Place Editing
PUR should be reviewed for accuracy, once approved all relevant information pertaining to the place should be entered. Please use each company’s website to gather all the information you can. Once a place is complete please lock to rank 3.
This practice will help prevent users and editors from making incorrect changes to places we know are right.
Following are general standards for place locking in Canada:
Place Minimum Locking Rank Standard
| Place Type |
Minimum locks |
| Airports |
4 |
| Hospitals |
4 |
| Major Tourist Attractions/Landmarks |
4 |
| Police/Fire Stations |
3 |
| Gas Stations |
3 |
Telephone Number Format for Waze Places
+1-NPA-NXX-XXXX
This number format allows mobile phones, regardless of their home network, to dial a number without having to modify the number first.
Place naming
Place Naming in Canada should adhere to the following guidelines. Following the government agency naming guide is a list of businesses which are chains or franchises. Please use these name spellings when creating or updating a place.
Hospitals and other medical services
Hospitals with Emergency Rooms are the only place type permitted to use the Hospital category. All other day clinics, surgical centres, doctors etc must use the Doctor / Clinic category. Other non core medical services services such as Naturopaths, physio-therapists, chiroprators, etc should use the Office category. Emergency Rooms must have a separate Waze Point Place with “ER/Urgence” prefixed in the primary name, for example:
ER - Brampton Civic Hospital
ER - St. Michael’s Hospital
Urgence - Hôpital de Verdun
Government agencies
Police stations: City, Agency followed by division name, for example:
Toronto Police 12 Division
Peel Police 22 Division
OPP Collingwood Detachment
Fire stations: City, Agency followed by station number, for example:
Brampton Fire Station 221
Toronto Fire Station 347
Nested places
If a secondary business within another business location has a different category, contact numbers and opening times, it may be added to the map as a new (second) point place with the new primary category and relevant contact details and opening times. Typical examples of this type of nesting would be pharmacies or post offices within supermarkets or superstores.
Place-name harmonization
If you don’t find the business you’re looking for, please use this form to submit the missing information.
A script is available to assist with place harmonization and has been localized for use in Canada.