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This comprehensive Glossary has been designed to function as a glossary, an index and a cross reference by means of sorting features and a table of contents.

It attempts to include all of the abbreviations, acronyms and terms that are seen in the various Waze communication mediums.

Some terms existed before Waze, while others were officially coined by Waze. Many evolved naturally within the various Waze communication mediums used by Wazers and staff alike. Regardless of origin, all are important to help understand Waze Speak!

Please carefully consider your use of the abbreviations and acronyms in your conversations, since they can be unfamiliar when not used in conjunction with other terms or without defining context.

Many terms apply globally, however, this glossary is US English-centric.

The descriptions within this Glossary attempt to merely resolve ambiguity of terms, and reference other Wiki pages, articles, and sections, along with other Waze and external sources. This intentional lack of description content helps avoid duplication of source content, and facilitates future maintenance when source content changes.

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Glossary Term	Abbreviation Acronym Alias	Description	Dates Updated (U) Added (A)
#WazeWin	WazeWin	A hashtag in various social media used to indicate posts related Waze saving Wazers time, and avoiding traffic. Usually attached to screenshots or descriptions of Waze routing users around heavy traffic using detours the driver would not have thought of on their own. Also see the hashtag Wikipedia article	2015-02-25 (U) 2015-02-23 (A)
AASHTO	(abbr.)	See the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Glossary Term	2015-04-09 (A)
Abbreviations	Acronyms, Big List	List of Abbreviations used in Waze. See the Abbreviations and acronyms Wiki Page Also see the Text-to-Speech (TTS) Abbreviations in Waze Clients - Test List for North America "The Big List") External page Also see the Test of Text-to-Speech (TTS) Abbreviations in Waze Clients Waze forum	2015-02-23 (A)
Acronyms	(alias)	See the Abbreviations Glossary Term	2015-02-23 (A)
Advertisers Dashboard	~	See the biz.waze.com Waze Site	2015-02-26 (A)
AFV	(abbr.)	See the Alternate Fuel Vehicle Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
AGC	(abbr.)	See the At-Grade Connectors Glossary Term	2014-10-12 (A)
Alternate Fuel Vehicle	AFV	See the Alternate Fuel Vehicle Wikipedia article	2015-04-20 (A)
Alternative Interchanges	~	Many intersection and interchange styles exist with various names depending location. (Additional Waze links to be added later.) See the Alternative Intersections External page Also see the Alternative Intersections Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-01-28 (A)
Alternative Intersections	~	Many intersection and interchange styles exist with various names depending location. (Additional Waze links to be added later.) See the Alternative Intersections External page Also see the Alternative Interchanges Glossary Term Related entries: •	2015-04-01 (A)
AM	(abbr.)	See the Area Manager Glossary Term	2016-01-14 (A)
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials	AASHTO	American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials See the AASHTO External page	2015-04-09 (A)
AMGR	(abbr.)	See the Waze AM Layers Glossary Term	2015-02-23 (U) 2014-08-11 (A)
AMIV	(abbr.)	See the Area Manager Info Visualizations Glossary Term	2016-01-04 (A)
Angle	~	There are various types of angles used in Waze mapping. Please choose the relevant Glossary Term: See the Junction angle Glossary Term See the Roundabout angle Glossary Term See the Turn angle Glossary Term Also see the Juntion Angle Info Glossary Term	2014-10-12 (A)
ARC	(abbr.)	See the Assistant Regional Coordinator Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (A)
Area	~	A "Place Area" is a Waze POI with an associated polygon displayed on the map, as opposed to the "Place Point". (Not the same as "Points" as used in Points Ranking) See the Places Glossary Term Also see the Point Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-22 (A)
Area Manager	AM	An assigned role to help manage and maintain the map of a given geographical area. See the Area Manager Wiki Page Also see the Editing Roles Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-08 (U) 2014-08-11 (A)
Area Manager Info Visualizations	AMIV	This project provides various types of information for use by Regional Coordinators and State Managers to access Info for Area Managers and various map Visualizations of their management areas. See the AMIV - AM Info Visualizations Waze forum	2016-01-04 (A)
ASR	(abbr.)	See the Automatic Speech Recognition Glossary Term	2012-08-18 (A)
Assistant Regional Coordinator	ARC	The following temporary page was approved and the link here will be changed once the page is merged into the Wiki. See the Assistant Regional Coordinator Wiki Page See the Regional Coordinator Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (A)
At-Grade Connectors	AGC, Connector	Segments that interconnect roads at the same grade elevation. See the At-grade connectors Wiki Page	2014-10-12 (A)
Automatic Speech Recognition	ASR	The ability of a smartdevice to convert voice commands into actions on the device. See the Voice Commands Glossary Term Related entries:	2012-08-18 (A)
Avatar	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
Badges	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
Banks of Servers	Server	One of the three separate sets of servers (infrastructure) containing Waze mapping and navigation systems. The three are "IL" for "Israel", "USA" for the "United States of America" (which also includes Canada), and the "ROW" for the "Rest of the World", or simply "World". See the Banks of Servers Wiki Page Related entries: • •	2015-06-29 (U) 2015-04-20 (A)
BBCode	~	BBCode is a special implementation of HTML to enhance forum posts. In addition to the standard BBCodes as described in the guide linked below, Waze has added custom BBCodes, including: Table, Hide, and YouTube. The use of the Hide and YouTube codes are obvious when applied from the foum posting toolbar. The Table code however requires additional explanation. Table code tags: [table] starts a table with borders [tr] starts a row [td] open a cell [/td] closes a cell [/tr] closes a row [/table] closes the table No other table tags or tag attributes are available. Nested tables are not permitted, and new lines are redered correctly within cells, as all other new lines within the table tags will merely appear above the table. See the Forum BBCode Guide Waze forum	2015-02-25 (A)
BC	(abbr.)	See the Best Continuation Glossary Term	2014-09-14 (A)
BDP	(abbr.)	See the Big Detour Prevention Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Best Continuation	BC	The segment that Waze determines is what drivers would consider the "no turning path" or "going straight" through the intersection. This segment will get a 'continue' instruction, which is ignored by the client app. See the Best continuation Wiki Page	2014-09-14 (A)
Best Map Editing Practice	Best Practices	See the Best map editing practice Wiki Page	2015-03-02 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Best Practices	(alias)	See the Best Map Editing Practice Glossary Term	2015-03-02 (A)
Beta	~	Typically the last software version before being released to the publc as a production version. See the Beta Testers Glossary Term Also see the Beta Wikipedia article Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Beta Testers	~	See the Roles and responsibilities Wiki Page Related entries: •	2015-02-25 (A)
BGS	(abbr.)	See the Big Green Sign Glossary Term	2015-03-25 (A)
Big Detour Prevention	BDP	A system designed to prevent routing off, and then back on to the same Freeway/Highway for a small savings in time. See the Detour Prevention Mechanisms Wiki Page Also see the Small Detour Prevention Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Big Green Sign	BGS	A Big Green Sign is the US standard road signage for exits and other information. Also see the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Glossary Term Related entries:	2012-08-18 (A)
Big List	(alias)	See the Abbreviations Glossary Term	2015-02-23 (A)
Blog	~	The Waze Blog See the Waze Blog Waze Blog	2015-01-30 (A)
BM	(abbr.)	See the Bookmarklets Glossary Term	2014-10-11 (A)
Bonus Candies	(alias)	See the Bonus points and road goodies Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Bonus points and road goodies	Bonus Candies, Candies, Goodies, Road Goodies	Special items that appear on the Waze client app map to achive bonus points. Drive over them to collect the assciated points. These may be candy shaped, or other special shapes for various occaasions. See the Road candies Wiki Page	2015-02-10 (A)
Bookmark	(alias)	Place markers in your web browser store the link to websites. Scripts can be inserted instead of URLs to create Bookmarklets. Also see the Bookmarklets Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Bookmarklets	BM, Bookmark	A Javascript stored as a web browser bookmark. See the Bookmarklets Wiki Page	2014-10-11 (A)
Boots on the Ground	BOTG	Physical presence at a location to scout, and determine current conditions for Waze maps.	2016-01-27 (A)
Bot	~	As used with Waze, it is an automated robot program that functions as user in various systems. (For the WazeBot and WazeBotRo, see the Feed The Waze link below.) Also see the Wazebot Glossary Term Also see the Feed The Waze Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-01-05 (A)
BOTG	(abbr.)	See the Boots on the Ground Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (A)
BugZilla	~	A third party "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System" previously used by Waze. Use of Bugzilla by Waze has been discontiued. The archived previous usage of Bugzilla Wiki Page	2015-01-30 (A)
Bulb	(alias)	See the Loon Glossary Term	2015-04-01 (A)
Bulb-out	(alias)	See the Loon Glossary Term	2015-04-01 (A)
Camera Watch List	CWL	Term used within the URO+ script extension.	2015-01-30 (A)
Candies	(alias)	See the Bonus points and road goodies Glossary Term	2013-05-11 (A)
CAR	(abbr.)	See the Community Action Request Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Car Pool Lane	Express Lane, HOV Lane, Transit Lane	A lane restricted to use exclusively by vehicles carrying the minimum number of paasengers to meet the local HOV regulation. See the Carpool, HOV, Transit lanes Wiki Page Related entries: •	2013-03-12 (A)
Carriageway	~	UK English term for Highway. Also see the Dual Carriageway Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Cartouche	~	Name of Waze map editor system prior to the Waze Map Editor. See the Waze Map Editor Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
CAV	(abbr.)	See the Clean Air Vehicle Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
CC	(abbr.)	See the Connected Citizens Program Glossary Term See the Center Code Glossary Term	2015-02-22 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
CC	(abbr.)	See the Country Coordinator Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (A)
CCP	(abbr.)	See the Connected Citizens Program Glossary Term	2015-02-22 (A)
CDP	(abbr.)	See the Census Designated Place Glossary Term	2013-09-10 (A)
Census Designated Place	CDP	A United States Census Bureau term for a concentration of population that lack a separate municipal government, but otherwise resemble incorporated places. It is sometimes added to a city name with that classification if there are multiple cities in the same state with that name. See the CDP Wikipedia article	2013-09-10 (A)
Center Code	CC	Third party Beta Test Management Solutions used by Waze See the Waze CenterCode.com External page Also see the Beta Testers Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Central Reservation	(alias)	In Waze, such roads may be represented a single 2-way road or by parallel roads, one for each direction. See the Median Strip Glossary Term	2016-02-01 (U) 2010-10-11 (A)
CFI	(abbr.)	See the Continuous Flow Intersection Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
