If you view the live map with the whole of South Africa, it calls Cape Town Loevinstein?
Why?
How can it be changed?
Why not just call it Slaapstad?
It may be because there are more roads, or more ‘important’ roads in that suburb, so the software defaults to that name.
maybe! :?
When I looked there seemed to be only one road with the name, but I think it was one of the first captured in the Cape Town area
maybe check the ‘city’ name for the roads…that could be it.
I just found the offending road. What was labelled “Road Agulhas” (City: Loevenstein; Street: Aghulas; Suffix: Road) is now labelled “Agulhas Cl” (City: Loevenstein, Cape Town; Street: Aghulas Cl; Suffix: No Type). In time the live map will update itself so that the tiny area around this road should carry the area name “Loevenstein, Cape Town” (in keeping with other Cape Town suburb names) instead of just “Loevenstein”. The road is really old in CT Waze terms having been last edited by biagiodelvecchio in November last year, so I guess it was just one of the very first roads added in & around CT.
Well, not really.
Cape Town is currently called Athlone …
http://world.waze.com/livemap/?zoom=2&lat=-34.9291&lon=24.22224&layers=BTTTT
This is an issue with Waze not supporting a separate suburb entry. I’ve seen mention that suburbs and neighbourhoods will be added soon, but right now we have no way to add this info.
So if the suburb is entered under the city option then you get this sort of effect. Don’t know what system Waze uses to decide which “city” entry it show when you zoom out, but it has no way of knowing that “Cape Town” is the important one.
Hopefully the addition of a way to define suburbs will resolve this eventually
I wonder how long old city data that has no roads associated with it continues to lurk. There are definitely no roads left in Loevinstein, but it still shows up on the live map at https://world.waze.com/livemap/?zoom=7&lat=-33.88662&lon=18.6016&layers=BTTTT. The same applies to Athlone (the single road that was labelled Athlone was corrected a while ago) but you can still see the old label at https://world.waze.com/livemap/?zoom=7&lat=-33.97791&lon=18.47569&layers=BTTTTT and in the same view you can see where Waze currently thinks the centre of “Cape Town” is (somewhere in Newlands). I’m still hoping that in time Loevinstein, Athlone, Bellville and my personal nemesis “Newlands (Cape Town)” will disappear from the map, but who know how long that will take, and which of the many Cape Town suburb names Waze will pick to represent the city when you zoom right out to the level in alan_zimm’s link.
:idea: I hope Waze will allow us to define suburbs by drawing areas on the map (like for landmarks). That would not only be cool, but it would also mean that we won’t have to update individual roads with suburb names. The road inherits the suburb name :idea:
Since when is Cape Town in the Eastern Cape :geek: 