Parking Lot Roads

Map Editors Community United States Missouri
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All,

Since the first of the year I’ve noticed a huge uptick in parking lot roads, and, over on the Kansas side of metro KC, alleys.

I thought our guidance was keep Waze clean. That’s why we went from area buildings to point buildings, ad infinitum. That’s how I understand the State Wiki, at least.

Where are we going these days?

Regards, John
L2

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Parking lot roads help ensure the accuracy of routing to a final destination. Since the release of 4.0 Waze has also treated the display of PLRs much differently. They no longer appear as thickly as streets and are much more subdued.

We aren’t necessarily adding in every parking lot and we don’t map every single lane either. This still follows with the overall guidance for setting up parking lots.

As a side question, are you already in the Missouri Google Hangout for Waze editors?

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Never mind on the GHO question. I see you’re already in there.

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Think of it this way, if you are navigating to a store, do you want to be told that you are there from the main road or at the front door? Waze wants front door service. We also do not want a Wazer snapped to the main road when they start waze in the parking lot. That is why the outer perimeter of the bigger parking lots are mapped.

A belch from my electronic leash.

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Parking Lot Roads are exceptionally useful when used properly.

1.) Gas Stations should ALWAYS have a PLR. The stop point for the Gas Station Place should be placed on the PLR. This is per USA guidance.

https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Places/Gas_Station

  1. All AREA PLACES. AP’s have a higher value to the map and many times contain multiple “Stop Points” within the AP. This includes Shopping Center, Parks, Hospitals, Military installations, etc to name a few.

  2. WME CLOSEST SEGMENT SCRIPT: everyone should be utilizing this script to confirm the stop point on WME for all Point Places. Many times I’ve found the stop point for a place is NOT where the “creator” intended. (I.e.; on another road segment inaccessible to the point place). In this case, a PLR is necessary to insure the proper stop point for navigation.

Here is a link to this script;

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/8693-wme-closest-segment.

  1. Where the road is divided by a median, or turns are restricted by signage. ( i.e.; no left turn allowed for example). If there are any sort of restrictions into and out of the “Place”, we need a PLR so those turning restriction can be identified and mapped properly.

  2. Where they are not necessary - a stand alone Point Place that is painfully obvious to the driver that they have arrived and non of the above conditions exist.

Thanks for reading my post!