Name Normalization for Wisconsin
Hello Wisconsin editors,
Waze has identified locations in your state as a prime targets in the Great Lakes Region for a MapRaid.
Your state currently lacks clear Name Normalization for statewide standards. (Which needs townships added to the table.)
Your state also currently still lacks a State Manager.
I proposed that these projects be completed before any MapRaid is held in your state.
In the Great Lakes Regions, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio have State Managers, and Michigan and Ohio have established Statewide naming standards.
While Michigan settled on their standards a while ago, Ohio recently completed a very democratic voting process to establish theirs. You can read about their unanimous process in the Name Normalization for Ohio forum post.
Your state has discussed this in past in the County/State Road Standards forum post. I have closed that forum thread and redirected further discussion to this thread.
I would encourage Wisconsin editors and AMs to revive the discussion here and consider the following points.
- Strive to use the nationwide U.S. standards as much as possible. While state specific exceptions are inevitable, please attempt to keep them to the absolute minimum.
- Use the resources we have available to learn how your state names roads in both the text media and on signage.
- Signage is usually the single best indicator for naming.
As examples, in Michigan their signs are all "M-###". This same naming is used to describe their roads in text and also when spoken. Therefore they chose "M-###" to be their state highway naming standard. The Waze text-to-speech system also pronounces them as "emm ###".
Louisiana similarly uses "LA-###" for their state highway naming standard.
Based on signage, spoken standards and common text usage, Ohio voted to adopt the following naming, largely based off of Waze national standards:
“SR-###” for “State Rte ###” (Note that “SH-###” and “State Highway ###” are not used in Ohio.)
“CH-###” for “County Highway ###” (Used only as necessary in some counties)
“CR-###” for “County Road ###”
“TH-###” for “Township Highway ###” (Used only as necessary in some counties)
“TR-###” for “Township Road ###”
(note that a few of these are submitted to Waze for TTS additions and have not yet been added due to TTS server upgrades)
- If you would like to have all of your active AMs to vote on this, I will help devise the list and the voting system similar to what we used for Ohio.
- Discussion of a SM for WI should be in another thread.
- While there is no deadline, we should move on this to be resolved soon after the holidays.
If I add more to this opening post, I will mention it in this thread.
Thanks!
Waze has identified locations in your state as a prime targets in the Great Lakes Region for a MapRaid.
Your state currently lacks clear Name Normalization for statewide standards. (Which needs townships added to the table.)
Your state also currently still lacks a State Manager.
I proposed that these projects be completed before any MapRaid is held in your state.
In the Great Lakes Regions, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio have State Managers, and Michigan and Ohio have established Statewide naming standards.
While Michigan settled on their standards a while ago, Ohio recently completed a very democratic voting process to establish theirs. You can read about their unanimous process in the Name Normalization for Ohio forum post.
Your state has discussed this in past in the County/State Road Standards forum post. I have closed that forum thread and redirected further discussion to this thread.
I would encourage Wisconsin editors and AMs to revive the discussion here and consider the following points.
- Strive to use the nationwide U.S. standards as much as possible. While state specific exceptions are inevitable, please attempt to keep them to the absolute minimum.
- Use the resources we have available to learn how your state names roads in both the text media and on signage.
- Signage is usually the single best indicator for naming.
As examples, in Michigan their signs are all "M-###". This same naming is used to describe their roads in text and also when spoken. Therefore they chose "M-###" to be their state highway naming standard. The Waze text-to-speech system also pronounces them as "emm ###".
Louisiana similarly uses "LA-###" for their state highway naming standard.
Based on signage, spoken standards and common text usage, Ohio voted to adopt the following naming, largely based off of Waze national standards:
“SR-###” for “State Rte ###” (Note that “SH-###” and “State Highway ###” are not used in Ohio.)
“CH-###” for “County Highway ###” (Used only as necessary in some counties)
“CR-###” for “County Road ###”
“TH-###” for “Township Highway ###” (Used only as necessary in some counties)
“TR-###” for “Township Road ###”
(note that a few of these are submitted to Waze for TTS additions and have not yet been added due to TTS server upgrades)
- If you would like to have all of your active AMs to vote on this, I will help devise the list and the voting system similar to what we used for Ohio.
- Discussion of a SM for WI should be in another thread.
- While there is no deadline, we should move on this to be resolved soon after the holidays.
If I add more to this opening post, I will mention it in this thread.
Thanks!
Re: Name Normalization for Wisconsin