A bunch of requests... NY/NJ area

[WeeeZer14]

The Exit right and Stay right instructions are also affected by they angle of the turn, less than 45 degrees will say "Keep right" or "Exit Right" More than 45 degrees will give a "Turn Right" command. So some of us will zoom all the way in and put a geometry node right next to the connection point to create a false 90 degree turn. I usually to this on right turn lanes to avoid ramp like instructions. It also helps avoid the keep left instructions just to go straight down the freeway. Put that micro dogleg at the beginning of the ramp and it will give the "Exit Right" command but say nothing about keeping left.

Here is an example. I'd been getting UR's about users being told to keep left when passing this interchange, so I installed a micro-dogleg and the UR's stopped. Zoom out and you can see how it looks like a normal off ramp.

Otherwise WeeeZer14 is 100% right on, but then he's been editing a few months longer than I.

Yep I quickly mentioned the angles in my reply I was working on for over an hour

Very interesting that there was a keep left instruction there since the two Freeway segments have the same name. Were they always named the same? What did the angles look like? Was it a very tight, close angle between the ramp and the Freeway segment (did the turn arrows totally overlap when you select the first Freeway segment)?

[Wajo357]

I'll start with the easy one... the "To" vs. "to". You are right, it should be lower case. And that is what I typed. The problem is a new "feature" of the editor that capitalizes the first letter of any street name. We've told the developers that the word "to" should be exempt and they agree and it will be fixed in a later version. It is already fixed in a beta version the Champs have access to, and I've corrected it from there. So be careful with any ramps you edit that have a name starting with "to" --currently no matter what you type the editor will change it.

Good to know...

Yeah I saw the split okay, but the permalink included a segment ID and the segment ID wasn't in view. So I wasn't sure if it was the right view and the wrong segment or vice versa

Hmm... I didn't look at the link for an actual segment ID, but the view should show 5 segments. 3 of which pertain to what we discussed - the starting segment, the left split and the right split. Is this still unclear?

I think your table is correct. FYI, originally on the NA server at least, ramp to ramp junctions rarely gave instructions or at least rarely gave predictable instructions, so the developers changed it so ALL ramp to ramp junctions are announced. Does this create problems or at least overly chatty situations? Yes. Does it solve many orders of magnitude additional other problems? Most definitely.

Agreed. However, a bit off topic, I noticed in the last release of the app that there are now longer pauses between parts of the voice commands which make these chatty sections get backlogged and you are already 4 turns ahead before it can catch up.

Oh, and the things that your table does not include which may impact the results are also the segment names and the actual angles of the junctions. I can't think of a situation I can use to test, but I wonder if the "all ramps" is true even when two ramp segments have the exact same name and have close to a 0 departure angle between them??? But I have to assume that "all ramps" meant "all ramps" when they made the change.

I don't know when they made the change, but it used to be that it wouldn't give commands if the ramps did have the same name. I hinted to the names a bit in my table when I talked about it in option E.

The only other solution to this scenario is to type the parallel collector lanes the same as the main roadway -- in this case, freeway. Permalink showing the segments we'd have to change to Freeway. I'd have to think about that idea before knowing how I really feel about it.

Yeah... that would work too. I would also change the last segment before it merges back with the main highway since it isn't a 'exit left' situation.

So that example, does it work well no matter which branch you take? I and other editors have had very mixed results with Freeways at least when we try to do a split like that. Thus the reason for the dual ramp split like I set up on the rt 46 example.

Yeah...I've never had a problem with it once I've done it. I've driven to both the left, right and different exits on the right. All have been good. Unless they've changed something in the app since I've tried some of the variations.

Personally, I think once ramps are named properly we can get rid of the "Exit" instruction and just use the "Keep" instruction. Right now we get things like:
"Exit right to Exit 123: Main St" and "Exit left to Rt 456 N"

But I think this would work just as well and maybe better:
"Keep right to Exit 123: Main St" and "Keep left to Rt 456 N"

Or heck, make it "Keep" unless the segment name begins with the word "Exit" (localized for different languages of course) then we can have:
"Exit right to Exit 123: Main St" and "Keep left to Rt 456 N"

Maybe I am dreaming too big

(I typed this reply off and on during a conference call at work so let me know if I didn't address something!)

Sounds good to me.
Thanks again for your help.

[Wajo357]

The Exit right and Stay right instructions are also affected by they angle of the turn, less than 45 degrees will say "Keep right" or "Exit Right" More than 45 degrees will give a "Turn Right" command. So some of us will zoom all the way in and put a geometry node right next to the connection point to create a false 90 degree turn. I usually to this on right turn lanes to avoid ramp like instructions. It also helps avoid the keep left instructions just to go straight down the freeway. Put that micro dogleg at the beginning of the ramp and it will give the "Exit Right" command but say nothing about keeping left.

