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I saw DISH, Tx on the map in north Texas. I edited up and even went to change the town name from "DISH" to "Dish." Everything was fine and dandy, so I thought, until the next day when I noticed everything was back to "DISH." I went back to fix it again, and noticed that Waze was not allowing the change. After clicking SAVE on multiple road segments, I realized it wasn't saving and I have no clue what's going on. I thought maybe it was just my laptop, or something on my end, but LittlestLou had the same problem, so now I'm posting it here to see if there is a fix to this or if anyone else knows what's going on.

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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
Was this just today? Because a day or two ago, or over the weekend, there was a sync error problem where changes didn't appear to be saving, but were, but didn't reflect when you refreshed the map area.
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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
I submitted a ticket for this already. I had to go do some realwork stuff and didn't get back to this thread quickly.
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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
I've asked that they update the city table specifically just to see if that gets it done properly.
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Post by AlanOfTheBerg
Update complete. Even the City layer looks to be updated.
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Post by bz2012
txemt wrote:
jondrush wrote:Did you save a spelling change first?
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By spelling change, do you mean changing it to something like 'Spoon' and then back to 'Dish'?
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AlanOfTheBerg wrote:Update complete. Even the City layer looks to be updated.
Are you referring to the NA Server Alan?

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Post by fvwazing
This is an age-old bug. There is no distinction between citynames that differ in capitalization only. The first time you use a cityname it better be capitalized correct, or else you are stuck with it. Removing it from the map does not help because Waze never forgets a (misspelled) cityname. It will always be proposed again when editing in that area.
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Post by jondrush
Sometimes databases don't recognize a change in capitalization as something needing a save. Save everything as a different spelling, then change it back to the correct capitalization.
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Did you save a spelling change first?
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Post by jondrush
Yep. Even Dsh should work.
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