User:Iainhouse/scripts

Iain's Guide to User Scripts

There are a wealth of user scripts available for WME, created by users like you and me to enhance the process of editing the Waze map. This is a basic guide to some of the scripts I reckon are worth having.

I have given each script a 2-number score, ranging 1 to 3.

The first number is how useful the script is: 1 indicates that the script has limited usefulness, probably because it does a particularly specific job. 3 indicates a script you probably can't live without!

The second number indicates how complex the script is: 1 means it's simple & easy to use, up to 3 meaning you will take some time to learn how to use it, or all of it's features.

Data Visualisation

These scripts are mainly, or entirely, concerned with helping you to identify features of the map that might otherwise be missed. This is probably the most important script category and includes several essential scripts that every editor should be using

WME Colour Highlights (WMECH) 3/1

WMECH is one of the oldest scripts around and it's proven it's worth by the number of installs and it's longevity. What it does is simple enough: it adds coloured highlights to the map, allowing you to visualise information about segments and places, like lock level, missing names, restrictions, last editor, specific segment types etc. It also adds some useful highlights to places. Easy to use and difficult to live without. My "normal" segment highlights I have on all the time are: Locks, Alternate Name, No Name, One Way, Unknown Direction. For places, I keep both Locked Places and Incomplete Places on.

WME Toolbox 3/3

WME Toolbox also has a long history. It's gone through several incarnations and been worked on by many people. Currently it's developed and maintained by a team of editors. It provides a wealth of data highlights but also a large number of powerful tools, so it could equally sit in the Productivity heading as well.

Highlights I find useful are: non-ground elevations, over/under-locked segments, tunnels, restrictions, loops, simplifiable segments, u-turns, revcons, dead-end loops, soft turns. Worth special mention are the speed limits highlight and Turn Instruction Overrides.

Then there are the tools - a lot of them! Some are restricted to higher-level editors because of their potential to damage the map if used carelessly. Some that I use all the time are: measurement tool, copy segment data, simplify segments, clear geometry, cut segment, remove unneeded junctions, remove expired restrictions, split loops, clear revcons, clear u-turns.

There are powerful segment and place selection tools that allow you to select segments/places based on 30 different segment attributes or 18 place attributes. Having made your selection of segments, the attribute editor will then allow you to change a single attribute like City Name, without clearing all the Street Names.

This definitely goes on the "Essential" list.

WME Magic

WME Validator

UROverview Plus (URO+)

Junction Angle Info (JAIv)

WME Place Interface Enhancements (PIE)

WME Map Tiles Update

Productivity Tools

These scripts are mainly designed to make map editing easier, by saving clicks, adding tools or enhancing the WME user interface

WME Advanced Closures

WME Image Overlays

WME FixUI

WME ClickSaver

WME SpeedHelper

WME Bookmarks

WME Advanced Closures

Waze Edit Count Monitor (WECM)

WME OpenData (WMEOD)

WME RA Util

WME BeenThere

WME Route Checker

WME Chat Addon

WME Geometries

WME Client Tile Borders

WME Enhanced Search