Pardon me in advance, I’m guessing this has been addressed but I couldn’t find it, though I did try, I’m new. I started doing some map editing around the town I grew up, Hingham, Massachusetts. What is the reasoning behind the naming or designation of town borders within a border, creating for example, “Hingham,” and then a broader, “Greater Hingham Area?” All of the town is incorporated under one set of definitive borders; it’s not like there is an unincorporated section, nor are there districts defined by zip code. I started changing the street names which are listed as being in the town of Greater Hingham Area (since there’s no such thing) to simply, Hingham, until I realized how extensive this problem is. There is only the Town of Hingham, and no such thing as Greater Hingham Area. I noticed the same thing with Scituate, Massachusetts, also a single town entity, not having a distinct, “Greater Scituate Area.” Thank you.
Known issue…
There is (was) a City Name change thread somewhere in the forums, but I can’t find it right now…
HOWEVER, this gets much more complicated when you start getting into Alt-Names and Neighborhood/Community/Postal names. Using your Scituate, MA example, there is no Town of “North Scituate” (http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cispdf/City_Town_Map.pdf), but people could have a mailing address of “North Scituate”. The Primary City Name on those segments should be “Scituate” and there should be an Alt-Name of “North Scituate”.
I’ve been working on fixing the names in CT for months & every time I get the list close to being finished, we find another issue.
Any update on merging these city names? I agree with Guttersniper that there is no value having “Hingham” and “Greater Hingham Area”. This probably is because CDPs were used to set up the original borders, see here: (http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/tract/st25_ma/c25023_plymouth/DC10CT_C25023_001.pdf).
These CDP distinctions are not commonly used and can lead to confusion in the waze client.
This also goes for many other nearby MA towns including:
[Scituate, North Scituate, Greater Scituate Area] = “Scituate”
[Marshfield, Marshfield Hills, Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Green Harbor-Cedar Crest, Greater Marshfield Area] = “Marshfield”
[Duxbury, South Duxbury, Greater Duxbury Area] = “Duxbury”
[Kingston, Greater Kingston Area] = “Kingston”
[Pembroke, North Pembroke] = “Pembroke”
[Hanson, Greater Hanson Area] = “Hanson”
[Plymouth, North Plymouth, White Island Shores, Greater Plymouth Area] = “Plymouth”
[West Wareham, Wareham Center, East Wareham, Onset, Weweantic] = “Wareham”
[Bourne, Buzzards Bay, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, Sagamore Beach, Cataumet, Greater Bourne Area] = “Bourne”
Should this form be used? (City Merge/Change/Remove) (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jP38BrXfr9VUAk1V1D34MUZCuWPuuFr8LTrVNhR4W_8/viewform)
Who needs to decide on the elimination of some or all of the CDP names and consolidation to the commonly used town/city names (which AndyPoms included in a link above)? My vote is to consolidate to the town/city names and eliminate the CDP names which are not commonly used.
We’re still working through some issues with the City/Town Cleanup in CT - once we get it finished we’ll know if we can preserve those commonly used CDPs with Alt-Names automatically (like we were originally told we could) or if we can’t.
Can’t you use the Toolbox plugin and create a landmark and then use “select in landmark” and carefully mass edit the city name all at once?
If you can, I sincerely hope it’s limited to higher ranked senior editors only…
Is THIS what you were looking for, Andy?
As noted free reign for all to mass change city names could be a problem. Thus, waze doesn’t do anything with the information submitted on that form (at least if you indicate the country as US) unless you have a special pin code to enter or someone with access to the US Country Management spreadsheet confirms the information. So anyone submitting city changes on that forum should likely also contact a Champ to confirm the submission.