Hello all.
There appear to be a few street name suffixes that are not part of the current Australian wiki.
- Arterial: “Springfield Greenbank Arterial, Springfield Lakes, QLD”
- Bend: “Fisherman’s Bend, Balmoral, QLD”
- Concord: “Vassi Concord, Cleveland, QLD”
- Connection: “SR38 - Ipswich-Warrego Hwy Connection, Brassall, QLD”
- Cove: “Trigger Cove, Upper Coomera, QLD”
- Haven: “Crest Haven, Lamb Island, QLD”
- Link: “Flora Link, Springfield Lakes, QLD”
- Row: “Royal Row, Bardon, QLD”
- Straight: “Sovereign Strait, Karalee, QLD”
(These were found with the new WME Street Name Check script. It’s been coded with the abbreviations from the wiki.)
There are others that are quite common here in Brisbane, such as:
- Busway: “Inner Northern Busway”
- Service Road: “Western Service Road”, “High St Service Road”, and so-on.
Can we please consider adding these to the wiki? Here are some proposed abbreviations that do not conflict with the existing set, but I’ve no idea how they would be handled by the turn-by-turn instruction system:
- Arterial = Artl
- Bend = Bend
- Busway = Bswy
- Concord = Cncd
- Connection = Cntn
- Cove = Cove
- Haven = Hvn
- Link = Link
- Row = Row
- Service Road = ? as-is? :?
- Straight = Strt
Thank you.
Agree, good work.
When is that going to be finalised? I’d actually be happy to see less abbreviations and use full words instead, as I suspect some of the existing (and proposed) abbreviations would be difficult for the average wazer to decipher. I’d prefer that the senior editors agree on a set and update the abbreviation list. I’m happy to follow the list - as long as we have a single list that everyone agrees to use as a reference. 
In the meantime, I think a usable solution will be to create a list of suffixes for StreetNameCheck that are not abbreviated so they can be validated. We already have words like this (Lane, Rise, Way, etc…) so I’ll extend this with full names for those shown in the original post.
I cheated and decided to not flag any street that starts with "The ".
if (!street.name.startsWith('The ')) { // ignore names like "The Boulevard".
“Esplanade” shows up a lot - I just ignore it. The editor should always decide for themselves whether to change a highlighted street-name or not. Many can be safely ignored.
Also, for those who use it: v1.23 is the current version.
I just tested TTS for Byps in WME and it failed. I have left the road as Bypass
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Probably a reason to remove that abbreviation from the Wiki.
According to https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/Australia/Abbreviations_and_Acronyms the abbreviation for bypass is ‘Bypa’. This works with TTS.
Sorry, my fault.
Yes Bypa works in TTS. I does look funny though.
I’d suggest that we shouldn’t use abbreviations that the average human on the street is unlikely to recognise. Keep in mind that 99% of Waze users will have never read through a list of standard street type abbreviations, let alone a Waze-specific one.
If an abbreviation makes a road harder to find (because the abbreviation is unintuitive) then any benefit on screen real estate will be heavily outweighed by the lack of usability for people trying to search for their destination.
I think this is sensible. It would also minimise issues with TTS not recognising some of the newer or rarer abbreviations.