I’m looking to add two private driveways in the Kalamazoo region, one at my house and the other at my aunt’s. Both houses are set back over 450 ft from the road, are not visible from the street ( mine is wooded, her’s is curved and wooded), and can be confused with other houses. Additionally my drive when approached from the south is just past the crest of a hill and very very easy to miss, causing drivers to have to either slam on the brakes or they pass the house and have to find an area to turn around. They meet the guidance for RPPs on the Wazeopedia.
I haven’t seen any guidance in the forum on whether MI uses PRs or PLRs for long driveway and the wiki doesn’t specify either. I don’t want to go against the existing convention. Hopefully I’ll be able to add them and delete the existing house number for my house with my privileges.
Please go ahead and map the driveways you specified with Private Road segments. Please always use Private Road segments when adding wiki compliant driveways in Michigan.
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Let me know if you’ll need Lock reductions to connect the driveways.
Odd, I thought I was supposed to get forum notifications for replies otherwise I would’ve responded sooner. I think I’ve sorted that now and should get them in the future. RE: Discord, don’t have it, no plans to get it. So, although it’s slower I’ll stick with the forums.
I’ve added the private drive for my Aunt’s along with an RPP. I also added an RPP and converted the drive for the neighbors to the south as their drive was created as a public street and had no house number. Hopefully what I’ve added was put in correctly. 10541 S 34th St, Vicksburg, Michigan
I will need an unlock for the street that my house is on as it’s a local primary road, lvl 3. As it is now, I can’t delete the existing house number, nor connect a PR to the main road.
2716 N 9th St, Kalamazoo, MI
Hi. I approved the place points you created in Vicksburg and fixed the driveway - - It’s important to either add a name or click the no-name box for a segment or it shows as an error. No worries - it’s fine now.
No changes are needed for the address in Kalamazoo. The address is already identified to the segment.
In the future, it helps to have a permalink we can use assist finding the area. You can click to highlight a segment and then click the “chain” icon to the right of the screen. Make sure the checkbox for layers is NOT checked and then click the button to create the permalink - - you can then paste it into a message.
Thanks for approving the RPPs and the driveway name, I missed the None option in the street menu. As for the Kalamazoo address, as mentioned in my initial post, the house meets the wiki requirements for an RPP and a private drive (PR) to the house. It’s over 450 ft from the road, cannot be seen from the road, and the driveway entrance is hidden. So I’m wanting to make it easier for others to find my house and not have to slam on the brakes because they didn’t see the turn in time.