Google Maps: new state/county road labeling

[txstateends]

After looking at the linked example in the "Accidents on Google Maps" thread, I saw something different.  So I looked at more familiar parts of the state (TX), and sometime in the last few days, new square labels have been added for county roads and most (but not quite all) farm-to-market roads.  Then I went looking for the same for Missouri's lettered roads.  Some have the new letter labels, others are trying to cram "State Hwy (letter(s))" into a square but of course, it doesn't hold it all, and the first and last parts are outside the square.  It would be nice on the drop-down menu (top right corner) whether to keep or turn off the county road labels (especially for TX, since now they'll have mixed county and farm-to-market labels the same in the same areas), but I checked, they don't.

I wondered if something was being planned for labeling farm-to-markets, since many of the text labels on the FM's went >poof< in the last several months.

[dgolub]

Yes, Google Maps is now labeling county routes in New York and New Jersey as well.  It's about time!

[huskeroadgeek]

Mentioned this in another thread, but they may be a little overzealous in marking county routes. In Nebraska(haven't noticed yet whether this is true in some other places, but I suspect it might be), they are labeling some county roads that have number and letter names with rectangular markers, implying that these roads are marked with shields. But they are only named with numbers and letters and are only marked on regular street signs-you will not find any pentagon shield or any other kind of shield marker on these routes.

[cpzilliacus]

Yes, Google Maps is now labeling county routes in New York and New Jersey as well.  It's about time!

In Virginia, they are not using any official-looking shield for the Commonwealth's primary system highways.  For some of the secondary system (looks very inconsistent), they are using a rectangular shield (which is how VDOT usually marks them on their own official maps), but it seems that most of the secondaries are marked with an oval- or "racetrack"-shaped shield. 

[Alps]

Yes, Google Maps is now labeling county routes in New York and New Jersey as well.  It's about time!

Making my life easier today as I try to figure out which pages I have intersect the new county route pages I'm doing.

[Duke87]

And they seem to have been discriminate enough to not label them in counties that do not sign them. That's more competence than I expected of the Google Maps team.

Of course, a noticeable number of PA's quadrant routes are still on the map with state highway shields, sooo....

[NE2]

And they seem to have been discriminate enough to not label them in counties that do not sign them. That's more competence than I expected of the Google Maps team.

Chances are the competence is on the TIGER team.

[Dr Frankenstein]

I'm happy about Google Maps for the first time in quite a while.

County routes in Ontario have been marked for pretty long, but they disappeared a couple of months ago, and just came back.

[The High Plains Traveler]

Actually, my local Pueblo County does not mark most of its county road numbers (it uses street names instead), but Google is showing the county designations for all county roads. Most other Colorado counties use either blade signs with ROAD nn or a standalone route marker. It's interesting to me from an academic standpoint what the county designations for these roads are, but they don't aid navigation.