but across the world. I just hope I have managed to give back a fraction of the support and help I have received.
2 years completed - time for the obligatory comment that you can get less than that for killing someone in some places.
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As you can see, my editing pace has slowed down somewhat in the last year - mainly due to much more work involved in UK Self-Management and the editor community. But the UK map is also getting more mature - it's rare to find any sections of untouched basemap now and most areas have at least seen the touch of an editor.

I'm now #7 in the thanks list with 1145 thanks. But that includes thanks on the closed forums, so that figure only shows for Global Champs (I think). When not logged into the forum, I'm #5 with 1047 thanks. As you can tell, I'm pretty active on the forums. ;)

Number of times I've seriously considered giving it all up in the last year - at least 4. Pressure from outside Waze has been fairly intense in the last year, not to mention the pressure of all the things I've committed myself to within Waze. I miss the days when there was nothing I had to do, but could just do some editing when I felt like it.

Number of times I've changed my mind about quitting in the last year - at least 3. But you haven't got rid of me yet. :lol:
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Now #5 on the all-time thanks list with 2172 thanks (including on the closed forums). #26 all-time number of forum posts. As with last year, there's less editing and more community work. I have been as high as #38 on the ROW all-time scoreboard, but I generally seem to be floating around #40.

I made a rough estimate of the amount of time I've spend on Waze in the last 3 years. If I turned that time into 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, I would now have worked for Waze full time for over a year - and that's without taking any vacation time! :lol: I wonder what the average annual salary of a Waze employee is?
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Up to #4 on the all-time thanks list with 3469 thanks (including on the closed forums). Now #15 all-time number of forum posts. I've moved quite a way up the ROW all-time scoreboard to #19 and I passed 4M points a week or two ago. :D

Another new stat to quote is Map Problems closed. If 9666 seems a lot, it's because we have acquired a feed for road closures in the last year and the vast majority of that number is from road closures.

I've also become a script author, with 185 installs of my script so far in just under 8 weeks. :mrgreen:

There's still always too much to do, but I think I've been a bit less stressed about it this year. I don't remember seriously considering quitting, but I have managed to take the occasional day off and I try & save up my frustration to give Waze staff hell at the meetups! :lol:
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YEAR 1

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Map Updates: 379947
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Existing Kilometers: 13997.305
Resolved Update Requests: 1836
Forum Posts: 1321
Waze Cookie Eater meters: 1783
INTL all-time ranking: #68
UK all-time ranking: #8 (I reckon I made #7 last night but, with perfect timing, the scoreboard hasn't updated today :x )
Not been outside the UK weekly top 10 since Christmas.
Thanks toplist: #9


YEAR 2
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5 years with Waze - and it only took me 5 years to do it. :lol:
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I'm now the second most-thanked forum user (including on the closed forums I can see) with 5333 thanks. Now #13 all-time number of forum posts with 7993 posts. I've managed another 4 places up the ROW all-time scoreboard. I was hoping to make 5M points, but it wasn't to be. :|

I've had a bit less time for Waze this year due to my job. I've spent the last year visiting remote sites to install complete networks and a typical day sees me arrive home at 7-8pm with not much mental energy left. This is also reflected in the 35K kilometres I've added this year.

My script has 991 installs - just shy of 1000. :D It's good to know I'm helping so many editors, although I've been a little remiss with updates lately.

The highlight/lowlight of my year came last October. I actually quit Waze completely through disillusionment. After over a month, I returned with a bang, posting this little message. I generally refer to it as my "rant" or "explosion". I don't think I really expected much to happen, but I was wrong.

Without doubt, this single post has had more effect on the entire Waze community and staff than anything else I have ever done. From the community side, 261 thanks makes it the most-thanked post ever, by a margin of over 100. From the staff side, it seems I sent a shockwave through Waze HQ. Staff communication has improved massively, as has their commitment to continue working on it. There's still a way to go, but things are moving in the right direction. At meetups this year, staff have thanked me for what I said. Despite all the stats above, this is the contribution to Waze of which I am proudest.
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YEAR 1

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Existing Kilometers: 13997.305
Resolved Update Requests: 1836
Forum Posts: 1321
Waze Cookie Eater meters: 1783
INTL all-time ranking: #68
UK all-time ranking: #8 (I reckon I made #7 last night but, with perfect timing, the scoreboard hasn't updated today :x )
Not been outside the UK weekly top 10 since Christmas.
Thanks toplist: #9

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6 years! I've now been a Waze editor for more than 10% of my life - and probably spend more than that percentage of my waking hours working on it! :lol:
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I've slipped a place on the top-thanked list down to #3. I guess Mapsir can do more for you than I can! I've continued to talk interminably with another 1200 or so posts and I'm now the 10th most talkative forum user (number of posts). :P

Personal milestones I've managed to pass this year are 5M points and 1.5M edits. I'm also very happy to be #10 editor all-time in ROW. I know I'll never catch someone like Silvio, so top ten is the best I've ever hoped for. I kind of miss the early days when the map was new and wild and there were so many milestones to aim for. But even without them, I'm still enjoying editing the map just as much as I did back in 2012.