CH	(abbr.)	See the WME Color Highlighter Glossary Term	2013-06-03 (A)
Champ	~	See the Community Roles Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Chat	(alias)	See the Map Editor Chat Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
City Smudge	(alias)	See the Smudged City Glossary Term	2015-02-24 (A)
Clean Air Vehicle	CAV	Term commonly used by the California DMV for vehicles that qualify to use their HOV lanes. See the DMV.CA External page Also see the High Occupancy Vehicle Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-04-20 (A)
Client	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Cloud	(alias)	See the Cloud Storage Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
Cloud Storage	Cloud	General term used to describe various types of services to store data. See below for some services typically used by Waze users. See the Cloud Storage Wikipedia article Related entries: •	2015-04-20 (A)
CM	(abbr.)	See the Country Manager Glossary Term See the Community Manager Glossary Term	2015-02-20 (U) 2014-12-07 (A)
Codes	(alias)	See the Search Codes Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Community Action Request	CAR	A system used by Waze volunteer leaders to manage ranks and permissions of Wazers. Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Community Forum	Forum, Waze Forum	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Community Manager	CM	A Waze employee assigned as a liason between Waze staff and the leadership of a local editing community. Usually assigned to an entire country or region of countries. See the Community Roles Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Community Roles	~	Roles, Champ, CM, GC, LC, RC, SM See the Roles and responsibilities Wiki Page Also see the Roles Glossary Term Related entries: • • • • • • •	2015-01-30 (A)
Community Wiki	(alias)	See the Wazeopedia Glossary Term	2016-01-06 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Connected Citizens	(alias)	See the Connected Citizens Program Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Connected Citizens NYC Meet-Up	W10	The W10 are the first 10 international cities, United States Departments of Transportation (DOTs), and municipal organizations whom Waze has empowered to serve their citizens in the Connected Citizens program. See the Connected Citizens Program Glossary Term Also see the PR Newswire article External page	2015-10-08 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Connected Citizens Program	CCP, [#CC, CC]], Connected Citizens	The Waze Connected Citizens Program See the Connected Citizens Program Wiki Page Also see the Connected Citizens Waze Blog Also see the Connected Citizens Waze Site Related entries:	2015-10-13 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Connectivity Score	~	The chance of any one segment to be connected to any other segment within a certain regional area. I.e. the likelihood that you will be able to succesfully navigate from any point, to any other point within one regional area. It is a number used to define how well the map of region is developed. Measured by Waze staff upon request, the higher the percentage, the better. It is one of the metrics used to measure the success of a MapRaid. Also see the MapRaid Glossary Term	2015-10-07 (U) 2015-02-24 (A)
Connector	(alias)	See the At-Grade Connectors Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Continuous Flow Intersection	CFI	A general category type of intersection. See the Displaced Left Turn Glossary Term Also see the Continuous Flow Intersection Wikipedia article	2015-10-07 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Cookie Munching	Cookies	Cookies are the dots on unconfirmed roads (sometimes called pacman roads). Cookie munching (or road munching) is driving over such roads, and earns points. It also confirms the road is drive-able for the Waze server. See the Points Wiki Page See the What are those dots ... ? FAQ Wiki Page Related entries: • •	2010-10-11 (A)
Coordinator	~	Coordinators are experts who coordinate between the local community and Waze Team, as community ambassadors. Usually Champs. See the Coordinators Wiki Page See the Community Roles Glossary Term Also see the Regional Coordinator Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Country Coordinator	CC	Term used in some countries other than the US. A Country Coordinator is a Waze appointed Coordinator for an entire country, similar to a Regional Coordinator in larger countries. See the Coordinator Glossary Term See the Regional Coordinator Glossary Term Also see the French Country Coordinator Wiki Page Related entries:	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Country Manager	CM	An assigned role to help manage and maintain the map of an entire country. See the Country Manager Wiki Page Also see the Editing Roles Glossary Term	2015-02-14 (U) 2014-12-07 (A)
Crossroads	(alias)	A code name used by Waze developers. See the Junction Box Glossary Term	2015-04-29 (A)
Crowdsource	~	"Waze is the world's largest community-based traffic and navigation app." - Waze See the Crowdsourcing Wikipedia article	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Cul-de-sac	~	A Cul-de-sac (a.k.a. Court in the US) is a common treatment of a dead end street in a residential neighborhood. See the Junction_Style_Guide#Cul-de-sacs Wiki Page Related entries:	2016-01-04 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Curve Point	(alias)	As used in the Waze Map Editor Guide Full Clip Video. Term not commonly used otherwise. See the Geometry Node Glossary Term Also see the Waze Map Editor Guide Full Clip Video External page	2015-01-30 (A)
Cut	~	To separate a single segment into two smallaer segments, by adding a junction node along the segment. See the Cut a segment Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-03-22 (A)
CWL	(abbr.)	See the Camera Watch List Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
DAB	(abbr.)	See the Disambiguation Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Dashboard	DB	See the Dashboard Wiki Page	2015-01-30 (A)
Data Base	DB	See the Database Wikipedia article	2015-01-30 (A)
Data Waze	datawaze	See the Data Waze Waze Blog	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-02-24 (A)
datawaze	(alias)	See the Data Waze Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-02-24 (A)
DB	(abbr.)	See the Dashboard Glossary Term See the Data Base Glossary Term See the Dropbox Glossary Term	2015-02-03 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
DCD	(abbr.)	See the Diverging Diamond Interchange Glossary Term	2015-10-07 (U) 2015-08-26 (A)
DCMI	(abbr.)	See the Double Crossover Merging Interchange Glossary Term	2015-08-26 (A)
DDI	(abbr.)	See the Diverging Diamond Interchange Glossary Term	2015-10-07 (U) 2015-08-26 (A)
Dead End Loops	~	See the Dead end loop Wiki Page Also see the Cul-de-sac Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Dead End Node	~	This is an Endpoint Node found at the end of a segment with no other segment connected to its end. When the other endpoint node of the segment is connected to one or more other segments. A Dead End Node should be visible at the end of a dead-end road, and should be corrected if not visible. See the End Point Node Glossary Term Also see the Node Glossary Term Also see the Fixing Dead End Nodes Wiki Page Related entries:	2012-08-18 (A)
Department of Transportation	DOT	A governmmental agency in various jurisdictions responsible for transportation. See the Department of Transportation Wikipedia article Also see the U.S. DOT Wikipedia article	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Descartes	~	Working name for the previous Cartouche map editing system beta versions. (The term can still seen in the certain Waze URLs.) See the Cartouche Glossary Term Also see the Beta Glossary Term	2015-04-09 (A)
Destination	~	Destination point for a driving route, with the origin being the starting point. (This term may later be combined with "Ending Point".) See the Ending Point Glossary Term Also see the Origin Glossary Term	2015-04-01 (A)
Detour Prevention Mechanism	~	See the Detour Prevention Mechanisms Wiki Page Also see the Big Detour Prevention Glossary Term	2015-10-08 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Directionality	~	The direction a segment will allow routing traffic across it as One-way, Two-way, or Unknown. For one-way segments, you must specify if runs from the "A" node to the "B" node, or vice-a-versa. See the Creating and editing road segments Wiki Page	2015-10-10 (U) 2010-09-16 (A)
Dirt Road	DR	Off-road / Not maintained  is a road type in Waze, typically used to represent any dirt roads. The Road Types entry lists all the road types in order. For more information on Dirt Road / 4X4 Trail select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-02-15 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Disambiguation	DAB	Identifying which meaning of a word is desired. When on a disambiguation page, select the meaning closest to what is intended.	2015-10-10 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Displaced Left Turn	DLT	A specfic type of Continuous Flow Intersection. See the Displaced Left Turn Wiki Page Also see the Continuous Flow Intersection Wikipedia article Related entries:	2015-10-07 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Diverging Diamond Interchange	DDI, Double crossover diamond interchange, DCD	A type of diamond interchange in which the two directions of traffic on the non-freeway road cross to the opposite side on both sides of the bridge at the freeway. See the diverging diamond interchange Wikipedia article See the Federal Highway Administration technical brief External page See the official diverging diamond interrhange External page Related entries:	2016-01-04 (U) 2015-08-26 (A)
Divide	Dividing	The method to convert a single two-way segment, into two parallel one-way segments, running in opposite directions. See the Dividing a two-way road Wiki Page Related entries: •	2015-10-10 (U) 2015-03-22 (A)
Divided Highway	Dual Carriageway	A road or highway where directions of travel are separated by a barrier, strip of land or other obstruction, known as a Median Strip or Central Reservation (British English). Dual Carriageway. In Waze, such roads may be represented a single 2-way road or by parallel roads, one for each direction. See the Divided road intersections Wiki Page Also see the Dividing a two-way road Glossary Term Also see the Un-Dividing a divided highway Glossary Term Also see the Median Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-02-01 (U) 2010-10-11 (A)
Dividing	(alias)	See the Divide Glossary Term	2016-01-14 (A)
DLT	(abbr.)	A specific type of Continuous Flow Intersection. See the Displaced Left Turn Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Dogleg	~	A dogleg is a shift in a road. Normally, when Road A meets Road B, both segments of Road A are at the same junction. In a dogleg, they don't match up. To cross road B on Road A, you must turn briefly onto Road B and turn back onto Road A short distance later. It is called a dogleg because it has the characteristic shape of a dog's leg. A micro-dogleg (mDL), is a technique with a similar appearance to a dogleg, used for altering the angle Waze sees at a junction, which affects turn instructions. See the How Waze determines turn / keep / exit maneuvers Wiki Page Also see the Micro-dogleg Glossary Term	2015-10-09 (U) 2015-01-12 (A)
DOT	(abbr.)	See the Department of Transportation Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Double crossover diamond interchange	(abbr.)	See the Diverging Diamond Interchange Glossary Term	2015-10-07 (U) 2015-08-26 (A)
Double Crossover Merging Interchange	DCMI	A free-flowing interchange design which includes elements from the diverging diamond interchange and the standard diamond interchange. See the DCMI Wikipedia article See the DCMI patent application External page Also see the Diverging Diamond Interchange Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-08-26 (A)
