Is this a…:
Standard bug
Steps to reproduce this issue:
Matching_feed is adding duplicate external providers to places.
Environment where the bug occurs…:
NA
Permalink:
https://waze.com/en-US/editor?env=usa&lat=38.80114&lon=-90.61561&marker=true&zoomLevel=20&venues=176554372.1765412648.4968618
Browser name and version:
All Browsers
Hello @brikowski ,
Thank you for your report! I have filed an internal ticket to investigate the issue. Please stay tuned for further updates.
Have a nice day!
Olesya
Hi @Olesya-Staff
Could you please ask responsible team:
Is it possible to delete all results of his merging in the country? Is it possible disable his activity in the country?
Unfortunately, it brings more problems with duplicates than helps and editors manually delete his mistakes. And it’s difficult after disabling functionality in PIE
Hello @Sapozhnik
Thank you for your input! I have updated the internal ticket and will check with the relevant team. You will be notified here in this thread once we have any further information.
Kind regards,
Olesya
‘matching feed’ bot links wrong and duplicated places
The bot links locations of external providers with similar names but they are actually different stores or are branches of a big company.
Here in my country (Paraguay) we have a lot of gas stations with similar names like Petrobras, Petrosur, Petrochaco, Petropar, etc. ‘matching feed’ thinks that they are the same place en merge all of Google Maps places in only one Waze place or linked duplicated places.
This issue also occurs with many stores and places like Drugstores, Schools with the same name but located kilometers away, Churches. I will show a few examples but there are thousands of them all over the map and all over the country.
Two Petrosur gas stations 500 meters away, 'matching feed linked both
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.39764&lon=-57.34401&zoomLevel=18&venues=198379018.1983462500.2944376
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.39917&lon=-57.34197&zoomLevel=18&venues=198379018.1983528036.21664742
Two Petrobras and one Petropar gas stations linked by ‘matching feed’
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.25460&lon=-57.51174&zoomLevel=18&venues=198247947.1982413939.17672406
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.25460&lon=-57.51174&zoomLevel=18&venues=198247947.1982413939.8099576
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.25779&lon=-57.51196&zoomLevel=18&venues=198247947.1982413938.15771967
Two Copetrol gas stations near between but there are diferent places
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.27615&lon=-57.50655&zoomLevel=18&venues=198247947.1982413936.117749
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.27633&lon=-57.50317&zoomLevel=18&venues=198247947.1982479472.13816927
Four Farmacenter drugstore, there are the same company but there are a lot of branches nearby
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.26874&lon=-57.48870&zoomLevel=19&venues=198247947.1982545009.12502692
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.27022&lon=-57.48848&zoomLevel=19&venues=198247947.1982545009.36148515
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.26886&lon=-57.49151&zoomLevel=21&venues=198247947.1982545009.2420025
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.26765&lon=-57.49323&zoomLevel=21&venues=198247947.1982545009.16560403
Here ‘matching feed’ links one gas station named “Corona” and an Hotel named “Hotel Corona Suites” only one word shares this two places but the bot thinks they are the same place.
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.77314&lon=-57.24609&zoomLevel=19&venues=198444550.1984117823.4162088
https://waze.com/es-419/editor?env=row&lat=-25.77321&lon=-57.24701&zoomLevel=20&venues=198444550.1984117823.21838550
As I said before, there are thousands of places with this issue.
Edit:
Thanks to the PIE Script and that the feature that shows duplicated places is back we can detect this issue easily.
Hello @Jorge-RC
Thank you for the detailed report and instances of mismatched places. Your examples have been added to the internal ticket.
We understand this is a widespread issue with matching feed incorrectly merging similar businesses. Thank you once again for bringing it to our attention. We are prioritising this issue and will share an update when we have more information.
Best regards,
Olesya
Is this a…:
Standard bug
Steps to reproduce this issue:
Can you please stop the matching feed from adding Google Venues to parking lots while the Google venue is already linked to the correct Waze Place?
Here is one of the dosen examples I have corrected recently.
Environment where the bug occurs…:
All environments
Permalink:
https://waze.com/editor?env=row&lat=52.52517&lon=5.71221&zoomLevel=18&venues=3736077.37426309.36159912
Browser name and version:
nvt
Are you using scripts? Please detail which ones.:
nvt
Few examples:
Waze Place
PLA with wrongly added Google venue to PLA
Waze Place
PLA with wrongly added Google Venue
Waze PLace
PLAs with wrongly added Google Venue
Waze Place
PLA with wrongly added Google Venue
If you need more let me know.
I can confirm this is happening in T&T as well. With this happening, if there are 2 or more linked google places, the data from google doesn’t populate on Waze e.g ratings, opening hours etc.
Hi @Leorenaud
Many thanks for adding your examples. So just to be clear, were the links added by matching feed wrong matches or duplicates?
The reason I’m asking is that currently we have got two different issues caused by matching feed - wrong (mismatched) linking and duplicate linking (the topmost example would be duplicate linking whereas Jorge-RC’s examples would be mismatched linking).
Best regards,
Olesya
Hello @AdamB1995
Thank you for your input.
Would you be able to share any PLs so we can add your examples to to our internal report?
Best regards,
Olesya
My issue is about linking the same Google place to multiple Waze Places.
In these cases all parking lots with the Waze Place name in it as name: [P] Waze place.
Correctly added Google Venue to Waze place
Wrongly added Google Venue to Waze Place PLA
Another Wrongly added Google Venue to Waze Place PLA
Here is one e.g: https://waze.com/en-US/editor?env=row&lat=10.42128&lon=-61.45327&marker=true&zoomLevel=18&venues=195625064.1956578322.14481378
I also encountered updates where there is a number rather than a user at locations as well.
Thank you for clarifying @Leorenaud much appreciated. I have added your examples to the internal ticket.
Best regards,
Olesya
Many thanks @AdamB1995
I have updated the internal ticket with your example.
Kind regards,
Olesya
We have got a bug open to investigate this behavior. You can upvote it here:
364488
I haven’t yet figured out what this is caused by.
I can see it as:
Hey @Olesya-Staff, here is an e.g of 2 places being linked. I believe that one of the place is an actual place and the other is a building.
https://waze.com/editor?env=row&lat=10.66132&lon=-61.51152&zoomLevel=16&venues=195625067.1956119594.742957
Here is one with a duplicate place of the exact google place: https://waze.com/editor?env=row&lat=10.66159&lon=-61.52101&zoomLevel=19&venues=195625067.1956119594.1009212
