Road Closure without Re-Routing
When we are doing closures on inter-regional roads, particularly in Canada, there are routes where there are no alternate routes available. Or maybe there is an alternative route, but that alternate route exceeds the likely closure duration or is a day+ detour.
If the editors, a partner, or even a data feed places a closure on these segments it will either
a) break routing entirely - it simply cannot find a route
b) find some route with unverified segments from the basemap import, which is an unmaintained/decommissioned road. (this isn't good experience - other apps like gMaps does this constantly).
The desired/expected outcome of closures like this is to make the driver aware of the closure and that there isn't a detour and they either wait it out or u-turn on the highway [and seek refuge until it re-opens].
c) Or there is an alternate route, but the duration to drive exceeds the time one would wait for the closure to clear.
So right now we (editors) don't apply these closures, so it doesn't give some bad re-calculation. But noted the closure feeds, even from the auto-closure mechanism(s), they will apply the closures, that in turn lead to more driver confusion and having the editors constantly checking and removing them.
But, it would be nice to have something visual to the driver.
Can we get something like an attribute via the real-time closures that we can select to "omit reroutes"? Selecting this will keep the closure visible and alert the drive (probably require a new prompt?? IDK), but while it prompts and is visible, it does NOT re-calculate the route.