I have a bit of a problem with how wide the roads are displayed in the Waze client. Highways and freeways are shown very wide for example. In the web Live Map, things look much better.

For example, I am trying to edit a part of the map where I have a freeway and 2 parallel overpasses.

The problem is that the freeway is divided in 4 carriageways that receive and feed right and left ramps to both overpasses. The only way, to correct represent all the ramp connections is to represent each freeway carriageway as a separate road in Waze. All looks feasible in the Live Map, but in the client, the freeway roads are so thick and wide that one cannot tell them apart and the whole think becomes a big fat mess.

Is it necessary to have a "thick" representation of freeways and highways in the client? Couldn't it follow the standard of the Live Map or Cartouche where the width differences are less pronounced and colour is the important descriptor?

unnefer wrote:One other thing to mention though, on my iphone, the GPS tracking/performance seems to be very poor when using Waze, compared to other GPS apps (like Maps, PD Maps, CityMaps2Go, Stagger Home etc) - the car never seems to "snap" to any lane as often as it should, and instead it starts steamrolling a new road.

If you turn off the steamroller, it wil snap a lot easier, and you are no longer making roads that have to be removed afterward. It is better to turn it on only when driving at roads which have not been driven before.

I like the idea of showing number of lanes for a road. Much better for the map to show what you see in the real world.

Also motorways/highways aren't always 3 lanes. They may split off into 2 lanes.

Yeah I agree. Doesn't mean you need to have a 3 lane road appear the same as motorway. It would be nice to have lane guidance, same as you find on tomtoms. You can't have that without some information on how many lanes a road has.

Yeah it can be a sketchy at times. On motorways though it's always been pretty accurate for me.

Actually yes it does. The information isn't always complete but I've had instructions such as stay in the left 2 lanes. On roundabouts it will also tell you what lane you need to be.

Like I said the information isn't always there but when it is it works great. I saw a big improvement in the amount of this information in the last couple of map updates.

I think the width of the road is determined by the "type" selected - roads, streets, primary street, major highway, freeway, parking lot road, etc.

Rob

Perhaps refer to the labeling and naming of roads in the Support | Wiki Section

Well, wide highways that look like parallel roads are parallel roads. No map sizes roads based on the number of lanes. Google, Bing, TomTom, Garmin, they all have set road types, and the line size follows those. Waze is the same way.

Yes, but the number of lanes has little to no correlation with the speed you can expect to travel on a road. You'll probably be going the same speed on Magazine (one lane each way, not divided) that you'll go on Veterans (three lanes on either side of a canal).

Line thickness should correlate to relative speed of travel, not to road thickness. Speed of travel is more important information.