Winterstoke Rd relocked at Auto(1). It was locked high when Marchfields Way was first opened as the aerials and the map said different things. That was some time ago and I’ve been remiss in not visiting and fixing these things.
I’ve approved all PURs that I could see, including all those residential places with lousy photos. I think it’s better to have the places on the map with lousy photos than not have them on the map.
Car parks should NOT be mapped as points. Waze wants to offer car parks as destinations and determine when you’ve passed into them. Hence, car parks should always be area places with a parking road taking the user into the area. If you don’t change it, a Map Problem report will be generated. Should there be a road continuing west into Weston Woods? Even if it’s a private drive to the house, it’s still worth mapping so users going to that house aren’t left at the end of Leewood Rd as currently (it’s the nearest segment!).
For large area places like Weston Woods, it’s worth setting the destination point where you want Waze to take people. Here’s how to set that if you weren’t sure - click on the place area and, just below the Description box, there’s an option to Add an Entry/Exit point. Click on that and you’ll see the destination point show up in the middle of the wood as a blue spot. Drag it to the road you want Waze to make people use, then save it.
These next comments are not directed specifically at you, but rather things to look out for when editing generally, as I think you’re the person on the spot and can keep W-S-M up to date. I suspect you’ll have spotted them in the past, but left them alone.
There seemed to be quite a few u-turns enabled - I’ve removed those I spotted. As a policy, we don’t enable u-turns, because many users are too literal and take their sat-nav’s guidance as the thing to do even when their eyes, looking through the windscreen, tell them not to. Also, there aren’t many roads on which you can u-turn. We’ve asked Waze many times to change it to “turn round where safe to do so”, but they won’t. See this thread for a heated discussion on the matter.
Junction of Lyefield Rd with Queensway/Lower Norton Ln - the turn arrows were red for turning onto Lyefield Ln meaning that Waze would not have been able to route anything that way. I enabled all turns at the Queensway/Lower Norton Ln end, but left those at the Newton’s Rd end for you to change. If any vehicles are allowed to use a road, turns should not be prohibited.
Lyefield Ln is restricted for use only by motorbikes and private cars. Waze allows a user to set their vehicle to taxi. Not permitting them means that taxis wouldn’t be routed along there as restrictions are absolute. I haven’t checked Streetview and, as you’re local, you’ll know best, but there may be restrictions from driving certain vehicle types into Lyefield Rd - eg no vehicles over 7.5T, no buses, etc. Better to prohibit vehicle types that can’t use a road than allow types that can.
Hope that helps.