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The Area Managers complete How-to guide

Note: The information below is in the process of being updated to reflect the current Waze Map Editor interface. The principals are the same though.

No es un Gerente de Área, pero quiere ser uno?

El público objetivo de esta página son personas exactamente como usted que han cumplido con los requisitos previos y ya han sido designados como Gerente de Área.

Por favor visite el Area Manager página para obtener más información sobre cómo convertirse en un Gerente de Área.

Introducción y Gracias

Bienvenidos y gracias por ser un Administrador de Waze Area! Usted es un factor crítico de éxito para Waze. Debido a personas como usted, Waze sólo va a mejorar y mejor. Realmente apreciamos su ayuda. Lea toda la información en el [[Administrador de Área |] Area Manager] página wiki, ver los videos, añadir sus preguntas y comentarios a la Foro también. Si usted no puede encontrar sus respuestas allí, no dude en enviar mensajes privados a otros gestores de áreas o países registrados en tu ciudad a través de la sistema de mensajería privada o utilizar el [[] Apoyo] sistema.

Pero, tenemos una gran solicitud por usted. Por favor sea paciente. Roma no se construyó, o asignado, en un día. Tomará tiempo para hacer esto. Es hora de construir los mapas, detectar los errores, corregir los errores y construir la masa crítica de wazers para que informes en tiempo real de las autopistas proporciona importantes datos de alerta temprana.

Como gerente de área, sabemos que va a ser a veces frustrante para usted, y le pedimos que también vosotros paciencia con nosotros. A veces, puede tardan unos días para ver sus correcciones de mapa en el cliente de teléfono celular, pero ellos van a aparecer. Así que seguir haciendo esas correcciones. Estamos creciendo rápido, luchando con el crecimiento, pero estamos mirando adelante a un futuro brillante, todo gracias a usted.

PD Usted no tiene que ser un gerente de área para actualizar el mapa, pero para ir más allá de los límites de su área impulsado actual, siendo un gerente de área es muy útil. Revise la información de convertirse en un gerente de área para obtener más información.

P.P.S. Asegúrese de revisar nuestro nuevo mapa de edición de 2 horas webinars, también.

Únete a la comunidad de nuestra Gerente del Área de visualización del mapa

'Si bien esto no afecta a su capacidad para editar en Waze' , considerar la adición de ti mismo a la Waze Gerente del Área de Mapa Global en Google maps una vez que haya recibido su Gerente del Área de acceso! Únete a la comunidad de editores Waze mostrando su presencia aquí y unirse a la discusión en el foro.

Añadir un pin para su ubicación aproximada y una forma aproximada para su área Waze AM en el versión editable del mapa de Google. Tenga en cuenta que esta versión del mapa de Google sólo mostrará un número limitado de pines / formas "por página", así que no se preocupe si usted no ve a nadie más alrededor! Además, todos los cambios en este mapa son en vivo, así que ten cuidado de no eliminar o cambiar las cosas de nadie más.

Para añadir su pin para el mapa de Google:

• A partir de la "editable Google Map", un zoom de su ubicación
• En el panel izquierdo de la pantalla, haga clic en el botón "Editar"
• En la parte superior izquierda del mapa, haga clic en el icono azul
• Establezca su pin en su ubicación aproximada
• Agregue su ID de usuario Waze como el "Título" y cualquier información adicional que le gustaría dar en la descripción
• En el panel izquierdo de la pantalla, haga clic en el botón "Done"

Para agregar su área Waze AM al mapa de Google:

• A partir de la "editable Google Map", un zoom de su ubicación
• En el panel izquierdo de la pantalla, haga clic en el botón "Editar"
• En la parte superior izquierda del mapa, haz clic en el pequeño triángulo hacia abajo junto al icono de línea
• Pulse con el ratón para ajustar los puntos de su área aproximada AM
• Agregue su ID de usuario Waze + AM como el "Título" y cualquier información adicional que le gustaría dar en la descripción
• En el panel izquierdo de la pantalla, haga clic en el botón "Done"

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Update requests

What is an update request?

This is the main tool to interact with your community! Update requests are a direct tool to mediate between wazers in your area and you. This enables each wazer to report map errors and updates without having to figure out how to solve them, which is where you can come in as the area manager. Anyone can report map problems, either from the livemap or directly from the phone client. For most of them it's click 'n go, for you these are precious pieces of data.

Update requests are requests that the waze users added to the live map or from the client application. This enables the user to report problems such as: incorrect road name, missing street, turn not allowed, and any other map issues. Users have the option to also add a text description, but this is not mandatory when submitting an update request.

When an update request has been sent, it will be shown on the edit map as a balloon, where each color represents a different status. Detailed information on managing Update Requests is covered here.

The Area Manager's Role in Update Requests

The wazers use this tool to inform you about problems in the map of your area. As an area manager you are the one who has permissions and knowledge to add or change the information in the map.

The Update Requests tool allows the community to let you know about these problems and therefore you can keep track of their requests. While driving, the wazers will sometimes encounter a problem like a turn that should be restricted, wrong street name and direction etc. Because they do not have the permissions to edit and fix the map, or they are not familiar with the map editor interface yet, they will turn to you.

They will open the update request option while driving or when they will visit the site. Sometimes they will add information regarding this problem, sometimes they will not. When you go over the update requests make sure you read and understand what the user meant when he opened the request. Sometimes it will not be clear what the user meant to say, and sometimes there won't be enough information to solve the problem. If you can't understand what the user meant, select the option "not identified" with the hope the user can report more information next time.

What is the best way to track my area update requests?