Down-Lock	~	Term used to descibe the process of adjusting the Segment Lock level in WME down to match the regional standards, or the Rank of an editor to allow them to edit the segment(s). See the Segment Lock Glossary Term Also see the Up-Lock Glossary Term	2015-02-25 (A)
DR	(abbr.)	"Dr" is also used as an abbreviaion for "Drive" and "Dr." for "Doctor" in segment naming. See the Dirt Road Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Drive	(alias)	See the Google Drive Glossary Term Also see the Drives Glossary Term	2016-01-14 (U) 2015-02-23 (A)
Driven Area	~	See the Editable Area Wiki Page Related entries: •	2015-10-09 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Drives	~	A tab in the Waze Map Editor showing a list of your drives with their map links. See the Road Types Glossary Term Also see the Driven Area Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Drives Tab Enhancer	DTE	A now obsolete browser plugin that showed more drives per sub-page on the user drives tab of the Waze Map Editor. It is now bundled as an option inside the URO+ addon. See the URO+ Glossary Term Also see the Drives Glossary Term	2016-01-14 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Dropbox	DB	A cloud based storage service used for file sharing. See the DropBox External page Also see the Cloud Storage Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-02-23 (A)
DTE	(abbr.)	See the Drives Tab Enhancer Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Dual Carriageway	(alias)	See the Divided Highway Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-02-01 (U) 2010-10-11 (A)
Duplicate Cities	~	When road segments are named with a city that is not in the immediate area, it causes problems in the city layer display. See the Duplicate cities Wiki Page Also see the Smudged City Wiki Page	2015-10-09 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Editable Area	~	The entire area within which you area able to edit items in the Waze Map Editor. This includes your driven, and managed areas. Also a WME Layer which highlights this area on the map. The WME "Editable Area" Layer does not however highlight the entire country if you are a Country Manager. See the Editable Area Wiki Page Also see the Driven Area Glossary Term Also see the Managed Area Glossary Term	2015-04-16 (U) 2013-01-23 (A)
Editing Roles	~	These are assigned roles given to users who request them, and show they are qualified. They exist to enable users to help manage and maintain the map. See the Roles and responsibilities Wiki Page Also see the Roles and responsibilities Glossary Term Related entries: •	2015-02-15 (A)
Editor Profile	(alias)	See the Map-Editor Profile Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (A)
Elevation	Level	The vertical position of a road relative to other roads it crosses, starting from ground level. See the Road elevation Wiki Page Also see the Level (disambiguation) Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
End Point Node	~	An End Point Node (AKA end node) is found at both ends of a segment. Its' appearance is emphasized after selecting a segment while in WME. When joined to other endpoint nodes it creates a junction. See the Node Glossary Term Also see the Junction Glossary Term Related entries:	2013-05-06 (A)
Ending Point	~	Destination point for a driving route, with the origin being the starting point. (This term may later be combined with "Destination".) Related entries: • •	2015-04-01 (A)
ERL	(abbr.)	See the Experimental Road Layer Glossary Term	2015-04-17 (A)
Estimated Time of Arrival	ETA	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
ETA	(abbr.)	See the Estimated Time of Arrival Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Events	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Experimental Road Layer	ERL	A new layer in the WME with updated graphic display of the roads. It is eventually planned to replace the existing road layer. See the announcement Waze forum	2015-04-17 (A)
Expert	(alias)	See the Waze Expert Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Express Lane	(alias)	See the Car Pool Lane Glossary Term	2012-08-18 (A)
Extension	~	Usually refers to a browser extension script	2015-01-30 (A)
FAQ	(abbr.)	See the Frequently Asked Questions Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
FC	(abbr.)	See the Functional Classifiction Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Federal Highway Administration	FHWA	The Federal Highway Administration is an agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation that supports State and local governments in the design, construction, and maintenance of the Nation’s highway system (Federal Aid Highway Program) and various federally and tribal owned lands (Federal Lands Highway Program). See the FHWA External page Also see the previous FHWA names Wikipedia article Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Feed The Waze	~	A Waze User created project for adding long-term traffic events (like roadworks) to the Waze map. See the Feed The Waze External page Related entries:	2015-02-23 (A)
Ferry	FY	• • • • Ferry • • • •   is a road type in Waze used to represent ferry routes which can be taken with a vehicle. For more information on Ferry select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
FHWA	(abbr.)	See the Federal Highway Administration Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
FM	(abbr.)	See the Formal Mentoring Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Fork	~	A point in a road where the road diverges to separate roads. This is common where a new Freeway diverges off an existing freeway, and also where a frontage road (aka service road) starts off of a main road. This is the MUTCD definition of "Split", and has been refered to as a "split in the road" in the past. However use of the word "split" has been ddepracated in the Waze vernacular. See the Freeway forks Wiki Page Also see the MUTCD Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-03-22 (A)
Formal Mentoring	FM	The process of rapidly advancing editors skills and knowledge through an assigned mentor, in a formal arrangement with set expectations and time limits. See the Formal Mentoring Wiki Page Related entries: •	2015-01-30 (A)
Forms	~	See the Forms Wiki Page	2015-01-30 (A)
Forum	(alias)	See the Community Forum Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Forum Profile	Profile	This is the Waze user Forum Profile used within Waze phpBB forum system. View a user's Forum Profile by substituting the username in this URL: http://www.waze.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=USERNAME The Bookmarklet link below aids in searching for user profiles. See the Bookmarklets Wiki Page Also see the Profile Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-01-05 (U) 2016-01-04 (A)
FreeMap	(alias)	See the Waze Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (A)
Freeway	FW, Fwy, Motorway	Motorway; the major road system in your country.  Freeway  is the highest of the road types in the Waze hierarchy. The Road Types entry lists all the road types in order. For more information on Freeway select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2010-09-15 (A)
Frequently Asked Questions	FAQ	See the FAQ Wiki Page	2015-10-13 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Frontage Road	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
Functional Classifiction	FC	See the Functional Classification Wiki Page Related entries:	2016-01-27 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
FW	(abbr.)	See the Freeway Glossary Term	2010-09-15 (A)
Fwy	(abbr.)	See the Freeway Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (A)
FY	(abbr.)	See the Ferry Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
GC	(abbr.)	See the Global Champ Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Geo-node	(alias)	See the Geometry Node Glossary Term	2012-08-17 (A)
Geo-Ops	(alias)	See the Waze Geo-Ops Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-02-21 (A)
Geographic Information System	GIS	Commonly used by various governmental entities such as county auditors to provide parcel information along with maps. See the Geographic Information System Wikipedia article	2015-01-30 (A)
Geometry	~	The layout or shape of a segment, or place area. Each road is made up of one or more segments. Segments, and Place Areas are made up of one or more straight line sections. These sections can be short, effectively allowing curves to be created in a segment. See Editing existing roads for more information. See the Adjusting road geometry (nodes) Wiki Page See the Area Place Wiki Page Related entries:	2010-09-15 (A)
Geometry Handle	Handle	Any object that can be used to adjust the geometry of a segment or node placement. See the Inter-geometry node Glossary Term Also see the Geometry Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Geometry Node	Geo-node, Geonode, Curve Point	Segment geometry node Landmark geometry node When editing a segment or Area Place, large white circles appear where the segment changes direction ultimately altering its shape. Click and drag them individually to alter the geometry of the segment or landmark. Press the d key while the mouse is hovered over them to delete the geometry node. Alternately hold the d key and then move the mouse over the nodes you want to delete. The smaller white circles between the geometry nodes are "inter"-geometry nodes. When you click and drag an inter-geometry node, it becomes a larger geometry node and two more inter-geometry nodes appear halfway between each side again. See the Node Glossary Term See the Editing existing roads Wiki Page Related entries:	2012-08-17 (A)
Geonode	(alias)	See the Geometry Node Glossary Term	2012-08-17 (A)
GHO	(abbr.)	See the Google Hangouts Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
GIS	(abbr.)	See the Geographic Information System Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Global Champ	GC, Waze Global Champ	An editor selected by Waze management to be part of the world community leadership of Waze. These are editors that show long standing contributions to the entire global Waze community. See the Global Champs Wiki Page Also see the Community Roles Glossary Term	2015-03-04 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Global Positioning System	GPS	The Global Positioning System is a satellite based system used by navigation devices to locate the device anywhere on the globe. Applications like Waze use this information to provide turn-by-turn information. See the GPS (disambiguation) Wiki Page	2014-02-17 (A)
Glossary	(alias)	See the Waze Glossary Glossary Term	2016-01-06 (A)
GLR	(abbr.)	See the Great Lakes Region Glossary Term	2015-03-25 (A)
GM	(abbr.)	See the Greasemonkey Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
GMAP	(abbr.)	See the Google Maps Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
GMM	(abbr.)	See the Google Map Maker Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Goodies	(alias)	See the Bonus points and road goodies Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Google Drive	Drive	A cloud based storage service used for file sharing. Also see the Cloud Storage Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-02-23 (A)
Google Forms	~	A Google product often used for Waze projects in conjunction with Google Sheets See the Google Forms External page Also see the Google Sheets Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Hangouts	GHO, Hangout, HO, HoG	An instant communication platform used by many of the local communities. It offers private and group messaging with images, voice, and video calling. See the Google Hangouts External page	2015-09-17 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Map Maker	GMM	The map editor used to modify Google Maps. See the Google Map Maker External page	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Maps	GMAP	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Google Sheets	~	A Google product often used for Waze projects. See the Google Sheets External page Related entries:	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Google Streetview	SV, GSV, Street View	Google Maps provides the ability to see local roads from the driver's perspective using the Map Editor Interface and Controls Street View. See the Streetview Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Gore	(alias)	See the Gore Point Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (A)
