I’ve found that enabling u-turns at the end of a dead end road will route someone to the end of the road only to turn around. In fact, I had a hilarious incident where my sister had this happen to her, but she didn’t know it was a dead end. So, she sent a UR which I promptly answered. She thought her reports went straight to me and was worried about someone following her until I showed her that the report was anonymous and I never would have known who it was if she didn’t text me a few minutes later.
Yeah, I would but there are a LOT of them and all done by a CM (at least I think they are a CM, level 4 at least) which is why I thought we must be doing something different in New Zealand.
Or at least make it so you cant get confused by what it does, if routing wont work well with it then don’t let it be added.
I initially did look at it and thought oh, you could turn around here so set it. But then when I noticied existing roads did not have it set I changed my assumption, as if it was designed to allow turning points then the default would likely have been soft on (Although the default is still one way instead of unknown or soft two way for new roads so maybe that logic is flawed to).
Caveat: I am a developer so I know that adding features is cool, documenting how you use them is left up to someone else to work out. The number of times I’ve added something intended to be used one way and people find a completely different way or use for it.
Ive just been going through the list and it looks like there have been a couple of other level 1 editors setting the U-Turn on the nodes. So it maybe something to look out for in other areas (if your not already).
On the plus side it looks like little old New Plymouth has a few new Wazers editing the map
Team: If you have been following this thread about u-turns and and dead end roads, the wiki is a bit fuzzy as to how we need to deal with this.
Ispyisail and myself have decided that (until the Wiki is updated and clarity is made regarding u-turns), that we DO NOT use U-Turns on Dead End Roads or any other Segments in New Zealand.
Setting a U-Turn only confuses routing, so it serves no point here in NZ.
If there is any question, or clarification needed regarding the roads and U-Turns, please post in this forum.
