If you spot a large town that needs to be renamed, post a request here and we’ll pass it on to Support.
Smaller towns can might get bulk edited by an experienced editor.
As a guideline, if the entire town fits within the screen at zoom level 3, then it can be renamed by ourselves. Any town larger than this is best done by support.
I’m expecting this process to be a slow, background task that we do while working on the daily task of fixing road names and routes. Some cities are in a worse state than others, and will want addressing first (ha ha). The list we give to support is only processed once a month, and the city polygons in the editor less often.
Consider this to be a temporary trial, which we’ll keep going for as long as it seems manageable.
Can I start it by asking for Blackpool to be cleaned up? As there is a small hamlet in Devon with the name Blackpool, I’ll leave it up to the CM’s to decide if a county suffix is needed.
While I’m here moaning, a lot of Lancashire is like this. It’s a hodge-podge of double names and county suffixes. The whole county could do with a clean up. :shock:
I’d like to suggest changing “Crawley (W Sussex)” to plain “Crawley”.
While there are other "Crawley"s in the UK, the others are much smaller. I don’t think they are named on Waze at the moment, but they could be named as “Crawley (Hampshire)” or whatever if required.
I have started to rename cities in my areas and have been using the WME Ext tools to do this. I hadn’t had an issue so far until I noticed that when I try and change “Altrincham (Cheshire)” to just plain “Altrincham” for some reason it changes it after saving to “Hale (Cheshire)”. I hadn’t noticed it do this until I had done the entire town! I don’t think it has anything to do with the tools as the same happens when using WME and doing a single road.
I’ve had a problem in the past when I was renaming Frodsham. I also have problems renaming Llay, Llangollen and Prenton. Basically, I try to rename any of these places, it appears to save correctly but then when I reselect the segment I thought I’d changed, the old place name is still there. :?
The only way I’ve found to change it is to inform support and get them to change it.
Can I also suggest adding Woking, Reigate and Redhill to the list too? They’re all probably big enough to warrant the change.
I’m a bit disappointed though. I spent bloody ages adding the county suffix to big chunks of Surrey.
Just so I’m completely clear: Going forward is it now UK policy to only use the county suffix where there is a duplicate name elsewhere in the country? Or is there a size criterion we’re applying?
I think there’s a bit of size criterion as well. Where there are duplicates, the largest does not need the country suffix.
For example, the town of Preston in Lancashire should not have a suffix, but the various villages of Preston scattered around the country would need suffices.
(That is, villages which are simply “Preston” need a suffix, Preston Candover for example is unique and does not need one).
What advice re the following: Harleston (Norfolk) - should this be renamed to just Harleston? On checking there are:
Harleston SX7945 Devon Devon S Hams
Harleston TM0160 Suffolk Sufflk M Sufflk
Harleston TM2483 Norfolk Norflk S Norflk
How do you tell which is the biggest?
Would be nice to tidy up as on the map we have Harleston, Harleston (Norfolk) and Harleston (Nofolk) - thoughts?
PS: As an aside is there a quick way to identify which roads have the wrong entries (eg Harleston (Nofolk) - without the ‘r’, without having to click on each road?
