Closed mark-mockett closed 1 year ago
The TMDD documentation does not appear to have any comments or extra information related to inner or outer loop.
Also, I note that there is both a direction and an alignment--alignment is where the inner/outer is allowed.
Resolved in #356.
Summary
"Inner Loop" and "Outer Loop" directions are included in the TMDD but were not added to WZDx previously for an unknown reason. This issue is to propose adding those values to the Direction enumerated type.
Motivation
A couple states sign loop highways only as "Inner Loop" (for travel clockwise) or "Outer Loop" (for travel counter-clockwise). These two values are included in the TMDD but not in WZDx. It's cumbersome and inaccurate for those data producers to translate the direction of a road event occurring on one of these roads to conform to a north, south, east, or west direction, and may be unclear to data consumers when matching events to their maps.
Proposed changes
Add
inner-loop
andouter-loop
to the Direction enumerated type.After the change (and pending addition of
unknown
andundefined
), the Direction type could look like this:northbound
eastbound
southbound
westbound
undefined
unknown
inner-loop
outer-loop