HN deprecated?

Map Editors Community House Numbers (Addresses)
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Hi everyone.
I read in this UR: https://www.waze.com/en-US/editor/?env=usa&lon=-72.91006&lat=41.63277&s=356514263&zoom=5&mapUpdateRequest=7512058
the claim that house humbers have been deprecated by waze, and that we should now use residential places. Is this true???

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I have not heard anything official regarding using RPP vs HN.

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No, HN are not deprecated. Continue to use them as you have been.

RPP offer some definite advantages in certain situations, and should certainly be used for those instances. Also, they offer a little more flexibility, so you might choose to use them for new numbering, where HNs do not already exist.

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Ok, but aren’t RPPs private? Only their creator can search for and find them.

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No. They are searchable like a normal HN.

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No. They are searchable like a normal HN.

Are you sure? I was under the impression residential places were private. In fact I just did a couple of tests searching for residential places in the livemap, and it only found the ones already in google maps, which were wrong.

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Here’s a RPP in my area. 1274 Carmel Ct in Walnut Creek, CA, USA. This is a RPP that I have not touched at all. It has a photo attached to it. From the history, it was entered by Fireboomerang(1) and approved by TrafficGuy01(3).

When I do a search for the location, this is the search results that pops up on my phone:
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When I select the top item, this is what is shown next. Notice there is a photo in the left side in the middle of the page. This is the photo from the RPP.
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Now, when I specifically select the location from the Google tab:
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You can see that the results does not contain a photo. The names are also slightly different. Google spells out “Court”.
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From this experiment, it is clear that I can search for RPPs that are not created by me.

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Ok. I tried what you did and it works exactly like you said. The app does indeed search for residential places not created by me. The thing is, I was using the livemap, and oddly, it does NOT work like the app. In livemap when I search for a residential place it takes me to the google result.

For example: Let’s search for Calle Viriato Fiallo 16

This is the result using the app. I know it’s from waze because of the picture:
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This is what I get using the livemap. Notice it’s NOT the same spot.
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…and this is what google maps brings:
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You can see the livemap is not showing Waze’s RPP, but google maps’ result.

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It is a known fact that Livemap search results do not always correspond to those in the app. Don’t ask me why; but that’s the way it is.

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It is because LM only uses Google results, does not use any Waze Places

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@RafaCintron, when I find those errors in Google Maps, I also submit an edit request on Google Maps to move the marker to the correct location.

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:o

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Yes, i do that too.

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Got this message today in GLR:

Irad reports address-based routing search preference changed in production.

New search order (stops at first one found);

  1. RPP
  2. Waze HN
  3. Google HN
    No longer any weird “Waze HN used as long as google house number exists and is ‘close enough’ to google HN”
15

I appreciate the update.

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When you say “Waze HN”, can I assume it is a Nudged Waze HN. Or does it include both Nudged and Unnudged HNs?

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To me that sounds like both.