Road Naming (USA)
http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Road_Naming_(USA) is ridiculously out of date knowing what we know now about US shield generation, and what has been agreed upon at this and previous meetups about naming conventions. Suggestions:
* All references to names being tied to shields be removed, and in fact, that we be clear about the following: We know now from Waze itself that US shields come from a magic hidden property on a segment we are currently unable to edit. They are working on a worldwide standard for producing and editing shields; it just so happens that the US got some 'early' because of a basemap import. Where they work, great; where they don't, we can't fix it until they add functionality to the editor.
That said...we can name roads whatever we like because it has nothing to do with shields, and changing a street or altstreet name will not change a segment's ID or other properties on that segment.
US Highways were agreed in the 2012 meetup to be formatted as US-XX. The wiki was never actually changed to reflect this.
Interstates are I-XX (no space).
State routes should be SR-XX for brevity and consistency, except in states where it is specifically done otherwise (the LA case for example).
County roads should be CR-XX, again, for brevity and consistency, and as the only TTS abbreviation in the system at this time.
This gives us a baseline, a simple standard, and we can slowly spread out with exceptions, from there.
Reasonable?
* All references to names being tied to shields be removed, and in fact, that we be clear about the following: We know now from Waze itself that US shields come from a magic hidden property on a segment we are currently unable to edit. They are working on a worldwide standard for producing and editing shields; it just so happens that the US got some 'early' because of a basemap import. Where they work, great; where they don't, we can't fix it until they add functionality to the editor.
That said...we can name roads whatever we like because it has nothing to do with shields, and changing a street or altstreet name will not change a segment's ID or other properties on that segment.
US Highways were agreed in the 2012 meetup to be formatted as US-XX. The wiki was never actually changed to reflect this.
Interstates are I-XX (no space).
State routes should be SR-XX for brevity and consistency, except in states where it is specifically done otherwise (the LA case for example).
County roads should be CR-XX, again, for brevity and consistency, and as the only TTS abbreviation in the system at this time.
This gives us a baseline, a simple standard, and we can slowly spread out with exceptions, from there.
Reasonable?
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