Southeast/AL-NoFL MapRaid 2019 View history

Mapraid

The AL-FL MapRaid (MR) is scheduled to run from 27 October 2019 at 19:00 UTC through 09 November 2019 23:59 UTC.

The MR Time Zone is Central Daylight Time (UTC -5).


AL-FL MapRaid ended on 09 Nov 2019 23:59:00 UTC. Please check back here for results and check the Mapraid Forum for mapraid announcements.

(DRAFTː NOT IN USE AT THIS TIME)

Welcome

Welcome to the Alabama and Northwest Florida MapRaid! We thank you for registering and do appreciate whatever your contributions, whether many or few, you will make towards improving the map throughout this area in the Southeast region (SER) of Waze USA.

A MapRaid (or MR) brings editors together from across the community to focus their efforts on a defined map area for a short burst of editing activity. All participating editors are granted the ability to edit within the entire MR area. Each of you will assigned to a group with a subset of the MR area and its own list of priorities. It will be your task to work with your group to help address those objectives!

Please read this entire MapRaid wiki. If you are uncertain or have questions about how to address something you see on the map, please ask your group leader.

Mission & Priorities

We want to make sure waze has the best experience for the drivers, so finding a place in search and getting to their destination accurately is extremely important!

The primary goal for this MapRaid is to as much as possible update all places and resolve existing place issues.

The number 1 task is to be detailed and make sure the places are correct: having all the correct information in them and stop points are in the correct location.

  1. Places.
  2. Place Update Requests (PURs).
  3. Parking Lot Roads (PLRs). If you wish to add PLR(s) to a parking lot, first YOU MUST address/fix all places which will use or be serviced by those PLR’s.
  4. Map Problems.
  5. Parking Lot Areas (PLAs). Last after all above have been addressed.

MapRaid Hosts

Username Raid Role State Host Waze Roles
N4DOG (PM [Help])   Planning Committee (Coordinator) Alabama Alabama SM
BruceQC (PM [Help])   Planning Committee (Coordinator) Alabama Alabama SM
ardan74 (PM [Help])   Planning Committee Florida Florida SM
DCLemur (PM [Help])   Planning Committee Florida Florida SM
fjsawicki (PM [Help])   Planning Committee Florida Florida SM
Rainman3699 (PM [Help])   Planning Committee Alabama Georgia SM
westjacksonfd (PM [Help])   Planning Committee Florida Florida SM
willdanneriv (PM [Help])   Planning Committee Florida Florida SM/CM

Communication

All raid communications will be in special raid channels on the Waze Southeast Editors Discord server.

WME Basics

Editor Visibility

  • While editing in the raid area, please make yourself visible to other editors.
  • Enable the Live users layer so you can see other editors in your immediate area.

Level-Based Editing Restrictions

Level 1 and Level 2 editor map editing restrictions remain in effect during the raid.

Local Guidance

PLACES

SER follows the national Places guidance except where noted below.

Places NOT mapped

(Any places from this list which are mapped are locked to level 5 or higher. For ex., there are some rivers mapped as requested by Waze staff.)

  • interchanges/junctions
  • water of any kind
  • islands
  • beaches
  • toll plazas

Mapping Style (Area or Point)

The following places are mapped as place points (PPs) or area points (APs), in exception to national guidance:

Place type Mapping Style Place type Mapping Style
City Hall Area Place Campground Point Place
Government Buildings Area Place Car Dealership Point Place
Library Area Place RV Park Point Place
Museum Area Place
Sports Court Area Place

All Area Places (APs), except gas stations, are mapped as basic polygons reflecting the building footprint. Gas stations are mapped to the fenceline or parcel boundaries.

Place Details

Especially for this MapRaid, every place should have as much detail completed as possible.

Name.

For a place within a place, append to the place name " ( "inside" other place name) ". Set the place point at the building entrance. (WMEPH will ignore the information inside the parenthesis and pull the correct harmonization information.)

Address.

A full, complete address must be present and a "City" name is required.

