The Major/Minor Hwy confusion & Wiki
How do we fix the Major/Minor Hwy confusion & Wiki?
I'm relatively new. But as far as all of my searching has found, there has never been a clear consensus on the major vs minor highway convention in the US.
Let call this wiki entry #1
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/How_ ... name_roads
By this guide a Major Hwy is pretty much a freeway that wasn't quite finished so that it still has a few stoplights or cross streets. By this definition, I can only think of two short sections of roads in my state that fully meets the criteria.
Then let’s call this wiki entry #2
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Map_Legend
By this guideline's statement on minor highways, any highway that is divided, has more than one lane each direction, or perhaps even has more traffic lights than intersections(?) is a Major Hwy.
So I figure let’s look around and see what the old timers standards are. But when I look around I see nothing consistent. I see entire cities using guide #1. They have practically zero Major Hwy's, and anything from 6-lane divided, to one lane with stop-signs is labeled as Minor Hwy. But then I see other cities going by #2. They have a full mix of majors & minors. So what's a new guy to do when even the regulars are still in debate and old timers start reversing my map edits?
Obviously the wiki pages need to be updated to be consistent with each other. But who's version of Major is right? What I think is right is somewhere in the middle, but closer to #2 than #1. I'd be happy to update the wiki's myself (if I could get my login to work correctly there). But some new guy coming in and trying to change the definitions is bound to irritate a lot of people. And I think it's rightfully so on an issue this large. New guys coming in and redefining major classification can cause quite the mess.
So what a new guy to do? Be bold and change the wiki, or just complain about it on the forums and hope someone else fixes it?
Now that I think about it, perhaps I could find an old timer to submit my wiki changes to. Then they could make the changes and take all the heat. Now if I can just find one who agrees with my version of what a Major Hwy should be, this might be a good plan.
I'm relatively new. But as far as all of my searching has found, there has never been a clear consensus on the major vs minor highway convention in the US.
Let call this wiki entry #1
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/How_ ... name_roads
By this guide a Major Hwy is pretty much a freeway that wasn't quite finished so that it still has a few stoplights or cross streets. By this definition, I can only think of two short sections of roads in my state that fully meets the criteria.
Then let’s call this wiki entry #2
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Map_Legend
By this guideline's statement on minor highways, any highway that is divided, has more than one lane each direction, or perhaps even has more traffic lights than intersections(?) is a Major Hwy.
So I figure let’s look around and see what the old timers standards are. But when I look around I see nothing consistent. I see entire cities using guide #1. They have practically zero Major Hwy's, and anything from 6-lane divided, to one lane with stop-signs is labeled as Minor Hwy. But then I see other cities going by #2. They have a full mix of majors & minors. So what's a new guy to do when even the regulars are still in debate and old timers start reversing my map edits?
Obviously the wiki pages need to be updated to be consistent with each other. But who's version of Major is right? What I think is right is somewhere in the middle, but closer to #2 than #1. I'd be happy to update the wiki's myself (if I could get my login to work correctly there). But some new guy coming in and trying to change the definitions is bound to irritate a lot of people. And I think it's rightfully so on an issue this large. New guys coming in and redefining major classification can cause quite the mess.
So what a new guy to do? Be bold and change the wiki, or just complain about it on the forums and hope someone else fixes it?
Now that I think about it, perhaps I could find an old timer to submit my wiki changes to. Then they could make the changes and take all the heat. Now if I can just find one who agrees with my version of what a Major Hwy should be, this might be a good plan.
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