Railroad Policy for WME

[cherianchris]

Dear Wazers,

I have seen on the WME that there is an option for Railroad on it. Elsewhere, I came across the idea of marking entire railroads as a landmark under other categories. A couple of Questions cropped up in my mind.

1. If a Wazer travels down a Railroad, will Waze give him points for the distance travelled ? I ask this as Railroads are listed as Non Drivable in WME.

2. Is it good practice to mark Railroads as Landmarks ?

Please Help !

Happy Wazing !!

[daknife]

The policy is do NOT waze on a railroad, it will corrupt the traffic data of nearby roads. As to getting points, yes they will get the miles traveled. Waze can route you down non-driveable roads and road types, you get points for distance traveled with or without any roads on the map.

As to editing, landmarking is NOT the way to go. Stations can be landmarked but railroads no. If you want to put in railroads feel free to do so, there is a road type just for railroads, but make sure that the railroad NEVER junctions with a driveable road. It can cross roads all you want but do not connect it to any road with a junction node or Waze will consider it a penalized but still viable route. (meaning some folks may be given routes down the track.

And finally if you do draw in or come across any railroads make sure they are set to a level of -5 so they do not overlay any when drawn on the map or in the client.

[CBenson]

Running waze while on a railroad does create problems.

However, the answer regarding mapping railroads does differ depending on what the AMs and CMs in your country have agreed to. So what is being done in India may be different.

[cherianchris]

Gentlemen,
I went ahead and added railroads for the Metro Railway System in Chennai, India with a level of - 5. On WME, the railroad shows as a white line with dots on it, and on the client, the railroad is not visible,but the Train Stations(Landmarked) are. I still have to catch a train and see if there is any difference. But from driving in my car, and considering the fact that the railroad is not visible on the client, can I assume that there will not be any interference in local road traffic routing? (As some earlier topics/posts seemed to suggest, that Waze would route you down a railroad)
Regards,
Chris

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[AlanOfTheBerg]

the railroad shows as a white line with dots on it

In the native editor, railroads are gray only. You likely have the Highlighter userscript installed, which adds the dashes.

can I assume that there will not be any interference in local road traffic routing? (As some earlier topics/posts seemed to suggest, that Waze would route you down a railroad)

As long as you never junction the railroad segments to actual driveable segments, per the guidelines, then Waze should never route you along them. The only time it ever could, IMO, is if your GPS location reported by your device puts you near the railroad and Waze determines it needs to re-route you. I am unsure what would happen in that case, but it may try to route along the railroad. The problem there is that if the railroad truly never junctions with a real road, it wouldn't be able to route you very accurately, or at all.

[cherianchris]

Ah, then it's the Highlighter which is doing that.. Thanks for that Alan..

I've drawn one segment from train station to train station. The only places where two railroad segments join are at the train station itself. I'll try to hop on a train over the weekend, but I'm pretty sure Alan has got this right.

Chris..

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[jemay]

With the RR on the map, I have noticed less System Generated error message because of people running Waze on the train...

[Kuhlkatz]

The biggest problem is actually people that insist on re-paving railroads over & over again, since it's transport related and do not appear on the client map.

[jemay]

The biggest problem is actually people that insist on re-paving railroads over & over again, since it's transport related and do not appear on the client map.

I agree, I have deleted a lot of red rail lines... but no system errors if an existing segments are there.... I would find System Errors if the segment stopped.

[spartak10]

We set railroad as landmark. in such a way they are visible on the client
unfortunately people paving railroads on the trains get lot pf points and can create , later on, problem to navigation

we delete all railroad recorded