Gore Point	Gore	A small triangular piece of land. The (typically) grassy area where the exit sign is placed. It also describes the area of land where the ramp merges with the highway.	2015-02-26 (U) 2014-11-02 (A)
GPS	(abbr.)	See the Global Positioning System Glossary Term	2014-02-17 (A)
Grade	~	The elevation of a road with respect to surrounding roads. So a road would normally be at-grade - ground level.. A road going underneath in a tunnel would be below grade. A road going over would be above grade. At complicated junctions such as freeway interchanges there can be many grade levels. In WME on a flat map we assign Elevations to show that while the roads cross, they do not connect because they are at different heights (or grades). Ground level = "Ground", below grade = a negative elevation, above grade = a positive elevation. See the Road elevation Wiki Page See the At-grade connectors Wiki Page Also see the Interchange Style Guide Wiki Page Also see the Elevation Glossary Term	2015-04-16 (U) 2010-09-15 (A)
Greasemonkey	GM	See the Community Plugins, Extensions and Tools Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-10-08 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Great Lakes Region	GLR	One of the regions the USA is broken into. It includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin. See the Great Lakes Wiki Page	2015-03-25 (A)
Groups	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
GSV	(abbr.)	See the Google Streetview Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Hall of Fame	HoF	A scoreboard showing the editors with the most editing achievements in a project. These area posted after each MapRaid. See the MapRaid Hall of Fame Wiki Page	2015-04-17 (A)
Handle	(alias)	See the Geometry Handle Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Hangouts	(alias)	See the Google Hangouts Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Hazardous Materials	HM	MUTCD - Hazardous Materials sign examples. See the MUTCD - Hazardous Materials External page	2015-04-09 (A)
HC	(abbr.)	See the Help Center Glossary Term	2015-02-25 (A)
Help	(alias)	See the Help Center Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Help Center	HC, Help, Support	An interactive help site with FAQs, common support topics, tutorials, and the ability to submit support requests directly to Waze staff. This site is maintained by Waze staff. See the Support Waze Help Center article Related entries:	2015-02-25 (U) 2015-02-25 (A)
High Occupancy Toll	HOT, HOT Lane	A lane that permits single passenger vehicles who choose to pay a toll to take advantage of an HOV lane that generally moves faster than the other lanes in the same direction. See the Car Pool Lane Glossary Term	2015-02-27 (U) 2014-08-11 (A)
High Occupancy Vehicle	HOV	A vehicle with a minimum number of passangers, at least two. Local regulations can specify HOV to mean at least two, three, or four passenger in the vehicle. Vehicles meeting these specifications may be entitled to special privileges. See the Car Pool Lane Glossary Term Related entries:	2010-09-16 (A)
HM	(abbr.)	See the Hazardous Materials Glossary Term	2015-04-09 (A)
HN	(abbr.)	See the House Numbers Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
HO	(abbr.)	Less desirable abbreviation for Google Hangouts. See the Google Hangouts Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
HoF	(abbr.)	See the Hall of Fame Glossary Term	2015-04-17 (A)
HoGs	(abbr.)	Humorous abbreviaion occasionally used for "Hangout Groups". See the Google Hangouts Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
HOT	(abbr.)	See the High Occupancy Toll Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
HOT Lane	(alias)	See the High Occupancy Toll Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
House Numbers	HN	See the House Numbers in WME Wiki Page	2016-01-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
HOV	(abbr.)	See the High Occupancy Vehicle Glossary Term	2010-09-16 (A)
HOV Lane	(alias)	See the Car Pool Lane Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
ID	(abbr.)	See the Identifier Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
IGN	(abbr.)	See the IGN Editors Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (U) 2013-03-11 (A)
IGN Editors	IGN	Editors contracted by Waze to make updates to the map. See the IGN Wiki Page Related entries:	2016-01-05 (U) 2013-03-11 (A)
IL	(abbr.)	The two letter abbreviation used for both the country of Israel and the U.S. State of Illinois, and name of the Waze Israel Sever. See the Israel Server Glossary Term Also see the Illinois USPS code Glossary Term	2014-05-17 (A)
Illinois USPS code	IL	IL is the USPS postal code for the state of Illinois. It is easily confused with the Waze abbreviation for the Waze Israel Server. (This term is only included in glossary to compare with "IL" for Israel.) Also see the Israel Server Glossary Term Also see the United States Postal Service Glossary Term	2015-02-21 (A)
IM	(abbr.)	See the Informal Mentoring Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Indentifer	ID	"ID:" is used within Permalinks to identify various objects within WME with a number including, Cameras (unknown), Nodes (nodes=), Places (venues=), PURs (unknown), Segments (segments=), URs (mapUdateRequest=) Some ids are also visible in the left WME panel. See the Permalink Glossary Term	2015-02-25 (A)
Informal Mentoring	IM	The process of helping editors advance their knowledge and skills as questions or issues arise, without any preexisting arrangement or expectations. This can be performed by anyone. Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Inter-geometry node	~	A "grab handle" that allows you to create a new geometry node. When you drag an inter-geometry node, it bends the segment at that point; when you release it, the inter-geometry node will become a new geometry node. Inter-geometry nodes appear on road segments and area places (previously landmarks). They will only appear when the segment/place is selected and the mouse is hovering over it. They appear midway between each existing pair of adjacent geometry nodes, allowing you to bend the shape midway between existing bends. In the case of segments, they also appear midway between the endpoints and the first existing geometry node, or, if there are no existing geometry nodes, midway in the segment. See the Geometry Node Glossary Term See the Node Glossary Term Related entries:	2014-07-29 (A)
Interactive junction instruction algorithm	~	A clickable interactive guide to determine what instruction, if any, will be given at the junction between any 2 segments. See the Interactive junction instruction algorithm Wiki Page	2015-04-01 (A)
International	Intl	Commonly used in Waze to refer to the ROW server infrastructure and location. See the Rest Of World Glossary Term Also see the Banks of Servers Wiki Page	2012-10-04 (A)
Internet Relay Chat	IRC	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
IRC	(abbr.)	See the Internet Relay Chat Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Island	(alias)	See the Median Strip Glossary Term	2016-02-01 (U) 2015-02-27 (A)
ISO-8601	ISO-8601	See the ISO-8601 Wikipedia article Also see the Time preference profile settings for forum Waze forum Also see the Time preference profile settings for Wiki Wiki Page	2015-01-30 (A)
Israel Server	IL	The server named "IL" (the ISO code) for Israel is one of the three separate Bank of Servers (infrastructure) containing Waze mapping and navigation systems. See the Banks of Servers Glossary Term Related entries:	2014-05-17 (A)
JAI	(abbr.)	See the Junction Angle Info Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
JB	(abbr.)	See the Junction Box Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (A)
JNF	(abbr.)	See the Junction Node Fixer Glossary Term	2015-03-18 (A)
JSG	(abbr.)	See the Junction Style Guide Glossary Term	2015-03-18 (A)
Jturn	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
Jughandle	~	Also see the Jughandle Wikipedia article	2015-02-26 (A)
Junction	Junction Node, Junction Point	The point where two or more road segments connect at their ends. It is sometimes called a 'junction node' or 'junction point', but should not be confused with other types of nodes. Junctions look different depending on the situation: Selected and editable segment junction Selected and uneditable segment junction (no permissions to change due to locks) Changed, unsaved junction A node should be visible at the end of a dead end road, and should be corrected if not visible. See the Junction Style Guide Wiki Page Also see the Nodes Glossary Term Also see the Dead End Node Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-08 (U) 2010-09-16 (A)
Junction angle	~	The measured angle between any two segments connected at a junction. Also see the Junction Angle Info Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-08 (U) 2014-09-02 (A)
Junction Angle	Angle	The measured angle between any two segments connected at a junction. See the Junction Style Guide/Controlling turn instructions Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-02-08 (U) (U) 2014-09-02 (A)
Junction Angle Info	JAI	A browser extension script which displays Junction Angles or Turn Angles in WME. It can also estimate what a turn instruction will be for a given turn. See the WME Junction Angle Info Wiki Page Related entries: • •	2015-02-08 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Junction Box	JB, Crossroads	Temporarily named Big Junctions in the following blog article that describes the concept. See the Big Junctions Waze Blog	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-02-26 (A)
Junction Node	(alias)	See the Junction Glossary Term	2015-02-08 (A)
Junction Node Fixer	JNF	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Junction Point	(alias)	See the Junction Glossary Term	2015-02-08 (A)
Junction Style Guide	JSG	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
LAM	(abbr.)	Laege Area Manager See the Large Area Manager Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (U) 2016-01-05 (A)
Landmark	(alias)	The previously used term "Landmarks" has been deprecated in favor of the term "Places". See the Places Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Large Area Manager	LAM	An inititive started in Ohio, followewd by Wisonsin, and is now becoming a Great Lakes Region-wide program. See the Large Area Manager Waze forum	2016-01-06 (U) 2016-01-04 (A)
LC	(abbr.)	See the Local Champ Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Level	(alias)	The disambiguation page lists other deprecated uses. See the Elevation Glossary Term Also see the Level (disambiguation) Wiki Page	2013-10-17 (A)
LGS	(abbr.)	See the Little Green Sign Glossary Term	2015-06-01 (A)
Little Green Sign	LGS	A less conspicuos variation of a Big Green Sign, it is a small green sign usually placed on the side a road road. Green roadway signs in the US are used for exits and other navigational information. Also see the Big Green Sign Glossary Term	2015-06-01 (A)
Live Map	LM	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Live Map UR Overlay	LMUR	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
LM	(abbr.)	See the Live Map Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Local Champ	LC, Waze Local Champ	An editor selected by Waze management or the local community leadership to join the local community leadership of a specific country. These are editors that show long standing contributions to the Waze community for their country. See the Local Champs Wiki Page Also see the Community Roles Glossary Term	2015-03-04 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Lock	~	See the Segment Lock Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Loon	Bulb, Bulb-out	A widened section of road to accomodate a U-Turn type of intersection, as used in many types of Alternative Intersection types including Michigan Left Turns, a type of Median U-Turn Intersection. (Links are pending additional entry edits) Also see the Alternative Intersections Glossary Term	2015-04-01 (A)
