an update on what bangus236 posted
Hello fellow wazers, I have a few suggestions or guide as to how we should edit our roads. I've noticed that a lot of problems and update requests are due to incomplete or incorrect information on our map. A lot of these issues could be avoided if we follow the "Best Map Editing Practice" guide in the wiki (http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Best ... g_practice ). Please comment or add other issues you have encountered.
1. Create road (whether tracing aerial images or gps points)
2. Set road type, some suggestions:
Freeways – Expressways and Toll Roads
Major Highway – Road that crosses multiple provinces
Minor Highway – Road that crosses multiple cities or municipalities
Ramps – On and off ramps from Freeways
Primary Street – Main thoroughfares of a city or municipality
Street – ordinary street, mainly residential
Service Roads – usually access roads leading to or from an establishment, an intersection, that is in parallel with a freeways and major or minor highways
Dirt-roads / 4x4 Trails – usually non driveable roads so not used for routing
Parking Lot Road – within a commercial or private parking lots, not used for routing
Private Road – within gated communities, subdivisions, villages, or compounds. Not used for routing
Walking Trails, Pedestrian Boardwalk, Stairway, Railroad, Runway/Taxiway – other non drivable and non-routable roads
(http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Best ... _and_Ramps )
3. Set directionality (two way, one way, dead end) (http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Best ... 26_Locking )
4. Set the level (ground level = 0, Underpass = -1, Flyover = 1, 2, 3, etc.) (http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Best ... nderpasses )
5. Connect or create junctions (attach to existing roads) (http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Best ... nnectivity )
6. Set turn restrictions (http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Cart ... nnectivity )
7. Name the road, if you don't know the name, set the city, if you don't know the city leave it alone. Somebody else could edit it. It will be highlighted in red so that an editor can easily see an un-named street.
8. When naming streets, omit "City" and "Street". Eg. "Pasig City" to "Pasig" only and "Dela Rosa Street" to "Dela Rosa" only. Except when they are not "Streets" like "Kamias Road", "Aurora Boulevard", "Ayala Avenue", etc.
9. Do not split roads unless they are Expressways, Major, and Minor Highways. Even if they are Major or Minor highways, do not split them if they do not have wide median barriers. Split roads complicate routes and are harder to maintain. There is a guideline in wiki about this here http://www.waze.com/wiki/index.php/Best ... n_Practice
Some formal guidelines - A road should be split if:
There is at least 5 meters of non-drivable surface between directions of travel. (This means a median of some type like cement, planter boxes, trees, or just grass.
GPS tracks show a clearly definable gap/blank area between the color-by-azimuth arrows at the 100m zoom level.
It is an Interstate Highway (USA) or other Limited Access Highway using the "Freeway" road type.
A road should not be split because:
There is a curb or non-drivable media less than 5m wide between lanes of travel. This means a turn lane, even a wide one, between directions of travel, does not count because it is drivable.
There are a lot of roads intersecting which can only turn onto the nearest direction of travel.
Google Maps or other mapping source show it as a split road
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