UrbexFinder

This repository contains a javascript plugin for the Waze Map Editor that allows to find permanently closed places in a given area.

This plugin also lists every place in the current map editor view and allows for filtering of places by category.

✅Please check out the greasyfork link to see the latest code instead of this repository.

Instructions

To use this script, you must:

1. Install the tampermonkey extension
2. Download this script over at greasyfork
3. Head to the waze map editor and login with your waze account
4. If tampermonkey loaded the script, you should see a message box asking you for your google places api key.
5. Head to the sidebar on the left and go to the scripts page

⚠️ Make sure to enable Places > Public in the waze map layers and before enabling the plugin, you should zoom enough on the map to see marker points appear.

Features

• Nearby Search radius defines the radius used to address the imprecision of coordinates when transitioning between Waze and Google Maps. For cities, a lower value may be suitable

• show residential places is to show residential addresses (i.e houses)

• show areas is to show the pink areas details in the table view (contain multiple coordinates)

• show closed places is to highlight in red every permanently closed place in the table (can also filter by category 'CLOSED')

• show overlays on map is to add an overlay on the marker elements on the map view (experimental, see section below)

  • red: indicates confirmed business closure
  • orange: indicates data mismatch between waze and google maps (see developer console)

• Filter By Category is to filter table entries by a certain category

  • Note: filtering before showing closed places only sends google place requests for the elements displayed on the table

• Clicking on an entry name in the table will highlight the corresponding marker or area on the map (can be nonvisible because out of view)

  • clicking/hovering on the highlighted marker or area will restore it's highlighting

Important

• When enabling the show overlays on map feature
  • Avoid zooming because this will displace the circle overlays and misalign them with the actual markers
  • If the overlays are over the marker point and you can't select the markers, try toggling the sidebar

Future Features

• Keep some feature points on map even after de-zoom