The roads leading on and off the A737 in this area are wrong as the (zoomed in) satellite image shows roundabouts that are no longer there and the roads seem to be following the old layout.
Just a heads up on this too, the slip road on the top left is also not locked.
Looks correct to me. The roundabouts have been removed.
I’m happy that the roads here are currently correctly mapped. However I found some interesting things whilst checking.
At zoom level 8 the roundabouts appear, along with quite a distinctive black & white vehicle in view. Using the Google Earth history tool, this appears to be a Google image from December 2006.
Strangely, the image being used on Google Maps is older - from December 2002.
The latest image on Google Earth is from November 2011 - it shows the new non-roundabout road layout, but is so murky I’m not surprised neither Waze nor Google are using it.
So, unless Bing have cross-licensed some images, we appear to have at least some Google imagery already.
The plotted roads still look incorrect though.
Northbound on the B789 doesn’t have a 90° left turn onto the A737. You can see the slip road leading off to the entrance at the traffic lights.
Same with the other entrance/exit roads, they all show 90° turns when there are separate lanes for joining the new road.
They don’t look right to me, I’ve marked where I would drive in blue. Would I be guided to these roads with the current layout or would Waze try and make me turn sharply?
Waze wouldn’t make you do anything. :lol: It’s a common misconception amongst new editors - the desire to map every lane and have every manouevre announced - believe me, I was doing it myself a year ago!
All that Waze will tell you is “in some distance turn left”. It really won’t tell you how sharp the turn is and the distance can’t be that accurate because phone GPS isn’t. A good general editing principle is to keep junctions simple and rely on the driver looking out of their windows. :lol: Also, you should bear in mind how the map will appear on the client. The turn lanes here are relatively small - if they were mapped precisely, the junction would look pretty much like a blob on the phone screen.
Unless there are separate turn lanes with significant barriers/distance between them, or requiring an early manouevre to get into the correct lane, you would not normally map them.
The instructions you will receive would appear to make sense to me. It will give turn right/turn left instructions, which is what I would expect having look at the way the lanes and are laid out.
The only issue is whether it’s going to generate MPs.
Okdoke.
Cheers for the input. 