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Wazeume for LostInMyMaps (Brendan), a Global Champ, Coordinator and Local Champ for Australia. The best method of contact is via Discord, on the Waze Australia Discord server.

Milestones

  • Joined Waze: Mar 2018
  • Editor level 2 promotion: Apr 2018
  • First AM granted: Apr 2018
  • Editor level 3 promotion: Jun 2018
  • Co-host for the “strategic change-of-direction” live chat with staff: Oct 2018
  • Second AM granted: Oct 2018
  • State Manager (NSW): Dec 2018
  • Real-time closer permissions (NSW): Feb 2019
  • State Manager (Vic, Tas): Jul 2019
  • Editor level 4 promotion: Jul 2019
  • Local Champ: Jul 2019

ituajr — 16/07/2019

ℹ 📢 Congratulations to LostInMyMaps - now a Local Champ in recognition of his work behind the scenes (such as taking an active role in pushing for more effective management in Australia, supporting our Discord activities, and keeping the pressure on me to address management/personnel issues as well as technical problems). Apparently that comes with L4 status as well (currently being processed). Comment from Dana was "He is incredibly active within the community, very involved and gives out the feeling that he cares deeply for the Waze community, its growth and just generally cares a lot about Waze."  ⭐ 🍾

dpanics (7) - Dana — 16/07/2019

Huge congrats Brendan!! This is well deserved:)

Ottolenga - Tamar — 23/06/2020 It is still early days and we all still have AJ on our minds, but we’d like to ensure the strong leadership he built continues in the Australian community. Therefore, we are announcing that LostInMyMaps (Brendan) will be taking over the coordinator role, as he has unofficially been assisting with coordination up until now with great strength, leadership and sensibility. In one of my last communications with AJ, we were already discussing the potential of Brendan stepping into a coordinator role - so this is what AJ planned. Congratulations Brendan for your new role, I am sure you will make everyone, including AJ proud. There will be additional announcements in the coming days, which I’ll leave to Brendan.

  • Formal mentor: Jul 2020
  • Nominated and promoted to Global Champ: Jan 2021
  • Editor level 6 promotion: Jan 2021
  • Became a Waze Product Expert (Silver): Jul 2021
  • Became a Waze forum administrator: Oct 2021
  • Became a Waze Product Expert (Diamond): Jan 2022

Presentations

Meetup Attendance

  • European Online Mega Meetup: Oct 2020
  • EMEA & APAC Online Mega Meetup (Presented): May 2021
  • Online Global Champs Meetup: Jun 2021
  • Beta Community Online Global Meetup: Jul 2021
  • Global Champ Meetup (Israel): Sep 2022
  • APAC Regional Meetup (Philippines): Nov 2022

Mapraid Participation

  • Participated in the India Mapraid: May 2018
  • Designed and developed the Falcon Snapper Raid and shared resources with the international community to run their own: Oct 2020
  • Mapraid Leader of Falcon Snapper Raid in Australia: Oct/Nov 2021
  • Developed Waze Australia Falcon Mapraid progress dashboard noted in editors newsletter: Nov 2020
  • Designed and developed the Mini Mapraid (MMR) series for Australia: May 2022
  • Mapraid Leader of Waze Australia Mini-Mapraid - Tamworth, NSW: Jun 2022
  • Mapraid Leader of Waze Australia Mini-Mapraid - Wagga Wagga, NSW: Jul 2022
  • Mapraid Leader of Waze Australia Mini-Mapraid - Townsville, Qld: Oct 2022

Beta Testing

  • Joined the WME beta program: May 2018
  • Joined the Waze beta testing program: Aug 2018
  • Joined the Waze routing beta server testing program: Jan 2020
  • Waze Beta Top Contributor for the month: Jun 2020
  • Waze Beta Star of the month: Jan 2021
  • Waze Beta Top Contributor for the month: Jun 2021
  • Waze Beta Quarterly Newsletter Q2 2021 - Stars of the month: Jun 2021
  • Attended Beta Community Online Global Meetup: Jul 2021
  • Waze Beta Quarterly Newsletter Q4 2021 - Mentioned in best memes for the quarter: Dec 2021
  • Best WME Beta Holiday Meme - 2nd Place - Awarded the “most clever swashbuckler” badge: Dec 2021
  • Best WME Beta Pirates Zombie Halloween Meme Party - 3rd Place - Awarded the “Zombie Pirate Captain” badge: Oct 2022
  • Script beta testing:
    • RRC Autolock
    • WME Toolbox
    • WME Lane Tools.

