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New WME and Places (UK)

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I see we now have a new version of WME which appears to include Places in lieu of Landmarks.

For those in the UK who rarely look at other parts of the forum, have a look at this post and then have a read of the wiki linked to from there for a full explanation.



[Edited once I'd read the top level announcement myself :oops: ]

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Haha, I had one yesterday that was up-side-down. Not quite as amusing as the cat though!
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Post by cew118
Is this a different dimension? was that light in the sky when we was driving last night a wormhole? aliens? dare i even say it.... Germans!? my WME :'(
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Post by cew118
This road i will be over the next few days/week or so be fully dotting the full street under this new places feature as an example. How's It Look?

Thoughts/comment's welcome!

Thank's
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Post by cew118
ditchi56 wrote: To be honest, I think it's too much work. I can't see myself putting that much effort into labelling every public building (e.g. shop) even in my own home town, never mind the rest of my AM area.
I'm only doing that road as an example.
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I have read the documentation on this feature and i know that all them dot's i'm putting up will not show up on the client.

I Very much agree that i will not be doing this for everywhere around Wigan or hindley (i might put MOT/Carwash/car workshops in on the fly) and having read the doc's and had a look around my area to implement this i think its a stupid idea, i agree that map clutter is bad but the client has bing and google for searchable stuff.

The area feature where you get to point where it will navigate people, it may increase the need for parking lot roads but Asda here always routed me to a differn't car park

edit- i've finished with this, it'll make the area unworkable with the places layer on (which i like)
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Last edited by cew118 on Fri May 30, 2014 8:49 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Post by cew118
on this example the better place to park would be https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=7&lat ... =252335942 so would i move the dot to that car park?

I also think that navigating to a lake area is good, but pointing the marker to the nearest car park, navigating to a river would be harder, unless you marked all the car parks down it... https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=7&lat ... 06.2795970
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Last edited by cew118 on Sat May 31, 2014 12:18 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by CTCNetwork
Hi,

It would be interesting to see what shows up in the client when you add a "Morrisons Customer Car Park" as a place. I know that the landmark for the parking area will show along with the text "[P] Morrisons" (if that is what it is called). Handy as I'll see roughly where I need to be heading.

Do remember that not all users are using Waze for Navigation as they likely know where they are going. I get the feeling Waze is starting to treat it's users like children, or worse, idiots.

Des. . . ;)
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Post by CTCNetwork
Hi,

Something that was mentioned as a possibility was to set Uk English as default for the users in the UK rather than just plain English.

I have been using Uk English for months now but for every email of a comment I get the standard link (not Uk English one) and for all those permalinks in the Unlock forum (and elsewhere). :)

I suspect that the emailed links can be changed by changing the default Uk language.

Des. . . ;)
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Post by CTCNetwork
Hi,

I have disapproved several, including one of someone's drive from their front room! Even had one upside down!
I suspect that the only reasonable way to add these locations is to actually park, get out of the car and get a decent photo of what it is you are actually trying to photograph!

Des. . . ;)
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Post by CTCNetwork
Hi,

Sometimes I really do wonder what people are doing...
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Post by Dave2084
Please bear in mind that specific guidance for places in the UK has not yet been finalised so the UK wiki still needs to be updated.

If there is anything that is at odds between the old UK landmarks wiki guidance and the generic (and mostly North America based) places wiki it would be a good idea to discuss here first.
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