It is a nice idea but it would be terrible to do it this way.kumiankka wrote:Please correct if I'm wrong but currently, when there is no lanes added to a segment, Waze displays lanes of the next segment even before driver arrives on that segment. This can cause confusion when displayed lanes guidance is in conflict with what the driver should do next.
My suggestion is (even this is no suggestion thread) that default behaviour is changed so that lanes are displayed only when driver arrives on the segment and not beforehand. In case lanes of the next segment must be displayed, a new attribute called "No lanes" should be implemented for WME lanes tab. This attribute, when added to a segment with no lanes, would make Waze to show lanes of the next segment. Thus, it would behave just like "No street" street name attribute that makes Waze to display name of the next segment.
This "No lanes" attribute added to the preceding segment would solve problems caused by, e.g. parking lot road or city border or speed limit change before an intersection, that normally would leave too short of a segment for lanes guidance to be useful (and which I presume is the reason why lanes are displayed beforehand in the first place).
The proper solution would be for Waze to build actual smartness into the system. It is possible to build a system that looks back at all prior segments algorithmically and, based on lane counts, show lanes at the best possible moment. Relying on editors to check boxes on every single segment would just be too much work and incompatible with a lot of existing mapped lanes.
Re: Lane Guidance is now available in WME!!!!