Good to see other Wazers popping up on the map and new roads starting to appear. Starting this topic so people in Australia can keep their thought in one place. Might have to start one for each state later. I am in Perth. South of the river, good to see a few others mapping out this way. Who else is here?
aualby
Hi,
Im in Bendigo, Victoria. I think I’m the only Waze user in town. Looking forward to creating a few more maps where ever I drive, its kind of addictive I think. Might go map out the CBD tomorrow.
Cheers
Matt
Good one Matt, I am starting to see other Wazers pop up on the map as I am driving around. Hope you get to see some others on yours soon.
Mark.
Hi
I’m a waze user in Melbourne Australia, Good to see roads popping up all over the place even though editting maps is frustrating slow .
Same with Sydney. Great to see how more and more roads are being added/updated daily…
Hello from Western Australia!!
Good to see another West Aussie on. I have been mapping the area out in the South and South Eastern suburbs. Where abouts are you?
Hi,
Wow, this thing is addictive. :lol:
Awesome to see so many new roads mapped in Sydney. I live in the Northern Beaches and travel to South Sydney and Kensington quite a bit.
Hey does anyone has a good scheme for naming suburbs and streets etc? I got a reply from The Fej about the way I started to name suburbs. Check http://world.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1624
Another scheme for naming and classifying roads. Please check http://world.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1809 and let me know what you think?
Hi Coconha,
Both of these look good. I have not put the classification on too many streets, I am concentrating on getting them on the map first. At the moment I am not able to keep up with all the streets I am driving. When I start to run out of new streets I will go back and edit them further.
aualby
That’s probably the best way to do it if you have to start from scratch.
My list of priorities usually is:
Basically, even if you just stop at the first step you already get a basic drivable map, which is a huge thing for a starting community. All other pieces are just to make it better and actually useful.
Hi everyone,
I’m in Melbourne - I’ve been mapping the East and the North! It really IS addictive.
I’m looking forward to seeing other cars driving about!
Jason
Great to see someone in the Bunbury Region, Western Australia doing a fantastic job of making the map. Keep up the good work.
Aualby.
The entire Length of South Street has been mapped and added now as a Primary Street. It should appear in the next 24 hours.
aualby
Hey, just joined up a week ago. Mapped most of the main streets in my suburb (Parmelia/Kwinana)
Seen you around the place a few times aualby, but you dont have a ping-able client yet :lol:
Been good fun so far getting km’s logged and roads created, altho I’m pretty sure my wife thinks Im crazy now. (If she didn’t already!)
Seeyas on the road.
Edit: who is the area manager for Perth? Excuse the spam of roads to be deleted 
hi mcneo,
I read again you priority list, but I am not sure I totally agree with it. Let me explain…
I agree that getting the connectivity right is the first important thing. It is very nice when you can already perform a “Get Directions” on the life map and see that all roads between those 2 points are correctly connected.
However, I do not agree with leaving naming for last. For example, to uniquely identify an address, in Australia one needs number, street, suburb and state. Currently some of us have being coding the “city” field with a suburbs-state pair. Once Waze guys implement the state field, they will be able to split our existing suburbs-state pairs in their database for us (i.e. http://world.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1624)
Therefore, having a few early streets with the “city” label, lets the Waze client new road paving functionality automatically label the “city” field correctly in 95% of brand new streets. That seems to save a lot of manual entry work.
Ah, thats good to know about the plan for auto suburb / state separation in the future. I have recently started to map Canberra and was wondering about that, as I had seen examples of both. I was just doing suburb :oops: . I will go back and correct that. I’m guessing there is no way to do a rename of an existing ‘city’?
Hi NathanLi, I think I saw in some of the posts from sketch that you could email alpha and ask them to do the renaming for you.
Hi, did a bit of research on the topic of road classification. If anyone is interested please check http://world.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1809&p=17356&sid=f21c294f2960990a81994cd8d5aad7bc#p17356
Hey all,
Also (very) new to Waze and have been set as an Area Manager for a big chunk of Melbourne.
Have redesigned the CBD - WHAT A MESS!
Have spent quite a bit of time redesigning the M1, it’s pretty tough and am only 50% through the Montague St interchange (I’d love to have some aerial mapping that was slightly better detail).
Also worked on the Citylink/Tullamarine freeway out past the Ring Road.
Unfortunately, nothing that I’ve done within cartouche is showing on my iPhone or the ‘Live map’.
As a result I’ve stopped making any further updates as I’m worried my hours of contribution will be for nothing.
Once/If it gets updated I’ll continue working on the M1 (will probably just focus on the area between the bridges and the tunnels until I’m happy with their alignment and connectivity.