Pineville Smudge

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Can somebody please help me with this smudge? It has been driving me crazy for a long time. There are two Pineville, one in NC and the other in LA and there is a smudge line that connects the two. I’ve looked in both states for streets that have an incorrect state and I did run into this segment in LA with State set to Other:
https://www.waze.com/cartouche/?zoom=5&lat=31.31452&lon=-92.43358&layers=BTFTTTTFTTTTTTTTT&segments=20780095

Could this be the problem? I don’t have editing permissions in these areas, so can somebody please correct the above segment?

Thanks a lot!

Update:
Here is one more segment with the same problem:
https://www.waze.com/cartouche/?zoom=4&lat=31.33225&lon=-92.41679&layers=BTFTTTTFTTTTTTTTT&segments=63876757

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I’ve fixed that segment and one other I found.

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And I just hit the Pineville, Other in NC. So that should take care of both ends.

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I wouldn’t bet on it. I get offered Pineville as a choice when I’m working in Vicksburg. So there is probably a segment there somewhere too.

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Sometimes just being under the polygon connecting two points is enough to make the smudge a suggestion.

Hunting smudges is an iterative process. The few segments we hit today should shrink and/or shift the smudge (after a map tile rebuild), then we go looking for it again.

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Thanks a lot guys! I’ll post an update after the map updates (about a month I guess).

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When you find one of these segments, the Papyrus Extended Tools will help you find other segments in the area with the incorrect (or no) state much more quickly.

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Yep, the problem is when there is a troublesome segment not in the area :wink:

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You might have to pan around the map a bit, but it’s about 100 times faster than checking one segment at a time! When I saw “Pennsylvania” offered while editing in Reading, MA, within a few minutes I had found several others, plus a few from neighboring towns (e.g., Lexington) that I was not even looking for. Move the map, refresh the table, sort by state, and there they are.

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I definitely agree with the process of using the tool to hunt. I’d never look segment by segment. I did that pre-tool and it was horrible.

I’m just saying that even with the tool you need to know where to start looking. And sometimes that isn’t obvious, especially with the state smudges.

P.S. – For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, check out the wiki page I created for hunting city smudges.

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You also need to be at the appropriate zoom level to find them. If you’re zoomed too far out, the tool only selects interstates or highways. You have to be relatively close to find problems at the street level.

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Do any of you use the mini-map at the bottom left corner of the old editor? It shows city polygons on both servers.

On the world server, you can also use this trick.

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I’ve used the instructions in the wiki, which I guess are the same as the forum post. It works on the www server too, not just world.

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Both tricks are not in the Wiki, and I am rather sure that the permalink trick only works on world…

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Well, this is what I used in the new editor: http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Fixing_"smudged"_cities to find the smudge in US. Are you referring to a different trick?

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I checked the same Wiki page, and saw that both of my tricks are not in it. I’m too lazy now to add them (after midnight here), maybe later this weekend.

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Would be nice to see the tricks you are using.

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It seems like we didn’t fix the Pineville smudge completely. Now the line that connects the two Pinevilles looks dashed. Before it was a a continuos line. Any ideas?

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If the smudge is dashed, it is probably solved, but the tiles under the line need an edit before the city polygon layer is updated (like big landmarks, city polygons are only added/removed/changed if there is a reason to update the tile in the roads layer).

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I see. So it will be with us for some time since the line was about 800 miles long and will take a lot of edits to clear it completely.