My WME FixUI script continues to be popular. I had hoped that the redesign of WME would make it irrelevant: instead they ignored almost everything we wanted and made WME harder to use. As a result, it keeps growing and it passed 2000 installs last Thursday. Based on update checks, is probably used by 300-400 editors every day. :geek:

Yes - I still have 0 paved kilometres! I never did have much luck paving with the app - plus the UK had a basemap import before I joined, so it's not like there were massive opportunities for me to do it. Anyway, I always found it easier to follow my Drive traces in WME.

Apart from that, it's been a relatively calm year for me. My days of being a full-time cable monkey are over and I'm back to resetting user's passwords, configuring systems and just generally being a BOFH. The Global Champs meetup in Tel Aviv last year was great. I also enjoyed the Western EU Meetup and the UK Meetup was just this weekend.

I think I can honestly say I haven't considered quitting Waze once this year. Maybe I'm getting mellow in my old age. Being part of such a friendly community helps with that. So I guess it looks like you're probably stuck with me for some time yet. :mrgreen:

P.S. It would be nice to hear from other people apart from porubcan on their Waze anniversaries. Take a few minutes to reflect on what years of Wazing has done for/to you and how you feel about it. We would love to hear from you. ;)
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Year 8 is finished! Did Year 7 slip by in a blur? It must have done, because I forgot to post an update last year. :lol:

I don't think I have much new to say about the last 2 years - things haven't really changed much. I managed to move back into 2nd place on the Thanks list by a fair margin; and I've crept up a whole 1 place in the ROW all-time editors list. I've also climbed from 10 to 7 in the wont-stop-posting league. I'm closing in on 7M points and 2M edits, but it doesn't feel that important any more - I still like editing, but they're getting to be just numbers.

Waze HQ have continued to make endless stupid & pointless changes to WME, which I've continued to complain about, but they never listen. I once hoped that WME FixUI would be nothing more than a temporary fix before Waze listened to the editors who used WME the most. Instead they only care about how pretty it looks and how well it engages that noob who might make it to L2 before stopping again. Updating WME FixUI to fix their changes and improve things has become an endless grind against every WME update.

Staff communication continues to be much better than it was back in 2016 when I had my little explosion. But I still sometimes see problems, or hints of the old ways returning.

I guess the above doesn't sound very positive - and that's because I don't feel very motivated recently. Whether that's because I've been doing this for so long; or if I'm tired of fighting an uphill battle; or if the current COVID-19 situation is affecting me in way I haven't realised. I've spent the last 4 months working 9 hours of my day job from my armchair, then swapping laptops and spending another 9 hours watching TV and editing.

I'm sure the lack of real meetups hasn't helped. As a substitute for meetups, the Office Hours are a joke: watch a presentation, get a few good questions buried in a pile of silly/irrelevant ones, and no chance to properly discuss/explain any of them. Not to mention all the useful things that would get sorted during conversations in the corridors over coffee/cigarettes. I just looked over my notes from the UK Meetup - and I don't see anything in there that couldn't have been presented in a well-written forum post and read in 15 minutes.

So there it is. Another 2 years and I haven't quit yet. That's good for me - maybe not so much for you. :lol:

So if you've read this far, I have one more thing to ask. Bookmark this page and come back and make a post yourself, when your Waze Anniversary comes around! Surely someone else must have something to say, other than porubcan and myself!

Take half an hour, once a year, to reflect on your time in the Waze community and tell us how you feel about it. It doesn't have to be long, or full of stats. Even if its "3 years - Whoo!", I would still like to hear it. :mrgreen:
iainhouse wrote: YEAR 1

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INTL all-time ranking: #68
UK all-time ranking: #8 (I reckon I made #7 last night but, with perfect timing, the scoreboard hasn't updated today :x )
Not been outside the UK weekly top 10 since Christmas.
Thanks toplist: #9

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Well, it's been 9 years with Waze. I don't think I've ever had more reasons to give up on Waze, but it doesn't seem likely that I will. I guess that's what addiction does to you.

Obviously, the biggest thing for everyone about the past year has been the COVID pandemic. Personally, it's actually had little effect on me. I had no social life to start with so, the lockdowns had zero effect on that. My job is ideally suited to working from home, so I've exchanged a 30-minute commute to work across London for a 30-second commute from my bedroom to my lounge. Where it has affected me is in the loss of meetups.

Waze online meetups turned out to be absolutely unbearable. Anyone can attend, so everyone does. The interested people who have something worthwhile to say are overwhelmed by the idiots who all want to ask the same silly questions and will ask them no matter if someone before them has already asked & been answered. Waze moderation of talk & question spreadsheets was pretty much non-existent. After being told off twice by our Community Manager for speaking impatiently to idiots in chat, I gave up on Waze online meetups entirely, just before last Christmas. I was persuaded to try another GC meeting partway through this year: after 10 minutes it was completely taken over by someone who didn't like an answer and wouldn't move on and I left the meeting. I didn't even try the GC Global meetup. I didn't attend the UK meetup: and when I heard what was being aid by Waze staff from our UK Champs in our Slack Chat, even THAT made me so angry I had to leave the chat for a couple of days.

