Waze is in the planing phase of a new project that will make an overhaul to the way we set and use parking, as part of our navigation. The new planned feature will improve the end of the navigation, where everyone park their cars and the start of the navigation, where users enter their parked car and starting a new trip.
While the details are not yet made public, starting next week Waze will begin making changes to get things started and as a first step it will separate the “Parking Lot” category from all places where this category is being used in conjunction with other categories. So expect to see standalone parking places popping in WME.
What you should do? At this stage not much and we will provide more details as it become available.
The only practical suggestion I will make is to refrain from creating new places where the Parking Lot category is used with a second category. If you need to create new Parking Lot place and you would normally add a secondary category, or possibly add Parking Lot as a secondary category, please create a separate place for each.
Once available I will provide additional information in this thread regarding this project.
As a follow-up, parts of this have started to be deployed, albeit in a way that is not improving the map.
For the time being, please do not change your editing practice, and close any of the “Parking lot mapped as point not area” Map Problems as “Not Identified”, and do no action upon them.
We will let you know as soon as there’s a change in this approach.
When the PL project is deployed, for lots like Park and Rides that have different areas (A Lot, B Lot, C Lot) used to help drivers/users find their cars, are we going to map as such or just one big blanket?
We will likely follow the US wiki for PLA and it says that if the lot is large or if it is identified with a sign or known by specific name it should be used, so I see no reason why not to separate to smaller lot and provide better navigation for the users who navigate to a nearby destination.
OK. Canada is on board and we can start working on adding PLAs to WME.
Please make sure you read, understand and follow the Parking wiki.
If you have any questions, please post them here.
WestPark exist, or requested by someone without a reply here.
I’m a little hesitant about “City of White Rock” as they have only 3 locations, and it doesn’t make them to be a significant operator to be listed in my mind.
The goal is not to increase the list of parking providers, so I would suggest to include in the list only providers that manage a handful of lots. What is the right number to consider them being significant will be a good question and maybe deserve a separate discussion. Before requesting to add new providers, it is good to get the order of magnitude of the parking providers.
No issue to add cities to the list, if they operates their own lots, but to determine this we need to see some reference to how many lots the city operates. Street parking isn’t considered a lot.
Among the 3 providers requested in this post, I will submit a request to ass Compark. The other two, need further info to determine eligibility.
I’m unable to find much information on Canada Wide Parking Inc., their website is not very user friendly. Definitely couldn’t find anything showing the location of their lots.
As for the City of London, information pertaining to downtown parking here. Map and lot information here.