Loops	~	See the Junction_Style_Guide#Loops Wiki Page	2016-01-04 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Major Events	(alias)	See the Major Traffic Events Glossary Term	2015-03-16 (A)
Major Highway	MH	Major Highway  is one of three highway types used in Waze. The Road Types entry lists all the road types in order. For more information on Major Highway select this link. Note that when abbreviated to MH, the "M" must be capitalized to differentiate from "mH - Minor Highway". See the Road Types Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
Major Traffic Events	MTE, Major Events	See the Major Traffic Events Wiki Page	2015-03-16 (A)
Managed Area	~	See the Area_Manager Wiki Page Related entries:	2016-01-04 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices	MUTCD	National source of road, sign, and abbreviation guidelines, published by the Federal Highway Administration Individual states often have their own guidelines expaned from the MUTCD. See the MUTCD External page Also see the FHWA Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Map Chat	~	Map Chats are public messages that all users can see and comment on. See the Messages and chatting Waze Help Center article Also see the Map Editor Chat Wiki Page	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-02-23 (A)
Map Editor Chat	WME Chat, Chat	Internal chat system used within the Waze Map Editor. See the WME Chat Wiki Page	2016-01-05 (U) 2016-01-05 (A)
Map Issue	~	A button on the Waze client app Report menu to indicate there is a problem with the map by means of an Update Request. See the Create a report Waze Help Center article Related entries:	2013-02-25 (A)
Map Problem	MP	An automated report from the Waze servers that identifies a possible problem with the map. See Map problem for more information. See the Map Problem Wiki Page	2014-08-11 (A)
Map Protection	~	Methods to protect and uphold the quality of the Waze map from both intentional and unintentional harm. See the Map Protection Wiki Page Related entries: •	2015-02-09 (A)
Map Team	(alias)	See the Waze Geo-Ops Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-02-21 (A)
Map Tile	Tile	The Waze map is divided into a grid using 1km-square areas which are called tiles or map tiles. Changes to the map are processed on a per-tile basis. Changes to any part of a map tile causes Waze to mark the tile as changed and it will be rebuilt in the next map update cycle. See the Map tiles Wiki Page	2012-02-08 (A)
Map-A-Thon	~	See the [] Waze Blog	2015-02-24 (A)
Map-Editor Profile	Editor Profile	This is the Waze Map-Editor Profile used within Waze map editing system. View a user's Forum Profile by substituting the username in this URL: http://www.waze.com/user/editor/USERNAME The Bookmarklet link below aids in searching for user profiles. See the New! Map-Editor Profile Waze forum Also see the Profile Glossary Term See the Profile related Bookmarklets Wiki Page Related entries:	2016-01-05 (U) 2016-01-04 (A)
MapRaid	MR, Raid	A collaborative effort by many editors update the mapin a defined area. A MapRaid may focus on different aspects of the map. See the MapRaid Wiki Page Related entries: • •	2016-01-04 (U) 2014-11-10 (A)
mDL	(abbr.)	See the Micro-dogleg Glossary Term	2015-04-15 (A)
Median	~	The area separating a divided highway. It may contain median strips and median segments. Also see the Median Segment Glossary Term Also see the Median Strip Glossary Term Related entries: • • •	2016-02-01 (U) 2010-10-11 (A)
Median Barrier	(alias)	See the Median Strip Glossary Term	2016-02-01 (U) 2010-10-11 (A)
Median Divider Island	(alias)	See the Median Strip Glossary Term	2016-02-01 (U) 2015-02-27 (A)
Median Segment	~	A segment between the two roadways of a divided highway. It may be either connected to or disconnected from the two roadways. Also see the Median Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-02-01 (U) 2015-09-08 (A)
Median Segment	~	A median segment is a segment found between two parallel roadways, in the median space. It is typically short and more-or-less perpendicular to the roadways. See the Median Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-09-08 (A)
Median Strip	Median Barrier, Median Divider Island, Island, Central Reservation	Strip of land or barrier separating a Divided Highway. Known as a Central Reservation in Britain, and occasionally abbreviated as Median. Also see the Median strip Wikipedia article Also see the Median Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-02-01 (U) 2015-02-27 (A)
Median U-Turn Intersection	MUTI	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
MediaWiki	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Meetups	(alias)	See the Waze Meetups Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (A)
Mega MapRaid	MMR	A large scale MapRaid See the MegaMapRaid Wiki Page Also see the MapRaid Glossary Term	2016-01-04 (U) 2015-04-01 (A)
Mentor	~	An experienced and knowledgeable editor, assigned the role to teach others, and help them become better editors. See the Becoming a Mentor Wiki Page See the Formal Mentoring Glossary Term See the Community Roles Glossary Term	2015-02-20 (A)
Mentoring	~	Experienced editors passing on their knowledge and skills to others. There are different categories of mentoring. See the Mentoring Wiki Page Also see the Formal Mentoring Glossary Term Also see the Informal Mentoring Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
MH	(abbr.)	See the Major Highway Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
mH	(abbr.)	See the Minor Highway Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
Michigan Left Turn	MLT	A type of Median U-Turn Intersection commonly used in Michigan and adopted by other states. See the Michigan Left Wiki Page Also see the Median U-Turn Intersection Glossary Term	2015-04-01 (A)
Micro-dogleg	mDL, μDL	A one or two geometry nodes at the end of a segment, which change the true angle at which the segment meets its junction, without changing the appearance of the junction. The geometry nodes are very close to the junction, and nearly or completely invisible at the zoom levels available on the client (app). An mDL is frequently used to force "Turn" instructions instead of "Keep/Exit" instructions and vice-versa. They have a shape similar to a dogleg junction. For example, if the angle at which a local road meets a highway is 20 degrees, Waze will instruct a user turning off the highway to "EXIT RIGHT" (assuming right hand drive countries). If we consider this a 'turnoff' (at grade junction), and not an 'exit', we will want to force Waze to treat it as a 'turn'. By making a tiny crook (the micro-dogleg) at the very start of the local segment, we can have the final piece of the segment meet the highway at 90 degrees, and cause a turn instruction. See the Junction Style Guide Wiki Page See the How Waze determines turn / keep / exit maneuvers Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-10-09 (U) 2015-01-12 (A)
Minimum Bounding Box	~	The AMGR tool used by Regional Coordinators reduces irregular multipoint polygons as used for Area Managers, and State Managers to a four point rectangle aligned along longitude and latitude lines using a minimum bounding box formula. Also see the Waze AM Layers Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Minor Highway	mH	Minor Highway  is one of three highway types used in Waze. The Road Types entry lists all the road types in order. For more information on Minor Highway select this link. Note that when abbreviated to mH, the "m" must not be capitalized to differentiate from "MH - Major Highway". See the Road Types Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
MLT	(abbr.)	See the Michigan Left Turn Glossary Term	2015-01-01 (A)
MMR	(abbr.)	See the Mega MapRaid Glossary Term	2015-04-01 (A)
MNTR	(abbr.)	See the Waze Mentoring Manager Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (A)
Moods	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Motorway	(alias)	See the Freeway Glossary Term	2010-09-15 (A)
MP	(abbr.)	See the Map Problem Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
MR	(abbr.)	See the MapRaid Glossary Term	2015-02-21 (A)
MTE	(abbr.)	See the Major Traffic Events Glossary Term	2015-03-16 (A)
Multiuse Lanes	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Munching	~	See the Cookie Munching Glossary Term	2010-10-11 (A)
MUTCD	(abbr.)	See the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
MUTI	(abbr.)	See the Median U-Turn Intersection Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
My Car	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
My Waze	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
NA	(abbr.)	See the North America Glossary Term	2012-10-04 (A)
NA Server	(alias)	See the USA Server Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
Name Normalization	NN, NormName	The process of inspecting all the segment names in an area, correcting common errors, and ensuring they conform to local naming standards.	2015-01-30 (A)
nanoRep	~	As of 2014-11-18, Waze has retired the use of nanoRep in favor of a Google product - the Google Help Center. nanoRep was an automated support system managed by Waze directly. It provided information and basic troubleshooting information on Waze. It was accesible from the web and the Waze client app, with a characteristic "Ask a question..." box. The page has since been removed from the Waze site. See the Help Center Glossary Term	2015-04-19 (U) 2013-06-01 (A)
National Functional Class	NFC	See the Functional Classifiction Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Navigation Guidance	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
NFC	(abbr.)	See the National Functional Class Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
NI	(abbr.)	See the Not Identified Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
No-Name Segment	~	A segment with no name (the "none" check-box for street name is checked) See the Interactive junction instruction algorithm Wiki Page See the Road name inheritance Wiki Page	2015-04-01 (A)
Node	~	There are five different types of nodes: Related entries: • • • •	2010-09-16 (A)
NormName	(alias)	See the Name Normalization Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
North America	NA	Commonly used to refer to Waze server serving North America See the USA Server Glossary Term	2012-10-04 (A)
Not Identified	NI	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Nuance ®	~	Third party Text to Speech voice products used by Waze. In the USA and other countries the use of Nuance ® voices has been depreciated in favor of Google TTS voices. See the Voices Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Nuggets	~	Global wiki pages are broken down into smaller individual pieces. We refer to these smaller pieces of knowledge as nuggets. See the Nuggets Wiki Page	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-10-07 (A)
OP	~	See the Opening Post Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (A)
Opening Post	OP	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Origin	~	Starting point for a driving route, with the destination being the ending point. (This term may later be combined with "Starting Point".) See the Starting Point Glossary Term Also see the Ending Point Glossary Term Related entries:	2010-09-16 (A)
Overlapping	~	See the Overlapping road junction Wiki Page See the Interactive junction instruction algorithm, Overlapping segments Wiki Page	2015-10-10 (U) 2015-04-01 (A)
Pacman Roads	~	Unconfirmed roads marked with dots (cookies) that have not been driven upon since being created or significantly edited in the Waze Map Editor. Driving over these roads earns you points and turns your car icon into a Pacman-type character that "munches the dots". See the Points Wiki Page See the Cookie Munching Glossary Term	2010-09-24 (A)
