User:Moweez/Editing/Roads

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Roads

• Resources
• types ( https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Road_Types_India; https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/MMR_India#A_rough_guideline_to_using_Road_types )
• naming ( https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/How_to_label_cities_(India) )
  • abbreviations
• atrributes/properties
• locking standard (https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/MMR_India#Road_Segment_Locks )
• KISS
• Double lane or single lane / Divide or undivide
• Junctions? (https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Junctions_and_Roundabouts_(India); https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/Best_map_editing_practice#Junction_Style_Guide)

https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/MMR_India#Adding_Roads https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/MMR_India#Extremely_Narrow_Streets https://wiki.waze.com/wiki/How_to_classify_and_name_roads_(India)

Road Types

• The main roads in a district or town should at least be set to primary.
• If segments will be used for through-going traffic or for longer distances connecting districts or towns, they should at least be mH (minor Highway)
• Main interconnecting roads with fast traffic should ar least be MH (major Highway)

Please read the Quickstart guide to road types before changing the type.

Always make sure a road is at least connected to a same level of road type or higher. Thus, Waze should be able to route from primary to primary (or higher), from minor to minor (or higher), from major to major (or higher), and from Freeway to Freeway. Another way of explaining this, is that you should be able to continuously drive on the same or higher type of segments for the routing engine to use that road type in the calculations.

This means we need to sometimes make small roads mH, for the possibility of calculating long distance routing. Please discuss with the hosts/mentors if anything is unclear.

As for road types, please use the table in the quickstart page with the map as follows: Freeway: National Highways that are referenced in the map Major Highway (MH): National Highways that aren’t seen in the map Minor Highway (mH): All State Highways and Arterial Roads within Indian Metro Cities

Road Naming

highway numbers: -all numbers are written as NH-XX, SH-XX, AH-XX and the like -we use the numbers as it is on the map -we only use the new numbers if it is requested via UR. We then put the old number as alternate name

names of highways: -main road number will be in primary -all other necessary numbers go in alt -names indicating destinations go in alt -only when a road has a specific name in urban areas that is used in adresses, it can be in the primary name (edited)

City attribution: -only in urban areas (urban=where people live in municipalities) -only when you are absolutely sure

Asian highways

Type: Asian Highways are part of a State or National Highway => follow SH or NH rules

Name: Primary: Urban area: Street: street name > direction name in alt (e.g. Mumbai Pune Highway) (no name known? Use AH-XX) City: City name Rural area: Street: AH-XX City: mark “no name” box

Alt: Urban area: Street: AH-XX (if there’s a primary name) City: City name NH-XX and/or SH-XX to be added as a separate alt names in case of running along the same road (sector of the road). Rural area: Street: AH-XX City: mark “no city” box NH-XX and/or SH-XX to be add as a separate alt names in case of running along the same road (sector of the road).

National highways > only use new NH numbers when requested via UR

Type: Major Highway (freeway in some cases => decided by management) => inside cities use MH, unless connectivity is not possible without freeway type (general GUIDELINES: exceptions may apply)

Name: Primary: Urban area: Street: street name > direction name in alt (e.g. Mumbai Pune Highway) (no name known? Use NH-XX) City: City name Rural area: Street: NH-XX City: mark “no name” box

Alt: Urban area: Street: NH-XX (if there’s a primary name) City: City name To be repeated if more NH-XX is running the road. SH-XX to be add as a separate alt names in case of running along the same road (sector of the road). Rural area: Street: NH-XX (if there’s more than one NH running along the same sector of road) City: mark “no city” box To be repeated if more NH-XX is running the road. SH-XX to be add as a separate alt names in case of running along the same road (sector of the road).

State highways

Type: minor highway

Name: Primary Street: street name > direction name in alt (e.g. Mumbai Pune Highway) (no name known? Use SH-xx) City: City name (in rural areas leave empty)

Alt: Street: SH-xx (if there’s a primary name) City: City name (in rural areas leave empty)

Road naming in general

Primary Street: street name City: city name Alt Street: street name City: City (District, Colony*)

No street name known? Primary: Street: Colony* City: City Alt: Street: Colony* City: City (District, Colony*)

How to label Cities

Area	Names in India	in WME?
State	Voorbeeld	Voorbeeld
State District	Voorbeeld	Voorbeeld
City	Voorbeeld	Voorbeeld
City district	Voorbeeld	Voorbeeld
City neighbourhood	Taluk Colony	Voorbeeld

Road Segment Locks

During the mapraid, please leave road locks as you find them, except for Freeways. Freeways may be locked to 5 after:

• All ramps are connected
• Stubs of lower-ranked roads are connected as needed, so that more editors may work on them.

After the mapraid, the roads will be locked to the locking standards for India. You can read more about road lock standards in India.

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