Waze Palo Alto Meetup topics ranking

[CBenson]

I would guess that most here would say "route 50." I would expect no confusion with "you ess 50" or "you ess highway 50." I would urge that "United States (highway) 50" not be considered. I would also urge that the text be "US-50" on both the highway segments and in ramp names (with directionality where appropriate).

[bgodette]

I would guess that most here would say "route 50." I would expect no confusion with "you ess 50" or "you ess highway 50." I would urge that "United States (highway) 50" not be considered. I would also urge that the text be "US-50" on both the highway segments and in ramp names (with directionality where appropriate).

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[banished]

Around here we usually say just, "you ess xxx".

Again, whether with or without "highway", users are unlikely to be confused by whatever is chosen. Personally I like whatever gives TTS Lady less to say.

And as totally useless aside, I name all the TTS ladies I've ever had:

Waze = Wanda
Navigon = Nina
TomTom = Trish
Garmin = Grace
Dash = Dori. Now deceased (out of business). R.I.P. In many ways, she was a pre-cursor to Waze as she was the first to act as a traffic probe. Never enough market penetration. Bought by RIM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bs0bFJK ... q-7zaA-x7h

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And yes:

US-
SR-
CR-

Yay!

[jasonh300]

Waze = Wanda

Yes! The Waze lady will forever be Wanda Wazer!

[WeeeZer14]

So we all seem to agree to have interstates written as "I-x" and spoken as "ei x".

And US Hwys written as "US-x" and spoken as "yoeau ess x".

For the state routes, if we go for SR-x would we want TTS to say "ess ar x" or "State Route x"? I'd lean towards "State Route x" I guess since that seems more common.

If we also support SH-x, then the same question: "ess aitch x" or "State Highway x"?

And then county routes, CR-x. For TTS I'd lean towards "cee ar x" since that is all I've every heard anyone say, but I haven't been everywhere there is a county route.

And based on my hack research, it looks like the state highway systems are called:
Routes in 27 states
Highways in 21 states
Roads in 3 states
(50 states plus DC)

NJ is actually officially "State Highway Route" which I found funny. Everyone just uses Route so that is where I put NJ.

CT has State Routes and State Roads, but the Roads are not signed in any way.

At the federal level we also have Forest Routes, not to be confused with Forest Service Roads or Fire Roads. Any thoughts on those?

[bgodette]

SH = State Highway or Highway
CR = County Road, currently what TTS says
RT = County Route
SR = State Route
FSR = Forest Service Road
FR = Forest Road
FRT = Forest Route

Are there National Park numbered roads that aren't FSR/FR/FRT? If so then maybe PR = Park Road, or NPR = National Park Road

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[sketch]

I would just keep FR as Forest Route and leave the rest spelled out (Forest Service Road, Fire Road). I feel we'd be introducing a little too much complexity with these three letter abbreviations, especially in such an uncommon case as a National Park.

[bgodette]

I would just keep FR as Forest Route and leave the rest spelled out (Forest Service Road, Fire Road). I feel we'd be introducing a little too much complexity with these three letter abbreviations, especially in such an uncommon case as a National Park.

As far as Forest Service Road, that really should be FSR, it's on the signage and there are *a lot* of them around here.

[sketch]

I see. Perhaps if they're signed as FSR they should be announced as such?

[jondrush]

RT = County Route

Don't like that one. Too many places where RT is written for Route.