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Hi guys!

We're doing some work to update the cities in Canada.

The following cities seem to be wrong names from the original basemap.

We'd like to remove them. The meaning is that all their segments will be no longer associated to any city.
(the city field in the editor will be empty).

Could you please let us know if any of the following is an actual Canadian city name?

Thanks!

Shirli


District of Thunder Bay
District of Kenora
District of Sudbury
Mackenzie County
District of Cochrane
Greenview No. 16, M.D. of
District of Algoma
Opportunity No. 17, M.D. of
Northern Sunrise County
Yellowhead County
I.D. No. 24 Wood Buffalo
Clear Hills County
Clearwater County
Big Lakes, M.D. of
Cypress County
Northern Lights No. 22, M.D. of
District of Nipissing
District of Rainy River
Lesser Slave River No. 124, M.D. of
Lac La Biche County
Woodlands County
Forty Mile No. 8, County of
District of Timiskaming
Athabasca No. 12, County of
Grande Prairie No. 1, County of
Saddle Hills County
Vermilion River No. 24, County of
Bonnyville No. 87, M.D. of
Newell No. 4, County of
Vulcan County
Rocky View County
Wheatland County
Willow Creek No. 26, M.D. of
Wainwright No. 61, M.D. of
Red Deer County
Wetaskiwin No. 10, County of
St. Paul No. 19, County of
Flagstaff County
Beaver County
Stettler No. 6, County of
Warner No. 5, County of
Provost No. 52, M.D. of
Taber, M.D. of
Mountain View County
Camrose County
Lac Ste. Anne County
Kneehill County
Paintearth No. 18, County of
Cardston County
Kananaskis I.D.
Foothills No. 31, M.D. of
Minburn No 27, County of
Westlock County
Brazeau County
Two Hills No. 21, County of
Lacombe County
Smoky Lake County
Birch Hills County
Leduc County
Parkland County
Ponoka County
Lethbridge, County of
Smoky River No. 130, M.D. of
Pincher Creek No. 9, M.D. of
Lamont County
District of Parry Sound
Barrhead No. 11, County of
Bighorn No. 8, M.D. of
I.D. No. 12 Jasper Park
Starland County
Sturgeon County
Ranchland No. 66, M.D. of
I.D. No. 9 Banff
Thorhild No. 7, County of
Fairview No. 136, M.D. of
Strathcona County
Acadia No. 34, M.D. of
Peace No. 135, M.D. of
Spirit River No. 133, M.D. of
District of Manitoulin
I.D. No. 4 Waterton
I.D. No. 13 Elk Island

A good number of these are in southern alberta, but, like doktor, i'm left wondering if we are removing all the county designations then?

Most of these are municipal districts that arise from another city, but is a larger geographical area around that city, for example:

Lethbridge, County of
This contains the city of Lethbridge, AB, but also many other locations, the towns of Coalhurst, Coaldale, Picture Butte, Nobleford, Barons, and probably a dozen smaller communities such as Chin, Diamond City, Fairview, Iron Springs, Shaughnessy, Monarch and Turin. It also covers hundreds of km of land outside of those towns and the city of Lethbridge.

For navigation I'm not sure it really means one hill of beans, as each of the places inside would have its own town names, unless, as doktor fears, there is a check at the street level about too many places with the same street name existing.

If we are removing these types of designations, it seems to me that these are all OK to do so within ALBERTA as they all follow the same pattern of being a municipal district.

This gives a better, more accurate description of these entities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mu ... in_Alberta


Acadia No. 34, M.D. of
Athabasca No. 12, County of
Barrhead No. 11, County of
Beaver County
Bighorn No. 8, M.D. of
Big Lakes, M.D. of
Birch Hills County
Bonnyville No. 87, M.D. of
Brazeau County
Camrose County
Cardston County
Clear Hills County
Clearwater County
Cypress County
Fairview No. 136, M.D. of
Flagstaff County
Foothills No. 31, M.D. of
Forty Mile No. 8, County of
Grande Prairie No. 1, County of
Greenview No. 16, M.D. of
Kneehill County
Lac La Biche County
Lac Ste. Anne County
Lacombe County
Lamont County
Leduc County
Lesser Slave River No. 124, M.D. of
Lethbridge, County of
Minburn No 27, County of
Mountain View County
Newell No. 4, County of
Northern Lights No. 22, M.D. of
Northern Sunrise County
Opportunity No. 17, M.D. of
Paintearth No. 18, County of
Parkland County
Peace No. 135, M.D. of
Pincher Creek No. 9, M.D. of
Ponoka County
Provost No. 52, M.D. of
Ranchland No. 66, M.D. of
Red Deer County
Rocky View County
Saddle Hills County
Smoky Lake County
Smoky River No. 130, M.D. of
Spirit River No. 133, M.D. of
St. Paul No. 19, County of
Starland County
Stettler No. 6, County of
Sturgeon County
Taber, M.D. of
Thorhild No. 7, County of
Two Hills No. 21, County of
Vermilion River No. 24, County of
Vulcan County
Warner No. 5, County of
Westlock County
Wetaskiwin No. 10, County of
Wheatland County
Willow Creek No. 26, M.D. of
Woodlands County
Yellowhead County