You have two ways to keep track of the update requests in your area: One is to have a feed to your RSS reader - click here to find the Waze RSS feed of the Update Requests in your area. The other way is to scroll the map of your area to see if there are any new or unresolved requests.

Community - the Forum

This Forum tool helps you stay in touch with your community. The other wazers can share their knowledge and their acquaintance with your city to help you with mapping and developing the map in your area. The bigger the area you have under your management, the more you will need the other wazers to help you.

It is important to work with other wazers in your community – they are the ones who best know the area they live in, and like you, they will benefit from the improvement of the map. You can read about wazers' requests, help them map and solve problems, and even assign wazers to map different parts of your area.

How to use the Forum?

First of all, check the Forum in the waze site – click on the community label and then click on the “go to forums” option.

1. check the “country (languages) forums”.
2. Find your relevant country.
3. You can add a new topic (it is recommended to add a new topic with your region or city's name in order to provide a forum which serves you and your community. (for example: UK forum – London forum – Eastend forum).

I can't find any relevant forum for my region / country, what should I do?

Have no worries. Just send us an email to alpha@waze.com with a request to add a new country, language or region and we will add the topic to the forum.

I have a forum of my area. What now?

Good question! Now your community has a place to discuss with each other, and let you know about problems they have and ask for your assistance and guidance. If you've noticed other wazers are editing roads in / around your area, invite them with a Private Message (PM) to come join your forum and discuss further mapping there, so it will be available for any other wazers who join in the future.

Is there a simple way to keep track of the forum?

Of course! you can now subscribe for specific forums that interest you, or remain with the current feed that holds all the posts on the forum. To subscribe to a specific feed, you will need the forum id which appears as part of the URL when you open the forum.

For example, the MAP forum is #8 as seen from its URL: viewforum.php?f=8 Subscribing to a forum will also subscribe you to all of its sub-forums.

In order to get the RSS for the MAP forum only, use this url:http://www.waze.com/WAS/forum_feeds?ids=8

To add another forum, for example, the Norwegian forum (id = 54) just add the number following a comma (no spaces): http://www.waze.com/WAS/forum_feeds?ids=8,54

By default, the feed will contain the last 10 posts, but you can extend up to 100 posts by adding &limit=xxx to the end of the RSS feed URL: http://www.waze.com/WAS/forum_feeds?ids=8,54&limit=100

What should I do with this forum feed?

You will need to Subscribe to a site that can provide you a way to gather all the feeds from the forums you have chosen. There are a number of sites that provide this service, such as netvibes.com, igoogle, bing etc.

System generated map problem alerts

The Waze navigation system is constantly monitoring the GPS signals from the client apps and matching it to what it has in the maps. When Wazers consistently make turns that are not allowed in the map or they drive on roads that are not present, the system will generate a problem report that can be seen when you enable the Problem layer.

They appear on the map like the user reported problems, but these balloons do not have the smiley face attached to them.

If there is a major problem that is left unsolved, waze will not be able to route in the specific area where the problem exists. It is vital, as an area manager, to check the map in your area and see whether these problems can affect the navigation of users in your community and if so, fix them.

Mapping tips

This is the crown jewel

As an area manager you have permissions not only to create new roads according to your routes, but create roads according to the GPS points made by any other wazer in your area.

When mapping a map from scratch, meaning that there are hardly any roads recorded by users, it is your duty to make the map alive by mapping the area yourself.

Sounds great! Where do I start?

Work your way by the importance of the roads. Start mapping the freeways, ramps, major and minor highways and then move to the main streets etc. However if you are in an area that already has very well established roads, be careful not to change what is already there simply because you "think" it is wrong.

If you are in a new area with no prior area manager, start from the highways that connect the cities to enable basic navigation around the city and its surroundings. Then create ramps, then major roads in the city itself, in order to make the navigation simple and quick. When you're done mapping the main roads create the smaller streets.

As soon as the main grid is up and live, it'll be easy for other wazers to join in. As more wazers navigate in your area, there will be more data, helping you build the map faster and easier. The better the map is, the more users will join you by mapping their own streets.

Anything tricky about this map editing stuff?

Unfortunately, yes. What you see, is not always what your get - Turn restrictions and connectivity

As a new Area Manager, before you go off and start making lots of changes to your map area, let's stop a minute and be sure you understand how to truly 'see' what waze sees in your map. New area managers often think they just need to open the roads by setting the direction and modify a road segments geometry to match the aerial map. Sometimes that is enough but to really get your map right, you need to use some viewing tools to look deeper.

Be sure to be completely familiar with all the content of these key guides:

• Best map editing practice
• Map Editing Tips and Hints
• Map Editing Quick-start Guide

For larger cities, can I share the workload?

Sharing Work

Area managers in the same city can use our wiki to collaborate and divide the work. You can create a wiki page under your country or state page to track the to-do items. Sounds scary but it's easy. Other Area Manager's have already started defining what needs to be 'done' to get a highway right. Here's an example of an active to-do list for Minneapolis.

OK, but how do we discover each other and form a team?

Good question. You can start by turning on the Area Managers Layer in the Layers panel in Waze Map Editor and see usernames of the current area managers in your town. Also, you can ask Wazers in your area with the largest points to join you. Check the bottom toolbar in Waze on your phone. Tap the arrowhead. Tap scoreboard. You'll see wazers in your town by point totals, with highest on top.

To make contact, log into the forum and send them a private message. Often regular users don't know how to sign up by sending an email to alpha@waze.com with their Waze username, their email address, and a Permalink of the area they want to fix. But, please don't be pushy. Some wazers just need to cruise.

Reference Links

• Editing manual
• Junction Style Guide
• Limited Access Interchange Style Guide