mishterhaz wrote:So would I, but officially all state routes in Delaware are referred to as "Delaware Route XXX".

Well, no offense, but who cares what they are officially called? We are giving directions to drivers, not providing testimony in court. I'd rather know what drivers call the road than what the DOT calls it.

The hope is that eventually Waze will recognize this and the TTS will say "Delaware One" or "Delaware Route One".

I agree, the best solution would be if the software devs would allow us to decouple the text on the map from the spoken text, but so far that ability does not exist.

trooster10 wrote:I'm not very familiar with route numbering and naming in Delaware, so in the edits I've done, I've avoided major changes to the names of numbered routes except to make them consistent and make the "select entire street" button useful. I've encountered cases like this, where the primary name was "Rd 396" and the alternate name was "Line Rd", and also route numbers formatted like "17Y-123" around Fenwick Island and Bethany Beach. I'm guessing these are county numbers, but I have no idea where to verify this since I'm really only familiar with Maryland and Florida. I've retained the number as an alternate name and set the primary name as the road's actual name, since this seems to follow the guidelines and has addressed many update requests. Let me know if this is incorrect.

I just use the name posted on the road signs, which in that case is "Line Rd"; the county route numbers are rarely (if ever) used in practice. I don't usually keep them as alternate names, although I can't see any harm in doing so.

The major highways in "Lower, Slower Delaware", namely DE 1, US 13, and US 113, are all primarily marked with their route numbers in Waze, not their names. This may be problematic if/when Waze starts using its internal database for searches, because there are residential and business addresses on these roads that use the names, not the highway numbers. On the other hand, using the numbers seems to be easier for out-of-town drivers to cope with. There's no good answer to this one, but since Waze isn't using the names for search results yet, I've generally left the numbers alone on the major highways (but not the minor highways, which were much less consistent to start with).

Is there an active project to rename all the US-13/US-113 segments in the state to their appropriate street name (Dupont Hwy/Pkwy/Blvd)?

Looking at the WME, it appears as though much of US-13 is unnamed in Kent County. On the street blade signs, US-13 in Kent County is known as:

S Dupont Hwy (from the Sussex Co line to SR-8 in Dover)
N Dupont Hwy (from SR-8 in Dover to southern Smyrna limits)
S Dupont Blvd (from southern Smyrna limits to E Commerce Street in Smyrna)
N Dupont Blvd (from E Commerce Street in Smyrna to NCCo Line)

In NCCo, US-13 is known as Dupont Pkwy (no direction in the name) from the Kent County Line to SR-72.

If you'd like, I can certainly help out with this task.

Understood. I was just reading through the Wiki page and thought this might be a good idea to implement in DE.

I hear ya! I've been waiting awhile for Waze to allow us to use route shields as part of the naming system. I think this would be a major help. On the app, I see them on many of the interstates, but I don't see many US Routes and State Routes. I think implementing these would make both sides happy.

I'm not very familiar with route numbering and naming in Delaware, so in the edits I've done, I've avoided major changes to the names of numbered routes except to make them consistent and make the "select entire street" button useful. I've encountered cases like this, where the primary name was "Rd 396" and the alternate name was "Line Rd", and also route numbers formatted like "17Y-123" around Fenwick Island and Bethany Beach. I'm guessing these are county numbers, but I have no idea where to verify this since I'm really only familiar with Maryland and Florida. I've retained the number as an alternate name and set the primary name as the road's actual name, since this seems to follow the guidelines and has addressed many update requests. Let me know if this is incorrect.

Sounds good. I wanted to leave the option to delete that information to someone who is more familiar with the use of those route numbers. Another item is Coastal Highway (Route 1) in Bethany and Fenwick. I encountered "SR-1 / Coastal Hwy", "State Rte 1", "State Hwy 1", and "Coastal Hwy", occasionally with north/south labels, so I just set the primary name to what the majority of the segments were already named (SR-1 N/S / Coastal Hwy) for the sake of consistency, and added "State Hwy 1" as the alternate name, though it looks like "Coastal Hwy" is the correct primary name. Unfortunately this is outside of my driving area now but it will be much easier to fix.