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When using Waze Map Editor there are a number of keyboard shortcuts available to make editing the map a bit easier if you prefer the keyboard over the mouse. Below are the default keyboard shortcuts. You can customize some keyboard shortcuts by bringing up the keyboard shortcuts help window (with the ? key), select a shortcut, and then press the single key you want to use instead of the default key. This affects the current browser and computer only. This shortcut information is not stored on the server, so you would have to repeat this for each computer and browser you use.

Shortcut	Description
General
Template:Key press	move the cursor to the search box
Template:Key press Template:Key press Template:Key press Template:Key press Template:Key press	shows the keyboard shortcuts
Template:Key press Template:Key press	save edits
Template:Key press	delete the single selected object (segment, junction, landmark). To delete multiple objects, you must click the trash can icon and confirm the multiple delete.
Template:Key press	deselect all objects
Template:Key press Template:Key press	reload all layers (refreshes map without using a permalink; preserves the chat window)
Drawing
Template:Key press	draw (insert) a new Road/Segment (equivalent to clicking Road under the draw road icon)
Template:Key press	draw a new Roundabout (equivalent to clicking Roundabout under the draw road icon)
Editing Segments
Template:Key press	delete a geometry node from a road segment while hovering the cursor over it during road geometry editing
Template:Key press	when one or more segments are selected, activates Edit mode (shortcut for clicking the Edit button)
Template:Key press	when a segment is selected, activates House Number mode (shortcut for clicking the Edit House Numbers button)
Template:Key press	toggle multi-select mode. Default behavior is that to select multiple segments, you must use the modifier key to multi-select. When toggled active, multi-select mode lets you select multiple segments without using the modifier key.
Template:Key press	toggle segment direction between 1-way (A->B), 1-way (B->A), and 2-way while updating road details. See road direction for more information.
Template:Key press	when one or more segments are selected, activates Restrictions mode (shortcut for clicking the Add/Edit Restrictions button) - mnemonic Time-restrict
Template:Key press	select Entire Street - mnemonic Select All
Template:Key press Template:Key press	undo
Template:Key press Template:Key press	redo
Template:Key press Template:Key press	redo
Template:Key press	increase elevation of selected segments (if all elevations are the same)
Template:Key press	decrease elevation of selected segments (if all elevations are the same)
Junctions and arrows
Template:Key press	toggle connection arrows between transparent or opaque so you can see beneath them and click items under them. Often times editors will hit the Template:Key press key by mistake and then wonder why turn arrows cannot be selected.
Template:Key press	disable all connections for the selected junction which makes the turn arrows all red for that selected junction.
Template:Key press	toggles separation of connection arrows so they do not overlap to ease clicking on either
Template:Key press	allow all connections for the selected junction which makes the turn arrows all green for that selected junction. Note that this key will only enable all turns that had not previously been automatically enabled by the Waze routing server, called soft allowed turns. The soft allowed turns have a higher penalty than turns enabled by the editor. Therefore since soft and editor allowed turns have the same color green, if it is known that all turns are enabled at a particular intersection, it is better to first force all turns to disabled with the Template:Key press key and then press the Template:Key press key to force them all to editor enabled.
Template:Key press	toggles display of disallowed connections (turns) for every segment/node in the view. When active, no green arrows are shown.
Display and layers
Template:Key press	toggles Area Managers layer
Template:Key press	toggles Cities layer
Template:Key press	toggles No Name segment highlighting
Template:Key press	toggles Editable areas layer
Template:Key press	toggles Full Screen mode
Template:Key press	toggles GPS points layer
Template:Key press	toggles (Satellite) Imagery layer
Template:Key press	toggles Landmarks layer
Template:Key press	toggles Live users layer
Template:Key press	toggles (map) Problems layer
Template:Key press	toggles Roads layer
Template:Key press	toggles (speed) Cameras layer
Template:Key press	toggles Update requests layer
Template:Key press	toggles Chat window
Template:Key press	reloads layers
Template:Key press	Zooms the map in one level
Template:Key press	Zooms the map out one level
Template:Key pressTemplate:Key pressTemplate:Key pressTemplate:Key press	Pan the map in all four directions
Template:Key press +click double-click	re-centers the map on at the clicked location and zooms in one level
Template:Key press +click + drag mouse	draws a temporary rectangle and zooms into that portion of the map

Red Template:Key press keys are for Apple Mac systems

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