Best way to organize collaborative map editing work?
Hi Wazers,
would like to hear your ideas or how you're organizing the necessary map editing work with a country of only some major highways and parts of the big towns mapped out?
I think this is a point that is still overlooked by Waze itself, as you guys claim yourself as a social community GPS, how can the community organize itself (meaning the work that need to be done on the map) without help from Waze?
How about maybe a special class of Update requests, that only we can only set in Cartouche, meaning to mark a specific areas that's needs attention too? Combine this with a class like the street system, meaning, Interstate, major/minor highway, primary street and street, so that we can work ourselves from top to bottom!
That would really help, even further if we could "claim" one of these special update requests for ourselves, highlighting that we're working on it so that other can concentrate on something else (nothing worse than two people editing at the same spot - don't know how your server sorts this out).
Finally a category to mark those "tasks" as being completed, that' why I think we need something similar to update request, just like "mapping tasks" maybe.
What do you think? How do you attack such a problem? Would like to get our small base of map editors get better organized, to make the map better quickly.
Also, there's not a good system in the forum itself where you can see who's actually using Cartouche in your area, so that you can communicate with each other. Thus it's leading to all kinds of additional work, as people name cities wrong (btw, when can we use districts in there?), spell in CAPITAL LETTERS, don't use E1 or other numbers in front, etc.
Putting it up in FAQ isn't enough as you can guess from everydays work.
Waze is something special, but it also needs some special attention from you guys not to let it die on the spot like so many other community projects. 2.5 million users, but how many are active? How many stay active more than 1 month? Especially in a country like Malaysia where the map is still crappy?
Lastly, I fully agree that us map editors should be given more attention, maybe you start by looking at my wish list above. It would help us achieve our task much quicker. Ah, and please give us some points that we deserve for our work!
Cheers,
Andreas
would like to hear your ideas or how you're organizing the necessary map editing work with a country of only some major highways and parts of the big towns mapped out?
I think this is a point that is still overlooked by Waze itself, as you guys claim yourself as a social community GPS, how can the community organize itself (meaning the work that need to be done on the map) without help from Waze?
How about maybe a special class of Update requests, that only we can only set in Cartouche, meaning to mark a specific areas that's needs attention too? Combine this with a class like the street system, meaning, Interstate, major/minor highway, primary street and street, so that we can work ourselves from top to bottom!
That would really help, even further if we could "claim" one of these special update requests for ourselves, highlighting that we're working on it so that other can concentrate on something else (nothing worse than two people editing at the same spot - don't know how your server sorts this out).
Finally a category to mark those "tasks" as being completed, that' why I think we need something similar to update request, just like "mapping tasks" maybe.
What do you think? How do you attack such a problem? Would like to get our small base of map editors get better organized, to make the map better quickly.
Also, there's not a good system in the forum itself where you can see who's actually using Cartouche in your area, so that you can communicate with each other. Thus it's leading to all kinds of additional work, as people name cities wrong (btw, when can we use districts in there?), spell in CAPITAL LETTERS, don't use E1 or other numbers in front, etc.
Putting it up in FAQ isn't enough as you can guess from everydays work.
Waze is something special, but it also needs some special attention from you guys not to let it die on the spot like so many other community projects. 2.5 million users, but how many are active? How many stay active more than 1 month? Especially in a country like Malaysia where the map is still crappy?
Lastly, I fully agree that us map editors should be given more attention, maybe you start by looking at my wish list above. It would help us achieve our task much quicker. Ah, and please give us some points that we deserve for our work!
Cheers,
Andreas
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