Waze does not support area names

Map Editors Community India
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I think most cities in India are divided into areas(like Shivajinagar(in Bangalore/Pune), Worli(in Mumbai), etc.). However the street addresses in Waze do not have area field. Instead of seeing area names at certain zoom levels of cities, I see factory/company names! Like

  • Golden Chemicals, Crompton Greaves in Mumbai
  • Kirloskar, Cummins in Pune
  • BEML, Amco in Bangalore
    Apparently these names are not single points/landmarks in waze but generated based on the city names of the streets in the maps. When I checked out a few of these names in Bangalore, I realised that a few streets in a single area are marked with these factory/company names in the city field :!: This is obviously misuse of city field and useless for lesser known names but may be useful for really popular names.

In general, I would expect area names at these zoom levels. How are editors on these forums handling these? Removing these bad city names?

How do we get area names support in waze?

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While I would not claim this as a best practice, this is what I do

  1. For areas in Greater Kolkata - I use the city/town/village names as the city name (E.g. New Town, Barrackpore, Narendrapur, etc… in and around Kolkata

  2. For important crossings/traffic island, I create a small landmark (E.g PNB Island)

Anything bigger would probably not help in navigation. However, maybe it still would make sense to some users. Try raising it in the waze uservoice