# Can't change city name
**URL:** https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628
**Category:** United Kingdom
**Created:** [March 22, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628 "2012-03-22T23:06:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@wl02703](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/wl02703)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628/1 "2012-03-22T23:06:48Z")
Can a level 4 editor try and change the city name “Frodsham (Cheshire)” to just “Frodsham” for me please? It’s within my AM area but for some reason I can’t change it myself :x. I’ve tried in both WME and Cartouche with no success. I’ve selected a few of the offending segments in the permalink below.
[https://world.waze.com/editor/#?zoom=4&lat=53.2976&lon=-2.72063&layers=BFTFTTTTTTFTFFTTTTTTFT&segments=123286541,123286540,123281449,123281451,123281019,151140449,123286885](https://world.waze.com/editor/#?zoom=4&lat=53.2976&lon=-2.72063&layers=BFTFTTTTTTFTFFTTTTTTFT&segments=123286541,123286540,123281449,123281451,123281019,151140449,123286885)
I have a similar problem with Llay near Wrexham.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@leocylau](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/leocylau)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628/2 "2012-03-23T02:10:25Z")
Have changed some of them but got sync error. Will do it tomorrow again. If you need to change other city name, you can send message through the quick help.
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### Author:  [@floppyrod84](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/floppyrod84)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628/3 "2012-03-23T02:40:49Z")
Have you checked these are the only instances of those names? Just double checking as we don’t want any smudges 🙂
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### Author:  [@leocylau](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/leocylau)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628/4 "2012-03-23T07:08:29Z")
shouldn’d have smudge anymore. if you place a road its city name its same as other city, you will get error message ‘the road is too far from the city…’
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### Author:  [@wl02703](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/wl02703)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628/5 "2012-03-23T10:49:10Z")
Thanks for trying Leo. I see your name as last editor on a lot of the roads but the city name has still got the County suffix. I’ll email support about it as I have the same problem in other areas.
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> Have you checked these are the only instances of those names? Just double checking as we don’t want any smudges 🙂
🙂 Yeah, it’s the first thing I do when adding or changing cities. During my time editing, I’ve probably added as many County names as I’ve removed because of this. 😉 Course, I wouldn’t have too if the original database had been designed correctly.
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### Author:  [@leocylau](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/leocylau)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628/6 "2012-03-23T12:48:57Z")
I’ve tried to change the city name again this afternoon but they were autometically changed back. Absolutely no idea. Yes, please let support know this issue.
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### Author:  [@floppyrod84](https://www.waze.com/discuss/u/floppyrod84)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://www.waze.com/discuss/t/cant-change-city-name/125628/7 "2012-03-24T02:14:31Z")
As I said there is probably another which is why it’s not allowing it.
Note: previous “city” names are not subject to the duplicate naming, ie if there is already a smudge it won’t fix itself, only when a road with same properties has changed will it pick up on it…if that makes sense. Retrospective rather than proactive.
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