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Putting in a road closure on the website?

Post by Dave5150
Hi gang, the other week I was using waze and smacked into a major road closure. Well of course it was in an area I had no signal, so I figured I'd wait until getting home and do it on the map editor. Once I brought that up I couldn't find how to actually mark a road as closed. I decided to just delete a small segment as a quick fix, but for future reference, how is that done outside the waze app?

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Post by AndyPoms
Dave5150 wrote:Well, it was only a 100 yard segment of the road itself, but I was tired of being routed that way every time we went out there (twice a week) and not being able to mark it closed. Hopefully the Google buyout will allow for more engineers on the team and improve the map editor features soon?
There are proper ways to close a road - deleting segments is not one - please see How to Handle Road Closures in the Waze wiki.
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Post by AndyPoms
You should have used the disconnect method.
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Post by AndyPoms
Dogshrink wrote:Disconnecting would be fine if only the UR's would stop coming asking to reconnect the segments. Anything we can do about that?
Are they URs or MPs? URs are User Reports and have the smile on the icon. MPs are Automatically Detected Map Problems and don't have the smile.

The MPs process old data to verify the map, so when you disconnect something, you will get several MPs showing people who drove through it while it was open.
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Post by Bigbear3764
Please don't delete segments. All the info waze has for that segment is gone. Speeds, addresses, etc. if it is a long term closure, you can just disconnect the segment to keep from being routed onto it. It will take a day or 2 for the tiles to update so you won't get routed that way. I'm on my phone, so I can't give the link on how to handle these, but a search on the wiki will give it to you.


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Post by Dave5150
Shoot, I figured that might be the case. I'm in the US, so I'm SOL I guess. Thanks for the reply.
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Post by Dave5150
Well, it was only a 100 yard segment of the road itself, but I was tired of being routed that way every time we went out there (twice a week) and not being able to mark it closed. Hopefully the Google buyout will allow for more engineers on the team and improve the map editor features soon?
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AndyPoms wrote:
Dave5150 wrote:Well, it was only a 100 yard segment of the road itself, but I was tired of being routed that way every time we went out there (twice a week) and not being able to mark it closed. Hopefully the Google buyout will allow for more engineers on the team and improve the map editor features soon?
There are proper ways to close a road - deleting segments is not one - please see How to Handle Road Closures in the Waze wiki.
Hi Andy, I was hoping to do it "the proper way" in the app, but had no signal at that time. The only other choice was to do it on my PC in the map editor. From the link you sent, only the beta version of the map editor allows you to do that. Apparently I was supposed to just come here and ask someone who might have access to do it. I guess I'm too hands-on for that. lol

Any word on when the beta will be production?
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Post by dknight212
The short answer is you can't, which is a pain. Some countries have systems in place for long closures of road (more than a few days). If you are in the UK I can give you more info.
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Post by Dogshrink
Disconnecting would be fine if only the UR's would stop coming asking to reconnect the segments. Anything we can do about that?
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