Road details
As we all know, WME is changing its appearance and because of that, many of us complained about the unneeded "empty space" that is everywhere on WME.
I know that some extra work is being done by staff, in order to please us all the best way possible :) , but something more can be done.
One suggestion is to use symbols, instead of text, for what I call "road details": Unpaved; Tunnel; Headlights; Next to BUS lane; Beacons.
This would allow saving some more space and the icons are more or less self-explanatory, being possible to add a text/explanation for each icon by showing some tooltip box on mouseover ...
See the link for a mockup
https://i.ibb.co/TgNJcNw/Untitled-4.png
linguasaltitante
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nzahn1 commented
FWIW, WME clicksaver now colors the buttons based on the road type’s segment color.
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ojlaw commented
Personally, I'm not in favor of this suggestion. Using symbols for road types I'm going to have to do mental gymnastics every time I need one of those road types. Whereas the abbreviations have been in use since before I started editing. I would rather just have the button colors that match the road type and the abbreviations. If colors aren't an option then leave it as is.
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sketch
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Agreed with one exception, Private Road will either need to be localized (the Vienna Convention symbol is not used in the US and countries that follow MUTCD-style road sign rules and not obvious to people from those countries) or excluded.
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qwertypoi1966
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Very good!
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bedo2991 commented
Additionally to the other idea requesting the buttons to have colors,
I would like to request the buttons to get icons when possible, instead of abbreviations.Just as an example (the icons should get a Waze-design and not be emojis):
Parking lot road: 🅿
Ferry: ⛴
Taxiway: ✈
Private road: ⭕
Railroad: 🚆In order to reduce the cognitive load of going through all buttons which look the same.