  • For RPPs, use the USPS mailing address city for the "City" name.For businesses,
  • For all others places (PPs, APs, and PLAs,) the "City" name, as well as the rest of the address, is determined by the business or entity. Use whatever address it identifies on the official or claimed website.
Category.
  • SER has local guidance for category selection. (Consult your group leader is you need assistance.)
Description.
  • For locations with different hours of operation for service types (i.e. lobby vs. drive-thru), use the set with the longest duration for the place's open hours and write the other hours into the description.
Lock Levels.
Place type Lock Level
Airports & their PLAs 5
Arenas 5
Hospitals 5
Park & Ride Lots 5
Universities / Colleges 5
Urgent Care 5
All Other Places (incl. PPs, APs, PLAs, RPPs) 3

(Minimum Requirements for Locking. Places may be locked only after the following information, at a minimum, is present: 1) correct name, 2) correct, complete address, 3) correct category, and 4) External Provider (google link), if one exists.)

Website.
Services.

Place Update Requests (PURs)

IMPORTANT Please do not work Place Update Requests (PUR) zoomed all the way out. Please zoom in to the place, make sure it's in the correct spot, and run the WME Place Harmonizer script to make sure everything is correct and entered. We want to make sure waze has the best experience for the drivers, so finding a place in search and getting to their destination accurately is extremely important! Clear all PURs and make sure all information is correct in the places you are working per SER guidance and that you are using WMEPH. (Make it green!)

Parking Lot Roads (PLRs)

Follow the SER standard for adding PLR’s from the Wazeopedia.

Map Problems (MPs)

Bring PLAs to region standards before approving and closing the MP.

Segment Lock Levels

The entire Southeast region (SER) observes the segment locking standards in the chart below.

There are some cases that do not adhere to this standard, such as any theme park type areas in Orlando (5/6). Further, all gates at gated communities / private installation should be locked to at least 5.

Standard for locking roads in the southeast region:
Segment Type Default locks
 Freeway  5
 Ramp  5
 Major Highway  5
 Minor Highway  4
 Primary Street  3
 Street  1
 • • • • Ferry • • • •   5
 |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| Railroad |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|  2

Other roads may be locked higher for protection and special situations (areas with construction, tricky design, frequent mistakes, incorrect images, etc.). If you believe a lock level is incorrect, please talk to your group leader before making any changes.

When you have finished editing a segment, please ensure the lock level is set correctly. If you are unable to lock it to that level, please lock it as high as you can and ask your group leader to up-lock or raise the segment lock to the correct level.

Parking Lot Areas (PLAs)

Issues beyond Scope of MapRaid

Any major issues that need to be addressed will be followed up on by local editors after the MapRaid's conclusion. Please notify your group leader of any large issues you find.

Resources

Local

Military

Tools and scripts

There are many scripts and extensions that editors use to assist with editing that not only make some jobs easier, but also verify what we do is correct. The use of these scripts is encouraged and those listed below are ones you should install, at a minimum.

You will need to install a browser extension to manage the additional scripts. Some scripts do not work with the current version of GreaseMonkey so we recommend installation of TamperMonkey.

AL-FL MapRaid-specific
Place editing
  • WMEPH
  • PIE
  • GIS Layers - Assistance with ensuring accurate place address/location.
  • GIS Buttons - Similar assistance to GIS Layers (Use when GIS Layer data is unavailable.)
Segment Editing

General wiki links

New editor welcome page
Waze Map Editor
Best Map Editing Practice
Editing manual
Common editing mistakes
How to make a Permalink; YouTube
All about using the WME Chat
Community Plugins, Extensions and Tools

Raid Areas & Assignments

Interactive map: groups on Google Maps


Group 1 - Mobile
Group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 1
Mobile Alabama
Group 2 - Destin
Group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 2
Destin, Florida
Group 3 - Dothan/PC
Group leader: {{Username|TBD}
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 3
Dothan/PC
Group 4 - Montgomery
Group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 4
Montgomery
Group 5 - Birmingham
Group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 5
Birmingham
Group 6 - FLorence
Group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 6
Florence
Group 7 - Tuscaloosa
Group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 7
Tuscaloosa
Group 8 - Huntsville
Group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Assistant group leader: TBD (PM [Help])  
Username (rank) Group Badges
TBD(?) [PM [Help]]  Group 8
Huntsville

Acknowledgements

Hall of Fame

Group Photo

SEGMENTS

Toll roads

 Regardless of rank, Do not alter any toll road segments without first consulting with your group leader. (Requests will be escalated to MR leadership.)

Cameras

Do not add any cameras.

Update Requests (URs)

Follow the SER guidance to work them, make them correct and complete. Leave these to local editors.

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