How can you split a road? How can you cut a road into two sections? I need to do this often but can’t figure out how. If you have a 15-mile windy, curvy dessert road and you want to change the name of the last mile. That 15 mile road is connected to other roads at both ends. The only way I have been able to do it is to painstakingly remove all 15 miles of road, and then draw it correctly with the correct names. If I could just cut it where the road changes names and rename that last mile that is supposed to have a different name I would be all set.
Here is one example that I have tried to do the long and hard way only to not have Google accept it.
Division Road, a hundred feet west of this place/pindrop, is supposed to go 2 houses further North than how Google has it. Google shows that it ends at Newberry Ave. but it is supposed to go two more house to the north. Basically the point where Division Road ends and Bayside Ave. starts needs to be two houses further to the north. I need to extend Division Rd., and shrink Bayside Ave. I spoke to the two families that live in those two houses and they said that it messes up deliveries and visitors. They are officially located on Division Rd, but Google maps shows them as being on Bayside Ave.
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Then there are two more options:
You may need to rename the road. You can do this in the road editor please use a desktop for this.
Or you may need to have the access pointS of the addresses moved. This is not something you can do. Please seek help on this in the Maps support forum.
Cheers
Morten
I can not advise further as you have not shared the Maps links to the places.
I shared a map link in my initial post. Is that what you are saying I didn’t share? Or is it something else you are speaking of?
Here is the last half of my initial post with a map link at the end:
"Here is one example that I have tried to do the long and hard way only to not have Google accept it.
Division Road, a hundred feet west of this place/pindrop, is supposed to go 2 houses further North than how Google has it. Google shows that it ends at Newberry Ave. but it is supposed to go two more house to the north. Basically the point where Division Road ends and Bayside Ave. starts needs to be two houses further to the north. I need to extend Division Rd., and shrink Bayside Ave. I spoke to the two families that live in those two houses and they said that it messes up deliveries and visitors. They are officially located on Division Rd, but Google maps shows them as being on Bayside Ave.
@Shanephilip , I have tried to check the situation. Are you talking about the point marked with the arrow?
The minimum portion of a road that you can select is a segment. A segment is the part of the road between two intersections.
In your case, as Bayside Avenue has no intersections, you can only select the whole road.
Road mapper is evolving day by day, so maybe in the future we will be able also to select a smaller portion, but actually we don’t have this possibility.
Deleting the whole road doesn’t seems to be an acceptable option. I have tried to delete at least hundred road but, even with the evidence of the satellite view, all my edits about deleting roads were not accepted, and in your case the sat view deny your edit.
Is the walkway on the left side publicly accessible? if so you can add it first. On the big red square I have highlighted it, but I am not going to submit my edit, because I have no idea if it is public or private. If it is public, once approved you will be able to select only the segment on the SE side, and rename it
This is the only way we can do this with Road Editor. In the future I hope in more changes and additional functions. For sure I will keep Connect informed when something new will appear.
There are of course other options, but not through Road Editor:
The County can submit the change through the Maps Content Partners . Changes submitted in this way are applied in a very short time
You can write on the Google Maps Help Community, sharing an official public Maps issued by a Local Autority, and asking them to escalate the issue, but this will take more time
If I rename the road, it will rename that entire segment. I need the first 95% of the road segment to remain the same name “Bayside Ave.”, but I need the last 5% to be a different name.
FYI, I do 100% of my road work with a desktop PC.
The four digit address is located directly in the center of the house as I would think it should be. The location looks good to me. I am not sure what the “access points of the address” is though. That is new to me.
Thank you, that makes sense to me. That sidewalk is public and about where the two roads join. I will add the sidewalk, and if it gets accepted, I will use the fact that the sidewalk road will “cut” the driving road in two at that point. I think I understand it now. I don’t know why they haven’t given us the cut tool yet. Software-wise, one guy could program that in half a day’s time.
Your response was great and super clear. Thanks for the extra work!
