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British Columbia Ramp Naming & Control City

Post by Nagamasa
Hey BC!

I noticed one thing: ramp naming doesn't seem to be too consistent.
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Our current Canadian/US/Global guidance is slightly ambiguous (or at least not followed), and I would like to clear it up. In BC, as far as I can see, the control city seems to be in larger print, and generally above or to the right of the highway shield. This is different from the rest of NA that I have driven in, where at least generally, the control city is smaller, below, and/or to the right of the shield: ON,IL,MI,WA,CA; and it begs the question which convention BC should follow:

1) Follow exactly per US guidance (which Canada falls back to)
https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Road_names/USA
For entrance ramps, use this format: "to [street name] [direction] / [control city]", where applicable.
We should probably remind somewhere in the BC wiki to follow this.

2) Explicitly state in the BC wiki to not follow the guidelines, and to something like this:
For ramps, always following the reading order of the sign (top-left to bottom-right).
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Post by hmarian
Nagamasa wrote:I don't think ramp names are shown, ever, except for in the turn instruction
They are showing but it is a bug and will likely fixed in the next version for Android.
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Post by Kayos_On_The_Road
Hi,

There are many inconsistencies in BC, probably a true reflection that this is the wild west and us ignoring the rules!

We are slowly getting the map to a point where we are following some sort of consistency, but many of these tasks are not insiginificant. Codgerd has been looking at ramp signage and node locations and he has been using the order on the BGS after guidance from manoeuvre. I know he hasn't completed all of this yet, so there are probably still lots of inconsistencies that can be seen. Many of these have been this way for years.

There are also lots of ramp names that don't have all of the BGS information on them, and some where the text string is too long. This last issue has not histirically been much of an issue, but with the potential for current segment name to be shown on the screen during navigation, we are probably going to have to revisit this issue.

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Post by Kayos_On_The_Road
In short, yes we use the as printed order on the BGS, left to right, top to bottom. Ramp names are shown in the Android beta.

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Post by Nagamasa
but with the potential for current segment name to be shown on the screen during navigation, we are probably going to have to revisit this issue.

I don't think ramp names are shown, ever, except for in the turn instruction?

So in other words, is #2 what has been decided on?
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