Winter Road Condition

[kheops74-gmail]

We can report danger as Snow, Rain, etc. It's more a weather feature than a road condition feature.

I think a group of danger is missing and can be VERY useful. This group is "Road Condition". It describe the pavement state and the visibility. Two things very important during Winter.

Here an example from the Québec Government road condition website (http://carte.quebec511.gouv.qc.ca/en/Default.aspx).


Road Conditions
Pavement

Bare
Partly Covered
Covered
Closed

Visibility

Good
Fair
Poor

[kb9tfz]

Great idea!

[svx-biker]

Also think about complete road closure during winter. This especially applies to streets in (high) mountain areas of Switzerland, Italy, France and Austria.

[kheops74-gmail]

svx-biker, you're so right. Yesterday it happens to me. I'm sure the road was great in Summer but it was close for Winter. I reported it as an error but it was not an error just a fact for a Northern Country.

BTW, You can add Québec to your list.

[kheops74-gmail]

I hope Waze developers will do something quickly before i stopped using it. For the moment, maps for turn by turn direction are not great in my region (apple maps are a lot better ). A lot of people stop using it because of the lack of user and the quality of the maps. I hope better road condition feature will bring back user. These users will correct the maps and we will have a better tool.

Any idea to how this post can be see by développer who understand Winter driving in low populated region?

Thanks.

[Spil]

svx-biker, you're so right. Yesterday it happens to me. I'm sure the road was great in Summer but it was close for Winter. I reported it as an error but it was not an error just a fact for a Northern Country.

BTW, You can add Québec to your list.

We have several such roads south of you in upstate New York also. What I would recommend (as I do down here) is to set these roads to "Dirt Road / 4x4 Trail" type. That way, they're there for those who dare (and are equipped) to use them, but routing won't prefer them over other roads, and won't use them at all (unless absolutely necessary) for those who have the "avoid dirt roads" setting turned on.

Once summer returns for its glorious month or two , you can set them back to normal "Street" type if you deem it worthy ... but for the most part (at least around here), there's no point in doing so.

[kheops74-gmail]

Road Condition would be great!