"N st" vs "North st", spoken street name abbreviations

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Is there something I need to do to have waze differentiate between “N” & “North” when editing roads?
The client frequently calls “N st” “North Street” erroneously…
I don’t know if “S st” translates to “South street”, “E st” to “East street”, etc…
If it’s stuck at N->North; I propose the following:
a) Change the model for naming abbreviations to use a period after each abbreviation, eg: “N.” as “North”.
b) Have waze push a DB change to rename current abbreviations “N”, etc to “N.”, etc.

This actually brings me to my second question: Is there a list on the wiki of what gets verbally translated at the client side to what?
N->North
Bus->Business
rd->Road
…

And my final question: How can one get a naming convention added?
Co->County
CR->County Road
Prky->Parkway (This one may actually already exist)

PS: I tried searching the forums for this, but the search function suxors…

2

Known issues which we users want to push for a discussion with Waze staff at the meeting in January.

Also try searching for “TTS” (Text to Speech).

3

Maybe try these street names is quotes?

“N” St
“S” St

Yes, will look a bit odd but may be worth trying one to see how the TTS responds.

4

Doesn’t look that odd. We have a local municipality that has both a Jay St and a J St. The signs for the latter read ‘J’ Street.

Not that it helps in any way in the pronunciation, but single quotes are actually used on the signs.

5

Single quote seems like another option to try. Surely no standard across every local government, city, or state though.

6

According to the wiki http://es.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Known_issues we should not use quotes.

as they are “not handled correctly” in Cartouche.
Is this still applicable?

7

I took that to mean that you shouldn’t have a street name with both single and double quotes. Such as
Bob “Squeaky” Abercrombie’s Ln

8

No it was ANY use at all. I ran into this old Cartouche bug with landmarks often. You’d put something in like this:
World’s Fair Park
Which would then become:
World/'s Fair Park
Then if you edit ANYTHING, even geometry, it would then become:
World///'s Fair Park
And so on.

It was a problem where things were getting escaped for the database, but then not sanitized going back to the client. So the single quote and any slashes would each keep getting escaped over and over again.

All that said, I am not sure if it is still a problem in the old editor. I don’t think it is a problem in the new editor.

9

Although I suspect the single quote gets pronounced as ‘raised to the power…’ by the TTS. So I would try the standard quotation marks first - "

10

Has this been fixed? It’s driving me crazy where I live… I’ve updated the map to show “N” St, do you know is this is the fix?

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BTW the standard abbreviation in general and as used in Waze for Parkway is Pkwy not Prky.