Two cities with the same name gets connected.

[krankyd]

hi and welcome.
currently cities can be joined only when a member of the waze team does it on the back-end. There's no automated process.
As you might know, we are still having problems with the display of provinces, states, counties etc... which is why two cities with the same name are not allowed on our maps.
For this reason, we currently recommend people to name their city 'Alphaville, county A' and 'Alphaville, county B'. Once we have full support for the counties, in the DB and in the cartouche, you will be able to better city the full tree (sometime there's a neighborhood in a city in a province in a county... and so forth).

As for your city, it's possible that someone asked me to merge them and I did. If this was a mistake, I apologize, but I cannot reverse it. If you do create a new city, make sure to add some kind of identifier after the city name, to differentiate it from the other cities with the same name in your country.

thansk

[MartinMossfeldt]

Hi.
A few days ago I started to map an small city, adding street names and city.
After a few days I could see that my city got A name, unfortunately it's now connected with anoter place with the same name a long way from here.

Here is a Permlink to the City I am working with
https://world.waze.com/cartouche/?zoom= ... FFFFFFTTTT

And here is a permlink of the other place also named Råda
https://world.waze.com/cartouche/?zoom= ... FFFFFFTTTT

As you can see there is a long way between these two places and they have nothing in common except the city name.

My Question now is, how do I separate these two places?

[MartinMossfeldt]

First of all thanx alot for your answers.

It seems that there are several options for me here then, first one is to do nothing as things will get sorted once other cities between the 2 places gets there name and thus separating the two.

Second option is for me to take an more active role in this to "cut" the line between the both cities.
I have found a city that lies between and i will try to get a hold of someone that is working on the maps there so hopefully this will get sorted soon.

As far as I know Sweden has no base map, atleast there is a lot of roads missing.

Once again, thank you for your answers.

[Mozstar]

I have this problem in my area, Between Sudbury, Suffolk and Sudbury in London (50 Miles long)
And grey finger crosses my area from Ramsey (Essex) to Ramsey (Cambs)

Although it is fairly easy to live with, it can be annoying because...

if this shaded area is over your area, any new roads will get labelled with the offending city name and so the the grey area grows even more...

Also if you drive within the grey area with the Waze Client App you will have the alien city name keep appearing in random places...

These are all pretty much cosmetic and small annoyances...

but if the two city names are left identical it can lead to bad navagation

[rlpl]

if this shaded area is over your area, any new roads will get labelled with the offending city name and so the the grey area grows even more...

It seems to me that the new roads are not labeled with any city name permanently. Instead, the city name appears only if you start editing the road in Cartouche. Few times I have renamed the cities to correct and/or split their boundaries and I have seen that the city names of the newly recorded roads change automagically according to the changes of the grey areas. Even if you change the city boundaries long after recording the road--but obviously not after you edit it in Cartouche. This would mean that the new roads do not make the grey area grow and will get fixed as soon as you fix the edited roads.

Am I right or wrong? Support, please respond!

[waynemcdougall]

1. I don't think it does any harm to have those two places joined? Do you?

2. It's automatic based on the city names associated with roads. So you can't change it, except by changing he city names associated with roads.

3. It will fix itself if the roads in between get names with a city. For example 26 in between the two cities has no city name associated with it. Correcting that will help.

4. As the map gets completed and all roads have a city or district associated with them, these problems will go away.

[waynemcdougall]

Those are good points.

1. I believe Sweden has a base map grid so no new roads are being plotted, but I could be wrong.

2. I was under the impression that the two places did have the same name. If that's not correct, then fix the street with the wrong name.

3. But maybe it's just one giant area with only one major city. In which case you'd want to associate all the primary roads in the area with that city. The city name will be central on the city itself. If the city name does also apply to the district you would want the city name to appear on the map as you drive through the area. Good for us out of towners.

4. It comes back to the main problem of too many streets in Sweden with no city name. Fix that, and it will be resolved.