Due to satellite images showing an incomplete development the roads on waze are incomplete. All delivery drivers trying to get to the houses behind park outside a row of houses. They are not diverted to the car park at the rear and end up turning around on the grass and causing damage to new grass or our gardens. i’ve had a look at editing the roads myself but i have absolutely no idea what i’m doing. if anyone can help with this it would be very helpful. If more information is needed i would be happy to help. Many Thanks in advance
Hi,
I’m local to you and can hopefully help - Redcar Rd obviously has loads of offshoots (as with most roads on Kingsmere), so can you be a bit more specific about the location of the problem and what you feel needs correcting?
Don’t forget that Waze is a navigation app for motorists though, and will only really direct people to the front of an address, and can’t be relied upon to send a delivery driver to a rear car park if that is personal preference for access!
Happy to help improve the map in the local area though - let me know what you feel isn’t quite right!
I’m at 180 Redcar Road and the road is incomplete so all deliveries to numbers 180+ all come to the end of the road close to foot bridge. The small car park behind would be better access for these deliveries but isn’t included in the current map. I sometimes get people knocking on my door asking for directions to these houses and think that if the map was complete they’d have a better chance of finding the access behind us which is closer to where they need to get to. Thank you very much for taking the time.
Thanks for the additional info! I’m familiar with where you are and have added an extension to the road to reach you, as well as the side road that goes between 172 and 174, but I’ll go for a walk later and see to refresh my memory and see if there’s anything else I can do to improve things.
I’ll look at whether adding the house numbers for the properties that front onto the grass area with vehicle access from the rear is sensible, but I will re-iterate the point above though, Waze really is designed to take people to property front doors, so it might be the case that the access point for all these properties is just marked as where the road ends near your front door!
Thank you very much
@iangpowell the Microsoft Bing aerials are more recent here and whilst you can’t copy directly from them they give you a better idea of the layout and road geometry
After a good walk around Redcar Rd this morning I’ve completed the house numbering for the entirety of the road, as well as making sure that the footpath cut-through access from the rear for numbers 182-192 is not connected to the road at number 180. I’ve set the entry points for these properties at the rear too.
This will be live in the app in the next few days, but hopefully this should help!
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Looks like all of the house numbers were all over the place. The editing was definitely needed. No wonder drivers had issues
The ones that were on there were all ok, it’s probably down to how Waze interprets the “guess work” behind house numbering.
Imagine a straight road, odds on one side and evens on the other, for example. By adding the door numbers for 1 and 2 at one end and 19 and 20 at the other. Waze does some clever maths and works out where all the intermediate numbers will approximately be inbetween.
Then you introduce roads like we see all over Kingsmere with a single road name with 15-20 different off-shoots - Waze has no chance of “guestimating” where the house numbers are!
I’ve added the house numbering at each junction and small side road stub, which will hopefully give Waze enough of a chance to work out the rest.
Wazeopedia page on the topic if you’re interested in editing and learning!!!
Is there an up to date aerial of kingsmere? Would modders use drones if aerials aren’t available? I was wondering about this today
Waze is owned by Google, so it really depends on how often Google updates their satellite imagery.
As Steve mentioned yesterday, it seems that Microsoft Bing’s mapping has a much more up to date satellite image of that phase, so this was used as a guide when I tweaked your area, although we have to be careful not to directly use copyrighted material from unauthorised sources.
It’s often the case that new builds are mapped initially from plans available on the developers websites (some have it freely available, some don’t), and then roads are marked as open and driveable once we see evidence that vehicles using Waze have travelled on them.
It’s not perfect, but it’s what we’ve got when not local - however as I live on Kingsmere too I could always go for a wander.
Always welcome new editors though, especially in the local area. Let me know if this is something you’re interested in, as the UK volunteer map editor team has a mentoring programme and I could point you in the direction of this, where a senior and experienced editor can get you started and mentor you!