Does any one know if this roundabout is actually a roundabout or just a round road?
There is a UR created by a wazer saying that it is giving wrong directions (trying to take them left around the circle from the south Hutton to Bailey) but he is just going right instead.
I looked at google street view but can’t seem to find any signage which indicates what turn restrictions there are or if it is a roundabout or not.
It looks like the current issues with the forum notifications are causing some issues. I don’t get any more notifications for the ZA forum.
Incidentally, I actually modified the UR earlier today via the Beta editor where you can leave notes to the user that logged the UR. They can now respond to it directly from the Waze client inbox as well.
Here’s the note I left :
Even though it is technically speaking a ‘roundabout’, this one allows two way traffic. If you look at it in Google street view, you’ll typically see yield signs and roundabout signage leading up to normal roundabouts. The signage is missing in this case, so actually mapping it as a roundabout is incorrect.
One snag with these types of roundabouts are, if you leave it as a roundabout and enable the roads to be bi-directional, Waze tends to default to always route anti-clockwise when going straight through in ZA which is counter the more natural left-turn in and left-turn out when going around it.
It also seems to screw up proper exit instructions if there are not 2 or 4 roads intersecting it at right angles. This one has 4 at right angles, so should produce straight ahead, turn left or turn right instructions if left as is.
In hindsight, I think it should rather be recreated using stock-standard road segments, and not as a roundabout.
Feel free to recreate both of these. I haven’t used the WME Toolbox, but it’s supposed to have functionality to convert roundabouts to normal street types, if you are interested.
Interesting, when viewing the livemap routing in one direction it has “at roundabout, continue straight” for both circles, but when reversed it changes to “take 0th exit” for one of the circles.
WME toolbox is one of my favourite addons. I make use of the line straightener on paved segments to remove all position nodes and just leave the end points and a nice straight line.
I especially like the map buttons on the toolbar, which opens bing maps, google maps, mapquest, openstreetmaps, yahoo maps at the same position and zoom level as the current editor map. Which is really handy when trying to confirm a street name by majority vote when the various maps sometimes have different names for the same street. (I assume this falls under fair use and not copyright, since I am not actually tracing roads etc).
I also like its highlight functionality for multiple segments that have the same start and end points.
I did try the auto recreate roundabout once and it changed a small circle into a huge oval with lines sticking out in all odd directions. Was easier to just do it manually.
You keep teasing about this two way comms in the beta editor. I tried previously to access it but it won’t accept my user/pass. So I assume you need to be a certain high level or need to be invited. Who do we need to bribe for access? :lol:
It’s usually only of the exits exits and also typically only from a specific direction on a corrupt roundabout that does that.
Not teasing at all, but this will help a lot with URs. I’m not 100% sure when it will make it’s way to production WME, but the client side was already revamped to allow comms via the inbox.
WME Beta is a closed group, but not consisting of only higher level editors. I’m not sure if they are accepting more testers, but can try and find out.