Would Pedestrian Court or Courtyard be better than Promenade?
Should we make Dam into Dam / Levee?
Because of rounding, should we show 5.1 and 16.1?
Dare we touch the Dirt Road / 4x4 trail and make it just 4x4 offroad trail?
On the Places More Info tab, can we change Phone to Phone (xxx-xxx-xxxx) or whatever the preferred phone number format is? Same with Website if we still have restrictions.
For Elevation can we change Ground to No Elevation?
WME does not natively display 5.1, so we shouldn’t natively show it in an error message. The error won’t be triggered for a segment of 4.8m since WME will round it to 5m and it will pass the test. I don’t think we should concern ourselves with rounding here.
Any changes to the driveable road types names will have to coincide with changes to the accepted national guidelines on those types should be applied.
“Camping / Trailer Park” should be changed to “Campsite / RV Park” or something similar since Trailer Park has the connotation of being more permanent than an RV Park in the US. Also, Camping is an activity not a type of place, so either “Campsite” or “Campground” seems more appropriate.
What are the acceptable national guidelines? I think having more levels of rural road would be very helpful for tourists, at the risk of sounding like hyperbole, save lives. In my area of Michigan we have gravel roads which are regularly maintained year round, dirt roads which receive some maintenance in the summer, but are snowmobile trails come winter, and then dirt roads which are some time passable in a passenger car, depending on storm activity, and then there are 4x4 trails. I know that many places out west have seasonal roads as well. I am interested in who determines the national standards, and how they can be lobbied for more varied distinctions.
The US Champ community sets the guidelines with input from the US community of editors, and knowledge from staff about how those decisions will effect the routing.
We are talking about about possibly renaming some of the existing road types so their usage is more intuitive. We do not have the ability to add more new road types to the list. Only staff can add a new road type, or change the way an existing road type behaves in routing. From past experience I don’t think they will be adding any new types anytime soon.
While “Laundry” can be used to describe a business that cleans clothing, it is more commonly used in reference to the clothes rather than the business and “Dry cleaning” is a process rather than a location. I think that a better translation would be “Laundromat / Dry Cleaner” as those are both places were the respective actions actions take place.
Just thought of one that really should be changed.
Old: Camping / Trailer Park
New: Campground / RV Park
I’ll take that as a second to my motion 
Ha, sorry. I only glanced over the thread before posting. I would suggest Campground over Campsite, though.
Here’s the problem: the app simply says “Dirt Roads: Allow / Don’t allow / Avoid long ones”. It says nothing about offroading.
Our current US Forest Service wiki article recommends we mark as “Dirt road” roads unsuitable for ordinary passenger vehicles. The app, however, does not tell the user that selecting “allow dirt roads” could really mean “if you don’t have 4-wheel drive and high clearance you probably won’t make it”.
We need the WME and the app to align!
The WME could be changed to say something like “Rougher roads” (a relative term which is how we typically interpret it, and I suspect how most app users interpret and use “dirt roads”).
Unless the app terminology changes, I have strong misgivings about our mapping routable through roads for Waze that are unpassable by ordinary passenger vehicles. Dead-end roads OK, but through roads – yikes.
Putting this another way, what percentage of Wazers check “Allow dirt roads” expecting it to mean this? I don’t know, but I’m guessing it’s low.
So I’d urge us to make the WME language match the app, or at least how most drivers will interpret the app.
In my immediate (mountainous) area I have often found a use for the “4X4 / Dirt road” type as meaning “passable by ordinary 2WD passenger vehicles but rougher than nearby alternatives”. Personally I’d hate to see this type renamed to prohibit that use.
Because that would look ridiculously long in the UI if it said that along with the same text for different city and different country. What fits on 2 lines today would take like 7. There is a separate message for name, city, state, country, and any or all can show in combination.
Good suggestions I think.
That’s not the only kind of clubs, though. I am not sure that “game” here is limited to “animals.”