Papyrus	~	Old working name for the Waze Map Editor. See the Waze Map Editor Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Parking Lot Road	PLR	Parking Lot Road  is a road type used in Waze for the internal roads of parking lots and driveways. Not all internal parking lot roads, and driveways are supposed to be on the map. Not to be confused with the Area Place called Parking Lot. For more information on Parking Lot Road select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-02-15 (U) 2013-06-03 (A)
Pathfinder	(alias)	See the Wayfinder Glossary Term	2012-08-17 (A)
PB	(abbr.)	See the Pedestrial Boardwalk Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Pedestrial Boardwalk	PB	|  |  |  |  | Pedestrian Boardwalk |  |  |  |  |  is a non-routable road type in Waze used to represent paths which should not be driven on, but which the routing server does not see these roads as an option. For more information on Pedestrian Boardwalks select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Permalink	PL	A URL aka browser link (http://...) that shows the map with the same view as the user who created the Permalink (PL). Location, zoom, layers, and selected segments will be the same. You can find the icon for the Permalink in the lower right corner of the WME screen (two chains linked together). When the mouse is hovered over the icon, press Control-C to copy the Permalink to the clipboard (or right-click it and choose copy). You can then paste the PL into an e-mail or forum message so others can access what you are seeing. Note that you should not copy the URL from the browser address bar as a Permalink, as it does not change as you work on the screen. The Permalink icon always has the current Permalink. You can also click the Permalink icon to completely reload your current window without changing the view. See the Permalink Wiki Page Also see the Permalink definition Wikipedia article Related entries: •	2014-08-04 (A)
phpBB ®	~	See the Waze Forum Glossary Term Also see the [software site] Wiki Page	2015-01-30 (A)
PL	(abbr.)	See the Permalink Glossary Term	2016-01-14 (A)
Place Update	(alias)	See the Place Update Request Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Place Update Request	PUR, Place Update	A Place Update Request is displayed in WME on its own layer. It is produced either from the client app similar to an Update Request, reported by a user from the requesting a new Place or an update to photo or details of an existing Place which the user doesn't have permision to update. It can also be produced in WME when an editor attempts to modify a Place locked above their rank. See the Places Glossary Term	2014-10-05 (A)
Places	Venue, Landmark	Waze's implementation of a POI system. Places can be either an Area or a Point which affects their display on the map, but not any other features. See the Places Wiki Page Related entries: • • • • •	2015-02-22 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
PLR	(abbr.)	See the Parking Lot Road Glossary Term	2013-06-03 (A)
PM	(abbr.)	See the Private Message Glossary Term	2013-04-30 (A)
POI	(abbr.)	See the Point of Interest Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Point	~	A "Place Point" is a Waze POI without associated polygon displayed on the map, as opposed to the "Place Area". (Not the same as "Points" as used in Points Ranking) See the Places Glossary Term Also see the Area Glossary Term Also see the Points Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-22 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Point of Interest	POI	A specific location of interest, usually with accompanying details. Used by many GPS and mapping softwares for indentifying businesses, etc. on the map. Waze uses the "Places" for it's implementation of "Points of Interest" in it's maps. See the Places Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Points	~	"Points" as used with rank and edits. (not the same as "Point" as used in Area Point) See the Rank Glossary Term Also see the Places Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Pothole	~	Also called a kettle or chuckhole, is a type of disruption in the surface of a roadway where a portion of the road material has broken away, leaving a hole. The Waze client allows users to report this. See the Create a report Waze Help Center article	2012-07-21 (A)
PR	(abbr.)	See the Private Road Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Primary Street	PS	Primary Street  is a road type in Waze, typically used to represent the collector roads in a city. The Road Types entry lists all the road types in order. For more information on Primary Street select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-02-15 (U) 2014-08-11 (A)
Private Installations	~	See the Private Installations Wiki Page	2015-01-30 (A)
Private Message	PM	The Private Messaging system used in the Waze forums or Messages as used in the Waze Client. See the Private message (forum) Wiki Page See the Private message (Waze app) Wiki Page	2013-04-30 (A)
Private Road	PR	Private Road  is a road type used in Waze for drivable roads which should be mapped, but are not for public use. For more information on Private Road select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-02-15 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Profile	~	This refers to any of the various profiles within the Waze systems. Check the link below for the various profile related Bookmarklets to aid in searching for user profiles. See the Forum Profile Glossary Term See the Map-Editor Profile Glossary Term See the User Page profile (for Wiki) Glossary Term Also see the Profile related Bookmarklets Wiki Page Related entries: • •	2016-01-05 (U) 2016-01-04 (A)
PS	(abbr.)	See the Primary Street Glossary Term	2014-08-11 (A)
PUR	(abbr.)	See the Place Update Request Glossary Term	2014-10-05 (A)
RA	(abbr.)	See the Roundabout Glossary Term	2015-02-09 (A)
Raid	(alias)	See the MapRaid Glossary Term	2015-02-21 (A)
Raid Leader	RL	Editors (usually champs) who create and manage the MapRaids Also see the MapRaid Glossary Term	2015-04-17 (A)
Rail Road	RR	|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| Railroad |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|  is a non-routable road type in Waze used to represent railroad tracks which are visible from the surface. The routing server does not see these as an option. For more information on Railroad select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Ramp	Sliproad	A freeway entrance or exit; AKA a sliproad. Ramps may be on-ramps or off-ramps. Ramps are used to connect roads at a different grade from the connecting road or freeway, and are handled specially by the Waze routing, and client. For more information on Ramps select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term See the Junction Style Guide Wiki Page	2015-02-15 (U) 2010-09-15 (A)
Rank	Lock level	Generally refers to Map Editing Rank, or road lock ranks. See Level for other related terms. See the Map Editor Ranks Wiki Page See the Segment Lock Rank Wiki Page Related entries:	2013-10-17 (A)
RC	(abbr.)	See the Regional Coordinator Glossary Term See the Release Candidate Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
RC	(abbr.)	See the Regional Coordinator Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
RCI	(abbr.)	See the Reduced Conflict Intersection Glossary Term	2015-04-01 (A)
RCUT	(abbr.)	See the Restricted Crossing U-Turn Intersection Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Real Time Closures	RTC	Road closures which are visible on the map, and prevent Waze from routing over the closed segments during the duration the closure is in effect. See the Real time closures Wiki Page	2015-03-16 (A)
Real Time Search Engine	RTSE	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Red Light Camera	RLC	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Reduced Conflict Intersection	RCI	See the RCI External page	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-04-01 (A)
Regional Coordinator	RC	Manages an assigned area within a country large enough to require multiple managers. See the Regional Coordinator Wiki Page See the Community Roles Glossary Term Also see the Country Coordinator Glossary Term Related entries: • • •	2015-03-04 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Regional Expert Reviewer	RER	Google Map Maker editor role. See the Regional Expert Reviewer External page	2015-04-17 (A)
Regional Manager	RM	Role used primarily in Europe with differences from Regional Coordinators in the US and other countries. Link below is in French. See the French Regional Manager Wiki Page	2016-01-05 (A)
Regression Checker	~	A specific method of Map Protection. See the Map Protection Glossary Term	2015-02-09 (A)
Release Candidate	RC	A version of a program that is nearly ready for release but may still have a few bugs; the status between beta version and release version. See the Release Candidate Wiktionary Also see the Release Candidate Wikipedia article Also see the Regional Coordinator Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
RER	(abbr.)	See the Regional Expert Reviewer Glossary Term	2015-04-17 (A)
Residential Point Place	RPP	Residential point places are a way to map addresses that don't fit the house number mold. See the Residential and Private Places Wiki Page Also see the Places Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (A)
Rest of World	(alias)	Waze term to define parts of the world that are not Canada, Israel, or U.S.A. Also used to define the "Rest of the World" Waze server. See the Rest of World Server Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-04-20 (U) 2014-05-17 (A)
Rest of World Server	Rest of World, ROTW, World, ROW	The server named "ROW" for the "Rest of the World", is one of the three separate Bank of Servers (infrastructure) containing Waze mapping and navigation systems. See the Banks of Servers Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
Restiction Types	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Restricted Crossing U-Turn Intersection	RCUT	See the Restricted Crossing U-Turn Intersection - FHWA External page	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-04-01 (A)
RevCon	(abbr.)	See the Reverse Connectivity Glossary Term	2013-01-14 (A)
Reverse Connection	(alias)	See the Reverse Connectivity Glossary Term	2014-01-27 (A)
Reverse Connectivity	RevCon, Reverse Connection	Reverse connectivity (or reverse connection) is a situation where a hidden turn is allowed going the wrong direction into a one-way street (against traffic), or leading the wrong direction out of a one-way street. See the Reverse connectivity Wiki Page	2013-01-14 (A)
Reversible Lanes	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
RideWith	~	The Waze RideWith app finds you the most convenient, affordable ride to work and home by connecting you to the world’s largest community of drivers. It’s carpool powered by the Waze community! This app may not yet be available in all countries. See the RideWith Waze Site Also see the RideWith Waze Blog	2016-01-04 (A)
RL	(abbr.)	See the Raid Leader Glossary Term	2015-04-17 (A)
RLC	(abbr.)	See the Red Light Camera Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
RM	(abbr.)	See the Regional Manager Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (A)
Road Candies	(alias)	Small candy shaped icons that appear on the Waze client app. Drive over them to collect the points associated. See the Bonus points and road goodies Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Road Goodies	(alias)	Special items that appear at random locations on the map for special occasions like hoildays. See the Bonus points and road goodies Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Road Muching	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2010-10-11 (A)
Road Munching	~	Earning points by driving over roads (distance traveled). See the Cookie Munching Glossary Term	2010-10-11 (A)
Road Report	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
