Non-existent town on map

[dbrightwell]

A town called "Belmont" keeps popping up on my map at various places around the county... but this is no such place.

[RallyChris]

If you turn on the map editor color scheme, does it show a square area?

If so, it's a known issue. Haven't gotten clear instructions on how Waze HQ wants to handle it.

[AlanOfTheBerg]

If you turn on the map editor color scheme, does it show a square area?

What's a color scheme?

[WeeeZer14]

Yes it is a known issue. Not sure if support knows why, but they are aware.

On the client, you can pick a color scheme. The one called Map editor shows town boundaries as shaded regions.

In my area, Belmont overlaps the real towns so you can't see the square for it.

I also have some towns (Lakeside) that are narrow long regions that I can trace through multiple states.

Anyway, if you can find a lone square with the wrong name, chances are at the center is a road segment with the wrong town information applied. Too bad we can't see town boundaries in the Cartouche.

My recent conversations with support seemed to think it was a problem with Cartouche guessing the wrong town name when a new segment was recorded. They were talking about turning off the auto-population of the town for newly recorded segments to deal with the problem for now.

[AlanOfTheBerg]

On the client, you can pick a color scheme. The one called Map editor shows town boundaries as shaded regions.

Oh, duh. I was thinking Cartouche.

[jondrush]

Here's a case where it happens without the square. There is no town of Franklin, but there is a Franklin street nearby. I've verified that Franklin is in not in the city name for any of the surrounding roads.

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[dbrightwell]

Yep, when I turn on the map editor color scheme, the town outlines blink on and off along with the name. So far Belmont is the only name I see that's not real. Sometimes it overlays another town entirely, sometimes it overlaps and sometimes it's out in the middle of nowhere. For now, I guess I'll just try and ignore it.

[WeeeZer14]

Each week or month I see a new "phantom" town in my city. Currently Belmont, but has been places such as Cleveland, Washington, Lakeside and Columbus off the top of my head.

[banished]

A town called "Belmont" keeps popping up on my map at various places around the county... but this is no such place.

For me, it's, "Brandon." I didn't notice it until the past few weeks.

[dbrightwell]

But at least there IS a Brandon FL. How far is it from your location?

The REAL Belmont, IL is about 150 miles from me.