NZ Petrol Stations

Map Editors Community New Zealand
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Hi guys,

I thought we could take an organized approach to entering NZ petrol stations. I’ve created a spreadsheet of known petrol stations in NZ (from Zenbu). This has lat/long, addresses, phone numbers etc. It should be pretty easy to use this to fill in the details on Waze.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am-6VIPQCqLQdE5uVG55VHNXSG9QWnhYazFjLVlNQkE

If you’re keen to help out let me know and I’ll add your email to the spreadsheet so you can mark off the ones you’ve done (I’ve marked some already in green). Email me at nick (at) noodles (dot) net.nz

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Some of these (particularly Caltex) are a little out of date.

It’s worthwhile checking either street view or the white pages to confirm.

:slight_smile:

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Yea, I try to use Google maps street view to make sure they still exist. If you want to either mark the bad ones in red or delete them all together.

I’ve split the sheet into North and South Island, so should make the task seem a little less overwhelming.

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I’ve marked them green same as the completed ones. I figure it’s more of a “this has been checked and completed”.

Also, should say thanks noodles. This does make the process much less of a ‘needle in haystack’ thing. :slight_smile:

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Just saw your post ad havent had a chance to look at the spreadsheet yet. I’ve been using the gas company websites which all ave ms with full address details inc phone numbers. Tat combined with street view to confirm where necessary has been easy to use ad avoids having to create and maintain another source of data. I used the Caltex site to add all their stations in auckland - before the update which allowed noting address etc.

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Ok, all the North Island Z stations are done, I don’t have permissions for the South Island.

Btw, a tip, use the GPS coords from the spreadsheet, makes it easy to pin point the stations.

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yep, i’ve done exactly the same thing

99% of Northland Is finished, the 1% is for the ones I don’t know about :slight_smile:

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I want to know how you do this?

somebody has entered (computer generated) shell stations across NZ. The problem is they are no longer called “shell” and most are in the wrong spot, some are close.

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and

based on some reading it appears you might be able to submit spreadsheet data to waze and they auto generate the data on the maps?

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I can’t find anywhere that mentions uploading a list of stations. If you could point me in the right direction Waze might be able to use the data that I already have in the spreadsheet.

ispyisail: Would you be able to mark off the stations that you’ve done on the spreadsheet? Email me and I’ll give you permissions on the sheet.

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http://www.waze.com/blog/crowdsourced-gas-price-feature-launches-in-uk/

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Hi noodlesnz. Just sent you a PM with my email. If you could add me to the spreadsheet I’ll update accordingly as well

Thanks

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Thanks pcp192, have added you.

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If anybody else what to help its just “cut and paste”

open the spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Am-6VIPQCqLQdE5uVG55VHNXSG9QWnhYazFjLVlNQkE#gid=0

cut and paste the cords

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draw a box

then cut and paste the rest of the data

easy

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Having trouble getting a definitive answer from Waze support about how many stations/coverage we need to kick off the petrol pricing. They say that they can see ~600 stations in NZ, which is pretty good. I can see ~1100 on the spreadsheet so we’re over halfway.

This is our status so far though:

North Island
BP - In progress
Caltex - Done
Challenge - In progress
GAS - In progress
Gull - In progress (~50% done)
Mobil - Done
Pak 'n Save - In progress
Z - Done

South Island
BP - In Progress (90% done)
Caltex - In progress (80% done)
Challenge - In progress (95% done)
GAS - In progress
Mobil - In progress
Pak 'n Save - In progress
Z - In progress

The main focus at this point is to get all the major brands completed and then concentrate on the independent stations

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Adding stations is reaaly slowing down my points collection. im going to be lucky to make the top 25 this week :frowning:

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LOL it just isnt Waze in NZ without you right up there!

I’ve added a small number in the last couple of weeks, limited by the small area I’m able to edit.

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I don’t know if you noticed but I couldn’t help myself …I did a quick fire road creation session for extra points.

I need seek professional help :frowning:

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Good news, we’ve reached the 70% coverage threshold needed for gas station pricing. We have ~99% coverage of the major brands. Just waiting for Waze to respond to my ticket.

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Haha I did notice that you’d hit 400000 though, well done :slight_smile:

And yes, you probably do :wink:

Sounds good noodles - I didnt realise there was a % point we needed to hit.