Road Types	~	Road types as used in WME, listed by their hierarchy of preference. Road Type Abbr. Highways  Freeway  FW  Major Highway  MH  Minor Highway  mH  Ramp  Ramp Streets  Primary Street  PS  Street  ST Other - drivable  Off-road / Not maintained  DR  Parking Lot Road  PLR  Private Road  PR  • • • • Ferry • • • •   FE Non-driveable  |   |   |   |   | Walking Trail |   |   |   |   |  WT  |  |  |  |  | Pedestrian Boardwalk |  |  |  |  |  PB  | | | | | Stairway | | | | |  SW  |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| Railroad |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|  RR  ⁃     ⁃        ⁃        ⁃        ⁃ Runway ⁃        ⁃        ⁃        ⁃        ⁃  RW See the Road types/USA Wiki Page Related entries: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	2015-02-14 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Roles	~	Roles are assigned to users, and indicate involvment in certain areas of Waze. They can be used to identify a users place in the community leadership hierarchy,a special interest, knowledge, or skills set. There are a number of different roles in Waze. See the Roles and responsibilities Wiki Page Also see the Reorganization of the Community: What does my role mean? Waze forum Also see the Your Rank and Points Wiki Page Related entries: •	2015-01-30 (A)
ROTW	(abbr.)	See the Rest of World Server Glossary Term	2015-02-21 (A)
Roundabout	RA	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-09 (A)
Roundabout angle	~	The relative position in compass degrees where a segment connects to a roundabout. See the Roundabout Angle Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-02-08 (U) 2914-09-02 (A)
Routing Penalties	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
ROW	(abbr.)	See the Rest of World Server Glossary Term	2014-05-17 (A)
RPP	(abbr.)	See the Residential Point Place Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (A)
RR	(abbr.)	See the Rail Road Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
RTC	(abbr.)	See the Real Time Closures Glossary Term	2015-03-16 (A)
RTSE	(abbr.)	See the Real Time Search Engine Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Runway/Taxiway	RW, Taxiway	⁃     ⁃        ⁃        ⁃        ⁃ Runway ⁃        ⁃        ⁃        ⁃        ⁃  is a road type in Waze which is used for runways and taxiways in airports. Not all runways and taxiways should be included in the map. For more information on Runway/Taxiway select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-11 (A)
RW	(abbr.)	See the Runway/Taxiway Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
SB	(abbr.)	See the Scoreboard Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Scoreboard	SB	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
SDP	(abbr.)	See the Small Detour Prevention Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Search Codes	Codes	Special codes you can search for in the client app, to perform various functions. See the Search codes Wiki Page	2015-01-30 (A)
Seg	(abbr.)	See the Segment Glossary Term	2015-02-25 (A)
Segment	Seg	The basic element of a road or path in WME, a segment is a piece of a road or path. Many segments are connected by junctions to form the roads and make up the map. See the Create a Road Wiki Page	2015-04-19 (U) 2012-02-07 (A)
Segment Lock	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here Related entries: • •	2015-02-25 (A)
Selected Roundabout Segments	SRS	Selected Roundabout Segments; browser extension for WME	2015-01-30 (A)
Self Connectivity	SelfCon	A segment that has a connection, via a junction, back to itself. It forms a one-segment loop. This can cause routing irregularities. Self connectivity is not desirable. Tools such as the WME Color Highlighter (linked below) can help identify self-connected or one-segment loops. Self connectivity is sometimes used in routing terms to refer to a one segment U-turn (controlled by the U-turn junction arrows on a segment). See the Junction_Style_Guide#Loops Wiki Page Also see the WME Color Highlighter Glossary Term	2016-01-04 (U) 2013-01-14 (A)
Self-Management	SM	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
SelfCon	(abbr.)	See the Self Connectivity Glossary Term	2013-01-14 (A)
Server	(alias)	See the Banks of Servers Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
Simple Segments	SimSeg	See the WME_Toolbox Wiki Page	2016-01-14 (U) 2015-02-09 (A)
SimSeg	(abbr.)	See the Simple Segments Glossary Term	2016-01-14 (A)
Single Point Urban Interchange	SPUI	A highway interchange designed to move large volumes of traffic through limited amounts of space safely and efficiently. See the Single-point urban interchange Wiki Page See the Single-point urban interchange Wikipedia article	2015-01-30 (A)
Slack	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-21 (A)
Sliproad	(alias)	See the Ramp Glossary Term	2010-09-15 (A)
SM	(abbr.)	See the State Manager Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
SM	(abbr.)	See the Self-Management Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Small Detour Prevention	SDP	A system designed to prevent convoluted routing in place of a simple left turn. See the Detour Prevention Mechanisms Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Smudged City	City Smudge	See the Smudged City Wiki Page	2013-06-01 (A)
Solid White Line	SWL	A form of painted lane markings, commonly abbreviated in Waze communications.	2016-01-04 (A)
Soon	~	A word banned by Waze.	2016-01-05 (A)
Split	Split road	Split has been used to refer to several very different things, and this has been a source of confusion in the Waze editing community. Its use has therefore been deprecated, and more descriptive terms have been chosen. In order to avoid confusion, please use these terms when discussing these topics. Fork: A fork in the road; a point where a single road diverges into two directions (previously referred to as a split in the road, or the road splits. This is the MUTCD definition of "split".) Divided: A divided roadway or dual carriageway; a road comprised of two separate one-way roads with a dividing barrier, median or central reservation (previously referred to as split road) Divide, Dividing, Un-Dividing Divide: To convert a two-way road into a divided roadway or dual carriageway on the waze map, by dividing a single two-way road into two adjacent one-way roads (previously referred to as splitting a road or to split a road) Un-Divide: To convert a divided roadway into a single two way road.(previously referred to as un-splitting) Cutting one segment into two shorter segments (previously referred to as splitting) See the Fork Glossary Term See the Divided Highway Glossary Term See the Divide Glossary Term Also see the Cut Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-03-22 (U) 2014-12-10 (A)
SPUI	(abbr.)	See the Single Point Urban Interchange Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
SRS	(abbr.)	See the Selected Roundabout Segments Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
ST	(abbr.)	See the Street Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Stairway	SW	See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Starting Point	~	Starting point for a driving route, with the destination being the ending point. (This term may later be combined with "Origin".) Also see the Ending Point Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-18 (A)
State Manager	SM	An assigned role to help manage and maintain the map of an entire state in a large country. See the State Manager Wiki Page See the Community Roles Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
State Route/Road	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Status	~	See the [status.waze.com Waze Status Page] External page	2015-01-30 (A)
Street	ST	Street  is the lowest public road type in Waze, typically used to represent the local roads in a city. The Road Types entry lists all the road types in order. For more information on Street select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-02-15 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Street View	(alias)	See the Google Streetview Glossary Term	2014-08-14 (A)
Super Permalink	~	See the Permalink Glossary Term	2015-02-09 (A)
Support	(alias)	See the Help Center Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
SV	(abbr.)	See the Google Streetview Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
SW	(abbr.)	See the Stairway Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
SWL	(abbr.)	See the Solid White Line Glossary Term	2016-01-04 (A)
Tampermonkey	TM	See the Community Plugins, Extensions and Tools Glossary Term Also see the Greasemonkey Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Taxiway	TW	Prefered term is Runway/Taxiway See the Runway/Taxiway Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
TB	(abbr.)	See the WME Toolbox Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
TbCC	(abbr.)	See the Toolbox Country Coordinator Glossary Term	2015-07-05 (A)
TBR	(abbr.)	See the Time Based Restriction Glossary Term	2015-02-21 (A)
TBSR	(abbr.)	See the Time Based Segment Restriction Glossary Term	2013-11-04 (A)
TBTR	(abbr.)	See the Time Based Turn Restriction Glossary Term	2013-11-04 (A)
Teams	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Text to Speech	TTS	Navigation instructions spoken to the driver by the Waze application that includes street names. Some of the Waze "voices" used for navigation support TTS, while others can only speak directions, and cannot speak street names due to their lack of TTS. Also see the Voice Glossary Term Also see the Voice Commands Glossary Term Also see the Kevin Hart recording voices for Waze. External page Related entries:	2015-06-01 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Throttling	~	A specific method of Map Protection. See the Map Protection Glossary Term	2015-02-09 (A)
Tile	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2012-02-08 (A)
Time Based	~	See the Time Based Segment Restriction Glossary Term See the Time Based Turn Restriction Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Time Based Restriction	TBR	See the Time Based Segment Restriction Glossary Term See the Time Based Turn Restriction Glossary Term	2013-03-27 (A)
Time Based Segment Restriction	TBSR	See the Partial restrictions Wiki Page Related entries: •	2013-11-04 (A)
Time Based Turn Restriction	TBTR	See the Partial restrictions Wiki Page Related entries: •	2013-11-04 (A)
TL	(abbr.)	See the Traffic Locks Glossary Term	2014-02-06 (A)
TM	(abbr.)	See the Tampermonkey Glossary Term	2015-02-26 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Toolbox	(alias)	See the WME Toolbox Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Toolbox Country Coordinator	TbCC	The designated liason for a country community to the Toolbox developer team. See the announcement Waze forum Also see the list of TbCCs, and current country settings (Google Docs) External page Also see the WME Toolbox Glossary Term	2015-07-05 (A)
TR	(abbr.)	See the Turn Restriction Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Traffic Locks	TL	See the Traffic Locks Wiki Page	2014-02-06 (A)
Transclude	Transclusion	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Transifex	~	See the Transifex External page	2015-06-01 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Transit Lane	(alias)	See the Car Pool Lane Glossary Term	2013-03-12 (A)
TTS	(abbr.)	See the Text to Speech Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Turn angle	~	The supplementary angle to the junction angle between any two segments connected at a junction. See the Turn angle Wiki Page Also see the Junction Angle Info Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-08 (U) 2014-09-02 (A)
Turn Restriction	TR	See the Junction Arrows Wiki Page	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
TW	(abbr.)	See the Taxiway Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
U-Turn	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-02-23 (A)
ULM	(abbr.)	See the User Level Monitor Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Un-Divide	Un-Dividing	The method to convert a divided highway into a single two-way segment. This formerly been referred to as Un-Split, but the use of that term has been deprecated. See the Un-Dividing a divided road Wiki Page Also see the Split Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-03-22 (A)
