Places

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Places is the Waze Point of Interest (POI) system. Places supports two types of POIs: Point and Area.

Point Places create app-searchable POIs with limited rendering on the user's client display. The Point Place may be used for many destinations subject to the table of Place categories and types, but becomes especially useful in situations where the other POI search engines accessed by Waze do not list a desired destination.

Area Places (formerly called Landmarks) serve all the functions of Point Places while providing additional visual orientation cues on the user's client display. Because of their increased visibility and the resulting potential for map clutter, Area Places are easily overused. In principle, if a location is not distinctive and significant enough to orient drivers, it should not be marked with an Area Place. This principle guided the determination of Point vs. Area in the table of Place categories and types. Exceptions include gas stations, which receive special handling.

Point

The Point type of Place is rendered with the following icons:

Standard Point marker pin is purple-ish

The currently selected Point marker will turn blue

Any Point markers which have been edited and not yet saved by you will turn an orange-pink color, just like Area Places and segments.

Location Details

• The Point marker for a Place should be located on or nearest to the segment to which the driver should be navigated. The Point Marker is the stop point.

Area

The Area type of Place is rendered as a polygon. Just like a segment, you can adjust the shape by using the geometry handles. All Area Places in the editor show in pink when not selected and blue-green when selected:

Location Details

• The Area type has a target which is the navigation stop point.
• The target stop point can be moved anywhere within the shape and also a short distance outside the actual Area shape
• The stop point target should be placed on or nearest to the segment to which the driver should be navigated.

Extent

Some locations that qualify for an Area Place may involve one or more structures as well as open space, roads, and parking. In such cases, particularly if these components form a unified complex or campus with an overall identity, the boundaries of the Area Place should encompass the entire property (i.e., "mapped to the fence line"). This ensures that clients render and label the Area Place with the correct significance when viewed with reduced zoom.

Other qualifying Area Places whose property lines are substantially identical with a single destination structure may be drawn, if desired, to approximate the structure's outline or footprint.

The Gas Station and Parking Lot categories of Area Place suppress automated detection of Map Problems and should always be mapped at least to the extent of the drivable area (see Places/Parking lot for more detail on the Parking-Lot Area Place).

Overlap

In some cases an extensive Area Place may contain within it locations that would themselves qualify as Area Places; for example, different medical buildings within a hospital campus or separate malls within a large shopping complex. As of this writing, however, the Waze client renders only the names of subset Area Places and does not show visible boundaries for them. Users therefore cannot visually distinguish Area Places subset within other Area Places.  The subset Area-Place text labels appear, but they "float" amidst an undifferentiated colored background.

Future versions of the Waze client may render overlapping Area Places more usefully. In anticipation of this, qualifying Area Places may be drawn subset within others.  It may be a better approach for the time being to use Point Places for the components of a larger Area Place, unless it is essential that the subset Place names be visible in the current version of the Waze client. If overlapping Area Places do render more usefully in the future, qualifying Point Places may be converted to Area Places at that time.

Client Rendering

As of May 2014, Point Places are not rendered in the Live map, or Client Devices, but are searchable within the app.

Setting the stop point for a Place

Point placement

Point Place marker placed at the front door of a restaurant.

The Point Place is to be placed on or nearest to the segment to which the driver should be navigated. The Waze routing server will navigate the Wazer onto the segment which is physically closest to where the point is placed. Typically, if the Place is inside a building, the marker should be located at or near the location's front door. Think: where would a car stop to drop someone off for this location.

Some Examples

• A building with one Point Place:
  • If there is only one door, place it at that door.
  • If there are multiple doors on the same façade, (like a supermarket,) place it at the point equidistant from and collinear with the two front doors.
  • If there are multiple doors on different façades, (like some mall anchor stores,) if there's no "obvious" front door, place it either at the door facing the largest parking lot, or at the door facing the street on which the street address for that location is.
• A single building with multiple Point Places within:
  • At a strip mall, the "front door" language can still be followed.
  • At a larger mall, put the markers as close as possible to the actual location of the store. This way the user can get an idea where to go, and the routing server can pick the parking lot road actually nearest to that store.
    The caveat is you should use this rule only as long as that doesn't put the point closest to a segment from which the site cannot be accessed. For example if the store is in the back of building, and that would put the point closer to a road segment running behind the building which is not part of the parking lot, then use the front door rule. Otherwise people will be routed to the road behind the building with no way to access the store.
  • Office buildings are a bit tougher, for the caveat just mentioned above. For such an office downtown, people should be led to the front door of the building, since that's the point through which all these offices are actually accessed, and where the car would stop.

