Areas within Areas

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Hi,

Still early days, getting my head around the features available to me (place tools), what’s listed and the style of presentations that have been developed over time for clarity and consistency.

Ouse Valley Park is hyper-local for me:

https://waze.com/en-GB/editor?env=row&lat=52.06224&lon=-0.81923&s=13470195097598&zoomLevel=14&venues=235405833.-1941105577.13954808

it’s a linear park but made up of a number of other areas that have their own local names, west of Stoney Stratford we have Millfield, leading north to Tombs Meadow and east Stoney Stratford Nature Reserve alongside Queen Eleanor’s Street to part this is only named Ouse Valley Park as we cross the A5. As we continue east past Wolverton we have the Flood Plain Nature Reserve but if we go south we get Wolverton Mill Ballancing Lake.

There’s been a lot of new signage but it’s not currently visble in Street View, the Parks Trust maps list them distinctly but if you look in list view it’s clear " Set within Ouse Valley Park, the Floodplain Forest is the newest nature reserve in Milton Keynes…" about areas within areas: https://www.theparkstrust.com/your-parks/

So my question, should be lay one area on top of another - directions and parking would be quite different for the Stoney Stratford Nature Reserve in Ouse Valley Park vs the Flood Plain Nature Reserve in the same park but 1.6 miles apart. Alternatively, break the area down where the distintnames are applied within it.

Key for me is helping people find the right place and keeping this simple/clear.

regards,
Colin

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Oh, I did take a look at the wiki: https://www.waze.com/wiki/UnitedKingdom/Places

I didn’t read this as covered

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This is the sort of thing that often brings a difference of opinion on how best to manage, and starts a good debate, with no one opinion being more right or wrong than the other!! Personally, I’d be tempted to leave the overall large AREA place as it is and then add the smaller places as POINT places where they are, or where it’s best to be navigated to.

Remember, the only real difference between area and point in the client app, is that an area will be visible as a named polygon shape in the app, whereas a point place won’t be visible but will still be searchable.

As I said, my view is by no means certain to be consistent with others, but seems a fair way of doing things, without cluttering the app up with many overlapping area places - as you said “simplicity”!!

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