<div dir="ltr">Very nice, Richard! One quick comment: I might not be the only who doesn't always change the tiger:reviewed tag when fixing TIGER-imported roads. I don't know if that's technically feasible, but maybe it would be better to check if a way has been modified since import, independent of the tiger:reviewed tag. I guess you could assign those a slightly lower priority than the ones that have tiger:reviewed=yes.<br><div><br></div><div> Harald.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:38 PM Richard Fairhurst <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
At State of the Map US last weekend I was really pleased to unveil<br>
bicycle routing for the US (and Canada) at my site, <a href="http://cycle.travel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cycle.travel</a>.<br>
<br>
The planner, at <a href="http://cycle.travel/map" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cycle.travel/map</a> , will plan a bike route for you<br>
between any two points - whether in the same city or on opposite sides<br>
of the continent. It's all based on OSM data but also takes account of<br>
elevation and other factors.<br>
<br>
I "dogfooded" it with a three-day ride around New York state after<br>
SOTM-US, and it found me some lovely quiet roads in and around the<br>
Catskills. I hope it'll be equally useful for the other two-wheelers<br>
amongst us. There's still a lot I want to add (as detailed at<br>
<a href="http://cycle.travel/news/new_cycle_travel_directions_for_the_us_and_canada" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cycle.travel/news/new_cycle_travel_directions_for_the_us_and_canada</a>)<br>
but I hope you enjoy it.<br>
<br>
Plug aside, there's a couple of things might be relevant to US mappers.<br>
<br>
<br>
First of all, I'm aiming high with this - the aim isn't just to make the<br>
best OSM-powered bike router of the US, but the best bike router full<br>
stop for commuters, leisure cyclists and tourers. (I leave the<br>
"athletes" to Strava!)<br>
<br>
Here in Britain, experience over the years has been that good bike<br>
routing and good bike cartography - historically via CycleStreets and<br>
OpenCycleMap - are a really effective way of driving contributions to<br>
OSM. So if you know cyclists who aren't yet contributing to OSM, maybe<br>
throw this at them - and if it doesn't find the route they'd recommend,<br>
maybe there's some unmapped infrastructure they could be persuaded to add!<br>
<br>
<br>
Second, the routing and cartography both heavily distrust unreviewed TIGER.<br>
<br>
In other words, it won't route over a rural road tagged as<br>
highway=residential<br>
tiger:reviewed=no<br>
<br>
Any road with tiger:reviewed removed or altered, any road in urban<br>
areas, and any road with highway=unclassified or greater is assumed to<br>
be a usable paved road. (There are a few additional bits of logic but<br>
that's the general principle.)<br>
<br>
Unreviewed rural residentials are shown on the map (high zoom levels) as<br>
a faint grey dashed line, explained in the key as "Unsurveyed road".<br>
<br>
I've been finding this a really useful way of locating unreviewed TIGER<br>
and fixing it... it's actually quite addictive. :) Looking for roads<br>
which cross rivers, or with long sweeping curves, is an easy way of<br>
identifying quick wins. My modus operandi is to retag 2+-lane roads with<br>
painted centrelines as tertiary, smaller paved roads as unclassified,<br>
and just to take the tiger:reviewed tag off paved residential roads.<br>
Anything unpaved gets a surface tag and/or highway=track.<br>
<br>
I can't promise minutely updates I'm afraid - the routing/map update<br>
process takes two full days to run so it'll be more monthly than<br>
minutely. But I hope you find it as useful as I do. You'll see there's a<br>
tiny little "pen" icon at the bottom right of <a href="http://cycle.travel/map" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cycle.travel/map</a><br>
which takes you to edit the current location in OSM.<br>
<br>
<br>
Finally, many thanks to everyone who's tested it so far, particularly<br>
Steve All - your feedback was and continues to be enormously useful.<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
Richard<br>
<br>
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