Road Edits

[HsRawal]

Hi Experts,

How to edit the roads which are either wrongly drawn or highly misaligned. Meanwhile, additions of the missing road working fine now.

Regards

[NareshDarji]

Hi @HsRawal

The following help desk article explains how to edit roads.

Add or fix a road.

[HsRawal]

Hi dear @NareshDarji thanks for your advice. I have tried too many times but rejected/Not Applied. Adding missing roads working almost fine. Meanwhile, editing/fixing the existing road never fixed/approved. Currently we the users are totaly depends on Google AI boats which for approval/rejection of edits. There are too many roads which are incorrectly drawn/fake by Google AI boats. Google AI boats added road where physically only footpath exits. This is an example :

29°45’40.9"N 79°58’54.3"E

and how these road are possible ? :

29.769569, 79.980467

29.787382, 79.994587

29.735376, 79.903264

29.732486, 79.963129

29.673221, 79.879456

Thanks

[ErmesT]

Hi @HsRawal
Thank you for asking

@HsRawal

editing/fixing the existing road never fixed/approved

This is true, @HsRawal if you are contributing on desktop. In the past when the moderation was all by operators it was easier to fix the misalignment. I did it many times and it was working fine, as you can read in Correct Road Shapes in Google Maps - "Follow the Blue Line"
However, once the editor was opened to everyone, and preliminary moderation was subsequently transferred to the AI, this type of edit was no longer accepted, as it was considered low priority. Indeed, if a road is conceptually correct, a misalignment of a few meters wouldn’t compromise the navigation function.
The misalignment is often due to an update to satellite imagery, which in some areas has shifted its coordinates by a few meters. In practice, it’s not the roads that are drawn incorrectly, but the satellite imagery that has shifted compared to the previous one.
The best way to fix it is on mobile, by simply reporting the misalignment. Here below the steps

@HsRawal

There are too many roads which are incorrectly drawn/fake by Google AI boats. Google AI boats added road where physically only footpath exits

This is not correct. The reason why you see them is because they are drown with a different program: Road Mapper.
Road Mapper, accessible only by invitation, is a program for adding road in some country where a lot of roads are Missing.
India is one of the countries where you can add roads in such way.

The program is a simplified editor, where contributors add all the roads they see within a quadrant measuring approximately 700 meters on each side. The quadrant is suggested by the program each time, in areas where roads may be missing.
Since contributors can only draw within the quadrant, it often happens that there are sections of roads that aren’t connected to other roads, at least until the missing sections are added.
Furthermore, the designer can’t define the type of road added. This explains both the unconnected segments in your examples and the fact that roads appear when they’re actually just paths to walk on.
I know this very well, as I added more that 1600 Km in your country

Hope this is clarifying the issue

[HsRawal]

@ErmesT

This is true, @HsRawal if you are contributing on desktop. In the past when the moderation was all by operators it was easier to fix the misalignment. I did it many times and it was working fine, as you can read in Correct Road Shapes in Google Maps - “Follow the Blue Line”
However, once the editor was opened to everyone, and preliminary moderation was subsequently transferred to the AI, this type of edit was no longer accepted, as it was considered low priority. Indeed, if a road is conceptually correct, a misalignment of a few meters wouldn’t compromise the navigation function.
The misalignment is often due to an update to satellite imagery, which in some areas has shifted its coordinates by a few meters. In practice, it’s not the roads that are drawn incorrectly, but the satellite imagery that has shifted compared to the previous one.
The best way to fix it is on mobile, by simply reporting the misalignment. Here below the steps

Thanks @ErmesT for your detailed clarification. If misaligned of the road is due to statellite imagery update that is acceptable but misaligned of the road is due to incorrectly drawn by the user must be approved. Example one of the road is here where I have made blue line (GSV) : 29.850809715642907, 80.01547018982177

@ErmesT

This is not correct. The reason why you see them is because they are drown with a different program: Road Mapper.

I too active Road Mapper, I don’t think Road Mapper user will draw a motorable road in foothpath. However the user can draw a segment of the road which is not connected either side of the existing road. Example is here : 29.769671552910516, 79.98097442047958 and 29.793853992304015, 79.95323481004691, 29.71546620196287, 79.94747978460234, 29.698758540576083, 79.88912703395344.
I think these are drawn by AI bots (based on location data of the mobile users) not by Road Mapper users.

@ErmesT

I know this very well, as I added more that 1600 Km in your country

Thanks so much @ErmesT for your efforts.

Regards,

[ErmesT]

@HsRawal

I think these are drawn by AI bots (based on location data of the mobile users) not by Road Mapper users.

I would love this, @HsRawal , but honestly I believe that in this moment this is just a dream. When Google Maps will starts using GPS data to verify roads, most of our edits will be accepted, and everything will become easier.

@HsRawal

I don’t think Road Mapper user will draw a motorable road in foothpath.

I’ve seen many footpaths represented as roads in Road Mapper. As a Roader, I often prefer to skip challenges where I’m not sure if what I see is a car-friendly road, but I find that this is often not done.