Projects

Discord

  • Joined Waze Global & MR Server: Apr 2018
  • Created the Waze Australia Discord server: May 2018
  • Administrator of Waze Australia Discord server: May 2018
  • Commenced Traffic Feed & Alerts Project: May 2018
  • Joined the Waze Global & MR Discord server moderator team: Jan 2021
  • Project Discord onboarding revamp: Feb 2021
  • Traffic Feed & Alerts Upgrade Project (Huginn Server): Sep 2021
  • Joined the Waze Global & MR Discord server admin team: Oct 2021

Virtual Emergency Operations Centre (VEOC)

  • Launched VEOC project in Australia: Sep 2019
  • VEOC Leader for the Waze Australia VEOC - Bush Fire Disaster: Nov 2019

Beacons

  • Joined the Waze Beacons project: May 2020
  • Beacon tunnel testing in NSW: Aug/Sep 2020

Localisation

  • WME English (Australia) language launch: Apr 2020

Ottolenga - Tamar — 23/04/2020 📢  English (Australia) is now available in WME! A special thanks to @LostInMyMaps for taking and leading this initiative!

  • Team leader for the newly formed Australian localisation team: Jan 2021
  • Australian localisation team launches English (Australia) language into the Waze app: Sep 2021
  • Australian localisation team launches three English (Australia) voices into the Waze app: Dec 2021

Education and Mentoring

  • Launched the Australian New Editor Project: Jan 2021
  • Project "Essential Waze Map Editor Skills" video playlist showing essential how to edit skills: Aug 2021
  • Wazeopedia documentation rewrite: Aug 2021 (see below)

Other

  • Liaised with staff to launch States and Territories to the Australian map: Feb 2020

LostInMyMaps (6) - Brendan — 10/02/2020 ℹ️ 📢  We're extremely excited to announce the release of states and territories into Waze Australia. Your help is needed though to identify data issues such as see in the above screenshot, as well as any areas where the border is incorrect. Please report them in city-state-issues 🙂

  • Became a volunteer social media assistant for Waze Australia: Jan 2020
  • External sources project: Oct 2019

ituajr — 24/10/2019 📢 Background information on external sources: @LostInMyMaps (6) - Brendan has done some detailed investigation to find sources of Creative-Commons licensed data that might be helpful for Waze editors. I've passed his list on to Dana, and we're now negotiating the wording of attributions to go in the app and the website that will be satisfactory for both Waze and the data sources. Until those attributions are published, we're still not allowed to copy from any external sources except as specifically permitted (currently the CC-licensed parts of Qld Globe, the PSMA suburb boundaries, and public announcements of road closures in places like Twitter and Facebook). Background information on this at https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=259830.

  • Started the data insights project in Australia: Jul 2020
  • Liaised with staff to bring more Waze app themes to Australia, starting with Christmas: Dec 2020

LostInMyMaps (6) - Brendan — 16/12/2020 🎄 📢 Ho ho ho! It’s a Christmas miracle! Waze have released the Christmas theme to Australia and New Zealand because of specific requests from our community. Waze has also promised to more closely consider opening these themes to us in the future as well. Enjoy everyone! 🎁 https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1862&p=2109256

Project “Australian links” launched: Jun 2021

International

  • Commenced an international partnership with Waze New Zealand: Jul 2019
  • Coming soon.

Wazeopedia primary contributions

Leader author of many of the articles on the Waze Australia wiki.