This gives drivers a complete, at-a-glance view of the situation, even if roads aren’t physically blocked. You can proactively inform drivers about planned events like construction, concerts, and parades, helping them navigate around road closures and find the best routes. Waze works because of our map editors, beta testers, localizers, and fellow traffic haters. Get driving directions and live traffic info before you leave, and then save straight from here to your app.
- As the world continues to recover from COVID-19, people are driving more than ever before and behaviors on the roads have changed.
- Other road goodies often coincide with special holidays and will appear in random locations on the map.
- The bonus points can only be earned once unless otherwise noted.
- The top percentage is calculated once a month, and if more and more Wazers get points, it’s possible that the total amount needed to reach shield / sword / crown will actually go up.
- To reach the Royalty level (crown icon), you need to be in the top percentage of all Wazers in your locality (in the US, this is determined by state).
Your rank will generally change on a daily basis, until you get very high in the ranking. We want to continue to make a real-world impact by doubling down on helping cities address mobility problems such as congestion, safety, sustainability and cost. In order for us to achieve this we will be retiring the Waze Carpool service to focus the company’s efforts on better supporting drivers on the road today. For complex events that affect a large area, our enhanced tools allow you to define the entire zone of impact.
If your rank is lower than what it should be (based on the criteria below), and you are NOT in the USA, please contact Support to have the team look into the situation. Currently moving from one rank to the next higher rank is not automatic and needs assistance from Waze support. USA based editors should refer to the Editing rank USA section. Other road goodies often coincide with special holidays and will appear in random locations on the map.
Each Waze editor who has more than one badge can select which badge to display in the right pane of their forum posts. The following table identifies the current badges in use in the forums. Membership in these groups requires approval by a country’s Self-Management and is applied to the forum ways to recover after crisis by certain Champs or Waze administration. Our new Driving Advisories feature is a transformative capability that provides a direct line for authorities to inform drivers about important, essential traffic-related changes and regulatory updates.
Closing roads using the Waze App
To avoid problems simply save more often and with less changes between saves. When editing the map in the Waze Map Editor, the points are granted according to the number of changed segments/nodes/other objects. If you select several segments and edit them all, you will get a point for each segment.
Waze Champs
“Waze has been instrumental in helping us get real-time information out to the traveling public.” 4 New street names only count if the street has not been named already. If you’d like to respond to this post, please do so on this cross post in the Products Forum or reach out to your Community Manager. We wanted to share an update that after careful consideration, we have made the decision to retire the Waze Carpool service. Join our program to get access to these enhanced features and empower your city with a new level of connection.
Waze Point Rank
You have the flexibility to alert drivers immediately for an unplanned event, or in advance for an upcoming planned event. When an unexpected event occurs—such a fire, a flood, or a large-scale accident—you can instantly broadcast critical information to help drivers avoid the area and reduce city-wide congestion. Ensure your community is prepared and safe with the essential details and instructions. Introducing our powerful new features, which allow you to broadcast critical traffic information and essential driving updates directly to millions of drivers with unprecedented reach. The Waze Champ status only appears in the forums as part of the user’s profile history when they post a message.
What Is a Map Edit?
You can see your own editing rank from the Waze Map Editor (WME) on the top left of the screen. In the WME when you select a segment, the properties drawer will show you the name of the editor who created and last modified the segment. Also, when saving a large number of changes at once, the system will not credit you with more than 150 points each time you save changes. If you have more than 150 points worth of changes stored up before you save, the edits will be saved to the map, but you only get up to 150 points. Remember that points are not displayed in the save icon, only edits. Therefore when making a large number of edits be aware of the points per edit to prevent doing work that is not credited.
- Your rank will generally change on a daily basis, until you get very high in the ranking.
- You have the flexibility to alert drivers immediately for an unplanned event, or in advance for an upcoming planned event.
- The following table identifies the current badges in use in the forums.
- Also note that some bonuses cannot be earned in the same week and require a separate Monday cycle between them.
However, you will not receive more points for changing different properties of the same segment in the same Save. We want to thank all Map Editors who helped us along the years in mapping Carpool related interest points, providing feedback and lots more. Once you meet the criteria for one of the following tasks below, a message pops up in the Waze client application.
Giving unnamed segments a street name in that operation might get you more points in some cases. Allowing/forbidding a turn counts as a change in the node of the turn, so all changes in the same node will be granted only once. Only on roads connecting in the immediate vicinity (around 100m) of the actual position of the wazer, and only in the driving direction of the wazer. If for any reason you have a question you don’t feel comfortable asking in the main forums, you can send a Private Message (PM) to a Waze Champ who will be happy to answer your question. Some countries with Self-Management may have different ranking systems.
Each field in the table represents a different activity inside Waze. Every night the Waze system will calculate all the points that you accumulated for each activity through the day. The system will then identify your rank among all other Waze users.
For a basic street, with low traffic, the closure will appear immediately for 30 min. It will be extended if another user confirmes the closure. Notified drivers will be included in the impact dashboard in Partner Hub, allowing you to see the tangible results of your communication and how you’ve made a difference in keeping your city moving.
In the second example, those 10 changes will get you credit for 1 edit. Waze uses a point system to track usage of the the Waze client application, and also when you use the web interface to make edits to the map. Depending upon what actions you perform will determine how many point you earn. These points are currently used to define your status and “rank” in points compared to all other users in Waze. Most forum questions are answered by these users as they give their time freely to the Waze community. They are selected by Waze developers and are generally in closer direct communication with the Waze development team.
Note that the number of points you get for distance related activities is different when measured in miles and in kilometers. In effect you get the same points for the same physical distance. The second table below shows you the translation of the two measurements system. You can see your points and rank from the web interface by selecting My Dashboard, or from the client application you can select the Menu, then My Waze, then the Scoreboard. Select the following link for information on the other sections of the My Dashboard page.
In the map editor, any change is counted by the counter on the Save icon. For example, if you select 10 segments which need their city changed, once you tap Apply, the change counter will increase by one. The editor will count these mass edits as one “unsaved change” per mass edit, so the count tracked on the WME screen is not the points you will collect. The Waze forums use badges to indicate group membership for Waze editors. Some editors may belong to multiple groups, but only one badge can be displayed.