City Names

One of the big problems we have in West Virginia is incorrect naming of City (and/or State) on segments. Most if not all of it dates back to the basemap import. In an attempt to help standardize our city naming I wrote the County/City listing Wiki from research on Wikipedia.

Over the last couple of days, Todd (Roadtechie), has taken it two steps further. XanderB updated our Validator Localization script to flag segments with names not in the list of Incorporated Cities/Towns or Census Designated Places (CDP) and Rickzabel has written us a new script that shows the boundaries (and names) of the Cities/Towns/CDPs. Both scripts are listed on the WV Wiki under Mapping Resources.

Please give these scripts a shot. I think you will find them very helpful for getting our city layer (and state layer) correct.

WME Validator: validates a map area in Waze Map Editor, highlights issues, and generates a very detailed report with wiki references and how-tos.

Validator Localization for West Virginia: adds checks specific to WV to the WME Validator such as valid city name, state name = WV, min lock standard checks, County Route and State Route naming standards, etc…

WV CDP Overlay: shows the boundaries of cities, towns, and Census Designated Places for West Virginia as a WME layer.

:slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: Many thanks to RoadTechie, XanderB, and Rickzabel!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Question about CDP’s. Is the rule to only name the cities that show up as designated CDP’s?

Natrium, WV is an example:

https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lon=-80.85378&lat=39.75241&layers=933&zoom=4&segments=55703966

Should those “city” names be removed from areas like that? As West Virginia has so many unincorporated towns I’m sure this is a common issue. Thanks!

I would say yes. We all need to work from a common list so we are doing the same thing. I don’t know how Natrium got on the map. We can delete city names from all segments on the back end, so if we need to that for something like Natrium let me know.