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<div>OSM's USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers to help map new
APPROVED United States Bicycle Routes. Please see <a
href=
"http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_System"
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_U.S._Bicycle_Route_Sy<span
></span>stem</a> , a reference and status report for the project.
Effective immediately,</div>
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USBR 1 in Massachusetts<br>
USBR 10 in Washington state<br>
USBR 36 and 37 in Illinois<br>
USBR 50 in the District of Columbia and</div>
<div>USBR 50 in Ohio</div>
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<div>were declared by AASHTO as approved national routes. These
are essentially equivalent to freshly opened Interstate highways,
except these are for bicycles. Very helpful would be additional
experienced OSM volunteers, comfortable editing OSM relations, to
improve/complete USBRs 1, 10, 37 and 50 (in Ohio) by adding additional
route members to a relation from a soft-copy map or text description
of the route.</div>
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<div>If you wish to help build our national bicycle network in OSM,
please contact me to obtain route data to enter into OSM. The
wiki offers technical/tagging guidance, as well as acts as a progress
reporting mechanism.</div>
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<div>It is important to communicate your intentions and progress via
email or preferably wiki. The project has established process
and enjoys new growth by asking widely for additional volunteers, so
please pay attention to the many moving parts by keeping communication
flowing where it needs to. (Get route data via email, wiki
update your progress). USBRS is ~10,000 kilometers and has
momentum to grow to 20,000 in the medium-term future. Help out
by adopting a route near you!</div>
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<div>Though this work isn't difficult, each route might take a few
hours of effort starting with an email. After you complete a
route in OSM, one reward is to see the red line of a new, official
USBR blossom in Cycle Map layer. Other rewards happen for
on-the-ground participants (cities, counties, state DOTs, the public,
stakeholders, bicycle coalition groups...), who see the route in our
widely available map. This encourages more routes to emerge in a
geographically friendly way, facilitating harmonious progress and
further growth in our national bicycle network.</div>
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<div>To begin your contributions to this OSM WikiProject, reply using
steveaOSM at softworkers (dot) com. Put "USBR mapping in
OSM" in the Subject line and say where you'd like to map.
Thank you!</div>
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SteveA<br>
California</div>
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