Further, Alberta is also home to Improvement Districts which are on your list. Again in terms of navigation purposes, I really don't feel these are important to be designated on the map, unless there is a street level control check. These mostly are areas surrounding parks, both national and provicincial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... _districts

From your post, these would include:

I.D. No. 24 Wood Buffalo
Kananaskis I.D.
I.D. No. 12 Jasper Park
I.D. No. 9 Banff
I.D. No. 4 Waterton
I.D. No. 13 Elk Island

I believe that leaves you with only the "District of ... " entries on your list to categorize/sort out. I cannot speak to most of those as they are outside of Alberta.

I'm so glad to hear province support is being actively worked on. Hope the list of Alberta ones helps out!

Is there a way to fix multiple city names for one city?

For example, in my attached screenie, you'll see 2 names for Lethbridge, but there are actually 3 lurking around.

Lethbridge, AB
Lethbridge, Canada
Lethbridge, AB, Canada

https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=3&lon ... TTTTTTTFTT

try that

Hi shirlig,

I noticed a bunch of those from around Alberta.

Some of these areas (e.g. ID 9 Banff) relate to an area outside the township limits, but inside the "Improvement District" -- are you wanting to do away with county declarations (for rural areas) and such?

Also, I wonder about the repercussions of eliminating the city name -- will we have errors about streets being elsewhere (and too far away)?

Since we don't have province definitions available, it seems like this might be premature...

sagi wrote:

invented wrote:these are actual places.

They are all actual places, question is are they a town/city or just a region? To be more accurate, should any of these appear in a standard address line, in the slot where one specifies the town/city?

Well, that's an interesting question.

It is unlikely that any of the Alberta ones would show up on an address line -- but *something* would. And the county name is a lot more descriptive than not having a city declared...

For example, the "Leduc County" one would likely have either Leduc, Nisku, Beaumont or any of the other list of communities / localities found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leduc_Coun ... localities -- but does it really make sense to go and find the limits for each of these places just to have the "City" field not say "County"?

james8970 wrote: The 'something' that would appear would be a box number, I've never understood why the county/RM/ID was never listed when mentioning an address of someone outside of a town/city.

That's not necessarily true when we're talking about a street address (as opposed to mailing).

19250 Township Rd 440, Edberg, AB should be at the "A" point here: http://goo.gl/maps/FGvwf

Despite the fact that it's WELL outside of the Township of Edberg (point "B" on the same map).

While were on the topic of being out in the boonies, is there any way that Waze could look into modifying the 'dirt road/4x4 segment' type to something like 'unpaved road'? Currently there are no options for gravel roads so we are being forced to group gravel roads into the dirt road segment type when Waze is trying to route people off highways onto gravel roads unnecessary.

According to the notes from Meetup 2013 ( viewtopic.php?f=129&t=42406 ):

Decisions Made
[*]Remove US Service Road type: routes the same as street and its use is confusing and redundant. Plan is for Waze to identify these segments, prepare the code to do the mass change and get approval from Champs to proceed. To be removed from WME at the same time.
[*]Rename US "Dirt/4x4" road type to "Unpaved" for clarity.
[*]Create new US "4x4/Offroad" road type as Waze wants all paths of vehicle traffic, no matter how remote or how its used, to be mapped.

adetia wrote:Is there a way to fix multiple city names for one city?

For example, in my attached screenie, you'll see 2 names for Lethbridge, but there are actually 3 lurking around.

Lethbridge, AB
Lethbridge, Canada
Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Hi Adetia,

If you can send me the permalink, I'll clear that up, then get it on my list of smudges for removal by Waze staff.