I added the sidewalk and submitted it. I won’t find out for a while if it is accepted. A lot of my road edits aren’t approved period, but the few that are usually don’t get accepted until 2-4 weeks later. I have forgotten about them often by the time they are accepted and then the email for some reason doesn’t have a link or button to see the work they are approving, you can only look at a static screen snippet of the map and sometimes there is not enough words or detail to help your figure out what they are approving. It seems silly that you can’t just simply click on something in the email and it would take you to the map so that you can see the work you did and see what it pertains to. They show you when you add a missing place to the map, they provide you with a link that says something like “See Your Change”.
Is there a real way to give them feedback on changes that would help us help them?
You can see your edits anso on the edit tab under your contributions, both on desktop and mobile. In there Google Maps also provide a link that will move you on the position of the edit in the map.
I asked for the possibility also to see edit I draw
I also asked for the possibility of seeing the modification drawing, as it would be very useful to avoid drawing/modifying the same road several times. Road Editor is a constantly evolving program, so perhaps some of our suggestions will apply.
The approval time varies a lot depending on the difficulty of the road. Recently the approval times of new edits are faster, as a large part of the approvals is done by an AI. But this also increases the amount of rejected edits, so it’s important that what you add is clearly visible from satellite
Next time please create two posts rather than having 2 problems in one post.
Sorry about overlooking the Maps link.
I probably don’t understand the problem completely, but when a road section needs to be renamed here is how to get help:
Write a post in the Maps Support Forum along these lines:
Road “A” from to needs to be remained from “A” to “B”. The house numbers “x” and “x” needs to remain the same/be changed as follows: x → xx and y to yy. As proof please see the map from inserted below.
The screenshot needs to be from an official source, but remember that Google will not accept interactive and copyright-protected maps.
I do look at my contributions. I make 200-300 contributions a week, so looking way down into the contribution list, having to click on each one, and looking at the map photo, is a slow tedious pain. There isn’t a way to filter the contributions by location or “approved”.
Hi Morten, I did post for each question I had yesterday.
My post titles were as follows:
“How to draw a road under a road?”
“How can you split a road?”
I only had one problem per post. I had an example of a problem that I wrote about in my post. Maybe that is what you are confused about. I just added an example of the question I was posting about just in case someone didn’t understand my question. I thought that a real-world example might help someone understand what my question was. I was showing where my question came from.
Nope, @Shanephilip , actually there isn’t any other way, even if many requested to break the contributions in different tabs. Crossing my fingers for the future.
In any case, as the contributions are ordered by “last status”, once a contribution is approved moves on top of the list. I check them once I receive the email, so it become easy (I’ve more than 2200 approved road, and hundreds in the queue).
I also save a pin of the area where I am submitting edits in a private list, so periodically I come back to the area to add some additional road, after the approval of the previous one.
I Know, it could be better, but road editor is pretty new, and under evolution (e.g. “Road Type” is nos a mandatory data)
I am just making sure that you know I wrote those posts just as a question so that I knew how to do things. I wasn’t asking anyone to do anything for me. So, I wrote my question the best I could.
Are you showing me the official format of how to write a question if I were to ask someone to do something for me? Sorry, I am a little confused about this.
Did I write my two posts in the “Maps Support” forum?
What drives the Maps Support Forum is to ‘GET THINGS FIXED’. The sample post I wrote for you is based on experience. So posting in the Maps Support forum ought to be with a specific problem in mind. The name of the game is to make it easy for the volunteer experts to get your problem ready for escalation to Google Staffers.
My point was just to show you how short and precise a post preferable should be to get something fixed.
We are maybe talking a bit “meta” here. I expected you had a specific problem and wanted guidance on how to get it fixed via the Support forum.
I did not intend to drag this out any further than necessary.
Did you expect me to write two posts for you on Maps Support Forum, or did you ask me if I have read what you posted there? In case of the latter, kindly share the links.
Hi, on a different subject, sort of, you mentioned that the road should be visible by satellite to get approved, or something like that. I have some trails that I can’t ever get approved, probably because they aren’t easily visible to AI from satellite images. How can I get these Approved? Do I just ask the forum, or do I have to seek out a Google employee, or something else?
