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Post by Cfabrication
There are a lot of roads added along my routes (I'm very new, so a very restricted editable area) that are roads through someone's farm (because there's a cemetery in the back) or that are a long gravel driveway from a named road to their house.

What are these called? Are they dirt roads/4x4 or are they private roads? Or are they service roads? (What is a service road? Is it like a frontage road along a divided highway?)

On one hand, it doesn't make much routing difference, as they don't connect two points, so Waze is unlikely to route anyone along them. On the other hand, I'd like to be correct in nomenclature.

Here's an example: https://www.waze.com/editor/?env=usa&lo ... s=81524938

It was misnamed, given the name of the next road north. I am checking to see if the cemetery can be accessed, which would, I suppose, make it a dirt road, but it goes right through someone's farm, so it's really a driveway/private road.

Is there a dictionary of all the road terms? I've wandered through the wiki, but keep ending up in the definitions for Australia.
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Post by MojaveCactusMonkey
For a destination to a private address, or to a cemetery, it seems obvious to utilize a dirt road for dirt roads. If it really is a driveway to a single address, there's not much point to mapping it unless it is a very long driveway and the resident has requested it. Waze is a navigation app, so wazers need to be navigated to the most obvious point near their destination. Private and dirt roads will not allow navigation THROUGH them to something on the other side because a heavy "penalty" applies to the navigation. However, if the address or place point is along the same private or dirt road, then Waze will navigate to the closest point on the same road type.

https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Road_types/USA will give you more insight...

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Post by MojaveCactusMonkey
Robert,
Both those streets are named streets. I don't see any Waze house numbers, but if it is truly a recognized street with houses with numbers, they would be street. If a named street has a gate on it, you might call it a private, but Waze will still route to the end of a segment identified as private if there's an address prior to the next junction node. So likely both should be street since named.
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Post by Robert04101
I wanted to return to this question. There are a LOT of "camp roads" in Maine. These are privately maintained roads, often shared by several properties with mailing and physical addresses on the camp road. An example is Holmes Rd, South Bristol. This is a gravel road maintained (sort of) by the five property owners along it (including me), and if you're driving to my camp, you'll need this road.

There's no uniformity on how the base map and/or editors are coding these roads. For example, two roads side-by-side, with one coded Pvt and the other as Street (by the same L3 editor).

As a practical matter, this question doesn't matter a great deal, because these camp roads are nearly always dead ends, so Waze isn't going to route people on them except to get to a destination on the road. But the neat-nik in me wants to have a uniform rule.
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