Montreal is a special case when it comes to naming roads. Firstly, because of its bilingual nature, many Montrealers ignore rue, road, boulevard, chemin, avenue, etc. when talking about a street. They say, for example, “Drive on Rene Levesque and take a right on Peel.”
There’s no meaning to the terms, anyway. The biggest thoroughfare could be a rue. My own street is one-way and has only one lane but is still an avenue.
Another problem is that when roads are named after people, the city uses the whole name. Montreal has roads named Rene-Levesque Est, Rene-Levesque Ouest, and Jean-Louis-Levesque, for example. Things can get cluttered on a three or four-inch screen, as you can see in the attached screenshots.
So Montrealers have two options in Waze: to use the road type or to omit it where it won’t cause confusion. And we have two factions who keep changing things on the map depending on which option they prefer. I’d like to use this thread to come to a consensus.
The Canada map is a bit of a disaster and it will take years to fix everything. In Ontario, all the street names have the suffixes spelled out – example, Wellington Street instead of Wellington St or Sussex Drive East instead of Sussex Dr E. I noticed that ‘Boulevard’ is spelled out in your Quebec map similarly. Perhaps shortening the French prefixes to Ch, Boul, Rue, Av, etc would buy you some screen space. I’m not sure how Waze would pronounce these. A bilingual area such as Welland, Montreal, Ottawa and northern Ontario has the occasional “Ch Smith Rd”, and I haven’t thought if that’s a good way to keep things or not.
I wonder if it would be possible to extend this to the province.
Also perhaps a Quebec or Canada specific wiki, for a consensus.
Another issue is highways most people know that a 100 series highway for example the 132 is a major highway, so it should be red, but the waze wiki says yellow where it’s not limited access. The only wiki I have found is http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Road_Naming_(USA) The US uses different conventions than Canada this can create confusion.
