Landmarks?
I have been adding local businesses as landmarks (I've done maybe a dozen or so). Is that the correct to update/add to the POI database? Just wanted to make sure before I did any more of them
Right now 100% google, bing, 4sq, yp, yelp.nathan_wv wrote:Is there any way I can help up the POI database? Or is that 100% 3rd party sourced (not crowd sourced)?
Clutter the map. And, it's not about "harm" but about "lack of good." Unless it's a major building, public building like a school, park, etc., there's no point of having it in Waze that I can see.gordonski wrote:Just asking out of curiosity: What harm do these landmarks do?
I am sure Waze great plans for them, but other sources are much more mature and easily available from the app. Perhaps they have plans again for the future, but IMO, they should remove 90% of the types for new landmarks.DTF69 wrote:Why do we have all the options for landmarks if we don't use them???
Check out the discussion over here: viewtopic.php?f=276&t=26005 and weigh in with your thoughts...mtlgab wrote:Any new editor would see that as an invitation to create all landmarks as they are available from the interface drop down menu for landmark type. That list is extensive, and yes a Store/Stall would be a valid choice. As would shopping Centers, however small they may be.
We need better rules.
Just asking out of curiosity: What harm do these landmarks do?mapcat wrote:I would. Leaving them there would encourage others to start adding more.TruckOttr wrote:There are a lot of businesses that have been marked as landmarks. Should editors be deleting them as we come across them?
If they're all the work of the same person, you may wish to send a note first explaining why they don't belong on the maps.
This is actually a pretty fair point. Waze has never routed me into a shopping center, even though Parking Lot Roads exist that lead to a specific store I may searched for.Karrows wrote:I like having them on the map and find them useful myself, and I think usability is the most important thing to focus on for waze. If I'm going to walmart or whatever other oversized retail giant, waze sometimes only directs me to the road in front of the store. But the store could be 1/2 mile off the road with the enormousness of the parking lots. If it shows up on the map, I know for sure where it is and what side of the road. So I like to mark the giant retail places as a parking lot landmark. Then also it fixes all the problem reports of people who go into the store with waze still on their phone, and prevents parking lot drivers showing up as traffic jams. That's enough resons to do it for me.mapcat wrote:If they appear on the client, they should be correct. Which means AMs would need to maintain them.gordonski wrote:Just asking out of curiosity: What harm do these landmarks do?
Businesses open and close all the time. When do you change them, and when do you delete them?
If there are 100 restaurants in the city, and only 50 show on the map, shouldn't the owners of the other 50 complain that Waze is treating the others better, giving them free advertising, or otherwise being unfair? Even the ones whose stores are physically too small to show?
How many more reasons do you want?
If a company decides to advertise on Waze, I have no problem with their stores being shown on the map for as long as they're paying for the advertising. But anyone else, no.
If a business complains they are not a landmark in waze, they can log in themselves and fix it.
I like having them on the map and find them useful myself, and I think usability is the most important thing to focus on for waze. If I'm going to walmart or whatever other oversized retail giant, waze sometimes only directs me to the road in front of the store. But the store could be 1/2 mile off the road with the enormousness of the parking lots. If it shows up on the map, I know for sure where it is and what side of the road. So I like to mark the giant retail places as a parking lot landmark. Then also it fixes all the problem reports of people who go into the store with waze still on their phone, and prevents parking lot drivers showing up as traffic jams. That's enough resons to do it for me.mapcat wrote:If they appear on the client, they should be correct. Which means AMs would need to maintain them.gordonski wrote:Just asking out of curiosity: What harm do these landmarks do?
Businesses open and close all the time. When do you change them, and when do you delete them?
If there are 100 restaurants in the city, and only 50 show on the map, shouldn't the owners of the other 50 complain that Waze is treating the others better, giving them free advertising, or otherwise being unfair? Even the ones whose stores are physically too small to show?
How many more reasons do you want?
If a company decides to advertise on Waze, I have no problem with their stores being shown on the map for as long as they're paying for the advertising. But anyone else, no.
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