We have a new forum upgrade and there is no other way I can put it: it is a disgraceful pile of s***. Despite a recent post from staff saying "all the wonderful new features", even they could only actually list one: a better editor for posts/PMs. After 9 years being completely happy with the existing form, I didn't need that. I also didn't need the disgusting number of bugs with which the new forum was released. I didn't need the reduced contrast, or the massively increased amound of scrolling required. I didn't need the features that are now in a different place, or missing, or present but invisible due to poor formatting. I now stay away from the forum as much as I can. On mobile, it's just completely unusable due to so much scrolling.

I should also mention the most-thanked-ever post on the forum - my famous "Communication with Waze is broken" rant. I'm proud of how it turned out: it evoked a major improvement in community-HQ relations. But it was also pretty critical of HQ. And in the forum upgrade, every single Thanks was removed. I had to contact Shira to get the thanks restored. It could have been an accident (as I was told). But I can't help wondering why a prominently critical post was the only one to lose all it's thanks.

We have the new Falcon snapper. Depite hearing the explanations many times, I still don't understand why an "improvement" to the app means we have to abandon KISS principles that have made the Waze map simple to understand, maintain and use for many years. Our Falcon mapraid improved the alignment of some new roads and roundabouts - but also lead to the breaking of several roundabout junctions as the added complexity required by Falcon caused inadvertent mistakes to be made.

We have lane guidance. To be honest, by the time it hit production, I'd already lost the will to care. But I've watched the disagreements as some editors add LG everywhere and others complain there's too much. I think it's fair to say we have a dedicated group of UK champs who still care - so I'm glad they're doing a good job with it.

We have road shields. AGAIN. Because we had them before - an implementation that worked, but the developer who did it left Waze and nobody remaining knew how it worked or how to fix it when it broke. Now we have the wonderful implementation based on Street IDs: something beyond the proper control of editors and something that simply fails completely in many situations. Last week, I found the A99 route in Scotland: Major Highway and part of the UK Primary Route Network for most of it's length, so it gets a green shield. Until it hits a town; from that point on it is Minor Highway and not part of the PRN. But it still has green shields because it's still A99, No City. Except where it goes through another town and can therefore have the correct white shield.

We have more dollops of excrement dropped onto the WME screen. First it was moving buttons out of the toolbar onto the map area. Now there's some sort of tile status box in my way. Personally, I've done over 2 million edits to the Waze map without ever once needing to know when the next update is. The only thing I'm sure of is, that if you RELY on an update happening at a particular time, then Murphy's Law guarantees it will be delayed. Now they are pissing around with "Waze branding and colours". I find that almost refreshing: at least they're not pretending that the latest damage they cause is for our benefit. These changes are entirely cosmetic - although still damaging.

Overall, I've just lost the will to fight. I've spent so many years trying to explain to Waze things that we need to be fixed or added and being ignored. Every year, at every meetup, I ask for vehicle size restrictions. Every time, Shira says "we're not planning it, but don't stop asking". I don't want to keep asking any more. I don't want to keep explaining why the way combined red-light/speed cameras is handled needs to change. I don't want to complain about yet another mass of ad-team-created places have damaged the map, created non-existent cities, broken UK mapping standards, are are directing drivers AWAY from the correct location.

OK. That's the moaning over. It explains why my motivation is mostly gone. But there are reasons why it's still there.

WME FixUI seems to continue to be popular. It doesn't measure up to some of the big scripts that add functionality to WME, but it still has over 4000 installs. Most days, GreasyFork sees over 400 update checks, so at least that many users are using it each day; and it's not necessarily the same users every day. I'm frequently tempted to try & create some sort of return monitoring to see better usage figures - but it's not worth trying to explain why the script is phoning home and it wouldn't help YOU at all. I'm happy that the forum topic continues to be active, so there is still a desire for it. I'm probably more oriented to fixing things that directly bug ME at the moment, but I still get satisfaction from helping you guys.

I also released another script recently - WME Presets. It's a Layers controller and more. Personally I use it literally ALL the time to change layers. I'm a little disappointed that only 38 people have installed it - but maybe it will get more popular. Certainly the use I get out of it myself means I'll keep working on it.

I have an editing project I'm working on as well, which is keeping me interested in Waze because I know I'm accomplishing something that actually helps Waze users - as opposed to shouting at HQ, which doesn't seem to accomplish anything anymore. When I first became an Area Manager, I went through my area screen-by-screen at zoom=4 to work on the map. Now I'm doing the same thing for the entirety of Scotland. It's an area with little population (the entire population of Scotland is less than the population of London) and few editors, so I know I can add value to the map. I started in early 2020 - and 16 months later I've nearly covered 50% of the area. So I expect I'll be going for easily another 16 months yet.
 
 
 
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Are you really a Wazer with 0.0 km paved roads? :shock:

:lol: Happy Birthday!!!
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Well done! Congratulations!
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