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National Park standards

Post by ArthurUSCG
Looking at a few of the national parks, there does not appear to be a clear standard or consistency.
There is also inconsistency in abbreviations. example NP, Natl PK, national park ect. Inconsistency in features pt or area places, ect. I think the parks are one of the areas where a national standard and not a local standard should be applied. Due to the unique world visitor draw.

There is also many small edits that need to be corrected but have not, I believe this is because the lack of data converge prevents many editors for having the parks in their drive areas thus can not make the corrections to even L1 roads.
A perfect example is Two Medicine Rd in Glacier NP.
https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... s=29042814
The entire area is still using the 2009 base map. There are a few sections at the park entrance that were updated by WarhawkTrombone, I am guessing he had signal for a short time.

For routing people to the larger parks. (Yellowstone, Glacier, Shenandoah, ect)
Should we make the user select which entrance to choose? or park area? or maybe only have specific attractions listed?
Example, for Yellow stone, instead of navigating to "Yellowstone NP" the search list would populate
Yellowstone NP Old Faithfull Inn
Yellowstone NP Lake Yellowstone Hotel
Yellowstone NP Canyon Lodge
Yellowstone NP Grant village
Yellowstone NP Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel
And major features? (Paint Pot, Artician Pt, ect)
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Here is the current wiki for the National Park Service.
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/National_Park_Service
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Post by vectorspace
Hi. Thanks for contacting me via PM about this.

It would be great if you added to the current knowledge and standards about National Parks. I created the current Wiki page you referenced when I was primarily interested in standardizing functional classification and road naming conventions. I didn't focus a lot of features of the various areas that housed these road systems. The road systems themselves seemed to not be addressed well at the time. Because of the unique nature of these road systems from typical roads, some special attention seemed to be needed in these areas. You're right that these pages could be expanded.

These road systems I was working on included Indian Reservations, Bureau of Land Management, and US Forest Service roads. I had multiple government employee contacts, including GIS specialists, for each of these that I used to gather information and advice that contributed to the pages. I never had such a contact for the US Parks page. Most of these three existed primarily in the western USA, which didn't have a lot of attention a couple years plus ago. National Parks seems to be a smaller road system and one that is more evenly spread across the USA. It seems important though because a lot of Wazers will use Waze to navigate to and through these road systems in US Parks.

I would suggest that you consider socializing changes to the Wiki on the proper forum board that is here: Wiki Updates and Discussion before you attempt any changes. There are a group of Wiki Masters volunteering here in the Waze Community that should also be consulted to help you through that process. Also check with Champs on this board about the ideas and make sure they are sufficiently consistent with other Wiki policy about other aspects of the map, or advocate that the policy for National Parks should be different in some way because of a need for travelers there.
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