Dear Wazers,
I have seen on the WME that there is an option for Railroad on it. Elsewhere, I came across the idea of marking entire railroads as a landmark under other categories. A couple of Questions cropped up in my mind.
If a Wazer travels down a Railroad, will Waze give him points for the distance travelled ? I ask this as Railroads are listed as Non Drivable in WME.
Is it good practice to mark Railroads as Landmarks ?
Please Help !
Happy Wazing !! 
The policy is do NOT waze on a railroad, it will corrupt the traffic data of nearby roads. As to getting points, yes they will get the miles traveled. Waze can route you down non-driveable roads and road types, you get points for distance traveled with or without any roads on the map.
As to editing, landmarking is NOT the way to go. Stations can be landmarked but railroads no. If you want to put in railroads feel free to do so, there is a road type just for railroads, but make sure that the railroad NEVER junctions with a driveable road. It can cross roads all you want but do not connect it to any road with a junction node or Waze will consider it a penalized but still viable route. (meaning some folks may be given routes down the track.
And finally if you do draw in or come across any railroads make sure they are set to a level of -5 so they do not overlay any when drawn on the map or in the client.
Running waze while on a railroad does create problems.
However, the answer regarding mapping railroads does differ depending on what the AMs and CMs in your country have agreed to. So what is being done in India may be different.
Gentlemen,
I went ahead and added railroads for the Metro Railway System in Chennai, India with a level of - 5. On WME, the railroad shows as a white line with dots on it, and on the client, the railroad is not visible,but the Train Stations(Landmarked) are. I still have to catch a train and see if there is any difference. But from driving in my car, and considering the fact that the railroad is not visible on the client, can I assume that there will not be any interference in local road traffic routing? (As some earlier topics/posts seemed to suggest, that Waze would route you down a railroad)
Regards,
Chris
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In the native editor, railroads are gray only. You likely have the Highlighter userscript installed, which adds the dashes.
As long as you never junction the railroad segments to actual driveable segments, per the guidelines, then Waze should never route you along them. The only time it ever could, IMO, is if your GPS location reported by your device puts you near the railroad and Waze determines it needs to re-route you. I am unsure what would happen in that case, but it may try to route along the railroad. The problem there is that if the railroad truly never junctions with a real road, it wouldn’t be able to route you very accurately, or at all.
Ah, then it’s the Highlighter which is doing that… Thanks for that Alan…
I’ve drawn one segment from train station to train station. The only places where two railroad segments join are at the train station itself. I’ll try to hop on a train over the weekend, but I’m pretty sure Alan has got this right.
Chris…
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With the RR on the map, I have noticed less System Generated error message because of people running Waze on the train…
The biggest problem is actually people that insist on re-paving railroads over & over again, since it’s transport related and do not appear on the client map.
I agree, I have deleted a lot of red rail lines… but no system errors if an existing segments are there… I would find System Errors if the segment stopped.
You can have both the Railroad and a Landmark. It will be visible in the client, and you won’t get repeat paving or map problems.
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See http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=23128 this thread for a discussion on why using landmarks for railroads is a bad idea.
Another more, recent thread here: http://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33232
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I have a question… If a railroad is set to -5 and railroad, what direction should be set?
In my opinion if a railroad has no junctions with roads, there should be no issue with setting it as 2 way. I find putting it as two-way helps me find out if there are any junctions with roads. I’ve seen where some have said put it as unknown.
Why set it to unknown if it’s not showing on the client?
Personally having the unknown direction marking bothers me, guess you could say it’s my ocd saying it is something that needs to be known…
2-way is fine. Unknown really means nothing.
i have someone in my area who keeps adding railroads. i keep deleting them. they aren’t commuter railroads, and there’s maybe one line that handles amtrak traffic once a day at most.
based on GPS points, they’re aren’t being added by wazers on the trains, and they end approximately 4 miles on either side of an interstate highway. gone!
If that is your country’s policy… did you try to PM the user?
As Jason mentioned earlier, is it possible that the tracks were made by someone on an airplane?
Do pilots use highways as reference points?
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Getting Back to the Suburban Railway System of Chennai, India.
There are two rail networks functioning ATM.
The first one runs on the ground(obviously), and those railroads I’ve marked as level - 5.
The second one is elevated and those I’ve marked as level 9.
There is one train station where both these rail networks merge and continue for a couple of stations.
I’m not able to make the - 5 & the 9 level segments form a node. Should I mark the elevated railroad as - 5? It’s not a big deal, it’s just a railroad, but it is something which is not correct on WME, and is bothering me.
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Cherianchris, you are not yet doing this for too long now. YOU still can go back! 
Lol… 
Never did enough railroads dude that’s why I opened this thread.
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