Map Creator tips & tricks: For a better experience_Part 2

Hello Mappers, This week we would like to give you some tips to improve your work in Map Creator:1. Highlight the entire street namePress Alt + click on a linkAll links with the same name will be highlighted and can be modified at onceIf you modify in one go, all the attributes that differ along the highlighted links will receive a warning message to avoid … Continue reading Map Creator tips & tricks: For a better experience_Part 2

Reporting Road Closures for Traffic service

Hello Mappers, Many of us are aware of the possibility  to report Road Closures in Map Creator that will be used for our Traffic service. If you don’t remember it’s easy to access this functionality via the road attributes menu on the last option in the toolbar: Road Closures – as shown in the image below. Please fill the information with the following instructions: As detailed/precise … Continue reading Reporting Road Closures for Traffic service

Map Creator tips & tricks: For a better experience

Dear Mappers, Your editing work has been absolutely fantastic, and we want to make sure that it’s integrated as quickly and efficiently as possible. Therefore, we’ve created the following short checklist for you to use when adding or fixing roads: 1. Smooth geometry While adding/editing a geometry, try to smooth it as much as possible, to prevent a sharp angle validation. See example in image … Continue reading Map Creator tips & tricks: For a better experience

Help..?

Dear Mappers, Often we are asked by community members and users of the Map Creator: where they can find explanations for using the Map Creator, how they can contact us, information about programs and activities, if there is a forum to discuss with other users, etc. With this article we want to give you some general guidance for the usage of our Map Creator.😃 Landing … Continue reading Help..?

Map Creator tips & tricks: Disconnected Geometry

Dear Mappers, Here are some good tips that will help you for coding geometry in Map Creator: You can speed up the process of moderation of many users’ edits, by simply paying special attention while editing in several categories. The background is that many edits, which are not done completely or even in a wrong way, cause error validations. Our moderators have to check and correct … Continue reading Map Creator tips & tricks: Disconnected Geometry

Map Creator tips & tricks: Speed Limits and Legal Dividers in Map Creator

Dear Mappers, Please read about speed limit coding and legal dividers in Map Creator. What to code and what not to code? 🤔 Temporary vs Permanent Speed Limits From time to time, we receive the information, that users have coded temporary speed limits as permanent limits and unfortunately this comes into our map. As a general rule, only permanent speed limits must be coded in the … Continue reading Map Creator tips & tricks: Speed Limits and Legal Dividers in Map Creator

Road closures attribute: Update 12/11

Dear Mappers, We have a new attribute category in the Map Creator: Road closures⛔️ Here you can enter the information to indicate that a road segment is currently closed, f.ex. due to construction activities. This data will be directed to and help our Live Traffic team to show in the navigation systems with HERE maps that have Live Traffic included where roads are closed and cannot … Continue reading Road closures attribute: Update 12/11

Map Alerts in Map Creator

Dear Mappers, What are Map Alerts? Map Alerts are basically map tasks appearing in Map Creator, where you are asked to verify manually information about roads/places/house numbers. To resolve ‘Map Alerts’ follow the steps as described below and visit our Map Alerts help page in Map Creator: How to find Map Alerts? Map Alerts are pretty easy to find. You have to first enable Map … Continue reading Map Alerts in Map Creator