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Complete Guide to Waze in the United Kingdom (Under Development)

Getting Started

Hopefully you're reading this and want to edit the map, either because you've found a mistake or you want to add a new road. Either way, it is important that you adhere to the standards already set.

• UK Self-Management Statement

• UK Quick Start Editing Guide

• Waze Map Editor Manual

• Please also read the various Editing Guidelines below.

Editing Best Practice

UK editors are encouraged to follow these guidelines, which may differ from the generic guides.

• How to label towns and cities
• How to classify and name roads
• How to draw and label places
• Guide to maximum lock levels
• Guidelines for dealing with User Reports and Conversations
• Junctions and Roundabouts See also Junction Style Guide
• Speed and Traffic Light Enforcement Cameras
• Best map editing practice (Main Page)

Editing Resources for the UK

• UK Editing Resources (work in progress)

Area Manager

• How to become an Area Manager (UK Forum)
• Map of UK Area Managers
• How to contact the UK Country Admins
• Requirements for application become a UK Country Manager

Tracking Progress

• Motorways (Complete)
• Motorway Class A Roads (Complete)
• A-Roads
• Counties
• Trunk Roads of England (Complete)
• Trunk Roads of Northern Ireland
• Trunk Roads of Scotland
• Trunk Roads of Wales (Complete)

UK Editor Community

• United Kingdom - Waze Forum
• UK Country Admins
• Waze UK - Facebook Page

Some road names and boundaries contain Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2014. For more information see OS OpenData Licence.