Major Traffic Events - Website & Push notification support
Hi Localizers!
There have been some questions lately about supporting major traffic events (MTE) via the website and push + inbox notification, I wanted to quickly clarify a few things.
[EDIT - UPDATED TIMELINE]
We are happy to announce that we now have a more flexible timeline for providing support for MTEs!
In order for the MTE to be eligible to receive a web page and push + inbox message, please follow these guidelines for submission:
For weekend MTE’s (Friday, Saturday & Sunday), the closures need to be added by Wednesday evening.
For weekday MTE's (Monday-Thursday), the event closures should be completed 2 days in advance.
There are two ways to add MTE road closures, please see the instructions below for each method.
**If you are adding MTE road closures with the real time closure tool and would like the event to be eligible for MTE support (website and push + inbox notification), then you must notify the geo-ops team about the event.
Steps for Adding MTE Road Closures with the Real time closure tool:
1 - When you begin adding road closures to the WME for an MTE please send a brief email to waze-closures@google.com with the following information.
a) Name of the event (this should be added in the 'Reason' field, in the WME) and this name should be used for all of the closures related to the event
b) The start and end date of the event
c) The city and country where the event takes place
d) One permalink in the general area of the closures
2 - Add the road closures via the WME closure tool
3 - Please refer to these instructions if you need a refresher on how to use the real time closure tool.
Steps for adding MTE road closures with an event closure sheet:
1- Submit the event details via the MTE form
2- You will receive an event closure sheet from the Geo-Ops team, please add the event closures to the google sheet.
Please refer to these instructions if you need a refresher on how to add MTE closures to the event closure sheet
Let us know if you have questions!
Thank you
There have been some questions lately about supporting major traffic events (MTE) via the website and push + inbox notification, I wanted to quickly clarify a few things.
[EDIT - UPDATED TIMELINE]
We are happy to announce that we now have a more flexible timeline for providing support for MTEs!
In order for the MTE to be eligible to receive a web page and push + inbox message, please follow these guidelines for submission:
For weekend MTE’s (Friday, Saturday & Sunday), the closures need to be added by Wednesday evening.
For weekday MTE's (Monday-Thursday), the event closures should be completed 2 days in advance.
There are two ways to add MTE road closures, please see the instructions below for each method.
**If you are adding MTE road closures with the real time closure tool and would like the event to be eligible for MTE support (website and push + inbox notification), then you must notify the geo-ops team about the event.
Steps for Adding MTE Road Closures with the Real time closure tool:
1 - When you begin adding road closures to the WME for an MTE please send a brief email to waze-closures@google.com with the following information.
a) Name of the event (this should be added in the 'Reason' field, in the WME) and this name should be used for all of the closures related to the event
b) The start and end date of the event
c) The city and country where the event takes place
d) One permalink in the general area of the closures
2 - Add the road closures via the WME closure tool
3 - Please refer to these instructions if you need a refresher on how to use the real time closure tool.
Steps for adding MTE road closures with an event closure sheet:
1- Submit the event details via the MTE form
2- You will receive an event closure sheet from the Geo-Ops team, please add the event closures to the google sheet.
Please refer to these instructions if you need a refresher on how to add MTE closures to the event closure sheet
Let us know if you have questions!
Thank you
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