The message states you’ve earned a “candy” that contains a particular number of points. Simply drive over where the candy is located and the points will be added to your total upon Waze’s next ranking update. The bonus points can only be earned once unless otherwise noted. In the first example, those 10 segments changed all at once will get you credit for 10 ways to recover after crisis edits.
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.
Closing roads using the Waze App
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.
Closing roads using WME
If for some reason you are unable to drive over the candy, don’t worry about it. The candy will come back at another location as you continue to drive, or when you use Waze on another trip. If you do not enable these “Road Goodies” in the Waze client application, you will receive the credits during the next weekly point update. Editing the same object multiple times in a single 24 hour period will only result in one edit for that object in that period. The changes will be saved and made to the map, but your total score will not increase with those additional edits within a 24-hour period.
- Get driving directions and live traffic info before you leave, and then save straight from here to your app.
- 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.
- Additional changes made to the point system are noted in this later forum thread.
- If you do not enable these “Road Goodies” in the Waze client application, you will receive the credits during the next weekly point update.
Your Rank and Points
- Depending upon what actions you perform will determine how many point you earn.
- “Waze has been instrumental in helping us get real-time information out to the traveling public.”
- 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.
- 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.
- In the map editor, any change is counted by the counter on the Save icon.
If you believe you have completed an achievement, but have not seen the bonus candy on the road, sometimes you just need to wait another week for it to catch up in the server. Also note that some bonuses cannot be earned in the same week and require a separate Monday cycle between them. Waze ensures your message reaches the people who need it most. Our system targets notifications based on a driver’s past driving behavior and the event’s impact on their likely routes, so your information is always relevant.
What information is used to define when and how a road should be closed?
As you advance to higher levels your reporting permissions grow, as your reports get greater influence on real-time routing. This is tracked in the Waze client application as can be seen in the Waze client application Scoreboard. For those more interested in the details behind the calculations you can review this forum thread. Additional changes made to the point system are noted in this later forum thread. Based on the current point system, the Wazers who spend time on the web interface updating the map will generally accumulate the most points in any particular week. If your goal is to get a lot more points than you have now, you should consider investigating updating the map for your area.
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.
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This tool lets you share key details and actionable information, helping drivers prepare for changes. It’s a powerful way to reach a wide audience and make a real impact on your city’s mobility. As the world continues to recover from COVID-19, people are driving more than ever before and behaviors on the roads have changed. While Waze was predominantly a commuting app pre-COVID, today the proportion of errands & travel drives have surpassed commutes. Bonus candies only appear at road junctions and generally get placed on the road along your current path.
Your total points collected from all types of activities are compared to others in your Country or State depending upon what server you are located. You are also compared to everyone on both servers around the world. This rank is displayed in various locations on the app and in the My Dashboard through the web interface. The Waze client application Scoreboard displays your points and points rank compared to Everyone or your Facebook Friends for your country, your state (in the US) for Weekly or All Time, time frames.
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 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.
Each type of candy has a set value and they are typically between 3 and 10 points. Like the bonus candies, you just need to drive over them to collect the points. However if you do not drive over these candies, they will not be relocated in your path in the future like the bonus candies. From the web interface you will see the following table, through which you can follow your progress and driving activity inside Waze.
Where can the road be closed
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.
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.
The Waze team is working on a different approach to this status. 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). You receive a different number of points for each activity as listed in the tables below.
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.