Area placement

Here is an example of an Area (a large park in this case) which has an entry road on the east side. The second image is zoomed in on the target to show how this type of Area should have its navigation stop point set.

Wme park place large.png

Wme park place zoom target.png

Area+Point Combinations

There are some situations where it will be appropriate to mix both Area and Point Places. For example, shopping centers and shopping malls where the mall itself could be considered a navigation destination, but there are also individual stores which are also valid for being marked.

A simple shopping center, when mapped in this manner, would look like this:

Multiple categories

• A Place can be assigned to multiple categories
• The Primary Category for a Place must be the first one you enter
• The Primary Category is displayed in a darker shade of blue than the others
• The Primary Category is used to determine whether to use a Point or Area for the Place

Place address detail

Every Place, whether Point or Area, should have as much detail completed as possible. This includes a name, proper categorization, and full street address, city and state. If any Place doesn't have a City or Street, you will need to check the None checkbox.

Here is an example of a Gas Station Area with its details completed:

Additional fields to allow entry of more detail will be coming in future editor releases. (One field available in previous editor releases but not available at this time, is phone number.)

Pemetaan Places

Berikut adalah panduan pemetaan untuk Places, apakah Place tersebut menggunakan titik, area atau tidak perlu dipetakan.

Orang Tua	Kategori	Tipe	Catatan
Car Services	Car Wash	Tidak Perlu
Car Services	Charging Station	Tidak Perlu	Tidak ada di Indonesia
Car Services	Garage/Automotive Shop	Tidak Perlu
Car Services	Gas Station	Area	Banyak SPBU juga memiliki Convenience Store an ATM. Selalu ingat untuk menggunakan tipe "Gas Station" sebagai kategori utama, lalu menambahkan kategori lain yang relevan
Car Services	Parking Lot	Tidak Perlu	There are very few parking lots which should be mapped at all. Please see the Indonesia/Places/Parking lot article.
Transportation	Airport	Area	Special-handling
Transportation	Bridge	Area
Transportation	Bus Station	Area
Transportation	Ferry Pier	Area
Transportation	Junction / Interchange	Area
Transportation	Seaport / Marina / Harbor	Area
Transportation	Subway Station	Tidak Perlu	Belum ada di Indonesia. Jika nanti MRT sudah beroperasi, tipe ini akan ditinjau kembali
Transportation	Taxi Station	Titik	Digunakan untuk pool-pool taksi.
Transportation	Train Station	Area
Transportation	Tunnel	Area
Professional and public	Cemetery	Area
Professional and public	City Hall	Area
Professional and public	College / University	Area
Professional and public	Conventions / Event Center	Area	Size-dependent
Professional and public	Courthouse	Point
Professional and public	Embassy / Consulate	Area
Professional and public	Factory / Industrial	Tidak Perlu
Professional and public	Fire Department	Area
Professional and public	Government	Area
Professional and public	Hospital / Medical Care	Area
Professional and public	Information Point	Tidak Perlu	Tidak ada di Indonesia
Professional and public	Kindergarten	Area	Tipe ini adalah sub-kategori dari "School." Tipe "School" lebih baik digunakan dibandingkan tipe ini.
Professional and public	Library	Area
Professional and public	Military	Tidak Perlu	DILARANG KERAS memetakan daerah-daerah Militer karena daerah-daerah ini adalah daerah yang sangat sensitif dan berbahaya jika dipetakan.
Professional and public	Offices	Area	Dipetakan untuk gedung-gedung tinggi (10 lantai atau lebih)
Professional and public	Organization or Association	Tidak Perlu	Waze adalah aplikasi netral, karena itu sebaiknya organisasi atau asosiasi tidak dipetakan untuk mencegah bias
Professional and public	Police Station	Area
Professional and public	Prison / Correctional Facility	Area
Professional and public	Post Office	Area
Professional and public	Religious Center	Area
Professional and public	School	Area
Shopping and services	Arts & Crafts	Point
