I find a LOT of my time is spent repeating the same tasks over and over, but for only one road segment at a time. We all could be a lot more productive if we could Control Click a large number of road segments and then apply a common road configuration to all segments at once.

Key Settings

Edit Panel - road segment
- Road Type (Freeway, Major Highway, ... Street)
- Direction
- Separating Line
- Locked Indicator

Edit Panel - not properly connected road segments
- Connect roads by order of selection

Edit Panel - junctions
- enable all turns

What I'm suggesting is a modification of the edit panel that will appear when an area manager selects (control clicks) more than 3 road segments at a time.

Scenario 1 - Fixing Freeway segments
I have control clicked about 20 freeway segments going from east to west on the same freeway. I want them all to be connected, pointing in the same direction (westbound) and locked. I click the first two road segments and the current edit panel changes occur as before, but when I click a third segment I get a new version of the edit panel that has a link called "Mass Update" on the refreshed Edit Panel.

If I click the "Mass Update" link, the special "Mass Update" edit panel comes up. (The Mass Update panel remembers my Mass Update settings from the last time I used it but will let me click or un-click my Mass Update settings that I want to use this time.) Also, when I click 3 roads, Mass Updating also tags the junctions that do connect or even ADDS new Junctions if the roads SHOULD CONNECT (but are not yet connected, even though I clicked them in a continuous westbound order).

Also, specific turn and road connectivity settings will be applied to all the selected segments and junctions using the following rules.

Turn settings
a - A turn from any road into a 2 way road is always allowed.
b - A turn from any road into a 1 way road is never allowed, if the directions are opposed.
c - A turn from any road into a 1 way road is always allowed, if the directions are the same.
d - A turn from any road into a No entrance road is never allowed.

Connectivity at a Junction
- A junction from a 2 way road to a 2 way road always has connectivity flowing in both directions on both roads.
- A junction from a 2 way road to a 1 way road always has connectivity flowing from the 2 way into the one way, where the direction is the same. A 1 way road will have a connectivity flow to a 2 way road, if 1 way road's direction flows 'toward' the junction. A 1 way road will never have connectivity to a 2 way road, if 1 way road's direction flows 'away from' the junction.
- A Junction from a 1 way road to a 1 way road always has connectivity flowing from the 1 way into the connected one way, where the direction is the same.
- A Junction from a 1 way road to a 1 way road never has connectivity flowing from the 1 way into the connected one way, where the direction is the opposite.
- A Junction from a No entrance road never shows any connectivity between the No entrance road and any other road at the junction.


Lastly on the Edit panel I can set (or leave unchanged) the
Road Type, Direction, Separating Line and Locked Indicator. When I click Save Changes, the same settings will be applied to all selected road segments, the connected junctions (that tie two roads and NOT any 'stray' junctions that are in the middle of a segment) and the road connectivity for all the segments.

P.S. Can you give us an Undo Changes too, in case we goof.

Scenario 2 - fixing city streets by control clicking a lot of blocks

Same as above but as soon as I click a road segment that is Not connected (as in a parallel road segment a block away), Cartouch sets a flag to pop up a warning box when I am ready to apply my settings.

Then when I click Save Changes, a pop up appears that says "The same direction will be applied, but some roads are not connected". The Area manager can then decide if they want to go ahead or stop and correct the problem.

Again with an undo