Hi,

I know as far as the SA naming guide goes the following applies:
the City is the suburb followed by the city: Suburb, City

The issue with Durbanville in Cape Town is that everyone knows it as Durbanville and VERY few people know the suburbs, so for example, the current naming guide requires the following:

Claasens Avenue, Skoongesig, Durbanville, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

to be

Street Name: Claasens Ave
City: Skoongesig, Cape Town,
Country: South Africa

If you ask someone in Cape Town where 'Durbanville' is, they would likely be able to tell you, if you ask them where any suburb of Durbanville is, almost no one would know.

My question:
Should I change the primary city name to 'Durbanville, Cape Town' and put as an alternative name the sub suburb? or must I conform to the standard of 'Skoongesig, Cape Town' and as an alternative name 'Durbanville, Cape Town'

This is a big thing with most of the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town (Durbanville, Bellville, Kraaifontein, Brackenfell, ....) where people know those areas by those names and not as much by the subdistrics. where as the southern suburbs, there are few to no 'sub-suburbs': people know claremont, rondebosch, wetton, ottery, ... by those names. The same goes for central Cape Town and the Western suburbs (around blougerg, table view, ...)

At the moment, there is only a small portion of Durbanville that actually still shows up as Durbanville on the wase map because the sub-suburb is not used on those names, and if I change that to use the correct suburb, there would be no 'Durbanville' tag displayed in that area... which seems completely wrong.

forgot to add:

Someone else suggested / asked if waze handles correctly if you add alternative names like so:

Cape Town is listed as the City;
Durbanville is listed as an alternative name for all Durbanville roads;
Skoongesig is listed as a second alternative name for all skoongesig roads.

I doubt that this would be the case, but I have to ask.

The entire point of Waze is to be able to go and fix the areas you aren't satisfied with and not just put up with it like you have to with some other services... and this district, suburb naming thing has been bugging me for a while now.