The Waze partner Portal

Once your application to the Global Events Partners has been approved, you'll get access to the Partner Portal.

Expand the each of the topics below to learn about the various sections of the Portal and how to start sharing your data. 

Onboarding

The onboarding process is broken down into a few different parts.

1. Complete the Basic Information with information about your organization’s main points of contact for this partnership, your institutional Waze username and logo:
   1. Points of contact
   2. Waze username - Waze credits users who report closures or incidents by displaying usernames next to events in the Waze app. Your institutional username should indicate your organization, as it will be used for attribution purposes when using Waze tools.
   3. Coverage area - a polygon which covers the areas in which you operate; this area will be the basis for access to various Waze tools.
   4. Additional Event Partner Forum Subscribers - the forum is a great place to communicate with other partners and Waze staff. Please include any other individuals in your organization who may want to interact in the forum.
   5. Logo - the logo will be used for attribution purposes; it should be in png format and 200x200 pixels.
2. Once you finish the Basic Information section, watch the Waze Map Editor video for information about how to add closures to the map.
3. Review our promotion toolkit to learn how to leverage the partnership.

Once you complete the onboarding process, you should see additional panels on the left side plus the option to share your Portal account with other members of your organization.

To share your Portal with other individuals, click Share  and type in the person’s email address.

Please note that to access the Portal and Forum, you need to either link a non-Gmail email address to Google or create a new Google email account.

Events

Upload information about a specific event or a set of events in this section of the Portal. To add an event:

1. Click on the red button with the three dots  and choose the type of information you’re uploading:
   1. f you’d like to share a single event, click Add new event . Fill out the relevant information and click Submit.
   2. If you’d like to share a file with multiple events, click Upload file with events . Note: The file must be in CSV format.
2. Once we receive the event information, our team will review the data and add it to the map accordingly. If there’s missing or problematic information, our team will get in touch via email.

Tools

Request access to the Traffic View, the Waze Map Editor, and Alerts in this section of the Portal. These tools allow you to add real-time information to the Waze map, as well as planned closures and events.

To request access, simply click Request for the specific tool, fill in the relevant fields and click Submit.
Please note for the Waze Map Editor and Alerts permissions, we require your organization’s institutional username. Your organization will be credited for the information you provide through this username.

Forum

The forum is accessible to signed partners only, and serves as the main method of communication between partners. Partners can post questions, requests for help, use cases, tools etc. 

To join the forum, please add the relevant email addresses in the Basic Information section of the Portal.

Calendar

Follow the calendar for trainings, webinars, and Q&A with the Waze staff.

Resources

Find additional information, including the promotional toolkit and other partner-exclusive resources in this section.

Help & feedback

When you click Help & feedback, a popup should appear with the option to search for relevant Help Center articles, questions, etc.