Thanks.
That seems to be approximately what I've been doing when looking at the final Locally maintained column which is pretty much what is applicable.

Tangentially, so many roads would be classified as Dirt/4x4 if all the dirt roads were actually listed as such.

akpolarbee wrote:Tangentially, so many roads would be classified as Dirt/4x4 if all the dirt roads were actually listed as such.

The general rule for Dirt/4x4 depends on what locals expect that function to do. Here in Connecticut it covers all unpaved roads, but somewhere like Louisiana where there can be unpaved, but well maintained roads that serve a primary routes it is used differently.

DwarfLord wrote:Up in Prudhoe I think there may be a total of 500 feet of asphalt (not counting the airport tarmac) out of probably hundreds of miles of road network. The rest is all gravel on tundra; but I didn't use the Dirt/4X4 type to map any of it. When all roads are dirt, no roads are dirt, if you know what I mean

Exactly. In this situation, reserve the "Dirt/4x4" type for roads that you can't drive a sedan on.

There is a standard US cross-reference wiki article, here:

https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Road_types/U ... _reference

I haven't encountered any problems with this in my own experience, except the counter-intuitive use of the word "highway" that most entry-level editors find utterly senseless. It is a continuing problem with new editors trying to drop "highway" types to "street" or "primary street" types, thus breaking the map, and of course nobody might discover it for a long time.

Well, there is another thing that has been a gotcha for me: the automatic elevation of all official "State Highways" to "minor highway" Waze type regardless of FC classification. Near me in California we have a State Highway that is actually a narrow mountain road, even one lane in spots. It grinds the gears to type it as mH. But I haven't noticed it causing any routing trouble and it looks better on the map to see the official state highways displayed.

Anyway, I'd recommend Alaska follow the standard US cross-reference.

(EDIT: I agree that if a road is not access-controlled it shouldn't be a freeway type)

Up in Prudhoe I think there may be a total of 500 feet of asphalt (not counting the airport tarmac) out of probably hundreds of miles of road network. The rest is all gravel on tundra; but I didn't use the Dirt/4X4 type to map any of it. When all roads are dirt, no roads are dirt, if you know what I mean