Here is an example. I'd been getting UR's about users being told to keep left when passing this interchange, so I installed a micro-dogleg and the UR's stopped. Zoom out and you can see how it looks like a normal off ramp.

Otherwise WeeeZer14 is 100% right on, but then he's been editing a few months longer than I.

Yep I quickly mentioned the angles in my reply I was working on for over an hour

Very interesting that there was a keep left instruction there since the two Freeway segments have the same name. Were they always named the same? What did the angles look like? Was it a very tight, close angle between the ramp and the Freeway segment (did the turn arrows totally overlap when you select the first Freeway segment)?

I agree with WeeeZer14. The current segments should not have had a 'keep left', even without the jog.

[WeeeZer14]

First of all, I addressed the other 3 items you added.

Hmm... I didn't look at the link for an actual segment ID, but the view should show 5 segments. 3 of which pertain to what we discussed - the starting segment, the left split and the right split. Is this still unclear?

No it is clear knowing I can ignore the segment ID linked in the permalink. Not sure what approach to take to change it though based on the discussions we are having here and in a Champs only topic. Seems that we still haven't nailed down all the nuances.

However, a bit off topic, I noticed in the last release of the app that there are now longer pauses between parts of the voice commands which make these chatty sections get backlogged and you are already 4 turns ahead before it can catch up.

Yes the developers finally made the TTS engine pause on the slash character. For long ramps names, yes it can take a while. And in the NY metro area that is just about every ramp This may be a topic to bring up to the developers and see if they can do anything (limit the number of phrases separated by slashes based on the distance to the next turn).

I don't know when they made the change, but it used to be that it wouldn't give commands if the ramps did have the same name. I hinted to the names a bit in my table when I talked about it in option E.

The problem with editing for over 2 years is that things have changed so many times it is hard to keep up

Yeah... that would work too. I would also change the last segment before it merges back with the main highway since it isn't a 'exit left' situation.

You can go either way, but the advantage of the ramp is that you get the announcement for reassurance that yes, you are getting onto the highway. Of course a "Keep" would be better than an "Exit" here. If the last segment was a Freeway, you wouldn't get any prompt, so it is a question of is the reassurance needed. I'd personally treat it as a pathfinder instruction, so I'd leave it as a ramp.

Yeah...I've never had a problem with it once I've done it. I've driven to both the left, right and different exits on the right. All have been good. Unless they've changed something in the app since I've tried some of the variations.

Having more regular map updates would let us test things like this! I have a Freeway to Freeway split "waiting" for me to test on the GSP. I'll be up there the end of this month to check it.

Thanks again for your help.

You are very welcome! And keep questioning things, that is the only way we'll get to the true answers.

[Wajo357]

thanks... so do we still have need to do 8 and 9? For #9, I would pick any approach now (yours or mine) as long as there is something.

I agree that with faster updates, we can test things out without the fear of screwing the users for months.

[WeeeZer14]

I don't think we can improve #8 any more than it is right now. You will be told to "go right" to Exit 70B. That may be a "keep" vs an "exit", but for now I think that is okay until we get a total list of all conditions.

I made #9 into a dual ramp split since we know that works so it has some prompting for now (well, once today's updates go live).

[Wajo357]

I don't think we can improve #8 any more than it is right now. You will be told to "go right" to Exit 70B. That may be a "keep" vs an "exit", but for now I think that is okay until we get a total list of all conditions.

I made #9 into a dual ramp split since we know that works so it has some prompting for now (well, once today's updates go live).

thanks!

fyi.. the capital 'T' in 'To' was capitalized again

[WeeeZer14]

fyi.. the capital 'T' in 'To' was capitalized again

Argh! Thanks. Fixed via the beta editor.

[Wajo357]

I totally forgot that I had also done the split shown below and it works flawlessly. It says "Stay Right/Left for ..." without the whole ramp trick.

https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=8&lat ... s=57800593

[Wajo357]

A few new ones for today:

14) Shouldn't be able to make a left from Canal St to Bowery:
https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=7&lat ... s=65443093

15) Shouldn't be able to go from the lower level and turn right back around to the upper level
https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=8&lat ... s=57837221

16) Shouldn't be able to turn from Fort Hamilton Pkwy to Caton Avenue
https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=7&lat ... s=33543947

17) Finally, something is very funky going on with the Verrazano bridge. It *could* be right, but there looks like a lot of segments right on top of each other all with level '0'. Start with the below segment and proceed east.
https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=6&lat ... s=66100573
I'm too scared to mess around with it, since I don't drive on it too often, but you might be able to make sense of it.

17) The next two links need the on/off roads connected to the highway:
https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=8&lat ... s=67224578
https://www.waze.com/editor/?zoom=8&lat ... s=67224611