MINS8226:
Doctorblah:
One advantage to having the railroad name is knowing who to contact in the case of a vehicle blocking the crossing. Granted, this information should be on one of the crossbucks, but there’s still some rationale towards having the information there.
In terms of # of tracks, i don’t see how that provides value other than knowing how soon i can start hitting the gas again. Another aspect is that while some of this proposal may make sense to us because we are editors, the general population would have no context as to what the numbers represent. Knowing it’s a freight line vs a passenger line may give some clue as to how long the crossing may be blocked, but a single track line could represent a 20 min delay in some cases while a 4 track crossing might be for passengers and only be stopped for a minute or so.
If you have to know when should we avoid the RR, what about reporting train from wazers? Wazers report the train by clicking railroad crossing and click on “train there” ,and waze should avoid that path going to that RR. Then when train is gone, the wazers can click “unreport” and waze will back on routing there. How to attract the wazers: If they were stopped for over 10 seconds at front of RR, message pops up in waze, “stuck by train? Report train to help others” and they should click it.
Based on our mapping guidelines, I actually think this is a non-issue. The whole point of creating a junction between the railroad and road segments is to be able to capture more accurate speed data and allow drivers to set closures on the crossing. The closure will then clear once Wazers start to drive through the crossing.