Introduction
Below you will see a section titled "Next Lesson". The material that is listed there is expected to be read. Early on the material will be fairly easy and you should have a good grasp just by reading. As we go forward, the material gets more challenging. You don't have to have a working level of the material after reading. I encourage you to write down your questions, and either ask me during a mentoring session or even outside of a mentoring session. Additionally, you are encouraged (and expected) to interact with other editors so that you can maximize your learnings -- So ask other editors questions about things you are unsure of. By all means, make sure that unanswered questions are resolved in one way or another.
Handy Links
- Southeast Region (SER) Wazeopedia
- Check your Editing Progress
- SER Important Links
- Spreadsheet of questions & Answers
Mentoring Videos
The following items have been covered and are considered complete.
The following items have been covered but need more discussion.
Reading Material for next Topic
- Southeast Region Wiki
- Editor Reference Sheet (1-1)
- Map Editor Wazeopedia (WZO)(1-1)
- Forum (1-2)
- Permalinks (1-3)
- Map Editing 101 Waze_Editors Guide (1-4)
- Map Editor Interface and Controls (1-4)
- Map Tiles(1-5)
- Editor Rank and Points(1-5)
- Editing Forums Geo-Node Discussion (1-6)
Future Topics' Reading Material
- Creating and Editing Road Segments(1-6)
- Soft and Hard Turns (1-6)
- Geometry Nodes (Geo-nodes)(1-6)
- Places (1-7)
- Gas Station Places on the Waze Map(1-7)
- Parking Lot Roads (1-8)
- Parking Lot Place (1-9)
- Editing Restrictions (1-10)
- The Unlock Forum (1-10)
- Road Types (1-11 & 2-5)
- External Sources(1-12)
- Junctions (1-13)
- Edits To Avoid (1-15)
- Map Update Requests (1-16)
- Map Problems (1-16)
Longer term reading material follows...
- Editing Tips and Hints (2-1)
- Roundabouts (2-2)
- Junction Angle Info (2-3 & 3-3)
- Junction Style Guide (2-3)
- Community Ranks & Roles (2-4)
- State Manager (2-4)
- Regional Coordinator (2-4)
- Region and State Forums (2-6)
- Connected Citizen Program (CCP) (2-7)
- Road Closures (2-7)
- Real Time Closures (RTC) (2-7)
- Segment and Turn Restrictions (2-8 & 2-9)
- House Numbers (2-10)
- HN Forum (2-10)
- HN in WME (2-10)
- Places Forum Discussion (2-11)
- Places Wazeopedia (2-11)
- Airports (2-11)
- Gas Station (2-11)
- Charging Stations (2-11)
- Hospitals & Urgent Care (2-11)
- Parking Lots (2-11)
- Post Offices (2-11)
- Rest Areas (2-11)
- Functional Classification (2-12)
- Properly dividing roads (2-13)
- Dividing and un-dividing Highways (2-13)
- When to Split a two-way road (2-13)
- Map Comments (2-14)
- At Grade Connectors (2-15)
- Elevation Basics (2-16)
- Elevation wazeopedia (2-16)
- SER True Elevation (2-16)
- Private Messages (2-17)
- The City Smudge (3-1)
- Navigation and Routing Forum (3-2)
- Waze App Verbal Instructions (3-3)
- U-turn Forum Discussion (3-4)
- Controlling U-turn Penalties (3-4)
- Junction Style Guide Interchanges (3-5)
- Intro to Community Scripts (3-6)
- Scripts Wazeopedia (3-6)
- Toolbox AM Functions (3-7)
- Reverse Connections (revcon) and self-connectivity forum discussion (3-8)
- Reverse Connectivity wazeopedia discussion (3-8)
- Turn Instruction Override (TIO) wazeopedia (3-9)
- Functional Classification Forum Discussion (3-12)
- FC wazeopedia (3-12)
- Area Manager wazeopedia (3-13)
- Formal Mentoring wazeopedia (3-17)
- Mentoring wazeopedia (3-17)
- Map Raid Participation Forum (3-18)
- Map Raid wazeopedia (3-18)
- Collaborative Editing Forum discussion (3-19)
- Private Installations wazeopedia (3-20)
- Event Mode (Closures) (3-21)
- Text-to-Speech (TTS) Forum Discussion (3-22)
- TTS wazeopedia (3-22)
- Editing inside a National Park wazeopedia (3-23)
- Editing Bureau of Land Management Roads wazeopedia (3-24)
- Forum Discussion: Editing Forestry Service Roads (3-25)
- Forestry Service Roads wazeopedia (3-25)
- Forum Discussion: Editing Indian Reservation Roads (3-26)
- Indian Reservation Road wazeopedia (3-26)
Even Longer Term Reading material follows...
- The Routing Server
- Navigation and Routing Forum
- How Waze Determines Turn, Keep, and Exit Maneuvers
- Forum: Best Continuation Algorithm
- Forums: U-turn discussion
- Interchanges
- Scripts
- Intro to Scripts Power Point Presentation
- Toolbox Script
- Reverse Connectivity
- Fixing Rev-Cons Forum Discussion
- More Functional Classification
- Forum Discussion: Road Types
- Area Manager
- Mentoring New Editors
- Map Raid
- Collaborative Editing
- Private Installations
- SER Private Road Segment Use
- Text To Speech (TTS)
- National Park Service
- Bureau of Land Management
- Forest Service Roads
- Forum Discussion: Forest Service Roads
- Indian Reservation Roads
- Forum Discussion: Indian Reservation Roads
Conclusion
When our mentoring partnership completes, this web page will serve as a useful and readily available reference for your use for years to come. Hang on to it. Remember, that the best way to learn to edit is to read some, edit some, ask questions, read some more, edit some more. You will find that you are frequently referring back to the wazeopedia. A good editor never assumes they know the answer to everything.