Road Shields
Luckily our road names (for numbered roads) and road types match already, so there's no need to match based on segment types.Timbones wrote:If you let me know what patterns of road names you have (e.g. Nxx, Rxx, etc) and how you would like them to look, then I can push this through to Waze. Be aware that Waze can't match shields to segment types, only road names.
Anyway, this page describes our road naming/typing policy, however I suppose from the point of view of shields we just want them for more major roads. What have you got in the UK? A summary of what we'd like would be:
1. Motorways: just like the UK, segments are always named Mx or Mxx followed by a space and then the cardinal direction (but no parentheses like the UK) - examples: "M6 W" or "M18 N". LIke UK signs, these would usually have white letters on a blue background. In any case, the pattern to match would be road names that start with "M" followed by one or two digits.
2. National primary and national secondary routes: probably equivalent to A- roads in the UK; sometimes dual carriageways and sometimes two-way roads. Named like motorways but with an optional name appended, with a cardinal direction for dual carriageway segments. Examples: "N11 N", "N6 E", "N71", "N31 Mount Merrion Ave". The pattern would be an "N" followed by one or two digits. On signs, these would appear with yellow letters on a green background.
3. Regional roads: probably equivalent to lesser A- roads and B- roads in the UK. Occasionally dual carriageway. Always named with an "R" followed by three digits (and a cardinal direction for dual carriageways), with an optional name appended. Examples: "R755", "R113 Leopardstown Rd", "R138 N". On signs, appears with black letters on a white background, or, on newer signs, with black letters on a yellow background.
4. Most other roads are either unclassified or identified with an "L" and a four- or five-digit number. I don't think these should have shields anyway.
For all of the above, my own opinion (there may be other opinions, but if there are then I challenge them to show up here in the forum and state them ) - is that the shield should comprise a rectangle with a black border containing the letter and number (eg "M50", "N21" or "R432"). The colour of the text and the background colour of the rectangle should match the colour normally seen on road signs (so the colours mentioned above).
Is this all the information Waze would need?
thanks for your help!
++David \ davidg666
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