Bonjour,

a lot of country have this need for a better routing

Ayant dans mon secteur plusieurs localités détachées, cad à des kms de la ville de rattachement, si le rattachement peut simplifier bcp de cas, il va poser un gros pb pour ces types là

I would really like Waze to reconsider this topic, even if it is currently marked as “not planned”.

This is not just a French-specific request or a nice-to-have feature. It addresses a real structural issue in countries where places are not always cleanly represented by a single “city” object.

In France, we have many hamlets, localities, former municipalities, attached municipalities and “communes de rattachement”. Today, without a proper sub-city mechanism, editors often have to choose between several bad options:

- creating or keeping artificial city names, which pollutes the city layer;
- forcing everything under the parent municipality, which hurts local relevance and address search;
- using alternate names or other workarounds, which are not designed to solve this problem cleanly;
- spending a lot of time maintaining address consistency manually, with no proper hierarchy.

This is especially painful when editing addresses. We need users to find the correct place, while also keeping the map clean, consistent and administratively accurate. The current model makes that unnecessarily difficult.

The need is also clearly not limited to France. Previous comments mention similar issues in the UK, Italy, the Philippines, and the US. Many countries have boroughs, districts, neighborhoods, hamlets, villages, former municipalities or local names that need to be searchable without being treated as independent full cities.

What makes this even more frustrating is that this does not feel like a purely new product idea. The concept of sub-cities has existed in Waze discussions for years, and the data structure appears to already have supported this kind of hierarchy, with city types and parent city relationships. So from a community perspective, this feels less like inventing a new feature from scratch, and more like finally making an existing or almost-existing capability usable in WME.

A proper sub-city implementation would bring several concrete benefits:

- cleaner city layers;
- better address and place search;
- fewer artificial or duplicated city objects;
- better handling of hamlets, districts and attached municipalities;
- less local workaround logic;
- more consistent editing rules across countries;
- better long-term map quality.

I understand that product priorities are difficult, but marking this as “not on the roadmap” feels disappointing because the issue has been known for a long time, affects several communities, and creates daily editing and search-quality problems.

This is not a cosmetic request. It is a data model and map quality issue. I really hope Waze can reopen the discussion and at least evaluate whether the existing city/sub-city structure could be exposed or operationalized in WME.

We need this in Malta as Well!
I'm also sure that the UK and Italy would also require this too.

First off, I'll put it out there that I would think this idea isn't necessarily limited to French, just in case someone thought otherwise.

In the Philippines, nearly all cities are subdivided into at least more than one barangay and are almost always used in addressing (Manila being the exception where district is used instead, given the sheer number of barangays in that city)

Elsewhere, of particular note, in San Francisco, California, USA, there are a few streets in completely different neighborhoods that have the same name but are otherwise unrelated to each other. Mason Street in the Presidio and in North Beach, and 3rd Street in SoMA and in Treasure Island are two pairs of same-name streets that come to mind. Having sub-cities implemented would certainly make it easier to disambiguate between members of the pairs.

Need this. Here we call them boroughs. Within Montreal we have several boroughs that have 1st street / 1st avenue. We need a way to distinguish them. Now we're forced to split up the city into "City (borough name)"
Having a new field for sub-divisions for cities will help with this.