UK maps on iphone - some road names missing

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UK maps on iphone - some road names missing

Postby hegedusa » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:26 pm

I'm fairly new to this so apologies if my question is in the wrong place.

How come several road names as missing (shown as "street/road without name") when openstreetmaps shows them, as does the "skobbler" app, based on the same maps?

For example Rosebay Avenue in Billericay
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Re: UK maps on iphone - some road names missing

Postby hegedusa » Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:19 am

Many thanks guys, already done a couple of small edits!
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Re: UK maps on iphone - some road names missing

Postby RallyChris » Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:43 pm

The waze maps are local to waze. In base map countries, the data came from another source, but that for sure was not OSM.

The other possibility is that another user edited the map to add the road, and didn't finish the job of putting a name on it.

The power of Waze, is that you can fix it (as long as you have driven near here).

Go to Live Map -> Update Map, and find the issue and fix it. Please make sure to follow the guidelines in the wiki linked in my sig.
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Re: UK maps on iphone - some road names missing

Postby richardjeeves » Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:39 am

Welcome to waze...

for more info and help pop over to the UK part of the forum:
viewforum.php?f=55

and before you start editing take a look at the UK specific guidelines wiki page:
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/United_Kingdom

Any questions don't hesitate to ask...

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Re: UK maps on iphone - some road names missing

Postby xteejx » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:49 am

FYI, neither of those apps use waze data. They use openstreetmaps data which is nothing to do with waze at all.
If you have any questions about editing, please ask instead of doing what many do, and just go ahead and edit incorrectly. I cover Essex, so please if you need any help, just give me a shout, I'll be more than willing to help. :-D

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Re: UK maps on iphone - some road names missing

Postby xteejx » Thu Jul 12, 2012 1:52 am

Oops, was already said, it's very late. Still, any problems let me know or go to bit.ly/WazeUKChat ... Think that's right.

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