Just a small vent, I am a virtual new comer to Waze, and I haven’t been mapping much the last 2 months (sorry) However I try to keep my small corner of the map clean and neat, then I drive home today and WAM all the cul-de-sacs in my area were changed to Roundabouts, took me 3 hours to undo the mess, I am a (0) and the CHANGER is a (2). So the question is was I wrong to undo all of his Changes?
He even deleted my private road, Waze directs me to the main street outside of my development for my house, unless my private road is on the map,I was very happy when I finally got Waze to direct me to my driveway not to the main street that runs past our development. a small thing yet still an irritant.
Thanks for letting me vent.
The problem with putting a roundabout or any type of loop at the end of a deadend or cul-de-sac is that it’s unroutable if there’s only one junction in the loop or roundabout. Without a second junction, Waze can’t see that the intersection is capable of going both ways so it’s the same as being disconnected.
Besides that, even it a second junction is added and it is routable, it doesn’t add any value to the map, and isn’t visible in the client. It’s basically a waste of time, that could be spent on doing proper editing that will increase the value of the map.
Your best bet would be to contact the editor, and if he argues about it, you could always PM him a link to this forum thread.
I agree. I don’t think that you were wrong to undue the roundabouts. It’s not proper mapping and I have never seen anything in the Wiki stating to put roundabouts at the end of cul-de-sacs.
It’s always good courtesy to contact another editor that is mapping in a way that doesn’t seem to meet the recommendations or doesn’t seem correct. Especially if there are multiple examples.
Third-ed. Just make sure that there is a junction at the end of the cul-de-sac segment to allow proper routing out of the segment.
BTW, many cu-de-sacs in Jersey appear to have been imported on the base map as having loops at the end. Most are not properly formed roundabouts though. If the (2) editor saw this, they may have though that they were improving things by putting proper roundabouts at the end.
To clarify, this is the same as an “end node”, which is created by drawing a dummy segment to the end of the dead-end and then deleting the dummy segment. (why can’t they make this happen automatically?)
If there was a roundabout on the end of each cul-de-sac and the OP deleted the roundabout, it should’ve left an end node on each segment.
Waze was looking into either adding it automatically or changing the routing behavior so it could route properly without the end node. In addition, they refuse to add an option in the WME to add the node without having to drag a segment to the end to create the node since they removed that option to make WME more simple and intuitive since you can junction by just dragging a segment to touch another segment.
Supposedly too complicated for them to deal with this issue at this time…
