User:TserBK/Vietnam/en/Roads and Roundabouts

This page is a work-in-progress draft.

Roads and Roundabouts (under development)

This page is also available in Vietnamese. Trang này cũng có sẵn bằng tiếng Việt.

Types of Roads and Roundabouts

Category	Type & Color	Application in Vietnam
Major Routes	Freeway (FW)	Expressway (Đường Cao tốc)
	Ramp	?
	Major Highway  (MH)	Nationa Road (QL)
	Minor Highway  (mH)	Provincial Road (TL)
Streets	Primary Street	Inter-town Road (HL), (other Streets with SL>=60?)
	Street	?
Non-routable	Off-road / Not maintained	?
	Parking Lot Road	?
	Private Road	?
	• • • • Ferry • • • •	?
Non-drivable	Footpath	Do not draw/use
	Pedestrianised Area	Do not draw/use
	Stairway	Do not draw/use
	Railway	?
	Runway	?

Naming of Roads and Roundabouts

The name of a road or roundabout consists of 3 sections of information:

• Street
• City
• Country

(currently Waze does not support "province level" in Vietnam)

In addition, for the field of "Alternate Name", ......?

Street

Name for Streets

Street names shall be used in accordance to the following formtas:

• Motorway (Cao tốc): use the original street name??
  • Examples: Hà Nội - Hải Phòng

• QL, TL, HL: code(space)number
  • Examples: QL 1, TL 44, HL 5

• Normal Streets: use the original street name (without prefix "Đường").

Name for Roundabouts

Do not input the field of "Street" for roundabouts. Tick "None".

City

(under development)

For more information on the concept of "City", read this page.

Do NOT input "City" for Expressway, QL, TL.

Municipalities

For municipalities, respective city names (without TP) shall be used, except that Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh shall be "TP Hồ Chí Minh".

• Hà Nội
• TP Hồ Chí Minh
• Hải Phòng
• Cần Thơ
• Đà Nẵng

Provincial Cities / Counties

• For cities which do NOT share the same names with their provinces, just use the city names.
  
  • Example: Vinh (Vinh City of Nghệ An Province)

• For cities which share the same names with their provinces, use the city names with prefix TP.
  • Example: TP Bắc Giang (Bắc Giang City of Bắc Giang Province)

• There are special cases where the same city/county names are used in different provinces. In such cases, province names shall be appended with the county names.
  • Examples:
    • Châu Thành, Trà Vinh (Châu Thành County of Trà Vinh Province)
    • Châu Thành, An Giang (Châu Thành County of An Giang Province)
    • Châu Thành, Kiên Giang (Châu Thành County of Kiên Giang Province)

Country

This field shall be selected as "Vietnam".

Direction

(under development)

Speed Limit

(under development)

Elevation

(under development)

Lock Level

(under development)

Editing Practices

Drawing New Roads

(under development)

Editing Existing Roads

(under development)

Dividing Roads

(under development)

Turn Instructions

(under development)

Junctions

(under development)