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Missing Road UR - Is my conclusion correct?

Post by trukkurt
Fellow collaborators, please look this over and let me know whether or not there are other possible causes of this reporter's issue. Thanks!

Here is a UR (center of window) where the reporter stated, "179 does not show up. I have reported this 2 other times".

This is my comment response to that UR:

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Thank you for reporting!

M-179 (129th Ave) certainly shows up (as a minor highway) in the Waze Map Editor, the Waze Live Map, and in *my* Waze navigation app (when I open Waze, zoom out/in, and pan around the state to your report location).

Perhaps that is a location where your Waze app did not have a strong data connection and, therefore, couldn't efficiently download the map tiles near that location.

Perhaps you can resolve your issue with this particular location by telling Waze to generate a route to/through here while you are in a known strong data reception location. If I understand correctly, that should cause Waze to download map tiles for the area along your generated route.

For example, you might generate a route to the "Gun Lake Casino". The Gun Lake Casino is near this location of your report and might be close enough to download the missing map tiles that apparently affected your Waze app display. (Gun Lake Casino is located in the northeast quadrant of the intersection of M-179 and US-131.)

Your issue does not appear to be a map issue (to me anyway). However, I will seek the opinion of more experienced map editors to see whether or not one of them draws a different conclusion.

Do you drive through this area often with your Waze app open?
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Post by davielde
I think that you went above and beyond here, and everything sounds good. As we discussed in Chat, I adjusted the US-131 ramp names, and 129th Ave could probably be re-labeled M-179. No one knows exactly what the reporter was thinking until he gets back to you of course.

You are correct in that generating a route will download the updated tiles along the route.
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Post by miked_64
Changed that section to M-179 based on the signage on 12th st both north and south of the road. I copied 129th ave to an alternate name to keep consistency with your other edits.
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Post by trukkurt
Thanks, SkiDooGuy and davielde!

I tested speeds (around Muskegon) earlier this year and found PS disappears at >65mph. I think mH stays visible above 65mph (still). I try to stay under 65 on mH anyway. ;)

As davielde suggested in Chat, I'm going to change the 129th Ave labels to M-179 to match apparent signage from the freeway. Perhaps the reporter was complaining about the M-179 label changing to 129th Ave.

Thank again to you BOTH!
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Post by trukkurt
I changed all the labels to M-179, no city, Michigan from US-131 to Patterson except for this one locked at 3.

Might be OK to leave that one as 129th Ave anyway because the corner road sign on the 12th St end of the segment says "129th Av". However, the sign a little further north on 12th Ave displays "M-179" (for traffic exiting from SB US-131).

I will add 129th Ave (no city, Michigan) as alternate name for the segments from US-131 to Patterson Ave just in case that is (or will be) important.
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