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Overview
- Joined Waze: March 29, 2017
- Location: Topeka
- Editing Level: 5
- State Manager: Kansas
- Area Manager: North Central Florida
Milestones
- First edits: March 2017
- First AM granted: Topeka metro area
- AM extended: Northeastern Kansas
- AM extended: Eastern Kansas
- AM extended: all Kansas
- SM (Kansas) granted: August 2018
- R5 granted: March 2019
- Florida AM granted: May 2020
- USA Country Manager: February 2021
Projects
- Ongoing - Basemap work in Kansas
- Ongoing - Alt Cities for better rural address routing
- Ongoing - Review of Functional Classification in Kansas
- Ongoing - Lanes
- Ongoing - Falcon project
- Ongoing - Kansas Turnpike - Maintain Toll file
- Carroll County, MO - Renumbering county roads
- Major Construction Projects
- Kansas Turnpike - Topeka toll plaza (Exit 183) Open Road Tolling reconfiguration
- I-35 / MO-152 Diverging Diamond reconfiguration
Meetup / Cafe Attendance
- MO Cafe - Lee’s Summit, MO August 2018
- PLN Meetup - Minneapolis, MN October 2018
- PLN/GLR Meetup - St. Louis, MO October 2019
- North America Mega Meetup - Miami, FL February 2020
- PLN Virtual Cafe January 2021
- Virtual Beta Meetup July 2021
- NA MegaMeetup - Virtual participation May 2022
- Upcoming: PLN/GLR/MAR Meetup October 2022
Mapraid / Waze Global Participation
- Russia Mapraid 2018
- South Carolina Mapraid 2018
- Kansas / Missouri Mapraid August 2019 (Raid Co-leader with SunnyRaynbows)
- Alabama / Florida Mapraid October/November 2019
- Falcon Mega Mapraid November 2020 - January 2021
- Planning Committee for PLN Nebraska / Iowa raid July/August 2021
- Planning Committee for PLN Minnesota raid (dates TBD)
- WME Beta
- Waze Android Beta
- Routing Beta Server
Community Involvement
- Co-admin of the Waze KS Twitter account
- Twitter account used to communicate notable closure events and evangelize Waze usage to the wider community.
- PLN-SER editor exchange
- Foster regional collaboration between PLN and SER through editing and engagement with editors.
Why Waze?
I started out with Waze editing like most everyone else: I wanted to make some changes in my area. I had some experience with mapping via Open Street Map, but I found that Waze map editing was more challenging and rewarding since there was a more immediate benefit via the Waze app. I also prefer Waze over other mapping solutions since there is an opportunity for immediate user feedback via the reporting feature.
Another aspect of Waze I enjoy is the speed of updates for new construction. Being able to redraw an intersection or highway interchange and have it go live the day it opens to traffic is incredibly satisfying and rewarding. I enjoy knowing that the Wazing public will benefit immediately from my efforts and the efforts of other editors around the world.