The Road Committee is working on three large-scale projects involving roads in the CDS.
1.) Naming Roads which are unnamed
2.) Giving Addresses to parcels in all sims, except NFS (which has them)
3.) Making Road Signage
4.) Changing and Overseeing Existing Roads
Members of the committee include, at the time of my writing, Gaius Tiberius Curio, Em Warden, and Rosie Gray.
1. NAMING ROADS
The Road Committee is working chronologically from oldest to youngest sim to name major and minor roads, alleys, and paths in the CDS. The order is: Alpine Meadows, Monastery, Locus Amoenus, and Friedsee.
Each region will use a specific naming convention based on the local language of the region which was the inspiration for each of these sims. In Alpine Meadow, we will use standard German; Monastery, French; Locus Amoenus, Italian; and Friedsee, Swiss German. Roads will be named from a mixture of inspirations. Some will be named from RL streets, others from natural phenomena from the sim, others from major RL historical figures, and a rare few from historical and major CDS citizens.
The Road Committee will come up with a few suggestions for each road in each sim and will solicit suggestions and opinions from local residents. The committee will translate those names or inspirations into the region's "language," and publish the list of suggestions before a public meeting is held. The public meeting will decide the final name suggestion, before a list of all suggestions is taken to the RA for ratification OR is changed, if the RA delegates power to the committee.
2. GIVING ADDRESSES
Using each region's naming convention, the committee will go region by region to give public and private parcels their own addresses. Addresses will be given to reflect and to respect zoning designations for the covenants. (For example, the zone might be included in the address itself as a sort of "postal code.")
3. MAKING ROAD SIGNAGE
Using each region's unofficial flags, the committee will then determine how to make signage and how to update signage in NFS. Signage should prioritise road names, but also come with some directional signs to major landmarks, as well. In addition, they should be made of reduced prims, like mesh or convex mesh. In addition, some major roads may receive an alphanumeric code to designate it as a "national" road. Finally, signs for specific addresses, like those found on some NFS buildings and fachwerken, should be made available for CDS residents free of charge.
4. CHANGING EXISTING ROADS
Some have made suggestions on changing road names (such as changing the portion of Kendrastrasse which goes up to the Schloss to "Baroninstrasse," after Kendra's royal title), as well as overseeing the management of roads in NFS and CN.