More details on the Road Editor interface

Hi all and especially road mapper Local Guides

It is really good news for all of us that Google is paying more attention to road editing and preparing more tools in this case.

The user interface of the Map Editing or Road Editor is updated and it shows more details about the process of updating one area.

Now we are able to see the roads that we’ve edited before. These roads are visible by the Orange color and it shows those are still pending. The edited roads are marked as Dashed Lines and the newly added roads and new location of edited road are marked as Dotted Lines.

Even we could see the date of the edit by hovering the cursor over the orange road.

This is really effective tool and helps us to prevent adding repetitive roads. I hope in the near future we see even more tools to edit the roads.

I wasn’t on road editing today but @Hamid_Reza_M notified me about this change. I think it will be special good news for TRAC guys, too, and especially @SholaIB .

What is your opinion about this change?

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Dear all,

this morning while was editing roads I found a street with a new “color”.

I moved it and fix a a new position with no problems

Did any of you has information about it? Is my really first time I saw it.

Here a picture (unfortunately I forgot to get the gps coordinate)

Thanks a lot

Take care

Marco

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@MarcoDavoli see here: https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/More-details-on-the-Road-Editor-interface/m-p/3659839/highlight/true#M1393538 I just read it some minutes ago.

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This is an amazing news, @Amiran

I did several edit this morning but I haven’t noticed it, that is a most requested feature to avoid duplication of edits.

Let me reboot my computer and try again

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Ahhh ! I lost your post!

Thanks a lot @WilfriedB ,

this morning I was looking for this into LGC but was not able to find you post.

Thanks a lot

Ciao

Marco

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Thats wonderful @Amiran . This is going to save lot of time and effort while editing the road. Moreso, it brings in transparency.

Thanks for posting.

JAI HO!!!

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Yes @ErmesT It is helpful to avoid duplicate edits, and as you told @Kumaarsantosh it really saves time.

It also increases this feeling that we’re working on a real map editor. To be honest, any simple improvement makes us happy in this case.

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Hi @Amiran ,

was checking my “pending” roads and it is for sure an amazing update ! When you edit hundreds road per day it happens that you have a “deja vu” and feels to re-edit a road that you previously saw and edit.

Btw are available more details? Difference between “orange dot” and “stripe orange” like the pic below? All roads edited in the same day

Thanks

Marco

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Well said @Amiran . Can we also check for the past edits?

I am able to see this for the current ones.

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I agree @MarcoDavoli This is an amazing and needed update for road editors.

As I mentioned above the dashed line is for edited roads and the dotted line is for newly added roads or to better said for new place of the road.

Yes @Kumaarsantosh it also shows the past edits. Indeed all pending edits are for the past. As you see in the image above, my edit is from August.

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@MarcoDavoli

reg.: “Difference between “orange dot” and “stripe orange” like the pic below?” as @Amiran said above: “The edited roads are marked as Dashed Lines and the newly added roads are marked as Dotted Lines.”

Also, when you move the mouse over an orange line, you’ll see date when you edited it.

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Hi @MarcoDavoli ,

I think the difference between these two are as below:

  • Orange Dot: New Road Added
  • Stripe Orange: Existing Road Edited
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Don’t worry, @MarcoDavoli

As the two posts are about the same subject I am merging them together.

This is really an exciting and time saving news.

It is not running in my browser yet, and I can’t really wait to have it, to be more efficient in adding roads

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Hello @Amiran

Like several other TRACians have commented,I’m very excited and happy to notice this new change. @MarcoDavoli noticed it earlier today and we discussed it on the Telegram group and he was going to write a post on this as well.

Celebrations to us @ErmesT @Kumaarsantosh @Lukas_1 etc.

Cheers

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Hello @ErmesT ,

Similar post I read sometime back here .

This might also get merged here.

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Thanks a lot @ErmesT ,

first time I saw this change was this morning while I was editing near a city a did few days ago (I keep trace on a file). I saw this line and the “date editing…”.

Than I tried to see in the “Pending” status and, YES, now we can see exactly where we were editing.

Hope that after your browser restart you will see and enjoy it.

Ciao

Marco

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Thank you for catching this incredibly useful update @Amiran !

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While it is useful, it seems to slow down the browser a lot. Sometimes my browser completely freezes in areas with many pending edits now.

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Thank you @JustJake Yes, It is very useful.

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Thanks for your comment @Nttii

I didn’t experience this and didn’t hear from others, too. It is good to test again by clearing the cache in the next few days.

It is good if others prepare their observations in this case.

If the problem persists then you could send an in-app feedback to inform the engineers.

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