In case you haven't yet heard, the USA Road Type rules have recently drastically changed, particularly which roads should be classified as non-freeway highways. As a result, many roads throughout the state will need updating. These road type updates will provide Waze with a much more robust selection of alternate routes to consider when your primary preferred route becomes congested, as well as more direct routes to places where there aren't always divided and/or controlled-access highways. Here's a quick rundown on how you can help if you're editing in New Jersey:

1. Review the new guidelines document for USA Road Types, if you haven't already done so: https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Road_Types_(USA)

2. Review the New Jersey Functional Classification Maps, particularly for the counties in your area: http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/r ... cmaps.shtm

3. Grab a county near you and edit (please post what you're working on here until we can develop a better system for tracking and publishing who's working on what). I'd suggest that higher-rank managers start with NFC Primary Arterial Roads, Federal Routes, and Waze Major Highways. Middle-rank AMs can start with NFC Secondary Arterial Roads, State Routes, and Waze Minor Highways. Newer editors should be able to help out with NFC Collector Roads, County Routes, and Waze Primary Streets (all should be same in the end), as well as downgrading anything not specified in the NFC map and not having a numbered route marker to a plain street.

4. If you come across any locks beyond your rank, please request an unlock or update in the USA Update/Unlock Forum, and we will either fix or unlock the issue described. We certainly want to avoid a patchwork of road types because certain segments are locked.

Question: Do we still need the page describing New Jersey Road Types, or are the new USA Road Type rules sufficient for New Jersey Roads?