Not sure who requested or created this forum, but it’s a great idea! Share your ideas, comments, and progress in making the New York State area of the Waze map the best that it can be!
Also, don’t forget that NYS has a Wiki “to-do list” page also – it’s another way to help keep each other informed of where we’re working and what we’re doing.
It seems as if no one is really cleaning up WNY, as when I peek over from my free-of-URs corner of Southern Ontario, it’s a disaster zone of URs and problem areas.
For starters, I’ve brought the fact that Grand Island appearing underwater in the client to Waze’s attention and they’re going to look into it soon.
Also, the spurs of I- 90 around Buffalo are set as single-carriageway Two-Way freeways. I’ve never seen that, and some URs are popping up w.r.t. Waze trying to navigate users backwards up ramps and such as a result. I’ve split a small section of I- 190 between the Scajaquada and (about) Austin St to two carriageways and drastically cleaned up the phantom roads, phantom intersections with overpassed roads, ramps that were set to something else and unsigned, etc.
Thanks for the assistance there, northern neighbor! I just reached “Country Manager” status last week, giving me free rein to work on those buggery problems just outside my regular area. I’ve started expanding my work toward Buffalo, but I’m still down in the southtowns right now (Hamburg/Orchard Park/West Seneca) and haven’t made it up that far yet.
As for the import putting I-190 and others as two-way instead of two one-ways – I’ve seen that in a few places, and have been working on correcting them as I go (portions of the Aurora Expressway being another nearby example of that). They definitely do need to be split as you’re doing; for the naming, though, we’re using “I-190 N” and “I-190 S” (with no space between the dash and the number … that’s not the way it was originally, but we’re working on switching over to that way, as noted in the “NY To-Do Wiki” mentioned above).
Also, I don’t know if you’ve found this site yet, but Upstate NY Roads has guides that provide assistance with exit naming for all of NY’s limited-access highways.
Again, thanks for crossing the border and helping us out!