Shopping and services	ATM	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Bank / Financial	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Bookstore	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Car Dealership	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Car Rental	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Convenience Store	Tidak Perlu	DILARANG KERAS untuk dipetakan, karena jumlahnya yang terlalu banyak. Petanda-petanda yang ditemukan akan selalu dihapus dari WME
Shopping and services	Currency Exchange	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Department Store	Area
Shopping and services	Electronics	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Fashion and Clothing	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Flowers	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Furniture / Home Store	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Gifts	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Gym/Fitness	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Hardware Store	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Jewelry	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Laundry/Dry Cleaning	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Market	Area
Shopping and services	Music Store	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Personal Care	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Pet Store/Veterinarian	Point
Shopping and services	Pharmacy	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Photography	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Shopping Center	Area
Shopping and services	Sporting Goods	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Supermarket/Grocery	Area	Jika Supermarket/Grocery merupakan bagian dari Shopping Mall/Center yang lebih besar, maka tidak perlu dipetakan
Shopping and services	Swimming Pool	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Toy Store	Tidak Perlu
Shopping and services	Travel Agency	Tidak Perlu
Food and drink	Bakery	Tidak Perlu
Food and drink	Bar	Tidak Perlu
Food and drink	Coffee shop	Tidak Perlu
Food and drink	Dessert	Tidak Perlu
Food and drink	Fast Food	Area
Food and drink	Food Court	Area
Food and drink	Ice Cream	Tidak Perlu
Food and drink	Restaurant	Titik/Area	Tergantung besar restoran tersebut
Culture & entertainment	Art Gallery	Point
Culture & entertainment	Casino	Tidak Perlu	Tidak ada di Indonesia
Culture & entertainment	Club	Point
Culture & entertainment	Game Club	Tidak Perlu	Tidak ada di Indonesia
Culture & entertainment	Movie Theater	Point
Culture & entertainment	Museum	Area
Culture & entertainment	Music Venue	Area
Culture & entertainment	Performing Arts Venue	Area
Culture & entertainment	Racing Track	Area
Culture & entertainment	Stadium/Arena	Area
Culture & entertainment	Theme Park	Area
Culture & entertainment	Theater	Point
Culture & entertainment	Tourist Attraction/Historic Site	Titik/Area	Tergantung luas
Culture & entertainment	Zoo / Aquarium	Area
Other	Construction Site	Area	Harus dipetakan dengan kategori lain
Other	Residence/Home	Area	Digunakan hanya untuk daerah apartemen. Dilarang Keras digunakan untuk memetakan sebuah kompleks perumahan.
Lodging	Bed & Breakfast	Point
Lodging	Camping/Trailer Park	Tidak Perlu	Tidak ada di Indonesia
Lodging	Cottage/Cabin	Tidak Perlu
Lodging	Hostel	Point
Lodging	Hotel	Area
Outdoors	Beach	Area
Outdoors	Golf Course	Area
Outdoors	Park	Area
Outdoors	Playground	Tidak Perlu
Outdoors	Plaza	Tidak Perlu
Outdoors	Promenade	Tidak Perlu
Outdoors	Scenic Lookout/Viewpoint	Point
Outdoors	Ski Area	Tidak Perlu	Tidak ada di Indonesia
Outdoors	Sports Court	Titik/Area
Natural features	Farm	Tidak Perlu	Dilarang dipetakan karena tidak memberikan nilai tambah untuk Wazers
Natural features	Forest/Grove	Area
Natural features	Island	Area
Natural features	River/Stream	Area
Natural features	Sea/Lake/Pond	Area

Parking Lot

The Parking Lot Place marks a well-defined area constructed for off-street public parking, including parking structures and garages as well as at-grade lots. There are many elements that must be considered before deciding to map a parking lot. The details are covered in Places/Parking lot.