Road types

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Road types

General Guidelines

• The main roads in a district or town should at least be set to primary street.
• 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 at least be MH (major Highway).

Always try to connect a road 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 sometimes need to make small roads mH, for the possibility of calculating long distance routing.

Drivable

Freeway

 Freeway 

Most expressways, the big National Highways.

Highways appointed by local champs to enable long routes.

Ramp

 Ramp 

Connecting roads to and from highways

Not for at grade "street" connectors or turn lanes

Yield an "Exit to ..." in spoken navigation instructions

Used to indicate the direction, starting with >. Multiple destinations need to be separated by a space, slash (/), space.

Example: "> New Delhi / Chandigarh", will be voiced as "Exit to New Delhi, Chandigarh")

Major Highway

 Major Highway 

Major Highways (MH) are used for National Highways (exception: inner roads within Indian Metro Cities)

Ring Roads around large cities

Minor Highway

 Minor Highway 

Minor Highways (mH) are used for all State Highways

Arterial Roads, and inner highway roads within Indian Metro Cities

Roads used for through-going traffic or for longer distances connecting towns or villages

Primary Street

 Primary Street 

Primary Streets (PS) are busy roads within Cities, and/or Feeder Roads to Arterial Roads

Street

 Street 

Streets (ST) are normal roads, publicly accessible

Mostly used in (sub)urban areas, industrial zones, country roads.

If applicable check the unpaved attribute (instead of using the Off-road road type).

Alley

 Alley 

Road type introduced April 2018, Alleys are used for very narrow streets that are drive-able, but hard to access by car. It's the kind of roads that are so narrow, you'd rather not get a route through when driving, unless it is significantly faster. However, as a motorcycle, alleys are convenient for navigation. We'd expect to find relatively low segment speeds on alleys already, due to the physical characteristics of the street.

Alleys will have a routing penalty for cars and taxis, not for motorcycles.

See also in depth page on alleys in India.

Off-road

 Off-road 

Was used in the past for roads that are (most often) not drivable, or need a 4x4 car to go over it.

Don't use this road type anymore but use another roadtype with attribute unpaved checked.

Parking Lot Road

 Parking Lot Road 

Used for Petrol Stations, Car Parks

Private Road

 Private Road 

Residential Roads, access is limited to a specific group of people. Private Road will not be used for through-going traffic.

Ferry

 • • • • Ferry • • • •  

Non drivable

Walking Trail

 Walking Trail 

Walking Trails (WT) are used for all 'roads' where cars are not able to drive but that can be a destination.

Pedestrian Boardwalk

 Pedestrian Boardwalk 

Waze is only designed to use in a car, so Pedestrian Boardwalks (PB) are often not necessary.

PB's are designed for 'roads' that are inaccessible by car and that don't have a possible destination

Stairway

 Stairway 

Not usually necessary

Railroad

 |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| Railroad |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-| 

Elevation level as is. Do connect to drivable roads if they actually cross, and disallow turns to and from drivable roads.

Runway/Taxiway

 Runway/Taxiway 

Airport runways and private airstrips.

The Runway/Taxiway type is for display only and must never connect to drivable road segments.

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