Alle weg types en plaatsen hebben een standaard lock level.
Afhankelijke van het belang van de weg zal deze door meer Wazers gebruikt worden en zou een fout tijdens het editen vreemde routes kunnen veroorzaken. Om deze ongewenste situatie te voorkomen worden de meest belangrijke wegen in de Waze Map Editor gelockt op een zekere level.
Exceptions:
- If your own level isn't high enough, you can lock on your max level, and/or you can ask for help.
- If the aerials or Streetview deviates from the real situation, it is OK to lock 1 level higher, as a special notice.
- Complex situations can be secured by a higher level-lock.
- Segments subject of roadworks can be locked 1 level higher, as a special notice.
- Segments with a time-based restriction, should be locked on level 3.
If an object is locked on a higher level than the default level, it is often for some good reason: ask the editor who did the last changes on the object before modify this object.
The lock level corresponds with the editor level. Editors can modify things upto their own editor level. If you want to edit a segment which is locked higher than your level, you can request an unlock via the #editing Slack channel of the country. When requesting an unlock, report the City, current level and the reason for the request and a Permalink to the subjected segments you want to have unlocked.