NJ editors,
The standard for the naming of US Routes was changed to: US-xx (from US Hwy xx)
in January 2012 in order to save precious map real estate and to shorten TTS delivery time.
US Highways should:
be named according to the US-xx convention,
include directional indicators (i.e., “US-46 W”) for all split portions of the route,
include local names where appropriate (i.e., when signed primarily using the local name; when * home/business addresses are given using a local name)
be navigationally sound, including all intersections and turnarounds, and
have, when access is partially- or fully-limited, properly-named ramps according to signage.
For example
INTERSTATE:
I-80 E
I-287 N
US HIGHWAYS:
US-46 W (Split “1-way” segments)
US-206 (Unsplit “2-way” segments)
STATE ROUTES: Try to keep local names as primary and put below as alternate name.
SR-17 S (Split “1-way” segments)
SR-27 (Unsplit “2-way” segments) Also Acceptable (but be consistent):
State Rte 27
NJ-27
COUNTY ROUTES: Keep local names as primary and put below as alternate name.
CR-511 S (Split “1-way” segments)
CR-511 (Unsplit “2-way” segments)
ONRAMP:
to I-80 W / Delaware Water Gap
to I-287 N / Morristown / Mahwah
OFFRAMP:
numbered exit: Exit 8C: Monmouth Blvd
numbered exit with multiple names: Exit 135: Clark / Westfield
non-numbered exit: Exit to US-9 S / Lakewood
Caution!
You need to have Level 5 to be able to change most of these highway names
You must finish what you started…NEVER leave it incomplete.
Would the On-ramp/off-ramp logic apply to US higways exiting to primary roads via a ramp? There’s a few instances in my neighborhood and commute that could be better to let users know they have to exit or look for an exit lane.
My general rule of thumb there (since this is an at-grade connection) is that unless there is a Big Green Sign that provides lots of information for that specific turn/jughandle, it should be the roadtype of the road it’s connecting to. In this case, “Primary Street”.
Is the main intersection at-grade or grade-separated (i.e., overpass)? If grade-separated, then always ramp.
Is there a big green sign (BGS) at the connector’s entrance that would need to be suppressed from the segment’s display on the map to keep it from looking weird? If yes, then ramp.
Is the connector set back from the junction far enough feel like you might be driving on an interchange ramp had there actually been an overpass there, like many of New Jersey’s jughandles are? If yes, I’ve been setting those to ramps as well, mainly to maintain consistency, graphically, with the similar connectors that have any kind of GS (green sign).
I added the following guidance to the NJ wiki page under the road names section dealing with ON RAMPS as per OrbitC.
to US-1 S TRUCK / US-9 S TRUCK / Port Newark / Newark Airport
The TRUCK (or any other) qualifier is added after each highway name, even though the US-1&9 run concurrent in this stretch. This is done so as not to confuse unfamiliar drivers who may otherwise think the TRUCK qualifier only applies to US-9.
to US-1 S / US-9 S / Raymond Blvd
For consistency any time there are concurrent US or state highways the name should be listed individually (not as “to US-1-9 S”).
To keep the map consistent, if you see any ramps not using this guidance please update them. If you can’t update it, please ask an appropriate editor to unlock/update for you.
Thank you
I actually have a follow-up consideration to this. When a jughandle connects to road whose type is street or less, the jughandle segment (or all of its connector path segments, when applicable) should also be an unnamed street. Otherwise, when you’re driving down the expressway with auto-zoom turned on, and streets disappear at higher speeds, it will look like you have ramps off the expressway that connect to nothing - which is just plain weird.
BGSes don’t appear to be an issue here, because I have yet to see a green sign at a jughandle that connects to a regular street that has any names on it other than the connecting road name, which is sufficiently read by TTS using unnamed street segments.
For jughandles that connect to Primary Streets or higher, the ramp type is fine, since those road types do not disappear at wider zoom levels and their entrances typically have a green sign with at least 2 distinct names on them that need to be separated with a slash (/).