Idea for problem alleys?
First, let me Very Clearly state that I am not suggesting this as a general approach to alley drawing!
Around here there are a few alleys on the map which are recurrent "problem alleys", which Waze tries to route folks through (I'm guessing during heavy traffic times), and 95% of them ignore it. Solve the Map Issue and go on, you say. Let the ignorant suffer!
Like the proverbial cat, these notifications will come back again and again for these particular segments. There are no apparent problems with the map--Parking Lot type, turns all around OK, doesn't seem to matter if they are named and/or City'ed or not. In actual fact, they may be faster than taking the street, but in my experience using the alleys around here for wholesale general through-traffic is frowned upon, they're sometimes in disrepair, and most people don't follow these routes anyway (as evidenced by the repeated MP's). There have been numerous threads about this type of Map Issue, but I haven't found anything to actually solve this "problem", short of deleting the alley altogether (which is, of course, an option, given the ongoing debate about the value of even drawing alleys on the map).
So I wondered: what if we add a junction (or two) into the given segment to "slow it down" even more than the Exit-from-a-Parking-Lot-Road penalty? As much as I truly detest data sprawl, in these problem cases this might be enough to discourage Waze from trying to send folks through these places in all but the worst of traffic, thus saving weary editors from the grievous tragedy of yet another three clicks of the mouse every couple of weeks. This could work for situations of unwanted routing through parking lots as well.
Perhaps I'm just beating a dead horse up the wrong tree into the wind. Thoughts?
Around here there are a few alleys on the map which are recurrent "problem alleys", which Waze tries to route folks through (I'm guessing during heavy traffic times), and 95% of them ignore it. Solve the Map Issue and go on, you say. Let the ignorant suffer!
Like the proverbial cat, these notifications will come back again and again for these particular segments. There are no apparent problems with the map--Parking Lot type, turns all around OK, doesn't seem to matter if they are named and/or City'ed or not. In actual fact, they may be faster than taking the street, but in my experience using the alleys around here for wholesale general through-traffic is frowned upon, they're sometimes in disrepair, and most people don't follow these routes anyway (as evidenced by the repeated MP's). There have been numerous threads about this type of Map Issue, but I haven't found anything to actually solve this "problem", short of deleting the alley altogether (which is, of course, an option, given the ongoing debate about the value of even drawing alleys on the map).
So I wondered: what if we add a junction (or two) into the given segment to "slow it down" even more than the Exit-from-a-Parking-Lot-Road penalty? As much as I truly detest data sprawl, in these problem cases this might be enough to discourage Waze from trying to send folks through these places in all but the worst of traffic, thus saving weary editors from the grievous tragedy of yet another three clicks of the mouse every couple of weeks. This could work for situations of unwanted routing through parking lots as well.
Perhaps I'm just beating a dead horse up the wrong tree into the wind. Thoughts?
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