It looks like the Michigan NFC maps have been updated today to "v13". The urban/rural distinction is now clearer, but the colors changed, so be careful. Particularly with regard to the brown "minor arterial" versus grey local roads, I find it almost impossible to distinguish unless highly zoomed in. Green has now changed to minor collector instead of minor arterial. On a good note, the higher available resolution when zoomed in is a bonus.

Boiler_81 wrote:I think it would be helpful if we coordinated editing the Detroit metro area. If people would list in this thread the areas they have edited and are working on it would help us from bumping into one another and analyzing areas which have already been done.

With regard to metro Detroit alone, I believe that everything in Wayne county has been completed from major collector on up with the exception of the Downriver area. That was using the v12 maps though. I have not compared the road types to the v13 maps for Detroit in detail to see how much they may differ. Here's a line showing the area south of Northline Rd down into Monroe county that still needs to be completed. I mostly focused on upgrading road types for Wayne and Oakland counties that were west of the Southfield Fwy, north of Northline Rd, south of Maple Rd, and into Washtenaw and Livingston counties. Binkowski and sketch would be able to give the best answer for how complete Oakland and Macomb counties are since they did most of the work there.

I drafted a few paragraphs regarding the NFC classifications for possible inclusion on the Michigan wiki page. If anyone has any feedback or suggestions for edits, please let me know. It is mostly geared toward just providing a summary of the NFC to Waze road type mapping as well as a list of the exceptions where the NFC classification would be trumped by other considerations. The work-in-progress draft is currently located on my wiki profile page here.

I haven't noticed many editors changing road types recently back to match the main wiki road types, which is good. Then again, everything in Ann Arbor minor highway or above is now locked at 3... This documentation would help anyone new who happened to check the Michigan page prior to editing (like they should) understand the divergence from the wiki standard.

I started an inventory of NFC for each MI county on Friday afternoon. The link to the shared Google spreadsheet is available in the To Do List section of the Michigan wiki page: https://www.waze.com/wiki/Michigan#To-do_Lists

I've only had a chance to go through eight counties so far, so it will likely be a few weeks before everything is checked. The methodology that I'm using is to start at the highest road type, check to make sure everything is assigned properly, and then move to each subsequent type. If I find a road type incomplete, I'm simply marking the county as needing further review and moving to the next county. You can add comments to the doc, but PM me if you would like to make direct edits, and I can adjust the file permissions.

I'm using green for counties that look complete for the v13 maps, yellow for needing future review, and red for counties that look like they have not been touched.

miked_64 wrote:St Joe County and Calhoun county where I have AM privileges are now fully NFC'd. Are we tracking progress here or in the spreadsheet?

Both?

I have been working Berrien, Van Buren and Cass counties. There are small areas on the east sides of Cass and Van Buren I can't edit. So I can't call them complete. The segments I can edit lead right up to the edge of my capabilities and continue out the other side, so they are fairly obvious.

I'll probably drive out to east Cass county in the next week or two and pickup the remaining area I can't edit then.

miked_64 wrote:So now do the colors/descriptions map as this?

NFC	Waze Map Editor
Blue - Interstate	Blue - Freeway
Purple - Freeway	Blue - Freeway
Red - Principle Arterial	Red - Major Highway
Brown - Minor Arterial	Yellow - Minor Highway
Orange - Major Collector	Orange - Primary Street
Green - Minor Collector	Orange - Primary Street
Grey – Local	White – Street

Be careful, colors for classifications can change between counties.

Kent county for example switches the colors between Minor Arterial and Minor Collector.

miked_64 wrote:Captnkeegs - It looks to me like the v13 Kent Co. map follows this color scheme as well. Is it possible that you have an old link?

http://mdotcf.state.mi.us/public/maps_n ... 3_KENT.pdf

Ah Yep you were right, I had an old PDF saved on my desktop.

Detroit is going to end up about as intense as NOLA, from the looks of it. I've started on the area that I have access to at the moment. This is what it looks like after I finished (or almost, anyway) adding the major highways. Here's what I'm basing it from - I have never before wished for a clearer PDF. Should I move on to adding the minor highways and such, or downgrade most of these back to minor highways/primary streets? There was very little distinction between road types before I started this, and at the very least we might be able to get a good amount of feedback on how the routing is working. Agreed, it looks kinda ridiculous, but I can see how it would work pretty well. Since the NFC maps were updated in 2012 and should be fairly accurate, I'm willing to try this on a larger scale, if other Michigan editors are in agreement.

EDIT 11/3/13: Another editor reset about half the roads I had edited back down to primaries/minor highways, but basically anything you see as a minor highway in this area is a major highway on the NFC map.

Riamus wrote:I'm not sure which roads were changed, but I do see some Minor Highways that were edited by sketch today. Maybe those are the ones you meant? I looked at the NFC and those all seem to be green roads in the NFC. Green would be Minor Highways unless there is a reason to upgrade them to Major. It could also be that the ones that were changed are already changed back.

Yup, sketch changed most of 'em back today. I've started working on Lansing in the meantime.