Drawing similar type segments
In WME Advanced Preferences, similar to the option to “Draw new roads as two-way,” add an option to be able to change the default Road Type to something other than Street.
Helpful when adding a new highway/freeway or a parking lot where all the segment types are the same, I would like to check a box in the Preferences to either “Draw all segments as [Road Type selection]” or “Default Road Type [selection]”
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RoadStache
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YES, Please! This would be a Huge convenience and time saver! And, if it were to be offered as an option, it wouldn't interfere with anyone's current habits or routines if they didn't want to use it. Great suggestion!
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Larryhayes7 commented
The way to fix or ensure the downside that Kathy mentioned would be to have it default back to streets or after a page refresh. Great idea Robert!
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Kathy Kendall
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I had not thought of this before, but it would certainly make our lives, as editors, much easier when we are adding a bunch of same-type roads. It is really frustrating (not to mention time consuming) to have to change a whole slew of segments from "street" to whatever else they should be.
The one "downside" I can see to this would be if we forget to uncheck the box changing the road type . . . but, I guess the first segment of a different type that we draw and save will jostle our memories when it isn't the type we expect it to be. (If I'm adding a LS, and [after I save it] it shows up as MH, for example. I would only have to see that once to remind me to uncheck that exception box.)