I posted this in the general Map Editing forum, and was pointed here to the Texas forum.
Here’s the original thread: https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=96671
I can re-post here if that’s preferable.
You may want to read read before continuing to edit.
With the change over to FC, it takes the opinion out of the editors, as we may all have varying opinions of what a road should be. If you follow the link provided to a T, you shouldn’t have any problems. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or pjlasl.
Also please see this thread on how to change your usa_xxx username.
Yeah, that user name stuff is a PITA. I’ll be right back w/ a new one.
testing
edit: Okay, that did the user name job.
Alright, so the road classification is pretty objective. That’s cool from the perspective of Waze map editing, but I can’t say I like the classification of Primary Street for a 20 mph, child/pedestrian-heavy park road. I’ll just grumble about “if I were in charge” and accept it.
Reading the Texas wiki linked above, I’m sure I’m not the only one who has aggravated the parking-lot-road peeve. But routing while in a parking lot is the one thing that motivated me enough to actually find out how to edit. Every day when I leave my parking garage at work, Waze assumes I’m on the wrong adjacent street and routes a circuitous path based on that. I can’t get a proper route until I pull out onto the street I actually use, and wait for it to digest. My garage is overlaid with a “Parking Lot Place” area (named “5599 San Felipe Parking Garage”), even though it doesn’t meet the criteria for one, and that helps not at all for routing when it doesn’t know the entry/exit points. I hope I don’t ruffle too many feathers wanting to add drives for that purpose.
Post a permalink and/or hop on chat in the editor (speech bubble in the bottom right).
The PL place should be removed, probably replaced with minimal PLR(s).
EDIT: looks like you mean here. I see you added some PLRs but haven’t deleted the Places. I agree they don’t appear to meet the criteria (they don’t look public).
As for the PLR segment that runs kind of north-south – as bad as GPS reception is in the garage, I wouldn’t add that one. One east-west segment should take care of you and give Waze a chance to orient before you’re on a street.
Check the status page for when you can expect to see your work appear in the client. It usually take a few days.
Let’s see if I can manage not to screw up the URL tag:
Here’s the permalink. Both parking lot areas in the view serve 5599 San Felipe exclusively. If you can see a parking lot road traversing the lots and another one teeing off of that within the garage, I added those.
See my edit above.
So, what I think I should do is delete the two areas for the parking lots, and replace them with one large area that incorporates the entire campus, including parking. Then I’ll name the area with the office building name and categorize it as “Office,” “Bank/Financial” and “Parking.” Then place the navigation stop point near the main entrance. It’s a tall building, so I think it qualifies as a Place. The Parking Lot Road already drawn will handle navigation within the campus.
Does that conform to the intended use of Places?
You can either have the parking lot area or have the parking lot road. Not both. You choose.
Deleting parking lots: yes.
Place for the building: nope. Check the Landmarks (Places) section of the Texas wiki page again. Offices are not marked as places. For navigation to an office or a building or a bank, Waze will use its internal address system (still in progress) or a partner search (Google, Yelp, etc.) to locate it. We don’t need to mark everything in Waze for it to work well.
Your reasoning is very common, but the more you edit, the more you’ll (probably) see it differently. I know that’s happening for me.
EDIT: Oops, I didn’t check page 2 for txemt’s response. I’d still say one PLR verses a lot place, since it’s not public parking and doesn’t meet the wiki standard for a parking lot place.
Ah. That’s tricky. I was looking at the Places wiki page, not the Landmarks section of the Texas wiki page. The former does list offices.
The latter also lists Religious Centers as a areas, whereas the former lists them as points.
I removed the office building place and both parking lots, leaving only the parking lot road. Thanks for your help.
Where do you edit?
The few that I’ve made have been in Houston. Are you looking for specific locations?
I just wanted to know where in Texas. I’m compiling a list of editors in the state.