Cnr Elm & Hendrik Potgieter

Map Editors Community South Africa South Africa: Gauteng
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Hi all

I need some assistance from a Level 3 editor, to correctly sort the changes I made to include the feeder lanes between Elm and Hendrik Potgieter.

https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=row&lon=28.13981&lat=-26.14571&layers=677&zoom=6

I cannot join them to Hendrik Potgieter as I am a lowly Level 2 editor.

Thanks
Nic

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We all started off at the bottom, and crawled our way up.

The segment downlocked for you.

I’d leave both of those slipways with no street name, or swap them around, as now travelling south on Elm St , you’l be instructed to keep left onto Elm St when wanting to travel onto Hendrik Potgieter St, which is just going to lead to UR being placed here.

LeighGr.

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LeighGr.

Thanks so much, appreciate the assistance, I will get there one day. I took your advice and swopped the names around, makes so much more sense.

Thanks
Nic

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Hi Nic

I was about to relock those two slipways, when I noticed they aren’t connected to Hendrik Potgieter St.

A quick check that I use all the time, is to move the cursor over the segment, only if the connections are correct, the segment should only highlight up to the point of the junction. If the connection isn’t correct, the highlight goes past the junction, and you know it needs fixing.

Also end A of Hendrik Potgieter St should not allow a left turn into Elm St, forcing navigation down the slipway.

You’ve got the left turn on end A of this segment of Elm St correct, but end B shouldn’t allow a right turn back onto the slipway.

Leigh

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Leigh

Thanks for the checking up on things and the tips, I have corrected what you suggested with the turns. Are the sections that weren’t connected earlier, connected now? Are they the sections that I couldn’t connect as I am only a level 2 editor?

Thanks
Nic

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Hi Nic.

Neither slipway is connected to Hendrik Potgieter St, which is L2 locked, so you should have no issue connecting those two segments. Disconnect both ( end B of the top one, and end A of the bottom one, save that change, then connect one, make sure it’s restrictions are correct, save those changes, and do the same with the second slipway. And save, then you can remove my arrows and save again.

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Leigh

Lets try this again, I have connected the slipways and adjusted the restrictions. I have removed your arrows as well, thanks.

Thanks
Nic

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Hi Nic

There you go. Much better, and you’ve learn’t a few things along the way.

Leigh.

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Leigh

Thanks so much, learnt a lot, including how to add a editor level image to my signature, lol!

Thanks
Nic

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I specifically removed the feeder lanes. Waze is not about creating super physically accurate maps, it’s about creating super efficient routing. Each extra segment adds multiple routes that need checking on the routing server and add little to the drivers. It’s the same reason I merged HP into a single road from two one-way roads.

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I understand, especially for merging HP in to a single road, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have it as two one way roads. Surely though, allowing Waze to advise users to make illegal turns is not a good thing? I can’t remember if the intersection is question strictly prohibits turning without using the feeder lanes though, so this is more of a general question.

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There are very few entrances coming off HP and so it’s better as a single road

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I understand that and presume by your lack of comment regarding encouraging potentially illegal turns, that you have no issue with them.

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Routing looks fine to me. Lorretta, I agree that HP should be defined as a single carriageway - it meets the requirements as per the wiki. The slipways on the other hand should be defined as they currently are as the turn instruction would be later if they aren’t (if I’m not mistaken). Any normal user should be able to route without them though.

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Hmm. It’s the abnormal users that create UR for nonsensical issues, and then don’t respond for prompts for more info. :roll: