Jughandles
So the topic of jughandles bugs me every time I edit one or near one. I've been on the road almost constantly the past 2 months so I haven't edited one recently, but a conversation with orbitc got me thinking again.
Of course road types in general are up in the air right now as we wait on Waze to refine the routing engine, but I still think we can at least start to think about this topic.
So what is the best road type to use for a jughandle? I'm starting this conversation in the NJ forum since NJ must have the most jughandles per capita in the country
There are 3 main options I think:
Does anyone have any other approaches? Any personal experience of how an approach works or doesn't work in real life? Any pros or cons I neglected to list?
Of course road types in general are up in the air right now as we wait on Waze to refine the routing engine, but I still think we can at least start to think about this topic.
So what is the best road type to use for a jughandle? I'm starting this conversation in the NJ forum since NJ must have the most jughandles per capita in the country
There are 3 main options I think:
- same as the road it is serving
- Ramp
- Street
- same as the road it is serving
- Follows wiki guidelines for at-grade connectors
- no routing penalty for street type changes
- does a short curved loop of asphalt with slow transit times that is mainly used by local traffic really deserve to be the same type as the main road?
- May look sloppy or confusing on the map
- Ramp
- Against current wiki guidelines for at-grade connectors
- allows "hiding" of long names which may be on signs for the jughandle
- does a short curved loop of asphalt with slow transit times that is mainly used by local traffic really deserve to be a HIGHER type than the main road?
- May "look" better since it is visually different from the main road
- Street
- Against current wiki guidelines for At-grade connectors
- May hinder use of a jughandle in the middle of a long distance route (I am not sure of a specific example, but I wouldn't doubt one exists)
- May "look" better since it is visually different from the main road
Does anyone have any other approaches? Any personal experience of how an approach works or doesn't work in real life? Any pros or cons I neglected to list?
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