My Level: 2
Reason for request: this street is narrow and unfit for classification as primary street; would like to downgrade to street. compare gps tracks along with songtan-ro to the west (a proper primary street) to see relative usage.
The road routing option has been downgraded to unfavored.
hi anthony, i see your change to these segments marking them as “street” routes, but is there a significant difference between doing that and downgrading the road itself?
The affected change will have Waze to recognize this road as ‘road’ and not primary road. ‘Routing unfavored’ will avoid using this road as main driving road as there are other “Routing favored” primary roads.
One of the issue to come in future is to identify the named roads with -ro at the end to be “Primary Road”. We can use this ‘Routing unfavored’ to identify whether the road can be used for longer distance navigation or to use different routings.
Thanks!
ah, that makes sense. i must have missed this in the korea wiki. though that rule might run into inconsistency issues in older neighborhoods like this one.
in this case, there are several jisan 1-ro’s (https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=row&lon=127.05842&lat=37.07917&zoom=4&segments=296529859,296529853,296874123,297597633,296578943,296529863,296500269,296566759).
and looking around this area, there are other -ro’s currently classified as “street” (songtan 1-ro, sinjang-ro) that do not carry anywhere near the level of traffic one might expect of a primary street.
btw, i really appreciate the dialogue!
Yeah, there are a lot of inconsistency issues as the Korean government really does not know they’ve done with the road names.
These roads are actually named “지산1로” and as I couldn’t find a good rule to cover that, I thought about not having these roads named without the English caption. This the government’s road name maps: http://m1.juso.go.kr/gismap-new/MapIndex.do
If you take a look at the screenshot here: http://imgur.com/f614y6T
It may be CRITICALLY not easy to see the arrows burried on the orange lines, but it’s there. And it’s indicating that the main road has been extended and branching out from the original street.
And all these roads should not really be primary road to prevent any chaos in navigationing around the area…
Thanks,
ah, that makes sense for identifying “branch” roads. (sometimes i hop over to naver map to see what they named it.) my original guess was that those arrows indicated increasing address numbers under the new system, and that the >>>> is just the style they used on the smaller roads, whereas the bigger roads get full arrows. (another byproduct of inconsistency? lol)
Yeap… Chaos created by the government. And instead of using the naver map, Daum map works better in those cases.
So:
- http://m1.juso.go.kr/gismap-new/MapIndex.do for proper road names.
- Daum Map for road views (They even support road view over highways)
P.S. You’ll find more non-consistent issues than what you’ve just found… Brace yourself…