GOOGLE MAP EDITOR ANDROID
Waze started in Israel in 2006-before the iPhone had GPS, and when Android was still being developed-with the goal of seeing if people would be willing to help their fellow travelers to outsmart the notorious Israeli traffic jams.
“Here you see and hear them, and this interactive feedback is what makes it happen.” Life under Google “A lot of times, you will write the software, the code and you don’t see the end user,” says Fej Shmuelevitz, Waze’s vice president of community and operations-and the company’s first employee. “We talk about family stuff.”īut for Waze staffers, these meetups are an opportunity to get the people who know their product best in a room to thank them, and learn from their experiences. “We come together and hang out and network and develop a true friendship and not just discuss map stuff,” Richey says. “I have met and made many new friends over the years,” through the Waze map editing community, Saunders says.
It was a chance to finally meet many of their colleagues- who go by usernames on Waze-in person. It wasn’t just an opportunity to geek out on maps, she said. He says the all-expenses paid trip is one perk of his volunteer work.Ībigail Saunders, a regional coordinator for the southeastern U.S., who has been volunteering as a Waze map editor since January 2013, also visited with her colleagues on the Tel Aviv trip. In September, he was invited to a biannual global meet-up at the Waze office in Tel Aviv, along with 70 of his peers from around the world to discuss what’s working and what isn’t. And the highest rank, level six, is assigned to people called “global champs,” many of whom treat their map editing duties like a full-time job. Area and country managers sit at the middle of Waze’s volunteer corp, for instance. As map editors build trust and contribute to the community, the volunteer leaders decide which deserve to be promoted, and thus become able to make big edits in high traffic areas.
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