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Status of road mapping in Jamaica

Post by woodvale
I'm happy to report I believe that, now, all main roads are mapped accurately.

Highway 2000 - all locked at Level 5
T1 - Caymanas - Spanish Town - Old Harbour - May Pen (- Toll Gate - Williamsfield (tbc))
T2 - Portmore Toll Road
T3 - Caymanas Park - Angels - Linstead - Moneague - Golden GFrove - Mammee Bay

A-roads - all locked at Level 4
A1 - Kingston - Spanish Town - Linstead - Moneague - St. Ann's Bay - Montego Bay - Lucea - Negril
A2 - Spanish Town - Old Harbour - May Pen - Williamsfield - Santa Cruz - Black River - Savanna La Mar - Negril
A3 - Kingston - Constant Spring - Castleton - Annotto Bay - Port Maria - Ocho Rios - Moneague or Mammee Bay
A4 - Kingston - Morant Bay - Manchioneal - Port Antonio - Buff Bay - Annotto Bay

B-roads are mapped and locked at Level 3.

If you need to make a change to a road which is locked above your editor level, please request a downlock with reasons in the Editor Requests sub-forum.

01-May-2023 updated to document T1 extension and T2

 
 
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Post by clubtratech
In februari I will visit jamaica (roadtrip) I found an error ... please connect , thanks
https://www.waze.com/nl/editor/?env=row ... =281372067
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Post by woodvale
Thanks, fixed. Those sort of errors are difficult to spot, thanks for finding it!
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Post by woodvale
Thanks for your message. Can I ask your source for that information?

To be honest, I can't remember my source for the designation, but it may have been influenced by my seeing it on road signs, I think, at the northern end of Melrose Hill when I was driving from Spaldings to Mandeville a few years ago. Unfortunately, the segment history available to me only goes back about 18 months, and it's been designated the B4 on the Waze map from before then.

Google Maps shows that Melrose Hill is the B4, but I don't know the source of that - it may have been the Waze map!

Parish maps which used to be available on the NWA website are quite out of date and show the layout pre-Melrose Hill Bypass where it is, of course, the A2. I know of no other official sources that don't use Google Maps as a basis, apart from eLandJamaica, which shows it as the B4, and I would accept that as the only definitive source that I've found.

A tip for the future - to post a report at the exact location of the problem, you can open the Live Map and left-click at the specific location you want to flag up an issue. One of the options is to report a problem.
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Post by woodvale
Thanks for getting back. Rather than continuing this thread, can I suggest either emailing me with problems you find, or adding new posts to the Editor Requests sub-forum? My email is woodvale.waze@gmail.com

I've changed the city name for all roads that were Kingsland Meadows (I think named that way by the original editor (working from Indonesia) when Waze first got volunteers to add roads to Waze in Jamaica, as there was no importable base map available) to Moorlands Estate. It'll take a few days for this to change in the app, and probably some weeks before the City layer updates to show the new city name in WME.

I'll look at extending Perth Rd later, and also compare the area with the eLandjamaica mapping.

You've added a number of roads to the map - great, thanks! Can you please ensure that you give them street names and city names, or tick the box to say noname, otherwise they stay red in WME and can't be used for navigation.
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Post by world_iind8m0q
All the B4 segments from Melrose Hill to Shooters Hill are incorrectly labeled. These are not a part of B4 at all. Melrose Hill was originally part of A2 before the Melrose Hill Bypass was built in the 1990s. B4 is that minor highway that connects B3 and B5. Please correct it as I can't make those edits in waze as I can in openstreetmaps (DentyCracker)
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Post by world_iind8m0q
I live near Mandeville. These are roads that I travel regularly. One can also check the Wikipedia listing as well. OSM has all of the B roads correctly labeled. I was a part of fixing that, based on the old road maps from the eighties, when the B roads were in better condition and used more frequently.There are some other errors that I cannot fix as I have not driven through the areas using waze. Moorlands Estate is incorrectly labeled as Kingsland Meadows, and Perth Road continues past Balvenie Drive until the roundabout. I am interested in fixing my neck of the woods in waze as my new car has Android auto and I find waze more accurate and easier to make changes than Google maps for Jamaica
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