United States Postal Service	USPS	United States Postal Service Often used a reference source for Waze editing. See the United States Postal Service External page Related entries:	2015-02-21 (A)
Universally Unique Identifier	UUID	See the Universally Unique Identifier Wikipedia article Also see the UUID Waze forum	2015-01-30 (A)
Unusual Traffic	~	Search and Follow Waze Unusual Traffic on Twitter for your metro area, and be the first to know about unusual traffic as it happens. See the Google Help Waze Help Center article	2016-01-04 (A)
Up-Lock	~	Term used to descibe the process of adjusting Segment Lock levels up in WME. Often to its prior Segment Lock level before it was Down-Locked to match the Rank of an editor to allow them to edit the segment(s). See the Segment Lock Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-02-25 (A)
Update Report Overview	URO, URO+	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Update Request	UR, Map Issue	An Update Request is a Map Issue reported by a user from the Waze client app. It is also a layer in the Waze Map Editor See the Update Request Wiki Page Also see the Map Issue Glossary Term	2012-10-04 (A)
UR	(abbr.)	See the Update Request Glossary Term	2012-10-04 (A)
URO	(abbr.)	See the Update Report Overview Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
URO+	(abbr.)	See the Update Report Overview Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
USA	(alias)	While an abbreviation for United States of America, in Waze terms, it is also the name of one of the three separate sets of servers (infrastructure) containing Waze mapping and navigation systems. See the USA Server Glossary Term	2015-04-20 (A)
USA Server	NA Server, USA	The server named "USA" for United States of America, is one of the three separate Bank of Servers (infrastructure) containing Waze mapping and navigation systems. While the server is named "USA", it also includes Canada. See the Banks of Servers Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-04-20 (A)
User Level Monitor	ULM	Deprecated term. Waze has replaced is with the Community Action Request. See the Community Action Request Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
User Page profile	~	This is the Wazeopedia User Page profile used within Waze MediaWiki system. View a user's Forum Profile by substituting the username in this URL: http://wiki.waze.com/wiki/User:USERNAME The Bookmarklet link below aids in searching for user profiles. See the MediaWiki User Page Help External page Also see the Profile Glossary Term See the Profile related Bookmarklets Wiki Page Related entries:	2016-01-05 (A)
USPS	(abbr.)	See the United States Postal Service Glossary Term	2015-02-21 (A)
UUID	(abbr.)	See the Universally Unique Identifier Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Validator	(alias)	See the WME Validator Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Venue	(alias)	Internal term used within the WME code to identify Places. See the Places Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Vocalizer ®	~	A tool used by Waze to control Nuance ® voices. In the USA and other countries the use of Nuance ® voices has been depreciated in favor of Google voices. See the Nuance ® Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-04-01 (A)
Voice	~	Various male and female voices are available based on location, in a number of languages to provider spoken navigation instuctions. While all voices provide turn instructions, only some also provide Text to Speech (TTS) instructions for street names. In the U.S., Jane is an English speaking voice that include street names. All voices are assigned human names in the client application. Novelty voices may also be available for some languages such as "Boy Band", and celebrity voices such as commedian Kenvin Hart introduced in late 2013. See the Automatic Speech Recognition Glossary Term Also see the Text to Speech Glossary Term Also see the Kevin Hart recording voices for Waze. External page Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Voice Commands	~	See the Voice Commands Wiki Page Related entries: •	2015-01-30 (A)
W10	(abbr.)	See the Connected Citizens NYC Meet-Up Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Walking Trail	WT	|   |   |   |   | Walking Trail |   |   |   |   |  is a routable road type in Waze used to represent paths which should not be driven on, but which the routing server still sees as an option. For more information on Walking Trails select this link. See the Road Types Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
WAS	(abbr.)	See the WME Aerial Shifter Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Wayfinder	WF, Pathfinder	See the Wayfinder Wiki Page	2012-08-17 (A)
Waze	FreeMap	Just in case you are totally lost in more "Waze" than one! (GizmoGuy411 humor) See the Waze Wikipedia article Also see the The Freemap-waze Open Source Project on Open HUB External page	2016-01-05 (A)
Waze AM Layers	AMGR	One tool in a suite of tools provided by "Waze.Tools", which is a Waze unofficial site maintained by the Italian Waze Community. See the Waze.Tools Glossary Term Also see the Area Manager Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-01-28 (U) 2014-10-11 (A)
Waze Cafe	~	See the Meetups - Waze Cafe Waze Site	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-04-14 (A)
Waze Champ	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Community Communications Guidelines	~	See the Waze Community Communications Guidelines Waze forum Also see the Waze Etiquette Glossary Term	2016-01-04 (A)
Waze Etiquette	~	The communications in the Waze forums, live chat, wiki, and map editing are all managed in a similar way to Wikipedia:Etiquette with specific highlights and changes covered in this list below. These points are based on civility and respect for every Waze user. See the Waze etiquette Wiki Page Also see the Waze Community Communications Guidelines Waze forum Related entries:	2016-01-04 (A)
Waze Expert	Expert	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Focus	~	The Waze Focus project is a monthly in-depth interview with a member of the Waze staff. See the Waze Focus Forum Waze forum	2016-01-04 (A)
Waze Forum	(alias)	See the Community Forum Glossary Term Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Geo-Ops	Waze Map Team, Map Team	Waze Geo-Ops are staff editors who handle operational needs and changes of the map such as inputting requested Real Time Closures, Mega Traffic Events, ad campaigns, etc. Also see the IGN Editors Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-02-21 (A)
Waze Global Champ	(alias)	See the Global Champ Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Glossary	Glossary	The page you are now viewing is the Waze Glossary. It contains 555 Total Entries {151 (abbr.), 77 (alias), 327 Main Terms} The Bookmarklet linked below can be used to easily access a Glossary Term, Alias, or Abbreviation directly from your browser without opening this Wiki page first. The results open in a new browser tab. See the Glossary Bookmarklet Wiki Page	2016-01-06 (A)
Waze Local Champ	(alias)	See the Local Champ Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Map Editor	WME	See the Waze Map Editor Wiki Page Related entries: •	2012-12-24 (A)
Waze Map Team	(alias)	See the Waze Geo-Ops Glossary Term	2016-01-05 (U) 2015-02-21 (A)
Waze Meetups	Meet-Ups, Meet Ups	See the 2016 Meetups Waze Site	2016-01-05 (A)
Waze Mentoring Manager	(alias)	See the Waze Mentoring Manager Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (A)
Waze Mentoring Manager	MNTR, Mentoring Manager	One tool in a suite of tools provided by "Waze.Tools", which is a Waze unofficial site maintained by the Italian Waze Community. See the Waze.Tools Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (A)
Waze Mobile	~	See the About Wiki Page	2015-10-13 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Speak	~	Friendly term that implies the use of the terms in this glossary within communications.	2015-01-30 (A)
Waze Streetview	WSV	A reference to the Google Streetview imagery displayed inside the Waze Map Editor. See the Google Streetview Glossary Term	2015-03-25 (A)
Waze Team	~	Term used for the Offical Waze staff. See the The Team External page	2015-02-25 (A)
Waze Transport SDK	~	The Waze Transport SDK (software development kit for Android iOS) allows partners to easily implement some of Waze’s most useful features, natively in their own apps. See the Waze Transport SDK External page Also see the Waze Transport SDK Waze Blog	2016-01-28 (A)
Waze Wiki	(alias)	See the Wazeopedia Glossary Term	2016-01-06 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
Waze.Tools	~	A suite of tools provided by "Waze.Tools", which is a Waze unofficial site maintained by the Italian Waze Community. See the Waze.Tools External page Also see the WME-TOOLS.com (old site) External page Related entries: •	2016-01-28 (A)
Wazebot	WB	Wazebot is an automated GHO account, able to provide additional useful GHO features. Wazebot is available to help in Google Hangouts used by the Waze Editing Community, upon request by those authorized to add the bot. This is a beta project and it is testing as of this posting date. See the Wazebot External page Also see the Bot Glossary Term Related entries:	2016-01-28 (U) 2016-01-05 (A)
Wazeopedia	Waze Wiki, Community Wiki, Wiki	Wazeopedia is the new name for the Waze community wiki, and also the project name for converting the existing wiki into the new framework. When capitalized, "Wiki" as used in Waze communications, implies the specific "Waze Wiki", or "Wazeopedia". (Side note: The word "wiki" is Hawaiian for "fast".) See the waze:Wazeopedia Wiki Page Also see the wiki Wikipedia article	2016-01-06 (A)
Wazer	~	Any user of Waze, and the name used for an anonymous user in the Waze client mobile application. See the Waze symbols Wiki Page	2010-09-24 (A)
WazeWin	(alias)	See the #WazeWin Glossary Term	2015-02-25 (U) 2015-02-23 (A)
WB	(abbr.)	See the Wazebot Glossary Term	2016-01-27 (A)
WF	(abbr.)	See the Wayfinder Glossary Term	2012-08-17 (A)
Wiki	(alias)	See the Wazeopedia Glossary Term	2016-01-06 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
WME	(abbr.)	See the Waze Map Editor Glossary Term	2012-12-24 (A)
WME Aerial Shifter	WAS	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
WME center to Begin-End of Street	WME-BES	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
WME Chat	(alias)	See the WME Editor Chat Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (U) 2015-01-30 (A)
WME Color Highlighter	WMECH, CH, WME-CH	See the Community Plugins, Extensions and Tools#Highlights for Landmarks and_Segments Wiki Page Related entries:	2013-06-03 (A)
WME Geometrics	~	See the WME Geometrics Waze forum Related entries:	2016-01-28 (A)
WME GPS Track View	~	See the WME GPS Track View Waze forum Also see the WME Geometrics Glossary Term	2016-01-28 (A)
WME Invalidated Camera Mass Eraser	~	For carful use only senior editors. See the Script's External page Also see the Script's French Waze forum	2016-02-02 (A)
WME LevelReset - USA	~	Script version of the WME LevelReset tool, to make relocking segments to their appropriate lock level easy & quick. See the Script's External page	2016-01-31 (A)
WME Toolbox	WMETB, TB, Toolbox	See the Extension:WME Toolbox Wiki Page Related entries:	2015-01-30 (A)
WME Validator	WMEV, Validator	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
WMECH	(abbr.)	See the WME Color Highlighter Glossary Term	2013-06-03 (A)
WMETB	(abbr.)	See the WME Toolbox Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
WMEV	(abbr.)	See the WME Validator Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
World	(alias)	See the Rest of World Server Glossary Term	2012-10-04 (A)
WSV	(abbr.)	See the Waze Streetview Glossary Term	2015-03-25 (A)
WT	(abbr.)	See the Walking Trail Glossary Term	2015-01-30 (A)
Zoom	~	Content for this entry has not been generated yet.  Suggest content here	2015-01-30 (A)
μDL	(abbr.)	See the Micro-dogleg Glossary Term	2015-04-16 (A)

Notes

While a few non-Waze centric terms are included above, many more may be found in various resources such as the Wiktionary - English Internet Slang.