Village Name

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I live in a small village in Wales called Pontneddfechan but on the Waze Map it is listed by the name of the neighboring village of Ystradfellte. I have been looking for a way to update this but cannot seem to do this. How would you go about correcting the name of the village?

Thanks

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Hi there, and welcome to the forums!

That’s quite a mess! Ystradfellte may be “the neighboring village” but it’s not very close. That city name should never have been applied this far south.

Only L4+ editors can create new city names, which I have done on one segment in Pontneddfechan. You can now change the city name on all the other segments there - and get the editing credits yourself! :smiley:

I can see that Pontneddfechan needs a bit of work still doing on it. I would suggest you take a look at the UK Wiki (link in my signature) and, in particular, the Quick Start Editing Guide. I’ll give you a couple of quick starters though:

  • SHIFT-Z toggles the editor between 2 modes: “show all turn arrows for the currently selected segment” and “show all red arrows on the screen”. If you switch to the second mode, you will see quite a few red arrows that shouldn’t be red. :wink:
  • The loop at the eastern end of Dinas Road isn’t closed - this segment isn’t actually connected at node A
  • Just to the SE of that, you have a Y-split at the end of a road. You really don’t need to split road ends like that unless the Y is very large. Waze will still give the same instructions with a T junction and it’s much easier to maintain

Feel free to ask any questions here, or in the Editor Chat. :mrgreen: