# A & B Class roads in towns etc
**URL:** https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121
**Category:** United Kingdom
**Created:** [September 3, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121 "2013-09-03T22:19:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@PaulSteadman](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/PaulSteadman)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/1 "2013-09-03T22:19:19Z")
I’ve noticed that there’s inconsistency with A and B Class roads in cities, towns, villages etc. Some have the city/town/village name included and some just have “No city”
Is there a best practice for this? Can’t seem to find it anywhere on the wiki, or on the forums.
Thanks
Paul
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### Author:  [@seriousarsonist](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/seriousarsonist)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/2 "2013-09-03T22:25:15Z")
From the wiki
[http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/How\_to\_label\_and\_name\_roads\_(United\_Kingdom)?title=How\_to\_label\_cities\_(United\_Kingdom)#City\_and\_County\_Naming](http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/How_to_label_and_name_roads_(United_Kingdom)?title=How_to_label_cities_(United_Kingdom)#City_and_County_Naming)
The City field should be used to specify the city, town or village for all the streets within it.
Rural roads that are in-between towns should be be left with No city.
NI area manager (L4)
Waze Beta - iPhone 4s iOS 6.1.3, still in gaol
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### Author:  [@PaulSteadman](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/PaulSteadman)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2013, 10:37pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/3 "2013-09-03T22:37:05Z")
Thanks for the the link but not only I could not find that page when I looked for anything, the page appears to be a blank stub :?
But I can happily go along and edit the roads in my area now, knowing I’m doing the right thing 😃
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### Author:  [@seriousarsonist](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/seriousarsonist)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/4 "2013-09-03T22:51:56Z")
Long links are a bit weird like that with tapatalk on the old phone. I add the city to every road inside the boundaries but miss out any that go round the outside, bypasses and the like. Use your own best judgement on whether they should have the city added
Pip
NI area manager (L4)
Waze Beta - iPhone 4s iOS 6.1.3, still in gaol
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### Author:  [@iainhouse](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/iainhouse)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/5 "2013-09-03T23:13:50Z")
One thing to watch out for is major roads that actually form the boundary between 2 named areas. If you use Twister-UK’s OpenData script, you will often find roads like this have 2 entries, one in each area. That’s because, technically, one side of the road belongs to one area whilst another belongs to another. This is particularly common in larger urban areas. In cases like that, I generally leave the road with no city name.
And, as Pip says, it’s important not to use a city name outside towns/villages/cities.
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### Author:  [@Timbones](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/Timbones)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2013, 12:27am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/6 "2013-09-04T00:27:45Z")
A good rule of thumb is: if it has houses or businesses on it, they’ll probably have house numbers and addresses. So, these roads should have the City field set.
Motorways and bypasses typically don’t have houses or businesses, so leave them with no city.
For reports in the app, they’ll say “near X” or “between X and Y” if there’s no City set.
via mobile
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### Author:  [@CTCNetwork](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/CTCNetwork)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/7 "2013-09-04T13:44:29Z")
Hi,
Worm… Can… Open…
> [@iainhouse](#):
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> That’s because, technically, one side of the road belongs to one area whilst another belongs to another. This is particularly common in larger urban areas. In cases like that, I generally leave the road with no city name.
Would it not be reasonable to adopt a process for such “urban areas” (and others where this may apply) to adopt a right and bottom naming convention for the border roads (left & bottom, top & right whatever) so that, whilst not technically correct, it is not necessarily incorrect? But it does leave all roads in cities, towns & villages with a name.
Des. . . 😉
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### Author:  [@PaulSteadman](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/PaulSteadman)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2013, 9:37pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/a-b-class-roads-in-towns-etc/255121/8 "2013-09-04T21:37:23Z")
Thanks for the help guys. I’ve found the wiki page now - I was looking for road naming, not naming cities - silly me!
Paul