As far as i can recall, here is what i submitted:
I added the comment from the comment section to each relevant section.
Premium Unleaded
Unleaded
Diesel
Bio-Diesel
Eco-Diesel
Natural Gas
Bio and eco diesel names are interchangeable in the public mind here. Still quite rare but expected to grow in the future.
Natural gas very rare now, and was rarely used as a car fuel even at its height.
Irish don’t tend to use octane numbers for petrol (even though some brands do display/market them); most tend to use premium and standard/regular as terms to describe types of unleaded petrol
xxx.9c per litre
OR
€x.xx9 per litre
I’ve seen both, but the cent version is more common?
A lot of petrol retailers operate independently from the well-know national/international brands and collectively make up a large portion of the market
I also added that:
Term “Gas station” not used in ireland: Use “petrol station” despite selling full range of fuels.
Similarly “gas” not used for car fuel. Use “petrol” or “diesel”
A growing number of stations have electric car charging points and this will grow in the future.
Has anyone else any opinions to add?
Maybe each should submit separately but update this thread with what you sent?
NOTE: don’t make the same mistake as me: you should copy and paste your entry for each section of the google doc into this thread as you go. otherwise you will have to type it out twice!!
True in a lot of respects in this instance, currency and (some) brand names aside.
Should probably aggregate contributions here for completeness though.
As an aside, your suggestion probably holds for a lot of other aspects of Waze in Ireland and UK. Perhaps the wikis on editing both countries should be compared. I know the UK wiki is far more complete, reflecting larger number of users, and that users in Ireland are perhaps focused on getting basic mapping in place (no original Waze basemap provided).
Thanks … I’ve already pinched a couple of practices (such as landmarks labelling motorway intersections).
Anyway, I do think the Ireland section of the wiki needs expanding a little (or maybe discussing amongst map editors). Some things I’d like to change/discuss/expand on:
L-roads: even though the numbers of these roads are not unique across the country, I’ve still been putting them in as part of small road names (for example: “L1033 Rocky Valley Dr”) in cases where there’s a prominent sign at the start of the road, as several county councils seem to have started doing. I think this is a good idea because then somebody using Waze will know they’re taking the right turn if Waze tells them to “turn left onto L5432 Xyz” and they see a sign saying “L5432”.
Mapping of road types on the ground to Waze road types: I notice “primary street” being used in many parts of the country even for small back roads that have grass growing in the middle and are too narrow for two cars to pass, whereas I think “street” is best for all roads that aren’t M, N or R roads, except for roads that aren’t explicitly R roads but are important, large enough and well-used enough to warrant being named “primary”.
Road levels: I don’t know if road levels once had greater meaning to Waze than they do now, but I don’t see any need for any road to have a level other than 0 except where it crosses another road on a bridge, such as in a grade-separated intersection (like a motorway junction). I’ve come across lots of cases where a main road is at level 0 and side roads are at level -1, but I don’t see any need for that, so I’ve been changing any roads that aren’t at level 0 for a good reason (such as crossing another).
I haven’t made much progress on this yet. Had driven some new areas so prioritised adding roads rather than petrol stations.
How is everyone else getting on?
I noted that they added the irish list of station brands.
There was an omission of Topaz from the list. I had included it when i contacted Waze, but maybe they saw “Top” and “Topaz” on my entry and thought I had made an error myself?
I tried contacting by twitter without reply, and the google doc link no longer seems to be working.
Will attempt to contact support directly
I’ve been working on a comprehensive list of brand names of Gas Stations (Petrol Stations) in Ireland.
This is the list I’ve come up with.
Can anyone add, delete, amend, please, before submitting to Waze for their attention?
Brand Names Gas Stations (Petrol Stations) in Ireland
Amber
Applegreen
Burmah
Campus
Centra
Corrib Oil
Costcutter
Discount Fuel Deals
Discount Fuels
DMG Energy
Drive Service Stations
E.K. Fuels
Emo
Esso
Estuary
Eurofuels
Excol
Fraser Oil
Friendz
Gala
Garbally Oil
Garveys
Go
Great Gas
GreatGas
Gulf Oil
Hanlons Filling Station
Independent
Independent(Clare Oil)
Inver
J.J Kelly Fuels
Jones Oil
Junction 20
Kelloil
Kilmeaden services
Londis
Maxol
MCL
MFS
Morgan Fuels
Morris Oil
Naas Oil
Pallas Service Station
Pathfinder Oil
Petrogas
Safe Fuels
Statoil
SuperValu
Swift
Tedcastles
Tesco
Texaco
Texoil
The Oil Company
Top
Topaz
Tougher
Ultima Oil
Unknown Brand
Vivo
XL
Xpress Stop
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Is there a way, that all Editors could agree how to name Petrol/Gas Stations?
Some of them are just “Service Station xxx”, some just Service Station
Why not calling them by actual name + location or what ever what could help finding it?
Eg. I have Topaz fuel card and if I want to find nearest Topaz station it’s not possible in couple simple touches. Using Topaz App is worthless too - it is so unusable…
Or it is simply Waze search engine problem?
Or I don’t know how to use it :[
