Roads

Introduction

This section is being developed.

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See the following forum posts for discussion:

• Road Labelling
• Carriageway Labelling
• Ramps/Sliproads

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations should be considered to conserve screen space.

Road Name	Abbreviation	TTS Confirmed?
Avenue	Ave	Yes
Boulevard	Blvd	Yes
Broadway	Bdwy
Close	Cl	Yes
Court	Ct
Crescent	Cr	Yes
Drive	Dr	Yes
Garden	Gdn
Gardens	Gdns	Yes
Green	Gn or Grn
Grove	Gr
Lane	Ln	Yes
Loan	?
Mount	Mt
Place	Pl	Yes
Park	Pk
Road	Rd	Yes
Square	Sq
Street	St	Yes
Terrace	Ter

Note: TTS = Text To Speech for future Waze version support in UK.

Road types

The following convention should be followed where possible, although it is acknowledged that you may need to deviate from it in some circumstances.

Waze Road Type	UK Road Types
Freeway	Motorway
Major Highway	Trunk roads (other than motorways) as defined below.
Minor Highway	Non-trunk A-class roads or dual-carriageway B-class
Primary Street	Other B-class roads and roads carrying heavier traffic, often seen on Ordnance survey maps in yellow or orange.
Streets	Urban Streets, Low traffic rural roads

Scottish Trunk Roads (Traffic Scotland)

English Trunk Roads (Highways Agency) | London Trunk Roads (Transport for London)

N Wales | Mid Wales | S Wales (Traffig Cymru)

Combined Map

Motorway Carriageway Naming Convention

Whenever possible, on split roads, name carriageways with the direction of travel. Insert the direction of travel at the end of the road name; e.g.,

• M1 (N)
• A4 (W)
• M25 (ACW)

This makes traffic and incident reports much more useful and helps with navigation.

Ramps (to/from Motorways and Dual Carriageways)

For the best balance between information, routing, reports and screen real estate the following convention should be used for the ramp road type

<Number> (<direction>) <junction number> <Entry/Exit>

e.g.,

• M1 (S) J24 Entry
• M8 (E) J15 Exit

Junction Naming

When naming/numbering junctions, particularly on motorways, please ensure the landmark is kept tight to the road system to ensure a tidy transfer to the client. The "snap-to" feature when adding landmarks via Papyrus should make this process easier!

or...

Large, freehand rectangles should be avoided...

Road Name & Number

Where a road exhibits both a road number and name the following convention should be used:

<Number> - <Name>

e.g.,

• A7 - Old Dalkeith Rd
• A1 - Edinburgh Rd

This gives both a consistent appearance and allows a straightforward transfer if/when Waze UK moves to the official Department for Transport designations.

The same can also be said for adding the direction of travel on single/dual carriageways with an A-road designation in the form

<Number> (Direction) - <Name>

e.g.,

• A2 (W) - Dover Rd
• A229 (N) - Cuxton Rd

Roundabouts

To aid navigation instructions, roundabouts should typically remain unnamed - where the client comes across a segment with no name it will use the next named segment as the next named instruction whilst retaining any turn signals.

Bypass or By-pass?

Bypass.