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<div>OSM's USBRS WikiProject seeks volunteer mappers to help map new
United States Bicycle Routes submitted to AASHTO. 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 now,</div>
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<div>USBR 7 in Vermont</div>
<div>USBR 21, 321 and 521 in Georgia</div>
<div>USBRs 35, 36 and 50 in Indiana</div>
<div>USBR 76 in Kansas and</div>
<div>USBR 90 in Arizona</div>
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<div>are state applications for USBRs ("ballots") before
AASHTO to soon become approved national routes, by the People of these
several states, via their Departments of Transportation (DOTs).
These are roughly equivalent to new Interstate or US highways, but for
bicycles. Very helpful would be additional experienced OSM
volunteers, comfortable editing OSM relations, to improve/complete
these by creating/adding additional route members to a relation from a
soft-copy map and/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. The wiki offers
technical/tagging guidance, as well as acts as a progress reporting
mechanism. A new development in this project is OSM's explicit
permission from AASHTO to enter into OSM routing data from ballots as
these are submitted by state DOTs to AASHTO's web site. Later
iterations of this process intend downloading route data directly from
AASHTO's web site, but for now, please email me for route data.
(USBR 36 in Kansas and USBR 76 in Indiana have already been
"adopted" by Joe Kallo and Ethan Nelson, respectively.
Thank you both!)</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 communicate as requested. (Get and enter route data, wiki
update your progress). USBRS is ~15,000 kilometers and has
momentum to grow to 25,000 km in the medium-term future. Please
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. (USBR 90 in Arizona is
over 800 km, requiring more effort). 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 the USBRS, 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 in which of these states you'd
like to map. Thank you!</div>
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SteveA</div>
<div>California</div>
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